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Latest News - February 2009
- Transcend Delivers 192GB 2.5-inch SATA II SSD
- UAE iPhone Launch Info Points to New iPhone
- Microsoft to Offer XP -> 7 Upgrades
- EA Announces New Ship Date for The Sims 3
- Voice completion software? Beware of Skynet
- MSI Launches X58 Pro for Core i7
- Nikon Announces Eight New COOLPIX Cameras
- Hardware RoundUp
- Windows 7 To Come in Six Different Versions
- IBM Raises the Bar on Security Testing
- Google Text Message Spams End Users
- Seagate Announces a 2TB SAS 2.0 Enterprise HDD
- NVIDIA Ion Ultra Small Form Factor Reference PC
- Yahoo! Briefcase to Close
- Google's Malware Fiasco Spreads to Gmail
- IBM Develops Realistic Computerized Voice
- Hardware RoundUp
- Mac's OSX gains ground on Windows
- Rambus Announces Mobile Memory Initiative
- AMD to Webcast Special Meeting Of Stockholders
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All News for February 2009
Given that 192GB solid state drives aren't exactly everywhere, Transcend's latest offering sure caught our attention. Just days after introducing a new pair of external storage devices, the company has officially announced its 192GB high-speed 2.5-inch SATA II SSD. Said drive is made of reliable NAND flash memory and includes a powerful new...
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A story covering the upcoming (Feb. 15) launch of the iPhone 3G in the United Arab Emirates seems to confirm the suspected launch date of the next version of the iPhone. The story, in Business24-7, states (emphasis ours): The latest 3G model will become available on February 15 according to Dow Jones, and etisalat will be targeting private...
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Tacitly acknowledging the problems its had getting people to adopt Windows Vista vs. Windows XP, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will be selling upgrade versions from Windows XP to Windows 7. However, the upgrade will really only apply to pricing; there won't be a way to do an in-place install of Windows 7 over Windows XP. Instead, the end...
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EA Announces New Ship Date for The Sims 3 REDWOOD CITY, Calif., February 3, 2009 - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that The Sims 3, the highly-anticipated flagship game from the best-selling PC franchise, The Sims will launch across the PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and mobile devices summer 2009. The Sims 3 PC will ship...
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Is Skynet nearly upon us?A Japanese program has been created that finishes people's sentences, according to a report in New Scientist.A team from the National Instititute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba developed it and they claim it's virgin territory. There have been plenty of speech recognition software programs...
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MSI, one of the world's leading mainboard manufacturers, today announced its most affordable X58 based mainboard, the X58 Pro. It offers an innovative new architecture adopting the latest Intel® X58 Express chipset that supports Intel® Core i7 processors along with an ultra-high bandwidth QPI (Quick Path Interconnect) transmission...
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Nikon is refreshing its COOLPIX line with eight new point and shoot models. Of the eight new cameras, four are Style Series models, one is a Performance Series camera, and the final three are Life Series models. All eight COOLPIX models feature Nikon’s NIKKOR lenses and Nikon’s EXPEED digital image processing concept. The COOLPIX line also...
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Video:Two ATI Radeon HD 4830s against One ATI Radeon HD 4870 @ XbitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:NVIDIA ION Platform Review: Death (and Life) of the Netbook @ PC PerspectiveASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsIntel i7 965 Processor & DX58SO "Smackover" Motherboard Review @ Virtual-HideoutProcessors:AMD Phenom II X4...
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Microsoft has announced that When Windows 7 is released, it will be available in six different versions, ranging from Windows 7 Starter up to Windows 7 Ultimate. The different versions are somewhat similar in name and function to the different versions of Windows Vista. While many were hoping that Microsoft would abandon this tiered approach,...
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IBM Raises the Bar on Security TestingIBM Internet Security Systems Challenges the Security Industry to Support Monthly Testing for Consistent, Pre-Emptive Security Against Evolving ThreatsATLANTA, GA - 03 Feb 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today it is the first vendor to commit to monthly testing to measure the security effectiveness across...
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Google is having a bad few days. First it labeled the entire Internet as malware, then it sent legit mail to the Spam folder as a side effect of the first issue. But things continue to go wrong for Google, as last night users of the SMS Search feature received message after message ... after message in return. The SMS Search feature allows...
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Seagate Technology is now the second hard drive manufacturer to announce a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 2TB capacity. Western Digital got the honor of being the first to announce its 2TB drive last week, the WD Caviar Green (WD20EADS) SATA drive. Seagate's 2TB drive is actually part of a new family of enterprise-class hard drives called Constellation....
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In early January, back from our road trip to Vegas with CES show buzz and bewilderment still fresh in our minds, we brought you a video interview with Drew Henry, General Manager of NVIDIA's MCP products. Drew gave us a first-hand glimpse at a new small form factor PC platform that NVIDIA was developing based on their recently released GeForce...
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While rumors of a Google online storage offering named GDrive continue to swirl, Yahoo! is abandoning its online storage service, Briefcase. A message on the Yahoo! Briefcase site warns users that they have until March 30th to move their files to a different provider. Yahoo! Briefcase will be closing on March 30, 2009. You must download or...
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On Saturday, Google labeled the entire Internet as malware, but in addition, because of the same issue, Gmail sent some legitimate email to its Spam folder. According to a blog post on the Official Gmail Blog, This morning there was a problem with the implementation of Google's malware filters. Gmail's spam engine uses those filters (among...
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It’s easy for us to distinguish a computerized voice from that of a real person. Even though we can generally figure out what the computer is trying to convey despite poor pronunciations and bad phrasing, understanding doesn’t eliminate the frustration many of us feel when trying to deal with an automated human substitute. Now, thanks...
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Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Video Card @ Benchmark ReviewsHIS Radeon HD 4670 IceQ graphics card @ bit-techMotherboards and Chipsets:BIOSTAR TPower X58 @ InsideHWMSI X58 Eclipse SLI Core i7 Motherboard @ TweaktownProcessors:Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz LGA 1366 Processor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgIntel Core i7 In Detail - Hyper-Threading...
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Nearly 10 percent - 9.9 percent, to be specific. That's how much of the market share Apple's Mac OS X has captured, even as tech journalism has been rife with stories about the impending Microsoft Windows 7.Let's face it - Windows is still the 400 lb. gorilla, with 88.3 percent of the market, according to stats from Net Applications. And some...
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Today, Rambus demonstrated a new RAM technology that could be used to enable more advanced visuals on smartphones and other mobile devices. Called the Mobile Memory Initiative, the technology focuses on high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies with the intentions of achieving data rates of 4.3Gbps while using best-in-class power efficiency....
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AMD to Webcast Special Meeting Of Stockholders SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- February 2, 2009 -- AMD (NYSE:AMD) will hold a Special Meeting of Stockholders at 10 a.m. CT (11 a.m. ET) on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at the Hilton Austin Airport, 9515 Hotel Drive in Austin, Texas. AMD will provide a real-time audio webcast of the meeting...
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Some Comcast customers in Tucson, Arizona, who were watching the Super Bowl last night, received a very unexpected program interruption during the last few minutes of the game. Just moments after Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald scored a touchdown that momentarily gave the Cardinals a 23-20 lead with 2:37 left on the clock,...
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Netflix recently sent a survey to some of its customers asking if they would be willing to "pay an additional $9.99 per month" to "watch HBO original series and movies streamed from the Internet to your computer or TV." As this was a survey designed to gauge potential customer interest, there is no definitive indication as to whether Netflix...
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