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Latest News - March 2009
- Are Nokia & Verizon Working On A 4G Device?
- Digital TV Converter Box Coupons Resume Shipping
- Thermaltake Shows Unique Level 10 Desktop Case
- Amazon Kindle App Comes To iPhone
- Hulu (kinda, sorta) returns to Boxee
- ASUS Unveils Smart, Energy-Saving Displays
- The Beatles Invade Rock Band This September
- MSI Debuts Wind Box DC100, Touchscreen Wind Tops
- Eye-Fi Introduces New Memory Cards, iPhone App
- Hardware Roundup
- YouTube Nets 100 Million US Viewers, Hooray!
- Asus Get Stylish With U And UX Series Notebooks
- Fox To Strip Special Features Out of Rental DVDs
- Circuit City to Close Early
- U.S. Population Radiation Exposure On The Rise
- A-DATA Demos Low Voltage XPG DDR3-2133X RAM
- Dell XPS 625 Phenom II Gaming System
- A-DATA Delivers 512GB 2.5" XPG SSD For Notebooks
- NVIDIA Mulls Its Own x86 CPU
- iGoogle Gets iChatty
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All News for March 2009
TheStreet.com reports that Nokia and Verizon are setting aside their differences and have come together to create a touchscreen device for the upcoming 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. While AT&T and Apple may enjoy success today with the iPhone, the two companies are looking towards the future and are determined to lead the next...
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This whole digital TV transition has turned into an abject disaster (to put it nicely), but for those of you still holding out for a government voucher before buying a converter box, there's good news to share. After the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ran out of its $1.34 billion late last year and began putting...
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Thermaltake has been turning more than a few heads at the CEBIT show, presently taking place in Hanover, Germany, with a new and unique desktop chassis called the Level 10. The Level 10 chassis is on display in Thermaltake's booth with a "No Photos" sign in front of it; so naturally, pictures of it have started popping up all over the Internet....
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Um, Amazon? Not sure if anyone told you, but most of the functionality that was previously reserved for your own Kindle and Kindle 2 e-book readers is now available for free on Apple's white-hot iPhone. Believe it or not, Amazon has somehow certified that a Kindle app be allowed out on the ever-expanding App Store free of charge, though a...
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People kind of went batguano crazy when Hulu insisted its content be taken off Boxee because its content providers freaked out and insisted on it.Since then, Boxee has been in talks with Hulu and its content providers to come up with a workable solution that would allow Boxee users to watch Hulu on their televisions (Boxee, for those who don't...
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ASUS Unveils Smart and Energy-Saving Displays for Work and Entertainment at CeBIT 2009A Myriad of Innovative Display Solutions and the World’s First Wireless Monitor Amongst Highlights at CeBIT 2009 Hannover, Germany; March 5, 2009 – ASUS, a leader in the production of LCD monitors, is proud to unveil an array of innovative and energy-efficient...
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Look out, Guitar Hero! Rock Band has swiftly and decidedly moved back into the lead with this one, and honestly, we have no idea how you're going to rival it. Yes, it's true. The Beatles, of all bands, are getting their very own installment of Rock Band, and considering that only Elvis Presley is on the same level of name recognition with...
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If MSI's iMac-like Wind NetOn AP1900 was a bit too "standard fare" for your tastes, the aforementioned company has revealed a few touch-friendly machines at CeBIT that may be just what the innovation doctor ordered. The all new Wind Top line has been revealed, and at least initially, it will consist of three models: the AE1900, AE2200 and...
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Eye-Fi, the company who launched the first wireless memory card for digital cameras announced two new SD cards that can upload videos directly from a camera. The new 4GB Eye-Fi Share Video and 4GB Eye-Fi Explore Video cards uses nearby hotspots to upload both photos and videos directly from the camera to one of more than 20 online photo sharing...
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Video:ATI RADEON HD 4830 Crossfire Video Card Setup @ PCShopTalkSapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR4 Review @ ASE LabsGaming on HTPC: Inexpensive Graphics Cards Performance Review @ XBitLabsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock N7AD-SLI @ PhoronixECS A780GM-A Ultra Black Series Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsMemory and Storage:G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 PC2...
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It's no shock to anyone even remotely up to speed on popular culture that YouTube is big. Really big, in fact. But even big can get bigger, as evidenced by a recent press release pushed out by comScore. For the first time in a single month, YouTube had over 100 million US viewers, with the online video portal securing a staggering 91 percent...
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Asus has been exceptionally busy this week at CeBIT, announcing everything from new notebooks to new monitors to new concepts. Two laptop lines that have still been under wraps until now, however, are the U and UX Series. As with most of the other small Asus machines coming out these days, these families are also highly stylized, hoping to...
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As DVD movie sales continue to slowly dry up, some motion picture distribution companies are looking to make up lost revenue from other mediums, such as from Blu-ray movie disc sales and distribution deals with online media-streaming services, such as Netlfix, Vudu, and the recently announced ZillionTV. Blu-ray isn't anywhere as successful...
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It appears that Circuit City’s liquidation sales have been successful. So successful, in fact, that the stores are running out of inventory sooner than expected. As a result, liquidators have announced that all of the chain’s remaining stores will close this Sunday. The shutdowns come about a week ahead of schedule, and two weeks earlier than...
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The National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements (NCRP) released a report that states that the average effective radiation dose individuals in the U.S. have received in 2006 has increased about 1.7-times since the early 1980s (from 3.6 mSv to 6.2 mSv)*. Contrary to what many might think, however, this almost doubling in radiation...
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A-DATA Demonstrate High Performance, Low Voltage XPG DDR3-2133X v2.0 Triple Channel Module at CeBIT 2009Adopting 1.6V to Perform 2133MHz CL8 Killer Speed Taipei, Taiwan - March 5, 2009 - A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd., a worldwide leading manufacturer in high performance memory products, showcasing its leading triple channel module in the industry...
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Dell's new XPS 625 is their latest AMD-based creation, and is the first out of the Dell labs using the relatively new Phenom II processor. Initial reviews of AMD's new chip have been favorable, as this new quad-core processor is slated to deliver roughly the same performance as Intel's quad-core Core 2 processors at very tolerable price points....
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Stay sharp, Toshiba, as A-DATA's infringing on some of your territory today. Months after Toshiba proclaimed that it would be bringing the world's first 2.5" solid state drive to CES 2009, A-DATA has stepped in at CeBIT 2009 to also suggest that it has launhed the "highest capacity of SSD in the industry." It's product? The 512GB XPG 2.5"...
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Intel and NVIDIA aren't exactly best buds right now, and this certainly isn't going to help matters any. At the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference on Tuesday NVIDIA admitted it is considering entering the general purpose microprocessor arena, where it would compete directly with Intel. NVIDIA’s senior vice president of investor relations...
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iGoogle offers you the ability to visit several websites one on page, but did you ever wish that iGoogle offered you the Chat functionality that you can get in your Gmail account, so you could forego going there and simply stay on iGoogle? Well, now you can. After all, that seemed to be the only thing really missing from iGoogle, to make it...
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Among the deluge of NVIDIA news this week, MSI has decided to throw its hat in the ring by introducing a new graphics card that's powered by the aforesaid firm. The N260GTX Lightning is predictably based on the GeForce GTX 260, which we heard earlier this year was getting a PCB tweak to shave costs. It's hard to tell from this release if anything...
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We might not quite be at the point where we can watch whatever we want, when we want, but we're getting a little closer all the time. In addition to the plethora of sites that offer on-demand streaming content to our computers, such as Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon, new devices and services keep popping up that deliver Internet-based streaming...
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