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Latest News - May 2011
- iBUYPOWER Launches Intel Z68 Processor Powered Systems
- ViewSonic To Launch First 7-Inch Honeycomb Tablet
- Brass Monkey Turns a Smartphone into Wireless Game Controller
- Samsung Intros Speedy 64Gb Toggle DDR 2.0 NAND Flash Memory
- Aleratec Reveals Hardware Encrypted USB Flash Drives
- VIA Launches New Low Power QuadCore Nano CPU
- Futuremark Finally Releases PCMark 7 to the Public
- Hardware Roundup
- Nielsen: Digital Downlaods Drive Music Sales Up in 2011
- Lenovo Readies ThinkPad X1 for May 17th Launch (Cheesy Video Enclosed)
- Emphase SSD Touts "Self-Destruct" Feature
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer Tablet, The Full Review
- Lian Li's PC-U6 Cowry Case Is Wildest Yet
- AT&T to Spend $1M Fighting Texting While Driving
- VIA QuadCore CPU Launches At 1.2GHz
- CyberPower Adds Z68 Systems To Desktop Lineup
- Paper Phone Bends To Operate, Dazzles On Video
- MSI Reveals Z68 Motherboard With CrossFireX / SLI Support
- Microsoft's Xbox 360 Spring Update Set For May 19th, Rumor Says
- Magellan's RoadMate 9055-LM Ships With 7" Screen, Free Lifetime Maps
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All News for May 2011
iBUYPOWER announced the availability of Intel Z68 Core i5 and Core i7 powered systems. The systems will come in a NZXT Gama gaming case and will feature a liquid cooled Intel Core i7-2600K processor, 4GB of DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 graphics card, 450W power supply, and a 500GB hard...
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If reports from "reliable sources" are to be believed, pocket-lint is claiming ViewSonic will introduce the world's first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet at Computex at the end of this month. The ViewSonic ViewPad 7x will be a new Android tablet in the company's lineup. It will sit above the...
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Start-up Brass Monkey is having a good year. Two games have now been released that use its technology to turn an iPhone/iPod Touch or Android phone into a game controller over any WiFi network. Plus, this week it was selected as a finalist...
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Faster, denser RAM may seem a bit boring at first glance, but it's hardly so. Faster memories make for faster computers, and new introductions in this sector lead to lower overall rates. Samsung has just revealed their newest product: 64Gb toggle DDR 2.0 NAND flash memory with a whopping...
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Flash drives are a dime a dozen these days, and finding one is as simple as looking hard enough. But finding one with robust security features is a bit tougher. Aleratec has made that a bit easier with the introduction of the PortaStor secure 256-bit AES Encrypted USB Flash Drive, which...
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VIA introduced its dual-core Nano just four months ago, but the company is already demonstrating that processor's big brother. The newly minted VIA QuadCore is--you guessed it--a quad-core processor that connects two dual-core Nano cores in an MCM (multi-chip module). The new chip won't...
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It seems like we've been waiting since the dawn of time for this one, but PCMark 7, Futuremark's latest benchmark for evaluating system performance in Windows 7, is now live and ready for download and/or purchase. As we've stated before, most users will likely opt for the free version, which...
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Video: AMD Radeon HD 6790 Graphics Card Review @ X-bitLabs MSI Radeon HD 6950 2GB Twin Frozr III PE OC'ed Video Card Review @ Tweaktown Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte Z68X UD5 B3 Motherboard Review @ eTeknix.com ASUS P8Z68-V PRO Z68 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3 @ techPowerUp Intel Z68 Chipset...
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the boat a minute, young fella. We like to fancy ourselves an intelligent bunch, but something just isn't adding up. According to market research firm The Nielsen Company, music sales in the U.S. are up 1.6 percent in 2011. The reason, Nielsen says, has a lot to do with...
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Take a sigh of relief Hollywood studios, it doesn't appear as though Lenovo is going to come swooping in and steal anyone's thunder on the big screen, or even the computer screen via YouTube. But that's okay, we're not interested in...
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We have heard of rugged SSDs, but this is really taking things to a new level. Emphase, which is a company providing Industrial and Military solid state storage for embedded systems, has launched a new series of rugged Military-grade storage with MIL-STD-810F compliance. But not only that;...
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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet is a more complete Android-based tablet PC with a companion docking station that affords it the ability to act as an Android 3.0 Honeycomb-based netbook as well. It's based on NVIDIA's powerful dual core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor with 1GB of RAM and 16 -...
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Well, this is crazy. The case shown here just might be the most strangely designed PC chassis that we have ever seen, and we have definitely seen some strange ones in our day. It's designed by Lian Li, which is a company that's well known for putting together some pretty intense designs. The...
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AT&T sold more than 5.5 million smartphones in Q1 2011, the most it ever sold in any first quarter. During the same period, it added 2 million more wireless subscribers to its roster (now counting 97.5 million). Today it pledged to spend $1 million combating the menace known as...
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When you think "new CPU," names like AMD and Intel pop to mind. But VIA is a huge player in the processor game, particularly on smaller, lower-cost devices where power draw is a major concern. The company's newest chip is radically different than past chips, though, and the words "quad-core" should tell you a lot. The newest chip is the world's...
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New mainboards? Check! New machines based on those motherboards? You bet! CyberPower has just revealed a new gaming desktop and workstation line based on Intel's next-gen Z68 chipset with SSD caching as well as LucidLogix Virtu Software. The new platform obviously supports Intel's 2nd-gen...
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Display technologies have stalled. There, we said it. A few years ago, we were seriously seeing tons of innovation with display technologies -- everything from color e-ink to Mirasol. But hardly any of those technologies ever grew into a product that could be shipped to consumers, and thus...
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The big news this week in the motherboard world? Z68! Tons of companies introduced new Z68 mainboards, including MSI. MSI's never one to wait around to release a new board once a platform is launched, and this week's no different. The company's newest device features OC Genie II, which enables...
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Updates, updates, updates. That's the name of the game these days. Google's talking updates, iOS has updates, and starting May 19th, Xbox 360 will have updates. At least, that's the word. A leaked presentation slide over at Joystiq...
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We're not even trying to think about what our lives would be like without GPS. We'd be back to maps, struggling to determine which direction will take us from point A to point B. Thankfully, the world we live in is filled with navigation...
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They've now been announced and they have a date and a price: the first production-versions of Google's Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks are coming as soon as mid-June, from Samsung and Acer. The announcement was on Google's blog, but also at the Google I/O conference running this week and via...
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Intel today officially launched its Z68 Express chipset, and right on cue, Maingear announced you can now configure desktops around Intel's latest silicon. The boutique system builder from New Jersey said it will offer motherboards using the updated chipset across its entire desktop line. "The...
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