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Acer
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MSI NF980-G65 Mainboard/Motherboard @ TechwareLabs
MSI N240GT GeForce GT 240 512 MB GDDR5 @ techPowerUp
Silverstone Raven 3200dpi Gaming Mouse @ OCModShop
Samsung Spinpoint F3 Hard Drive @ InsideHW
ASUS SBC-04D1S-U External Slim Blu-ray Combo Drive @ ThinkComputers.org
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From X-bit Labs: IBM and Infineon AG want to sell off Altis Semiconductor, a joint-venture between the two companies, and want to see it as an independent foundry services provider. At present IBM and Infineon are negotiating with yet another potential investor. The question is whether ...
Motherboards and Memory
Infineon
IBM
From X-bit Labs: Elpida Memory, the largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), in Japan, said Thursday that it had completed development of its first GDDR5 chip. Mass production of the new premium memory ICs will start in the second quarter of next year.
Elpida’s first GDDR5 ...
Motherboards and Memory
Elpida
Rambus
From InfoWorld: Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior NSA (National Security Agency) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system.
"Microsoft has not and will not put ...
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Microsoft
Windows 7
From PC World: Sony is hoping to launch its planned online content service early next year and expects it will give the company an advantage in the increasingly competitive consumer electronics market, the executive heading up the project said Friday.
"I'd like it to get off the ground ...
Peripherals
Sony
From CNET News.com: Cisco is offering a free iPhone app that will allow people to get customized alerts on new security threats and other information for safe Web browsing.
The app, which will be available on Friday in the Apple iTunes store, provides information about new malware ...
Peripherals
iPhone
Apple
From CNET News.com: Adobe Systems on Saturday will be unveiling a slightly sleeker version of its Acrobat.com hosted-application service.
The site, which combines a number of tools, including word processing, PDF conversion, spreadsheets, and live Web meetings, has been reworked with a ...
Other
Adobe
From DailyTech: A radical new day has dawned for the operating system.
Today Google finally aired its long awaited Chrome Operating System. The operating system was detailed at a press conference starting at 1 p.m. EST, and the open source code was posted online just before the start of ...
OS
Chrome
Microsoft
Linux
From DailyTech: The notebook market is mostly dominated today by netbooks thanks to the poor economy and the low price of the netbooks available today. With economy picking back and Windows 7 now on the market many consumers are looking to replacing aging notebooks with new machines.
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Motherboards and Memory
Lenovo
Windows 7
From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced that it commenced a cash tender offer for up to $1 billion in aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 5.75% convertible senior notes due 2012. AMD intends to finance the purchase of the notes tendered in the tender offer ...
Motherboards and Memory
AMD
From InfoWorld: Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs (mobile Internet devices), set-top boxes, and picture frames that run on Google's Android software platform.
Earlier this week, ARM rolled out the Solution ...
CPUs
Android
MIPS
Motorola
Acer
From PC World: After years of third-stringing it, Sony's beleaguered PS3 may finally be rallying, according to sales data cited on Sony's US PlayStation blog. The company's American division reports year-over-year October hardware sales lifted nearly 70 percent, and says its online ...
Peripherals
Sony
PlayStation 3
Microsoft
From CNET News.com: AT&T has lost the first battle in a legal war against Verizon Wireless to force the company to stop showing advertisements that compare its 3G wireless network coverage with Verizon's coverage.
A federal judge in Atlanta on Wednesday declined to grant AT&T a ...
Other
Verizon Wireless
From CNET News.com: Google is ready to launch an ambitious attempt to provide captions for videos on YouTube.
The company is holding an event in Washington D.C. Thursday to announce that it has developed a way to use the voicemail transcription technology in Google Voice to allow videos ...
Other
YouTube
From DailyTech: Research In Motion Security Chief Scott Totzke recently said there is a chance smartphones could one day be hijacked and turned into rogue phones on a much larger scale than what is being discovered now.
Totzke, who is RIM's VP of BlackBerry Security, claims summer DDos ...
Other
Blackberry
Google Maps
From DailyTech: The first of the netbooks to hit the market were underpowered when it came to decoding most video, especially if that video was in HD resolution. This left users frustrated with choppy video playback or the outright inability to play some videos.
NVIDIA stepped in and ...
Motherboards and Memory
ASUS
Intel
From Tom's Hardware: The Microsoft Office 2010 beta leaked onto P2P networks earlier this week, but those of you who have been holding out for something a bit more official can safely download away.
Microsoft today revealed at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) the public beta ...
OS
Microsoft Office
Microsoft
Professional Developers Conference
From Tom's Hardware: When news came that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would come without dedicated servers for the PC version, gamers were upset and disappointed at the removal of one of the advantages of the PC platform.
Some PC gamers even decided to boycott the game. Of course, ...
Other
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Xbox 360
PlayStation 3
From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week formally announced its next-generation Tesla solutions for high-performance computing markets based on code-named Fermi architecture. The company will only be able to start shipments of Tesla 20-series in the second quarter of next year, which ...
