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Latest News - August 2008
- Jobs Confirms iPhone "Kill Switch"
- The Pirate Bay Blocked in Italy
- Avoid the Danger Zones with SafeRoadMaps.org
- Intel Reveals Nehalem Naming Convention
- Hardware Round-Up
- MacBook Pros Begin to Feel the NVIDIA Heat
- Money Plus Gets Unboxed
- HotHardware Blog Updates, Tweets and FBing
- Oh, Brett! About That Madden '09 Box Cover
- Microsoft Hate Is Getting Very Expensive
- Telecommuters Get Short End Of The ISP Stick
- Daily Search Engine Use Still Below 50 Percent
- Your Next iPod Might Be Part of the Cloud
- Velocity Micro Edge Z55 Gaming System
- Hardware Round-Up
- Asus Makes Wii-like Controllers for PCs
- YouNoodle Keeps Score In Web Bubble 2.0
- Researcher Uncovers iPhone App "Kill Switch"
- Vint Cerf Admits Network Management is Necessary
- Apple Removes Worthless $1000 App from App Store
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All News for August 2008
It was a little, tiny, tiny addendum at the end of a WSJ article, but it was there: in an interview with the WSJ, Steve Jobs confirmed that the suspected iPhone "kill switch" does indeed exist. Of course, for investors, talk of the App Store downloads are probably more exciting, and Jobs detailed that as well:If sales stay at the current...
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Italy has been showing BitTorrent no mercy lately. First, Italy shuts down the country's largest BitTorrent tracker site, Colombo-BT.org, a couple of weeks ago; and now it is trying to block country-wide access to The Pirate Bay--the Swedish-based BitTorrent site that claims to be "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker"--by ordering all Italian...
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Doyle Drive is the antiquated and dangerous southern approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. It's actually a steel-truss bridge and has been rated as the most dangerous span in California. Most in the SF Bay Area are aware of this. And although geared toward rural drivers, SafeRoadMaps.org, a project of the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety...
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NEXT-GENERATION INTEL PC CHIPS TO CARRY INTEL CORE NAME SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2008 – Intel Corporation announced today that desktop processors based on the company’s upcoming new microarchitecture (codenamed “Nehalem”) will be formally branded “Intel Core™ processor.” The first products in this new family of processors, including...
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Video:ASUS MK241 24-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgSapphire HD4870 512MB @ Modders-Inc.comNVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card Review @ TechARPMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS P5E64 WS Professional @ PhoronixGigabyte X48T-DQ6 Motherboard Review @ MotherboardsMemory and Storage:Corsair Dominator XMS3 DDR3-1600C9 Memory...
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We're sure you know about the issues with some NVIDIA mobile GPUs, as earlier in July NVIDIA admitted it was taking a $150 - $200 million charge to cover (emphasis ours):... anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions...
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Microsoft may just have acknowledged that digital distribution of software, long (relatively) used for distribution and sales of games, may just be ready to hit the big time. In an understated announcement on a newsgroup, by an MVP, Microsoft has announced it is going to halt the sale of boxed copies of its Quicken competitor, Money Plus....
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Though you might not go there as often yet, you soon will. It's a random sort of babble that sounds mysteriously entertaining at first and then sucks you in like some cheesy sit-com. What am I speaking of you say? Why the HH Blog Roll of course! In our recent submissions we discuss things like the new HH Twitter and Facebook...
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Ah, the best laid plans. The cover of the Madden NFL '09 game was supposed to pay homage to the retiring Brett Favre. But then he decided to un-retire! What to do, what to do? Well, as far as EBGames goes, PhotoShop is the answer. The box is above, but see the below of their home page, as of this morning. Yep, they PhotoShopped the image of...
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It's always amusing to read blog comments and hear just how unpopular Microsoft is. Of course a 90+ percent market share in their core business would seem to indicate a certain level of popularity, but apparently popularity is measured in a different way than simple arithmetic. It really doesn't matter if your average websurfer likes the guy...
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Telecommuting makes a lot of sense. Having information workers gathered into cubicle farms in a central location is so 1960s. The ability to quickly exchange information from remote locations, coupled with the high cost in time and energy to commute to the old office park, makes it increasingly popular now, and probably the de facto standard...
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Sometimes we have to remind ourselves here at HotHardware that us editors and our loyal readers do not necessarily represent typical Internet users. Many of us consider ourselves to be "power users," and feel we know how to leverage the available tools to find exactly what we are looking for online. Which is why it came as a surprise to us...
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If an Apple patent application that started making the rounds yesterday is any indication, a future version of the iPod or iPhone might be able to remotely access the entire iTunes media library sitting on your computer at home via a Wi-Fi or wireless telephone connection. Instead of having to carefully pick and choose what subset of your...
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Unlike the enthusiast system manufacturers, Alienware and VoodooPC, Richmond, Virginia-based Velocity Micro is still an independent, privately held company. In fact, Velocity Micro is doing well enough on its own to have even purchased the enthusiast, boutique system maker, Overdrive PC last year. On top of that, Velocity Micro is one of the...
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Video:ASUS GeForce 9800 GTX+ TOP Graphics Card @ TweaktownMotherboards and Chipsets:AMD 790GX Chipset Review @ AMDZoneXFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review @ MotherboardsAMD's 790GX chipset @ TheTechReportGigabyte GA-EP45T-EXTREME P45 Motherboard @ Benchmark ReviewsAsus M3A78-T Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:Corsair...
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Not content to let Nintendo Wii owners have all the fun with motion-based, wireless game controllers, Asus has just announced its own Wii-like controllers for Windows PCs, called the Eee Stick. It seems that Asus is putting the "Eee" moniker on all of its new products lately, such as the Eee PC and the Eee Box. In fact, the Asus press release...
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Remember the good/bad old days of the first Internet boom, when AOL bought TimeWarner with all their imaginary money? Well, TimeWarner is trying to put AOL out behind the dumpster now and get on with their real, live, moneymaking business, and Web 2.0 investors are looking for a whole new generation of worthless widgets to lavish their millions...
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First: there's no real evidence this is a "kill switch" that Apple will use, but still, based on Apple's protectiveness over the iPhone, it wouldn't surprise us.Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the upcoming book iPhone Forensics, has revealed an URL that he suggests Apple is using to keep a list of any "offending" applications:...
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There are some people whose opinions matter more than others. Take Vint Cerf, for instance. Cerf is often credited as being the "father of the Internet." While that might not be a technically accurate statement, it is safe to say that he played a very significant role in shaping what would become the Internet as we know it today--and he is...
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Who decides which apps go up --- and stay up --- on the App Store? After all, something pretty useful like NetShare gets dropped from the App Store a couple of times (all right, all right, I know AT&T wouldn't like it), while something totally frivolous like this app gets posted?The app was named "I am Rich." The name is appropriate, because...
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One of the key challenges of digital photography technology has been to try to capture images as well as the human eye does. While optics have made significant improvements in recent years, modest enhancements to the resolution density of the electronic sensors have kept the lofty goal of mimicking human perception as just a pipe dream. But...
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Touchscreen technology isn't really all that new, but the popularity of Apple's iPhone has whetted the public's appetite for putting their fingers on the screen and doing things. But the technology that makes tiny phone screens react to touch would be prohibitively expensive on a screen even as large a UMPC, never mind the typical desktop's...
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