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Latest News - March 2009
- Sun Microsystems Chosen by Internet Archive
- Windows 7 RC Date Exposed Via TechNet Goof
- Premium Accounts Could Come To Twitter
- NVIDIA Countersues Intel Over License Conflict
- Alltel Still Alive & Kicking, Expands My Circle
- AMD Demonstrates Optimized Havok Middleware
- Sprint Announces Expansion Areas for 4G WiMAX
- Synology Announces Business and Home NAS Devices
- Western Digital Takes My Book Line To 2TB
- Nintendo Ships 50 Million Wii Consoles
- Lian-Li Launches PC-C39 Multimedia HTPC Chassis
- Get Your Wolfenstein 3D, Now in the App Store
- ATT, Cox, Comcast Following New RIAA Procedures
- PhotoFast's G-Monster SSD Has 64MB Of Cache
- Xbox 360 Motion Controller Coming This Year
- SSDs Added to Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Arrays
- Hardware Roundup
- T-Mobile Launches 3G webConnect USB Laptop Stick
- Linksys by Cisco Media Hub
- Blockbuster OnDemand Comes to TiVo
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All News for March 2009
Sun Microsystems announced that the Internet Archive, one of the fastest growing digital libraries in the world, has migrated its digital archival service onto Sun's open hardware and software platforms and established a new primary datacenter that will be housed at Sun's Santa Clara, California, campus. The Archive chose Sun to help...
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A minor (?) oops on Microsoft's end has revealed the (current) date of the Release Candidate (RC) for Windows 7. A Technet web page indicates the RC build will be coming in May, not April as was previously rumored. The RC build will expire June 1, 2010, and the testing program will be available through at least June 2009. Here's the text from...
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As Twitter continues to grow hotter and hotter, pick up more funding, get more morons fired and facilitate more political conversations, individuals that are intimately involved with the operation are desperately looking for ways to monetize it. We'd heard whispers in the past of so-called "premium accounts," but now it sounds like those could...
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Grab a bag of popcorn, kick up your feet and enjoy the show -- this one's just getting good. After Intel filed a lawsuit against NVIDIA late last month alleging that a four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed did not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with 'integrated' memory controllers (like Nehalem), NVIDIA...
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Verizon Wireless may have completed its purchase of Alltel, but that doesn’t mean the two companies are completely operating as one yet. In fact, as you’ll recall, Verizon had to agree to sell assets in 91 overlapping markets in order to gain federal approval for its acquisition. Customers in these 91 areas will continue to receive Alltel...
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AMD Demonstrates Optimized Executions of Havok Middleware on AMD platforms – Balanced Platform of CPU + GPU Processing Delivers Optimal Game Experience – SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - March 26, 2009 - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) and Havok, the premier provider of interactive software for physics simulation and content development,...
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Sprint could definitely use a boost these days, and it's apparently hoping to get that from upcoming expansion of its Sprint 4G services. For those who haven't followed this epic sequence of events, Sprint 4G is the new tagline for its WiMAX services, which went by "XOHM" for, oh, a day or two. After linking up with Clearwire, however, it...
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Synology might not be as well known in the U.S. as other network-attached storage (NAS) device manufactures such as Buffalo, Maxtor/Seagate, or QNAP; but with Synology's announcement today of a slew of new NAS devices for small businesses and home users, Synology NAS devices might be finding their way into many more U.S. companies and homes...
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It follows logic, really. Western Digital has a 2TB hard drive, so why not shove that very drive into Western Digital's line of external hard drives? This week, WD has expanded its popular My Book family of external HDDs to include a 2TB capacity, the largest available capacity in a single-drive system. Specifically, the new 2TB My Book family...
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If you've been following along, you won't be at all shocked by this news. If not, you still probably won't find it too hard to believe. What we're alluding to is the fact that Nintendo has just shipped its 50 millionth Wii console -- a tidbit that you'd already know if you realized that AMD just shipped the 50 millionth Wii GPU and IBM just...
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Lian-Li launches low profile PC-C39 Multimedia HTPC Chassis Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched the PC-C39 multimedia chassis. This low profile HTPC case comes in two shades, namely silver and black to match in seamlessly with your current home theater décor. The elegant diamond cut sublimely carved into the front face gives the brushed...
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Earlier this week id Software released an iPhone port of Wolfenstein 3D as open source, but at the time it wasn't in the App Store. Wait no longer, it's there.Besides having its own website (which you absolutely have to visit, right?), the game that id Software calls "the grandfather of the FPS at your fingertips" is located here in the App...
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Last December, the RIAA announced it was giving up on file-sharing lawsuits, and would be working with ISPs in a three-strikes policy program which would eventually result in broadband being cut off for repeat offenders of illegal file-sharing. At a digital music conference in Nashville this week, AT&T's Jim Cicconi stated that the company...
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PhotoFast may not be a household name in North America, but it may be soon given its freshest line of solid state drives. Over in Japan, the company has announced the impeccably titled G-Monster SSDV4 SLC Series, a lineup which includes 32GB and 64GB models. Both variants promise read speeds of up to 270MB/sec and write speeds of up to 170MB/sec,...
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Performance Designed Products (or PDP) plans to offer a motion controller for the Xbox 360 sometime this fall. This new controller called the Gametrak Freedom uses several accelerometers for mapping pitch, roll, and yaw. The controller differs from the Wii remote in that it uses ultrasonic 3D positioning. Also unlike the Wii remote, the Gametrak...
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It's time to face facts, HDD lovers. SSDs are here to stay, like it or not. As we see more and more solid state drives flood out into the consumer market, we're also seeing these durable, pricey and ridiculously quick spinners infiltrate all sorts of other devices. Take Dell's newest EqualLogic PS6000 series of storage arrays, for instance....
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Video:Sapphire HD 4870 2GB Vapor X Series Review @ OCCTwinTech Geforce GTS 250 XT OC Edition @ CPU3DHIS HD 4870 IceQ4+ Turbo 1 GB GDDR5 @ techPowerUpMotherboards and Chipsets:EVGA X58 SLI @ Techgage.comProcessors:Intel Core 2 Duo Threatened: AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition CPU Review @ XBitLabsMemory and Storage:Crucial Ballistix Tracer...
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For whatever reason, T-Mobile has definitely lagged behind the other major carriers in the United States when it comes to 3G deployment, but the company has taken a major step in fully catching up today with the introduction of its webConnect USB Laptop Stick. As with every other 3G USB stick out there, this one also enables users to connect...
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If you have a large or growing collection of digital photos, videos, and music, and want to share this media with other users in your household--or perhaps you want to consolidate all the media from different users and systems to a single source--then you can benefit from a NAS device. Add in automatic backups of all locally-networked PCs...
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It looks like Netflix isn't the only company that sees that streaming is the future of movie rental distribution. Blockbuster, which always seems to be playing catch-up with Netflix, will start making its on-demand rental and purchase content available on TiVo DVRs. While streaming video to computers is nothing new, streaming video to TVs...
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After months and months of laying low, it's safe to say that NVIDIA's PhysX technology is back from its lull. At the bustling Game Developers Conference in California, said company is announcing an all new term for us to learn and love: APEX. In short, APEX is a new capability to to its PhysX technology development software development kit...
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AMD Announces Next-Generation, Platform-Agnostic Tools for Increased Game Development Efficiency — GPU PerfStudio 2.0 offers developers new features and flexibility to help cut development time and improve game performance — SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – March 25, 2009 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of GPU PerfStudio 2.0, a free,...
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