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Latest News - January 2010
- OCZ Shows Off Cutting-Edge SSD Technology At CES
- MSI Goes Sexy At CES: U160, X620, Core i7 Rigs, And More
- VIA Intros World's First USB 3.0 Hub Controller
- Asus Introduces New Motherboards Based On Intel H57/H55 Chipsets
- Lexar Upgrades Professional Line Of CompactFlash & SDHC Memory Cards
- Super Talent Launches 8GB Dual Channel & 12GB Triple Channel DDR3 Kits
- CES Showcase: Asus Announces Four New Laptops
- Seagate Announces BlackArmor PS110 500GB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive
- Hardware Roundup
- NVIDIA Collaborates With Weta to Accelerate Visual Effects for Avatar
- Origin Genesis Desktop Gaming System Preview
- NVIDIA To Unveil New "Optimus" Mobile Technology At CES
- Windows 7 "God Mode" Ungodly After All
- Movie Lovers Shunning DVD, Moving To Download/Kiosk-Based Rental Options
- HSTi Wireless Media Stick Frees Your Media Streamer From Wires
- Samsung Issues Four New Atom N450-Based Netbooks
- Lenovo Intros New IDEA-Branded PC Lineup, Reveals Skylight Smartbook
- iBUYPOWER Announces Battalion Touch CZ-10 Multi-Touch Gaming Notebook
- Skiff & Sprint Preview Largest E-Reader Yet
- Samsung Crams APS-C Sensor & AMOLED Screen Into New Hybrid NX10
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All News for January 2010
OCZ Technology Showcases Cutting-Edge SSD Technology and other Leading Solutions at CES 2010 San Jose, Calif. - January 6, 2010 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard disk drives, plans to unveil an array of next generation...
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MSI confessed that some new things were on deck for CES, and sure enough the company has today confirmed that they weren't just kidding around. A whole slew of new notebooks and desktops were unveiled, with a few machines in particular really catching our eye. The X620 and U160 are both exceptionally stylish, and while MSI has always had a...
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If there's one thing that's getting massive amounts of attention here at CES, it's 3D. If there's another, it's USB 3.0. VIA, the company responsible for powering all sorts of lower-end computers, has just launched the world's first USB 3.0 hub controller. What's the big deal? The VL810 SuperSpeed USB hub controller enables a single USB port...
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With new processors comes new motherboards, and that's exactly what we're getting today from Asus. The company made famous by its Eee PC line has just unveiled new motherboards based on Intel's H57/H55 chipsets, which are designed to support the new Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium CPUs. The mainboards include...
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Lexar is improving upon its Professional line of CompactFlash (CF) and Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory cards by adding larger CF cards and faster SDHC cards. The capacity of the Professional 300x CF cards has been increased to 32GB; Lexar's Professional 233x CF cards are now available in 16GB and 32GB...
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Super Talent Launches 8GB Dual Channel and 12GB Triple Channel DDR3 Kits New DDR3-1600 Kits Are Based on 4GB DIMMs Built with 256Mx8 Chips CES Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada - January 6, 2010 - Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced two new...
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It's CES time and that means a flurry new products will be hitting the streets soon. Today, we attended the Asus 2010 CES Event at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas where company chairman Jonney Shih revealed the company's latest products and technology, including the NX90 Bang & Olufsen notebook, the ROG G73Jh Gaming notebook, the Eee PC...
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In case you haven't heard, USB 3.0 is the hot new thing, at least in the connectivity realm. Today at CES, Seagate--a name you surely recognize in the storage industry--has announced its first major USB 3.0 portable drive: the BlackArmor PS110. It's an on-the-go 2.5" drive with a 7200RPM spindle speed, and just in...
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Video: Intel Core i5 661 3.3 GHz GPU Performance analyzed @ techPowerUpMotherboards and Chipsets: ASRock H55M Pro mainboard based on Intel H55 for Clarkdale with Core i5 661 @ OCW ASRock H55M Pro (H55 Express) Motherboard @ TweaktownProcessors: Intel Core i5-661 Clarkdale Processor Review - Westmere debuts @ PC Perspective Intel Core i5-661...
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NVIDIA Collaborates With Weta to Accelerate Visual Effects for Avatar CHALLENGE: Avatar, the breakthrough stereoscopic 3D feature film from James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox opened on December 18, 2009 with a record breaking opening weekend of over $77 million for any 3D movie, and grossing over $1 billion...
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There's a new company joining the ranks of boutique system builders with customization options that could turn the head of even the most die-hard DIY-er. The paint is scarcely dry on the Origin logo—the business opened on November 17th—but the corporation's three founders each spent a decade at Alienware prior to founding Origin. Their collective...
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With CES scheduled to begin in just two days, NVIDIA has begun publicly hinting about the technology it plans to display at the trade show this year. According to a recent blog post, the company will showcase a new mobile technology under the "Optimus" brand name. Details are scarce; the blog only states the following: "NVIDIA Optimus technology...
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A tweak for Windows 7 has been making the rounds of the Internet. It's been labeled the Windows 7 "God Mode," but unlike "God Mode" in a game, it's not so godly after all.The tweak is enabled by creating a new folder and naming it with a certain text string at the end. The string is {ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. The reason it's been...
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A very interesting new report at the Wall Street Journal has thrown a huge assumption from 2009 in the face of itself. If you'll remember, many entertainment analysts said that consumers could be spending more time in front of the television (instead of at the box office) during 2009 as they struggled to curtail...
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Up until now, having your favorite media files on your PC accessible by your media player connected to your HDTV has been a pain. For those with wireless media streamers, it was possible to stream content from the PC to the streamer to the TV; for those without, you had to connect an external storage device of some...
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CES 2010 promises to be a launching pad for Intel in a few big ways. Not only has the company just launched its 32nm Arrandale and Clarkdale platforms in earnest, but it also launched its Pinetrail platform just a few weeks ago. That tiny window of lead time will likely lead to us seeing all sorts of new hardware taking advantage of the new...
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Yesterday Lenovo introduced a bunch of new ThinkPad machines, with the new Edge, X100e and a few other machines headlining the show. Today, the company is making another push as CES gets ready to open its doors to the masses, with its IDEA-branded products getting a significant upgrade. Moreover, an all new product...
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Sometime in the coming months, iBUYPOWER is planning to offer a gaming notebook that takes full advantage of the Windows multi-touch features. The new Battalion Touch CZ-10 will be a 15-inch notebook that will take the multi-touch features of Windows and apply them to the gaming world. iBUYPOWER will show off the new...
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Amazon's Kindle DX may have made some headlines when it was announced thanks to its 9.7-inch screen, but now Sprint and Skiff plan to take the crown for offering the largest e-reader on the market. The new Skiff Reader is just over a quarter of an inch thick, yet it manages to squeeze an 11.5-inch touchscreen display into its body. The1200...
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Samsung announced its new NX10 hybrid DSLR which attempts to give you all of the image quality of a full-fledged DSLR in a more compact form. This 14.6 megapixel camera has an APS-C-sized CMOS sensor and a 3-inch AMOLED display that promises lower power consumption, a wider range of viewing angles, and better contrast...
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We won't be the ones to say we told you so, but hey, we kind of told you so! The Smartbook revolution looks to be upon us, with Freescale serving up its version of the product just as CES gets unofficially underway. At first glance, you may confused this device with something akin to an Apple tablet, but when you consider that most every tablet...
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Only 16 months after its debut, Chrome has overtaken Safari as the third-most-popular web browser, according to the latest numbers released by web metrics firm Net Applications. Chrome ended the month of December 2009 with a share of 4.63 percent, while Apple's Safari dropped into fourth place with a share of 4.46 percent.Meanwhile, Internet...
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