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- Saturday Shortbread
Saturday TG Daily reports Nvidia expected to offer DirectX 10.1 GPU in Q1 2009 Acer G24 debuts as world's first LCD supporting advanced 50,000:1 contrast ratio Hardware-Infos reports Hitachi announces 5000GB hard disks for 2010 (write-up in German) Asus to offer Eee PC with built-in 3G wireless DailyTech...
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Last post by Price0331 at 11:53 PM on July 5, 2008 - Fourth of July Shortbread
Fourth of July Shortbread HEXUS.channel reports Nvidia stock drops by 30% soon after opening CHW posts AMD Overdrive roadmap (write-up in Spanish) Futurelooks on Canadian iPhone 3G pricing and what you can do about it ...
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Last post by matdem1 at 12:27 AM on July 6, 2008 - Thursday Shortbread
Thursday Fudzilla reports Nvidia to drop GTX 280 /260 prices DigiTimes reports AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 ready by August Steve Jobs and other Apple honchos allegedly face serious fraud charges TG Daily reports...
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Last post by DASQ at 11:00 AM on July 4, 2008 - Nvidia forecasts lower revenue, notebook failures
Despite posting its best first fiscal quarter ever in May, Nvidia has forecast lower-than-expected revenue and gross margin for the following quarter that will end on July 27. Nvidia now expects revenue of $875 million to $950 million for its second fiscal quarter, potentially down from $935.3 million...
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Last post by Sniper at 2:46 PM on July 4, 2008 - Intel to developers: Code for as many cores as you can
If programmers want to write software for tomorrow's processors, they should start fashioning algorithms that can tap into chips with "tens, hundreds, and thousands of cores." That's the gist of a blog post by Intel microprocessor engineer Anwar Ghuloum titled, "Unwelcome Advice." In the post, Ghuloum talks a little bit...
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Last post by Saber Cherry at 12:06 AM on July 6, 2008 - British site compares MSI Wind, Eee PC 901, Aspire One
How do Asus Eee PC 901, MSI Wind U100, and Acer Aspire One low-cost subnotebooks look when they're all sitting on the same table? The people at UK site Mobile Computer were curious, and they've shot some photos and a video of the three notebooks side-by-side...
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Last post by d0g_p00p at 12:22 AM on July 6, 2008 - Availability check: Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 260
When we first checked the availability of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 260 and AMD's Radeon HD 4870 last week, we didn't find many models listed. The GTX 260 was especially scarce, with our search yielding no available models at all. We decided to have a second look today...
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Last post by Umbragen at 10:18 AM on July 5, 2008 - Mozilla outs third Weave test release
A new milestone release of Mozilla's Weave browser has slipped out of Mozilla Labs. For those not familiar with the effort, Weave more or less picks up where the now-defunct Google Browser Sync extension left off. Like the Google extension, it lets users synchronize their bookmarks and other browser...
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Last post by Tamale at 5:40 PM on July 4, 2008 - Seeking a good hard drive recovery service
A friend of mine emailed me recently with a question that I can't answer. He has a friend whose hard drive has croaked, possibly due to a power surge caused by a lightning storm. She'd like to get as much of the data back as possible, but the...
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Last post by DrDillyBar at 2:02 PM on July 4, 2008 - Swallowed by the SumoSac bean bag chair
I spend most of my time reviewing chipsets, motherboards, hard drives, power supply units, and sound cards—the geeky bits inside a modern PC. Every so often, though, I get the chance to tread well off the beaten path. Such was the case a couple of years ago...
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Last post by Decelerate at 5:31 PM on July 5, 2008 - 45nm, Socket AM3 Phenoms to work in current sockets?
Yesterday, we spotted a couple of reports that hinted AMD would have 45nm Phenoms with both DDR2 and DDR3 memory support out before the end of this year. One of the reports, which was whipped up by Fudzilla, said DDR3 support in Phenoms would imply a new AM3...
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Last post by moritzgedig at 3:40 AM on July 4, 2008 - DisplaySearch: Transition to 16:9 displays is 'unstoppable'
Many of us may find ourselves using PC and notebook monitors with 16:9 aspect ratios within a few years, if DisplaySearch has its facts straight. According to DigiTimes, the market research firm predicts that 16:9 panels will account for 90% of notebook displays and 67% of desktop monitors by...
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Last post by Saber Cherry at 11:48 PM on July 5, 2008 - Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday Powerset joins Live Search (semantic search) Intel: CUDA will just be a 'footnote' in computing history Ars Technica and HEXUS.net report Intel looks ahead to a many-core future New iPhone to sell for $599 - $699 without contract TG Daily reports Toshiba to launch Internet-enabled...
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Last post by 0g1 at 8:09 PM on July 2, 2008 - All-in-one Eee Monitor shot from every angle
The rumor mill has been grinding on about an iMac-like Eee Monitor desktop since January, but only now have high-resolution photos of the machine begun to emerge. Whoever leaked the photos has certainly made up for the wait, though: Laptop Magazine has posted a total of 15 shots...
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Last post by Trymor at 3:27 PM on July 3, 2008 - AMD market share sees short-term drop, long-term rise
The microprocessor market has been especially turbulent lately, with AMD forced to price its Phenom processors out of the high end in a bid to remain competitive. How has the situation affected AMD's and Intel's market shares? iSuppli has posted numbers that say AMD managed to increase its market...
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Last post by tfp at 11:23 AM on July 2, 2008 - Experimenting with HDR photos on a $200 camera
I've been giddily experimenting with high-dynamic-range photography over the past few days. Unfortunately, I don't own any professional photography equipment, and my best camera is a Canon PowerShot A570 IS for which I paid the equivalent of $200 last year. But thanks to the custom CHDK firmware for...
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Last post by bhtooefr at 12:14 AM on July 5, 2008 - Internet Explorer keeps losing ground to Firefox, Safari
Microsoft's web browser is steadily losing ground to competition from Mozilla and Apple, according to Net Applications figures quoted by TG Daily. The numbers peg Internet Explorer's market share for June at 73.01%, down from 73.75% in May and 74.83% in April. Meanwhile, Firefox reportedly enjoyed its biggest-ever piece of...
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Last post by clone at 6:15 PM on July 5, 2008 - Adobe pushes to make Flash sites searchable
Sometimes, trying to find content in sites that that rely heavily on Adobe Flash isn't so easy. In an attempt to resolve that problem, Adobe has teamed up with Google and Yahoo to help the two firms better index Flash files through their respective search engines. As NewsFactor reports, Google...
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Last post by sigher at 1:12 PM on July 4, 2008