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Latest News - October 2006
- AMD Celebrates 10 Years In Dresden
- Who Cares What Happens To AOL?
- Transcend Announces its Ultra-Speed 4GB SDHC card
- Dell Debuts first Two AMD Servers
- MacBook Pro With Core 2 Duo
- Google Releases Snobby Search Engine Today
- NVIDIA Securing Capacity at TSMC
- HH Reader Flies Like Super Man
- Daily Review Roundup
- Five Years Later, iPod Still Driving Apple Forward
- IBM sues Amazon for patent infringement
- Impending CPU Shortage?
- 10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time
- nForce 590 SLI Mobo Round-Up: Gigabyte, Asus, MSI
- Intel Launches Software Partner Program
- The Orange Browser Is Coming Out If You Don't Like The Blue Browser
- A Laser What? Huge, Bright TV Screens? How's That Again?
- Does NVIDIA's G80 Have Problems?
- NVIDIA Bans Overclocking On All Upcoming G80 Boards?
- Recording Engineer Develops Everlasting Glass CD
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All News for October 2006
AMD CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF INNOVATION IN DRESDEN German Chancellor Angela Merkel Visits AMD Dresden to Commemorate Significant Corporate Milestone SUNNYVALE, Calif. and DRESDEN-Oct. 24, 2006-Today in Dresden, Germany, AMD (NYSE: AMD) commemorated the 10-year anniversary of its Dresden-based operations with a ceremony attended by German Chancellor...
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What are you browsing HotHardware with? I bet I could get 10,000 to 1 odds in Vegas that it isn't AOL. But it used to be, for quite a lot of people. The only press AOL can get is the bad kind. But it's still a great big thing. What happens now? When it was the main ISP for Americans,...
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Press Release: Transcend Announces its Ultra-Speed 4GB SDHC (class 6) Card Taipei-Transcend Information, Inc., a world leader in flash memory cards, is very proud to announce its 4GB high-speed SD High Capacity (SDHC) Class 6 card. The SDHC is the new generation of SD cards (Version 2.0) that, formatted in FAT32, can reach up to an enormous...
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Cnet is reporting that Dell has finally released their first two AMD servers. The first system is the PowerEdge 6950 which is a quad cpu configuration ranging from 2.0Ghz to 2.8Ghz. The next system is the PowerEdge SC1435 which is a dual CPU configuration based off of the same speed cpu's. Both systems will be using the...
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The wait for many Mac users is finally over as Apple has just released a new wave of MacBook Pro notebooks which feature Intel's latest Core 2 Duo processor. Offered with either a 15" or 17" screen, the new MacBooks are claimed to be up to 39% faster than the previous model. With Intel's Santa Rosa mobile platform on...
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Google is going to make Microsoft look like a lemonade stand if they keep releasing useful things at the rate they're going. The latest is a customizable search engine: Not satisfied that it has given Web users enough tools to refine data on the Internet, Google will launch Custom Search Engine Tuesday, a product designed to cull...
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DigiTimes reports that NVIDIA CEO Jen-hsun Huang is traveling to Taiwan to meet with TSMC and ensure there is ample fab capacity to produce the company's upcoming G80 GPU. With NVIDIA looking to have a multiple-month head start over rival ATI with the launch of their R600 GPU, the G80 architecture will have the Christmas...
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Ever wonder what other HH readers might classify as a "good day"? Some go fishing and the old adage applies, "even a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work". Meanwhile others go flying. And a good day flying is pretty great. Check our Utah from a few thousand feet up at DerMeister's...
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Systems: MSI mPC 945 Barebone SFF @ Viper Lair Vigor Gaming Force Recon L2 @ [H]Consumer Motherboards: Foxconn 975X7AB @ LostCircuits Sapphire Pure Crossfire AM2 @ NeoSeeker Biostar TForce P965 Deluxe Motherboard @ [H]Enthusiast Graphics: ATI Radeon X1650PRO Graphics Cards Comparison @ Tweaktown Powercolor X1650 Pro @ TechPowerUp ASUS EN7950GT...
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Maybe you saw it coming, maybe you didn't, but the music world has seen a drastic change since the birth of Apple's iPod. Five years old on monday, Apple has forever changed the way we listen to music, the way we buy music, and the way music is advertised. Apple has seen enormous growth in its company because of the iPod, and...
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The tech world's latest legal case is between two very big companies. IBM, with its enormous cache of patents, has filed suit against Amazan.com over its use of five patents that IBM claims as their own: US 5,796,967 - Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service. US 5,442,771 - Storing Data in an Interactive Network. US 7,072,849...
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Digitimes is reporting that manufactures should expect to see a CPU shortage during 4th Quarter due to rapid surges in notebook sales. Manufacturers are stock piling additional CPU's in expectation of an upswing in holiday notebook sales. Earlier this month, DigiTimes reported that unexpectedly...
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Miguel Carrasco has put together an interesting top 10 list of computer related flops. Interestingly enough, such wonderful operating systems as Windows Me and OS/2 Warp made the list (sarcasm). If you have the time, hop on over and take a gander at the list. Many of you might find yourself nodding your head much in the same way...
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Hello Everyone. Just in case you're the type that like to immediately scroll down the page and jump right to the news, we're wanted to let you all know that we've just posted an NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI AMD Edition motherboard round-up, where we pit Gigabyte's GA-M59SLI-S5, ASUS' M2N32 WS Pro, and MSI's K9N Diamond motherboards...
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Intel Launches Software Partner Program, Invites ISVs To Access Global Reseller Network Worldwide Program Provides Business, Technical and Marketing Benefits at Key Phases of Software Development and Marketing SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 23, 2006 - Intel Corporation today announced the formation of the Intel Software Partner Program, a membership-based...
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Whatcha looking at Hothardware with? You can use Firefox 2.0 starting on Tuesday, if you like: Firefox 2.0, the foremost rival to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser, is set for release Tuesday afternoon, said its producer, the not-for-profit Mozilla Corp...
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Laser TVs are the latest "Hot Hardware" you can't buy yet. Estimates range from one or two years out to vaporware. But if you want a big -- make that huge-- screen, much brighter than any plasma, with more colors and higher contrast than anything currently on the market--DLP, LCD, Plasma, SEP, Cathode Ray Tube, Etch-A-Sketch--this...
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The Inquirer is reporting that NVIDIA's rumored next-generation G80 GPU is experiencing some major issues involving SLI and HDCP support. According to the rumor, editors have already been provided with G80 cards though there are no stable drivers that support SLI. In addition, HDCP is supposedly broken though the "source"...
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Fuad over at the Inquirer is digging around again and seems to have uncovered something of interest for those of you looking forward to NV's next gen DX10 product that is rumored, we-can-neither-confirm-nor-deny, to be around the corner soon. "NVIDIA told all of its partners that it simply won't allow the overclocking of G80...
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This one might bring a whole new meaning to one of my favorite discs of all time, Jimi Hendrix's "Smash Hits"... "Information on the glass CD is read by laser. Because existing plastic CDs are not completely transparent, information on them cannot be read perfectly. They are also susceptible to bending or warping if left in sunlight...
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Recent HH Forum n00b sladesurfer shows us how it is done. Slade's super clean cabling job would make even ol' BW envious. Tip number 1 - route those wires and tubes anywhere but over the motherboard... Boy's got some...
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Ever really wonder just how far storage has come? Think about this the next time you strap on your 8GB iPod Nano. IBM's RAMAC or "Random Access Method of Accounting and Control" had a whole 5MB of disk space on it's 24" platters and hey, it only weighed a little over a ton... "IBM introduced the 305...
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