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You may not be aware, but Qualcomm holds a number of patents on modern 3G cellular technology. Any company making a 3G cell phone has to pay patent royalties to Qualcomm. Analyst Sanford Bernstein pointed out in a report this week that Apple appears to be taking advantage of a licensing ...
Motherboards and Memory
Apple
Foxconn
iPhone
An interesting Microsoft product roadmap has turned up. The document shows the year 2012 as the tentative timeframe for a “major release” code named Windows 8. This would put it at about three years out from the release of Windows 7. The interval between Vista and Win 7 was also three years. ...
OS
Microsoft
Windows 7
In the wake of a major service outage a few weeks ago, fourth place US carrier T-Mobile may be shopping around for investment money from another US cell provider . Compared to the other US carriers, T-Mobile has a very small 3G footprint. Recognizing a need to expand, rumors indicate that ...
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T-Mobile
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We chat with Craig Zinkievich, executive producer at
Cryptic Studios, about making a game for Trekkers and
competing with World of Warcraft Set 30 years after Star Trek: Nemesis (the last film before the J.J. Abrams reboot), Star Trek Online puts you in the shoes of a captain in a newly ...
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Cryptic Talks Star Trek Online's Space Combat, Away ...
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Just recently an American man accused of robbery was exonerated after a Facebook status update posted at about the same time as the robbery became his alibi. But Nathalie Blanchard, a 29-year-old Canadian woman, witnessed a different side, a much darker side, of using Facebook. Her rather ...
CPUs
As one of the leading developers of games for mobile phones, Gameloft wields considerable clout. The France-based games developer has decided to cut back on the development of games for Google's Android platform just like other developers. According to Gameloft finance director Alexandre de, ...
Other
Android
maximumpc.com - 5 hours ago
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For those who have expressed the need to
streak a glossy, high resolution, 17-inch display with your
greasy fingers, Dell has just made your dream come true. Today, Dell announced a multitouch display version of its Studio 17 laptop. According to Anne C at the Direct2Dell community blog , ...
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Dell Adds Multitouch Studio 17 to Laptop Lineup
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye: to YouTube’s API access. From now on, it’s through the front door or you’re not getting inside.
The word comes from Syabas, the maker of the Popcorn Hour set-top box. They, along with pretty much every set-top box maker, used YouTube’s API ...
Peripherals
YouTube
Sony
Nintendo
Flickr
Someone was bound to connect the dots, even if the dots weren’t intended to make a pattern. With Microsoft working with the National Security Agency (NSA), the nation’s biggest, most top-secret spy agency, some suspicious were bound to be raised. But, not to worry, Microsoft assures us: It ...
OS
Microsoft
Windows 7
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I’m looking to get a new SSD for
my laptop when Windows 7 comes out, and I
just read a review on Newegg warning about a drive not supporting Win7’s TRIM feature. A Google search gave me the basics on TRIM, but how important is it, really? I’m having trouble finding which drives support it and ...
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SSDs with TRIM Support
You curiosity can now be slaked: Google’s Chrome OS is now ready for download and review. The bad news is you’ll need VMWare to run it. The good news is you can run it on OS X, Linux, or Windows.
But will it be worth the effort? If it’s something you really, really got to do, then yes, it ...
OS
Chrome
Linux
Gmail
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Attendees at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference in Los
Angeles got a sneak preview of IE9 yesterday. From
what was presented it’s not really clear what type of personality IE9 will take on. Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, stated Microsoft want’s IE9 to be “a good balance ...
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Microsoft Details Features of IE9
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Get ready for a blue Christmas if the
only thing you asked for this holiday season was
a Nook e-book reader. The device's popularity apparently caught Barnes and Noble off guard, who has sold out of the its initial supply and said preorders have exceeded expectations. And if you listed Sony's ...
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Barnes and Noble's Nook already Sold Out for the Holidays
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Better late than never, and while it took
a long time, iPhone and iPod touch users can
now download Trillian , the multiprotocol IM client, through Apple's App Store. The $4.99 app comes with many of the same features as its desktop counterpart, including grouped and sorted contacts. Tabbed ...
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Trillian Now Available for iPhone, iPod Touch
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Google's Chrome OS press conference gave us plenty
to discuss on this week's No BS Podcast .
We give you a recap of what juicy nuggets were revealed, and explain why Windows won't be replaced by Chrome any time soon. We also talk about benchmarking a dual-Radeon 5970 system, comparing it to ...
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No BS Podcast #125: Did You Hear About the Apple Tablet, ...
Up to 1 million Xbox modders were pretty pissed to find that they had been banned from Xbox Live following the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the biggest launch in entertainment history. The mass ban was intended to prevent pirated copies of the highly anticipated game from ...
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Xbox
Microsoft
Xbox Live
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Whoever is the first to market with a next-gen handheld tablet will have accomplished what's becoming a tremendous feat: shipping the freaking thing. Michael Arrington insists that his CrunchPad hasn't entered the realm of vaporware, and Apple still continues to deny the existence of its own ...
CPUs
Archos
Atom
Apple
Windows 7
Intel
AMD's newest HD 5970 is the fastest single-GPU videocard on the planet, and as it turns out, it's also the hardest to find . And not just in the U.S. either, the card has been equally elusive in the EU.
According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, several AMD launch partners confirmed there ...
Motherboards and Memory
AMD
XFX
Radeon HD 5970
Bulky, but it gets the job done
They just keep getting bigger and bigger. Now that CPU air-cooling manufacturers have seemingly settled on the skyscraper school of heatsink design, there seems to be a competition over who can cram the most cooling fins into the largest area. Scythe’s Mugen 2 ...
Cases and Coolers
Scythe
Thermalright
YouTube's reign as the No. 1 online video site doesn't appear to be in jeopardy, but among the also-rans, Facebook now ranks as the third most popular portal for viewing video on the Internet, according to Nielsen's VideoCensus report.
YouTube leads the way with 6.6 billion streams and just ...
