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Latest News - October 2011
- Ubuntu 11.10 Released
- Google Crushes It In Latest Quarterly Earnings, Sees 40m Google+ Users
- Hardware Roundup
- Thailand Flood Continues to Disrupt Overseas Electronics Companies
- Corsair Unveils High-Performance Quad Channel 32GB Memory Kit
- Motorola And Verizon Team Up To Deliver Connected Home Services
- id's Rage: Flawed, Flat, But Occasionally Fun - HH Games It
- Gartner: PC Shipments Jump 3.2 Percent as Consumers Remain Mesmerized with Media Tablets
- AT&T Adds Five New Android Smartphones To Lineup
- Motorola's Lapdock 100 Brings Notebook-Like Style To Atrix 2, Photon 4G And Droid Bionic
- Polycom Brings HD Video Collaboration To Tablets
- AT&T Toggle App Allows Personal And Enterprise To Live Together On Android Phones
- Cray to Upgrade Its XT5 “Jaguar” Supercomputer at ORNL
- Palit Announces Factory Overclocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo Graphics Card
- Intel Concedes Smart TV Market to ARM
- Sony Recalls 1.6 Million Bravia TVs Due To Fire Risk
- WD's HDD Production Impacted By Flooding In Thailand
- Hardware Roundup
- Verizon's LTE Gets Even Bigger On Nov. 17th; Can The Others Catch Up?
- New BlueStacks Download Brings Android Apps To Windows PCs
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All News for October 2011
It is October again, which means it's time for candy. If you happen to be one of the 20 million Ubuntu users, today's candy comes in the form of the biannual Ubuntu release: 11.10 - Oneiric Ocelot. If the official release notes below draw your interest, an online tour is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/. LiveCD's, which...
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Guess what? Apple's not the only company in Northern California raking in tons of cash. Google's doing well for itself also, with CEO Larry Page saying frankly: "We had a great quarter." Yes, yes you did. He also stated that revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue was just short of $10 billion...
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Processors: AMD's FX-8150 "Zambezi" CPU (LostCircuits) AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer 8 Core CPU Review @ TechwareLabs AMD's FX-8150 'Bulldozer' processor reviewed at TR AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer CPU Review @ Neoseeker Legion Hardware - (AMD FX-8150, FX-8120, FX-6100 and FX-4170) AMD Bulldozer - FX 8150 Performance Review @ Rage3D.com AMD FX-8150 CPU Review:...
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Seagate on Wednesday provided an update on its operations in Thailand following severe flooding that has ravaged the region. The hard drive maker said all of its factories in Thailand are operational and there aren't any logistical issues with employees getting to work, but it's not business as usual. "The hard disk...
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Corsair announced a new high-performance quad channel Dominator 32GB DDR3 memory kit. This new kit is comprised of four 8GB DDR3 DRAM modules that use Corsair’s DHX+ heatsinks. DHX+ technology uses high-quality heatsinks and a PCB that cools both the front and rear of the memory ICs and the printed circuit...
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Motorola and Verizon are working together to offer connected home services. Verizon's new Home Monitoring and Control service uses Motorola's 4Home technology to show you who is at your front door, turn off lights, automate your thermostat, lock or unlock doors, and more from your smartphone, tablet, or PC. The...
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Rage is id Software's first game in seven years and its lead developer, John Carmack, has more than earned a spot in the video game industry's all-time Hall of Fame. Rage, however, unfortunately doesn't live up to its pedigree. While it's not a bad game, it's a shadow of what we hoped for. The game takes place 106 years after Earth is struck...
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Despite what PC fatalists would have you believe, there's still a market for desktop and notebook systems. Sure, the PC market isn't growing like gangbusters at the moment, but it is growing nonetheless. That's saying something when the whole world seems preoccupied with tablets, smartphones, handheld games systems...
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The iPhone 4S may be the hottest smartphone on the market (or close to being on the market) right now, but AT&T knows that iOS isn't for everyone. The company was slow to adopt Android back in the day, but now they're becoming one of the most ardent supporters of Google's blossoming mobile OS. This week, the company cranked the amount...
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Remember the Lapdock for the Atrix? It's back! In a slightly overhauled way, and with more compatibility than ever. The new Lapdock 100 will soon be arriving on Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and AT&T, boasting a 10.1" screen, built-in speakers, an ergonomically-slanted keyboard with dedicated Android keys, touch-pad...
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Polycom announced Polycom RealPresence Mobile, an enterprise HD video collaboration tool specifically designed for tablets. Now, employees and consultants can join desktop or conference room video meetings on a tablet, in HD. Supported tablets include the iPad 2, Motorola Xoom, and Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1, although more tablets will be added...
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What if you could flip your phone into "personal mode" when you leave work, and vice-versa when heading in? Most smartphones these days are setup to somehow operate as both a work phone and a personal phone, juggling both as best it can. Which is fine, except there are compromises made on both ends to make it come...
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And so, the Jaguar gave way to the Titan. Cray Inc. will upgrade its XT5 “Jaguar” supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to its XK6 “Titan” supercomputer, which will be capable of between 10 and 20 petaflops when completed. The contract between Cray and the DOE is worth...
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We're not the least bit afraid to overclock our hardware on our own, and heck, sometimes that's half the fun. But if a vendor wants to take on that same responsibility, then more power to them. That's the decision Palit made with its new, long-winded "GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Light Turbo Limited Edition" graphics card...
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You win some and you lose some, is the way it goes in life, even for Intel. The Santa Clara chip maker stands head and shoulders above everyone else in the semiconductor market, but it doesn't win all of its battles. To wit, Intel is disbanding its Digital Home Group, which builds SoC Atom variants for smart TVs and other similar consumer...
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Sony is recalling 1.6 million Bravia LCD TVs that were manufactured in 2007 and 2008. The TVs were primarily sold in Europe and the United States, though some were also sold in Japan and other countries. According to the recall notice issued by Sony, the affected sets may have a damaged component that could overheat and ignite inside of the...
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Today, WD announced that it is halting the production of hard drives in its facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand due to severe flooding. Although the company's employees are safe and the facilities are operational, the flooding has created problems with the region's infrastructure including transportation and utilities. WD says it is currently...
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Video: Silent Games: Three Unique Graphics Accelerators on Radeon HD 67xx with Passive Coolers @ XBitLabs Asus GeForce Matrix GTX 580 Platinum 1536MB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Review @ Vortez Memory and Storage: OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB PCI-E SSD Review @ Hardware Canucks Corsair Force...
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Sprint may be rumbling out with LTE markets of their own in the coming months and years, but they're already way, way behind compared to Verizon Wireless' rollout. And they're falling further behind every single day. The company is rolling out new LTE markets at a wildly rapid pace, and at CTIA Enterprise and...
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What if you could run an Android app on your Windows PC? Seems far-fetched, but it's not. BlueStacks has today announced the alpha version of BlueStacks App Player for Windows PC, a free software download that allows users to quickly run their favorite Android apps on any Windows PC, tablet or laptop. In addition, the apps can be run full...
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The case of the missing iPhone 4 is finally over. Brian Hogan (below), 22, of Redwood City, and Robert Sage Wallower (pictured), 28, have changed their pleas from "not guilty" to "no contest" in the "lost iPhone" case, stemming from 2010. The pair, who had been accused of selling the device to Gizmodo last year, received sentences...
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Another Roku? How about a purple one?! Roku just announced a new $50 model, the purple-hued LT model. In conjunction, the company announced that HBO GO would be launching on the Roku platform, bringing 1400 HBO titles to streaming. We're told that it'll include every episode of every season of the best HBO shows, and...
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