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Latest News - April 2008
- Robots Expressing Emotion, Nagging Coming Later
- Hardware Round-Up
- Will Windows Die If It Can’t Change?
- Coolest Gadget Watch Yet?
- NY State's "Amazon Tax" Means the End is Nigh
- Microsoft: UAC Designed to Annoy
- NVIDIA Gets Aggressive, Dismisses CPU-GPU Fusion
- AMD CTO Phil Hester Resigns
- GAO Finds Military Parts on eBay, Craigslist
- OCZ Announces World’s Fastest 4GB DDR2 Kit
- ASUS Unveils Essentio CS5110 Mini PC
- NVIDIA Introduces Fastest GeForce Platforms
- Corsair Receives 80+ "Green Cert" on All PSUs
- Gas Masks for a Beverly Hills Apocalypse
- Emergency Alerts by SMS Approved
- Asetek LCLC - Low Cost Liquid Cooling System
- Hardware Round-Up
- One iPhone To Rule Blu-Ray
- Yahoo! Outsourcing Search Ads to Google
- NVIDIA Wants To Optimize Your PC
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All News for April 2008
It has been a somewhat slow weekend for tech news, but I just came across an interesting article over at the Live Science site that I wanted to share. The article centers around a cutting edge MIT robotics project dubbed Nexi.What makes Nexi so interesting is that "she" has been designed...
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Video:ASUS EN9800GX2 Top Video Card Review @ I4UASUS EAH3870 TOP Overclocked Radeon HD3870 Graphics Card Review @ Bigbruin.comXFX 9600GT XXX SLI @ Bjorn3DSapphire Radeon HD 3650 GDDR3 512MB Review @ PC PerspectiveLeadtek Winfast PX9600GT @ t-breakMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte X38-DQ6 Review @ OCCASUS Striker II NSE motherboard review...
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The end may be near for Windows as we know it, according to research firm Gartner:"Because Microsoft Windows is so large and complex, covering 20 years of legacy code, it can no longer adequately respond to market forces, and Windows needs to be securely redesigned, said Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald. They delivered the...
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A few years ago when Fossil released a PDA watch, our hearts skipped a beat. Now Van Der Led is releasing a watch with a feature list that made our hearts palpitate:“The Van Der Led WM2 is a quad-band GSM watch with itty bitty 1.3-inch, 260k color touchscreen display, stereo Bluetooth, up to 240-hours of standby or 300-minutes talk, and 1GB...
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Filling out our California income tax this year, we laughed when we came upon the "Use Tax" section. Did we buy anything from out-of-state retailers that we owed California sales tax for? Of course we didn't! But whether or not we did, New York state is close to closing that loophole for its...
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It's true. There is at least one feature in Windows Vista that was implemented on time, to spec, and fully functional when Vista was initially released: User Account Control (UAC).In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed UAC, admitted...
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NVIDIA held a Financial Analyst Day yesterday, where representatives spoke about the company's strengths, market share, technology, and direction. There was a lot of discussion regarding current products and competition, which seemed to get NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Sun Huang fired up in a way...
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It's no secrect that AMD is struggling as of late due to problems executing and to intense competition from Intel and NVIDIA. In the last few months a number of high ranking executives has resigned, the latest of which appears to be Phil Hester, the company's CTO."(AP) - The chief technology officer and vice president of chip...
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Let's all hope Iran doesn't read this article, since we know a) they are trolling for F-14 parts, b) this report found some on eBay!Night-vision cameras and camouflage gear are probably available at your local Wal-Mart. But congressional leaders on Thursday voiced dismay at reports that...
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OCZ Technology Announces World’s Fastest 4GB Kit, the Innovative PC2-9200 Flex II DDR2 Series High-Speed, High-Density Flex II Memory Modules Harness the Overclocking Capabilities of Water Cooled Systems Sunnyvale, CA - April 10, 2008 - OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative...
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ASUS Takes the Mini PC to a Mighty Level with Essentio CS5110 Taipei, Taiwan – Extensive research and development have resulted in ASUS innovations that help pack more versatility and performance into compact frames. Packed with innovations, the ASUS Essentio CS5110 is a Mini PC that features exceptional graphics performance as its main focus...
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NVIDIA Introduces Fastest GeForce Platforms Ever—Optimized For Gaming PCs New GeForce 9-Series GPUs, NVIDIA nForce 790i-Series MCPs, and NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU Technology Reinvigorate the PC Market with Best Performance, Power, and Price SANTA CLARA, CA—APRIL 10, 2008—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:...
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CORSAIR RECEIVES 80 PLUS® “GREEN” CERTIFICATION ON ALL POWER SUPPLY UNITSCorsair Eco-Friendly PSUs Deliver Performance and EfficiencyFremont, CA, April 10, 2008 – Corsair® http://www.corsair.com, a worldwide leader in enthusiast computer and flash memory products, announced today...
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We're not 100% sure if we think these are in poor taste based on 9/11 (OK, they likely are), but they are still ... well, interesting.A few years ago--specifically, after Sept. 11, 2001--something like a jewel-studded gas mask would have been considered to be in poor taste, to say the least. And it still is, in our opinion, but that doesn't...
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It's always great when we can catch up with China, isn't it? After all, China used SMS alerts to warn citizens over Typhoon Kaemi in 2006.The plan stems from the Warning Alert and Response Network Act, a 2006 federal law that requires upgrades to the emergency alert system. The act requires the Federal Communications Commission to develop...
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Just in case you missed the new link at the top of the home page, we're here to let you know that we have just posted a new article in which we evaluate the features and performance of the Asetek LCLC, Low Cost Liquid Cooling system. The LCLC may resemble other water cooling setups but...
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Video:GeForce 9800GTX Duel @ Boot Daily.comGainward 9800 GTX 512MB Video Card Review @ OCWNVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Overclocked @ TweaktownMSI N9800GTX-T2D512 OC @ Hard Tecs 4 UDiamond HD 3650 1024 MB DDR2 @ techPowerUpMSI N9600GT OC -T2D512 (Geforce 9600GT) @ CPU3DPalit 9800 GTX review and SLI testing @ NeoseekerASUS EN9800GTX 512MB Review...
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If you have an iPhone and a Blu-Ray player and have been dreaming of the two working together in harmony, then you probably already work for NetBlender on their BD Touch development team. If it just sounds like a good idea, and you haven’t been dreaming about such a technological mating, then here’s what NetBlender is working on:“It's a technology...
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How about that? Microsoft gave Yahoo! a hard deadline, and Yahoo! fires back, outsourcing Search Ads to Google. Granted, it's a limited trial.The test will last up to two weeks and involve no more than 3% of Yahoo's Web search queries, the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet company said. It is designed for Google and Yahoo to evaluate...
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NVIDIA just launched a new optimized PC Configurator on the company's website designed to educate consumers on the importance of a GPU in overall system performance. The configurator website states that "At least half of the PCs shipped today have an underpowered GPU...You need the right CPU / GPU mix for the best experience. Whether you're
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If you have received a promo CD or - if this case is successful - some other promo item, you'd better not throw it away, as it would be piracy.In a brief filed in federal court yesterday, Universal Music Group (UMG) states that, when it comes to the millions of promotional CDs ("promo CDs") that it has sent out to music reviewers, radio stations,...
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Yesterday news regarding the availability of HP's ultra portable Mini-Note PC broke and generated some buzz. But ever since ASUS first unveiled the EeePC other players like Everex, Acer, and ECS, among others, have all announced or introduced similar, relatively low priced, portable solutions. And according to a story posted on...
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