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Zowie Gear Hammer e-Sports Headset Review

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:14:45 +0000

Introduction: Zowie. Wowie Zowie?! Nope, this is Zowie Gear, a relatively new brand for computer gaming peripheral products. The people who work at Zowie Gear have previously developed and manufactured products for professional gaming at other companies, and created the new company with the ...

DriverHeaven.net found this 6 hours ago on overclockersclub.com

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Microsoft Offers to Pay News Corp to "De-List" From Google

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:39:00 +0000

When Rupert Murdoch announced that he was thinking of taking his News Corp web properties out of the Google search index , speculation as to Microsoft and Bing's involvement was rampant. Turns out, there might have actually been something to the rumors for once. According to the folks over ...

willsmith posted 10 hours ago from maximumpc.com

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Magic Mouse Drivers For Windows Emerge

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:37:05 +0000

Apple doesn't exactly have the greatest track record on mouse designs, and while you probably weren't going to switch platforms just for a "magic mouse" anyway, thanks to a clever new hack, you won't have to. The team over at uneasysilence.com has found a way to extract both the ...

willsmith posted 19 hours ago from maximumpc.com

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NYT's Kristof: Boycott Bing

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:56:00 +0000

[ UPDATE, 8 p.m.: In a response to Kristof's post Friday evening, Microsoft said it's "committed to comprehensive results" and made it clear that it believes any problems are related to its search technology, not a purposeful attempt to omit controversial content. Microsoft's Adam Sohn cited ...

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ASUS EAH5970 2 GB GDDR5

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:26:22 +0000

Today marks the day that AMD takes back the graphics card performance crown from NVIDIA. The new AMD Radeon HD 5970 comes with two fast Cypress GPUs on a single PCB. Using their latest power saving features, AMD achieved a very modest power consumption for this card which right now is the ...

TweakTown News RSS Feed found this 5 days ago on techpowerup.com

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TechSpot Blog: Disable Windows automatic check for solutions after a program crashes

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:11:00 +0000

Introduced in Windows Vista, the infamous Windows is checking for a solution message that appears right after a program crashes is downright annoying.

juliofranco posted 32 hours ago from techspot.com

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Microsoft Details Features of IE9

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:24:59 +0000

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 ...

willsmith posted 2 days ago from maximumpc.com

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Xbox modders unite in class action suit

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:25 +0000

Somebody was bound to have a go: Texas-based law firm AbingtonIP is organising a class-action suit against Microsoft over the company's ban on modified Xboxes. Xbox modders unite in class action suit "Although modification of Xbox consoles is arguably against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, ...

Maximum PC found this 2 days ago on tgdaily.com

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Novell: It's Tough to Make Money with Open Source, "Keep it Proprietary"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:20 +0000

Despite the growing popularity of open source software, there's still the issue of how to make money with it. No easy task, warns Miguel de Icaza , Vice President of Novell, who also heads up the firm's open source Mono project. "If your livelihood depends on the product that you're ...

willsmith posted 2 days ago from maximumpc.com

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Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:51:00 +0000

Computerworld - Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. "Microsoft has not and will not put ...

TechSpot found this 2 days ago on computerworld.com

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Unearth Region-Specific Windows 7 Themes

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:20:00 +0000

Microsoft stepped up its game in more ways than one with the advent of Windows 7 . The graphical user interface looks and functions better than in previous releases and is easy to customize. Without digging deep, even inexperienced users coming from Windows XP and Vista can see that Microsoft ...

TechSpot found this 3 days ago on techspot.com

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Download of the Week: Power Plan Assistant for Windows 7

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has made energy efficiency a key design element of Windows 7. By default, the operating system is now smarter than previous releases about what devices to turn on and when. It also includes fairly detailed power management options and offers three power plans out of the box to help end ...

juliofranco posted 3 days ago from techspot.com

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Hands on: Office 2010 review

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:53 +0000

Office 2010 is due in a few months, but the beta release is available now. It has interface changes, bug fixes, one secret new feature – and although it's still a long way from being finished, it shows much more clearly than the technical preview what you'll be waiting for. Like Windows 7 , the ...

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Microsoft offers free Xbox Live Gold weekend

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0000

In an effort to boost the numbers of Gold subscribers on Xbox Live and to celebrate a host of new features being added to the service, Microsoft is giving all Xbox 360 owners the chance to get mangled online by complete strangers for free. From the 20th of November until the 23rd, Silver members ...

juliofranco posted 3 days ago from techspot.com

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Windows Home Server Blog

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:40:49 +0000

The Windows Home Server Team is pleased to announce that Power Pack 3 will be available in all shipping languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish) on November 24 th , 2009. Power Pack 3 will be made available to existing users via Windows Update. Users need to ...

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Release Notes: What Exactly Is a Personal Computer?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:10 +0000

If I asked you in 1993, “What’s a PC?”, you’d probably have pointed to the beige box sitting under your desk at work. In 1999, if I asked you the same question, the odds are good that you’d have shown me a grey box in your den. In 2005, you would probably have shown me a shiny new notebook. ...

willsmith posted 3 days ago from maximumpc.com

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Windows 7 security courtesy of the NSA

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:12:07 +0000

The secretive National Security Agency has described its part in helping Microsoft improve security in its latest version of Windows - which should worry conspiracy theorists.

jamie posted 4 days ago from bit-tech.net

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Report: Microsoft bans 1 million Xbox Live players

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:10:37 +0000

Microsoft has banned Xbox Live players who altered consoles to play pirated games. Those who play by its rules are not affected.

DriverHeaven.net found this 10 days ago on cnn.com

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Microsoft reveals first Internet Explorer 9 details

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Speaking at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference today, Steven Sinofsky, president of the company's Windows and Windows Live division, has officially announced plans for the next version of IE: Internet Explorer 9. The new browser is still very early in the development process, with ...

juliofranco posted 4 days ago from techspot.com

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The NSA has been Working with Microsoft on Windows 7 Security

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:15:01 +0000

With the release of its latest OS, Microsoft appears to have put security at the forefront of the design phase. So much so that the National Security Agency (NSA) had a hand in helping the software maker lock down its operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. "Working in ...

willsmith posted 4 days ago from maximumpc.com

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