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Latest News - February 2007
- NVIDIA Vista Quality Assurance Page
- OCZ Technology Unveils the New PC2-6400 Flex XLC CAS 3 Series
- Next-Gen NVIDIA Chipset for Socket AM2 and AM2+ Revealed
- Intel and USAID Commit to Broaden Technology Access
- HIS Radeon X1650 XT IceQ Turbo and Radeon X1650 XT iSilence II
- I'm Not Shooting Hell Knights; I'm Training For Spreadsheets
- Damn The Dollar Torpedoes! Full NAND Flash Ahead!
- PCI Express External Cabling Specification Completed
- Gorbachev Asks Gates To Save Russian Pirate
- In case One Isn't Enough, ATI Is Planning Quad Setups For R600
- Intel's Visual Computing Group Wants To Give Us 16 Core GPUs
- New AMD Opteron Processors Unveiled
- RIAA Wins Unhackable Website Award
- Old And Busted? The Internet. But There's No New Hotness
- Princeton Libraries Joins Google's Book-Scan Project
- Vista's Command Console Extends Trial Period From 30 To 120 Days
- April Holds Good Things For Intel's Xeon Processors
- More ATI R6x0 Rumors Emerge
- Microsoft Ignores Vista Upgrade Loophole
- Microsoft Suffers From Ink Cartridge Envy; Jacks Up Tech Support Charges
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All News for February 2007
This just in from our friends at NVIDIA... "NVIDIA has created a Vista Quality Assurance Page for users to report any issues they may have with their NVIDIA-based graphics products in Windows Vista. This page will also serve as a means for users to provide information and feedback to NVIDIA. This page has our official message on...
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OCZ Technology Addresses Enthusiasts' Needs for Low-Latency 800MHz DDR2 and Unveils the New PC2-6400 Flex XLC CAS 3 Series Sunnyvale, CA - February 8, 2007 - OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the PC2-6400 Flex XLC CL3 series...
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The phrase 'next-generation' seems to be in the news daily as of late and today is no exception as NVIDIA announces its upcoming new chipset for AMD's socket AM2, and AM2+. The new chipset named MCP72 is planned to be the successor of the nForce 500 line as well as AMD's MCP68. The MCP72 will be jam packed full of new features such as HypterTransport...
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Intel and USAID Commit to Broaden Technology Access in Emerging Markets SANTA CLARA, Calif. - February 8, 2007 - Intel Corporation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are working together to broaden access and usage of information and communications technology (ICT) in developing communities around the world....
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Today we've launched an analysis on two mid-range graphics cards from HIS based on the AMD-ATI Radeon X1650 XT graphics processor. HIS Radeon X1650 XT IceQ Turbo and Radeon X1650 XT iSilence II...
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Gaming freaks desperately want to believe that blasting their way through the universe is not just an interesting waste of time. Well, researchers from the University of Rochester are about to give them more....er... ammo for their arguments. The idea that gaming...
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Apple's popular video iPod media player is going to scrap a hard disk drive altogether, and go with flash memory, according to a report from an analyst from Prudential Equity Group. "We believe that the video iPod transition from 1.8-inch hard disk drives to NAND flash memory may occur as soon as late 2007," Tortora wrote. "Our checks...
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PCI Express External Cabling Specification Completed by PCI-SIG Enables New Usage Models Such as Platform Disaggregated I/O, Chassis-Chassis Expansion I/O and Others BEAVERTON, Ore. - February 7, 2007 - PCI-SIG(R), the Special Interest Group responsible for PCI Express(R) industry-standard I/O technology, today announced the availability of...
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While we may not see him playing a character opposite Jack Sparrow any time soon, Mikhail Gorbachev is doing his part to save a Russian teacher accused of piracy, Alexander Ponosov. The teacher, accused of using pirated software at his school, is seen by many Russians as the unfortunate sap who Microsoft has chosen to go after in order to...
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Supposedly AMD/ATI's R600 is slated to be released in March. Also rumor has it that ATI is planning quad setups to be a very real possibility for their new line of Direct X 10 cards. By utilizing four cards in a single setup, ATI's R600 promises to be an amazing graphics processing powerhouse...
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Intel's Visual Computing Group (VCG), a new entry into the graphics arena, recently went over its roadmap for the next few years with the press and revealed that the company is looking to release a new graphics solutions to compete NVIDIA and ATI as early as 2008/2009. VCG wants to produce a GPU based on...
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New AMD OpteronTM Processors Unveiled for Ultimate Datacenter Performance-Per-Watt - The Industry's Most Stable and Energy-Efficient x86 Server Processor Roadmap Expands - Sunnyvale, Calif. -- February 7, 2007 --Delivering on its commitment to industry-leading datacenter performance and performance-per-watt, AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced...
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We made that up. It's not a real award. But the RIAA has a webpage, written as if they were addressing Special Olympians, that explains how marvelous, hardworking and underpaid rock stars and record company executives are, and explains that the real price you should be paying for a Celine Dion CD is $33.86 -- and I can't...
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Sorry to bother you, but the Internet is busted. And we're not talking "global-warming-forty -years-from-now-we're-going-to-be-really-hot busted." We appear to be talking "this-year" busted. A new assessment from Deloitte & Touche predicts that global traffic will exceed the Internet's capacity as soon as this year....
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Princeton has agreed to let Google digitize about 1 million public domain books which are no longer in copyright, into the enormous database that is Google Books. The project started two years ago, and aims to digitize many of the worlds books, allowing them to be searchable over the web....
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Since the release of Windows Vista many people have been pouring over different guides in order to answer the not so age old question of which version of Vista is right for them. Well it looks like a simple console command with administrator rights enabled will let you extend you're 30 day grace period for...
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Intel, in a move to make its Xeon line of processors more attractive, will be slashing prices in April for it's Xeon 3200 quad-core and X3000 dual-core series CPUs . The price cuts are targeted at the 1-way server market with the goal of increasing demand in order to gain a larger slice of the server CPU pie. Intel plans...
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VR-Zone has posted a few more details regarding ATI's upcoming R600 family of GPUs. Still no solid information on final clock speeds, architectural details, etc. Nonetheless, it's still fun to speculate... "ATi briefly mentioned to their partners a 2nd generation Unified Shader Structure and a new hardware Crossfire for R600...
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Unlike previous version of Windows, that only required a valid, older CD to be inserted to verify ownership, upgrade versions of Windows Vista require a previous OS installation to function. A workaround for this issue was posted to web within hours of Vista's release, however, that didn't require an older OS at all. It...
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If Vista's got you stumped, Microsoft offers a tech support chainsaw to help you down. Bring money. As of Jan. 30, customers who buy full retail copies of Vista and Office 2007 will get unlimited calls, e-mails and Web chats with Microsoft technical support during the first 90 days after activating the software...
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Wal*Mart is starting their own online video download service today. They'll be offering movies and TV shows for a little less, generally, than Apple's similar iTunes service. Unlike some offerings, Wal-Mart will not rent films online. The films can be played on a PC or transferred...
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OCZ Technology Unveils High-Speed, PC2-6400 4GB Dual Channel Kits designed to specifically address the needs of Gamers taking advantage of DirectX 10 Sunnyvale, CA - February 5, 2007 - OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the...
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