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Latest News - March 2009
- Consumers Relying on In-Car Navigation and Voice
- Hardware Roundup
- Gmail Adds an "Undo Send" Feature
- Contract-Free iPhones Coming Next Week
- VIA's Eden-Powered IVP-7500 Motors Into Vehicles
- A-DATA Releases XPG G Series DDR2-800G SO-DIMM
- NZXT Unveils Compact Panzerbox Gaming Chassis
- Cisco To Acquire Pure Digital For $590 Million
- Microsoft Unleashes Internet Explorer 8
- NVIDIA Quadro CX Pro Graphics For Adobe CS4
- Gmail adds YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Yelp Preview
- SiliconSystems Intros SiliconDrive III SSD Line
- Safari, IE8, & Firefox Hacked in Pwn2Own Contest
- NVIDIA Brings PhysX SDK To Nintendo Wii
- Tweet Your Way to a Pandemic Warning
- Don't Call It a Flying Car, But It Does Fly
- Hardware Roundup
- IBuyPower Launches Gamer Power 906 Desktop PC
- Streaming TV Can Be Profitable
- Google Boosts Chrome’s Speed with New Beta
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All News for March 2009
Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech solutions, today announced findings that show consumers will take advantage of automobile voice recognition capabilities if they’re built in. In fact, eight out of nine respondents who own speech-enabled in-car systems and navigation...
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Video:Sparkle Calibre P980X+ geForce 9800GTX+ 512MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgMotherboards and Chipsets:A trio of affordable Core i7 motherboards @ The Tech ReportProcessors:Intel Core i7: Dual-Channel vs. Triple-Channel Memory Mode @ InsideHWMemory and Storage:Pioneer DVR-2920Q Qflix 20x DVD±RW/RAM Review @ CDRLabs.comOCZ...
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How many times have you hit "Send" on an email, only to realize you goofed. More often than you want to admit, right? Outllok has a recall feature that works on Exchange ... some of the time. But basically emails sent via the Internet, once you hit "Send," they're gone. Until Gmail's "Undo Send" feature, that is. It's another Gmail Labs feature,...
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If you’ve been dying to get your hands on an iPhone but don’t want to deal with a pesky contract, you’re in luck. Starting next week (March 26 to be exact), AT&T will offer contract-free iPhones. The 8GB iPhone will run you $599, while the 16GB model will cost $699. We’ve known about a no-contract option since the iPhone 3G was introduced...
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You have to wonder -- how many more new chip releases does VIA have queued up for this month? After announcing its VX855 Media System Processor and its Surfboard C855 reference design, the company famous for its low-power, low-cost processors is delivering another new one. Unlike those other...
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A-DATA XPG DDR2-800G SO-DIMM Ready for Use with New Generation of Low-power Platforms A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in high performance memory products, has released its XPG™ G Series DDR2-800G SO-DIMM module with single and dual pack. Built to provide optimal levels of...
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NZXT Unleashes Compact Panzerbox Gaming Chassis for LAN Enthusiasts-- New mid-tower case offers extreme performance, best-in-class airflow at 300+ CFM, lightweight aluminum design for easy transport, and dual radiator support for $119.99 -- El Monte, CA - March 19, 2009 - NZXT, a...
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With the introduction of Linksys by Cisco, Cisco proved that it wasn't scared of sticking its neck out into the wild, dynamic world of consumer electronics. In an effort to prove once again that it's more than some networking company that just routes Internet traffic and pushes out witty...
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Internet Explorer die-hards rejoice: the latest version of this market-dominating browser is now available. Internet Explorer 8 replaces Internet Explorer 7, which currently holds a 72.2% share of the browser market according to a recent survey from Janco Associates. IE8, as it is commonly called, has been available as a public beta for about...
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NVIDIA is betting that there is a market for Adobe CS accelerators, and their first foray into this area is what we're looking at today on HotHardware, the recently released Quadro CX. This is not a daughterboard or separate add-in which works with your standard graphics card, but rather this...
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It's always a pain in the rear when a friend sends you a link to a photo or video when you're in the middle of doing something and you don't want to take the time out to open the link in a new tab.Google decided the pain was too great to force those using Gmail to have to do that one moment...
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Yippee! More solid state drives to window shop for! We use "window shop" to assert that you still probably still won't be forking out your savings in order to actually own one. At any rate, as the competition heats up in the SSD arena and prices gradually (albeit slowly) make their way down...
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No less than three different browser platforms have succumbed to zero-day exploits by the end of the first day of the three-day long, third-annual Pwn2Own contest being held at the CanSecWest 2009 digital security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Safari on Mac OS X was the first to...
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And here we were thinking that Sony's PlayStation 3 had something special going on. Merely 24 hours after NVIDIA announced that its PhysX technology would be coming over to the PS3, the company has gone and essentially announced the very same thing for the Wii. Or, as NVIDIA puts it, it has been approved as a "third party tools solution provider...
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Much has been made of a possible bird flu pandemic, and Twitter might just be the answer to predicting it, if a new Twitter mashup has its way. SickCity calls itself "realtime disease detection for your city," and gathers statistics by looking for tweets that specify diseases or feeling ill.The site also notes that they will be adding Facebook...
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Meet George Jetson! Oh, wait, perhaps not. The Terrafugia Transition is called a "roadable aircraft" by the company emphasizing it's more agile in the air than on the ground. At least, it is supposed to be, and a maiden flight test showed that indeed it is. While many will call this a flying...
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Video:The Future of Stereo 3D Part I: Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision @ Hardware CanucksGigabyte 9600 GT (GV-N96TZL-1GI) 1GB @ NeoseekerMotherboards and Chipsets:Zotac GeForce 8200 ITX WiFi Motherboard @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:Lite-On eSAU108 External Slim DVD Writer @ TweaktownKingston DataTraveler 64GB @ PureOverclock6GB Patriot Memory...
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And the beat goes on. Yet again, we've got another IBuyPower desktop looking to grab the eyes, hearts and minds of gamers in need of a new machine. This time, the company has teamed up with Tiger Direct and CompUSA in order to get its Game Power 906 in front of more potential buyers, and with...
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Here’s some potentially good news for those of us who love to watch our favorite TV shows online: MTV Networks and ABC.com have achieved profitability with their latest online video efforts. Both networks currently have clear, aggressive strategies for distributing TV online—MTVN aims for a wide distribution while ABC is pushing a walled garden...
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Once again, Google is upping the ante in the browser speed wars. After taking the “beta” tag off of Google Chrome in December, the company has been updating two release channels: developer and stable. Now, the company is re-introducing the beta channel with the latest Chrome 2.0 beta release...
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It's been some time since we've heard from Iomega, but it's good to see the company is still looking out for its customers. Today, said outfit has announced a smattering of new features for its popular StorCenter ix2 NAS, making the purchase you've already made that much more valuable. And if...
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AMD Supports Microsoft Windows 7 in ATI Catalyst 9.3 Unified Driver, Delivering Unsurpassed Stability and Key Performance Enhancements -- Unified graphics driver allows developers and beta testers to unlock the full potential of award-winning AMD DirectX 10.1 graphics products and bring to...
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