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Budget GPU - Radeon HD 6670 Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:57AMA new graphics card is always in the top three PC upgrades (behind RAM and hard drives), and while some people are ready to put $500 down for a new graphics card, most want something a little more...
Report: RIM could halt production of PlayBook [UPDATED] Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:33PMRIM may be getting ready to pull the plug on the PlayBook's life support machine, according to an analyst.
Microsoft offering $250,000 reward for Rustock botnet info Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:46PMMicrosoft is offering a $250,000 reward for information related to the Rustock botnet.
Subcontractor gets 5 months in 'Buy American' case Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:17AMRICHMOND - An employee of a subcontractor hired to install fire sprinklers in the Army Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Lee has been sentenced to five months in prison after admitting he violated a law that requires American-made parts to be used
Spotify: Five CNET editors, five thumbs-up Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:07PMWith Spotify now live in the United States, five CNET editors give the music streaming service a whirl. We've got our gripes, but overall, we're fans. Originally posted at News - Digital Media
Microsoft outlines vision of the future ... and it disturbs me Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 12:48PMHere is an image that Microsoft has been showing to delegates at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference ... and it disturbs me.
Apple pays compensation to South Korean over iPhone tracking Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:03AMApple has paid compensation to a South Korean over the iPhone tracking scandal that came to light earlier this year.
5 Ways Facebook Can Fight Back Against Google Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 10:41AMAs the Google invasion continues, Facebook is feeling the heat. Although Facebook still has over 700 million users, some estimates say that Google's social network is on track to top 20 million users by this weekend. That's over 1 million new users a day since the service launched
FragFX Piranha PS3 Controller review Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 4:27AMThis is a great unit. If you want to take control like never before, or if you are in transition from PC to console and struggle to point your weapon, then this is for you.
EuroTrash Thursday! Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:34AMDaughter PEZ Takes First Pedals! If there’s ever a reason to commandeer the lead item of ET, I’d say this qualifies. A lot of you readers will know what I’m talking about – that moment when your child takes the first pedal of their two wheeler.
Terraria on the PC makes confusion addictive Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 9:22AMTerraria has been out for a while now , and it was included in Steam's last sale. My friends raved about the $10 title even though it doesn't look like much in screenshots. When an online buddy bought a copy for me, I took my PC to a friend's house to play with a group. Of course, I didn't know what to do or how to do it. With a little coaxing, I was soon chopping down trees for wood which I ...
Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for Four 550 MWe Supercritical Circulating Fluidized-Bed Steam Generators in Korea Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:27AMZUG, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been given the full notice to proceed (FNTP) by Hyundai Engineering and Construction for the design and supply of four 550 MWe (gross megawatt electric) supercritical circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators for the Samcheok Green Power Project for Korea ...
Fanless heatsink where the heatsink is the fan Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:21AMCooling fans are noisy, inefficient and quickly get choked up with filth. So how about a heatsink that doesn't need a fan because the heatsink itself IS the fan.
Netflix price hike creates social media firestorm Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 6:37AMIt seems that people are unhappy with Netflix and its decision to change the pricing plans and effectively raise the price of the DVD rental plan by 60%. Very, very, very unhappy.
LG Opens New Era Of 3D Monitors With Brightest, Most Comfortable 3D Viewing Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 3:31AMBeirut - JULY, 12 2011 - LG Electronics LG Electronics ( LG LG ) today announced the release of two CINEMA 3D Monitors -D41P and D42P - equipped with LG LG 's new Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology.
DeMarrais: Liability comes with mixing cards Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 1:15AMUsing personal cards for business carries risk
Review: Razer Chimaera Wireless Headset Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 1:47PMShort version: Looks good, sounds good, fits... okay. It's not for marathon gaming or all-day use, but the Chimaera is a solid headset for home gaming. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Apple-Samsung battle may spur shake-up Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 7:28PMAn intensifying quarrel between Samsung and Apple is triggering expectations that some of the pair's US$5 billion ($6 billion)-plus relationship may be up for grabs.
Auction Albuquerque - Bid Daddy Auctions Announces 400 Items are Available for Bidding for 07-12-2011 Auction Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:43PMFor Immediate ReleaseAlbuquerque,NM PITCH ENGINE July 11, 2011 Auctions In Albuquerque - Bid Daddy Auctions Announces 400 Items are Available for Bidding at this weeks auction at our Albuquerque auction house at 4814 Hardware Drive NE, Albuquerque, NM. States owner and general manager Mario G. Romero, "We are holding our 35th auction since we opened our doors and we could not be more excited ...
Romance the rain Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:32PMHair fall is common in the rainy season. So, take extra care to oil, shampoo and condition. Replace your hair serum and conditioner with a deep cleansing shampoo as the former may leave a residue on the scalp, causing dandruff.
5 Cool Add Ons for Firefox 5 Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:29PMI was just getting used to the excellent version 4 of Mozilla's Firefox browser when those wild and crazy coders rolled out version 5 after just three months.
Microsoft: In a year, Windows Phone has gone from very small to ... very small Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:06PMMicrosoft CEO Steve Ballmer used the keynote speech at the 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference to admit that Windows Phone 7 is still "very small."
Why do people choose Android smartphones? Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 3:21PMWhy do people choose an Android handset over the iPhone?
Will IBM Survive Another 100 Years? Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:33PMIn the lively global conversation that followed my article yesterday on Why IBM Survived 100 years when most other firms didn’t, Joerg Hochwald from Germany (@jhochwald) asked the pertinent question: “IBM: Another 100 Years To Go?”
David Julian Price: The Making of MiniDisc Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 1:31PMMiniDisc was surely the last hurrah of Sony's heroic age. It was a time when Sony was driven by engineering purity rather than sales and marketing commonsense.
Apple-Samsung Battle Brewing, May Spur Shakeup Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 11:49AMAn intensifying quarrel between Samsung and Apple is triggering expectations that some of the pairs' $5 billion-plus relationship may be up for grabs.
Apple-Samsung battle may spur supplier shakeup Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:45AMSAN FRANCISCO, July 11 — An intensifying quarrel between Samsung and Apple is triggering expectations that some of the pairs’ US$5 billion-plus (RM15 billion) relationship may be up for grabs. With the electronics titans squaring off in an acrimonious battle over smartphones and tablets patents, any worsening in their supply relationship could ...
Could games consoles become extinct? Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 4:06PMCould mobile gaming could become so popular that it could overtake traditional console gaming?
Sony to dump MiniDisc Walkman Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:37PMLast year Sony pulled the plug on the on the Walkman cassette player, now it's the turn of the MiniDisc Walkman to become part of history.
Friday Rant: The 'iPad 3/HD coming this fall' is the zombie rumor that refuses to die! Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:06PMUgh, here we go again. The iPad 2 hasn't been out four months yet, but that doesn't stop yet more rumors that a new iPad will be hitting Apple Stores this fall.
Email in the World's Languages - Part II Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 11:08AMIn our last installment we discussed MIME, Unicode and UTF-8, and IDNA, three things that have brought the Internet and e-mail out of the ASCII and English only era and closer to fully handling all languages. Today we'll look at the surprisingly difficult problems involved in fixing the last bit, internationalized e-mail addresses.
Bayer develops recyclate for car bodywork Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 4:40AMBayer MaterialScience (BMS) claims its new ‘green’ blend of PC and PET for automobile bodywork parts performs as well as virgin material.
Inversion Takes Shooters Off The Wall and Onto Ceiling Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 8:37PMSaber Interactive uses big ideas to affect familiar genres. 2007's TimeShift cleverly used control of time to reimagine tactical FPS combat. Saber's new title, Inversion, looks like an appropriate follow-up. It melds a big idea to a familiar genre in a way that will force players to think about spac...
Chips Hold The Key To Understanding The Human Brain Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 5:20PMChips based on ARM processor technology will be linked together to simulate the highly-complex workings of the brain, whose functionality derives from networks of billions of interacting, highly-connected neurons. The chips upon which this work critically depends were delivered last month, and have passed their functionality tests with flying colours. They will form the system architecture for a ...
Independent Gaming: Our Visit to the GameSpy Indie Open House Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 1:53PMWondering what's going on with the independent gaming scene? We took a look at four promising new games at the GameSpy Indie Open House.
So, it's July and that link to the Amazon store is still in the iOS Kindle app Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 11:45AMIt’s now July, so how come the Amazon Kindle iOS app still contains that “Shop in Kindle Store” link?
Australia’s desktop PC paradigm is under siege Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 3:47AMRight now chief information officers and IT managers right around Australia are facing a difficult decision regarding one of the most critical but also trouble-plagued segments of their IT infrastructure -- their desktop fleets.
HTC buys S3 Graphics from VIA for $300 million Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 9:27AMIf you were a PC gamer in the 90s then S3 Graphics should be a name that you recognize. As well as developing the world’s first single-chip GPU, during that decade the company produced Savage 3D series of graphics cards. The texture compression S3 developed was so good, even Microsoft licensed it for use in [...]
Report: Microsoft wants $15 from Samsung for every Android handset made Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 8:00AMMicrosoft is squeezing the Android patent cash cow as hard as it can, with Samsung in the firing line this time.
JailbreakMe.com back online, easy iOS jailbreaking for all! Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 7:15AMJailbreakMe.com. the web-based jailbreak tool for (almost all) iOS devices, is back online once more after a long hiatus.
Top 5 Consumer Complaints: iYogi Reveals Five Primary Issues Users Face during Wireless Router Configuration to Network Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 11:05AMiYogi reveals five primary issues users face during wireless router configuration to network. According to our recent report in ‘Top 5 consumer Complaint’ series, arduous configuration, problem enabling file sharing and temporary wireless access are few issues encountered by most of the computer users. (PRWeb July 05, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/iyogi ...
Best iPhone games of 2011 (so far) Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:56AMThe first half of 2011 is behind us, and so far, there have been some great new games flooding the iTunes App Store that really put the iPhone through its gaming paces. So what is there to do with all those games, but to pick our favorites so far?
Kenya: New Ford-K Bigwigs Call for Luhya Unity Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 1:27AMThe New Ford-Kenya bigwigs traversed Bungoma county at the weekend to polularise the party. Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa, Ikolomani MP Bonny Khalwale and Housing minister Soita Shitanda, who were opening the party's offices in the county used the opportunity to urge the Luhya community to unite. They also received several defectors from other parties.
Thermo Fisher's New Orbitrap Elite Poses Challenge to FT-ICR's Dominance in Top-Down Proteomics Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 11:14AMWith the introduction of its new Orbitrap Elite mass spectrometer at last month's annual meeting of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry ( PM 06/10/2011 ) , Thermo Fisher Scientific has positioned itself to more aggressively pursue the market for top-down proteomics research.
Why Competing with Apple Is So Difficult Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 9:21AMBen Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. The desire to compete with Apple is widespread among many companies in the tech sector. The problem is that very few, if any at all, are well equipped [...]
Looking back at Apple's Cube, ten years later Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 7:21PMThe Register has an excellent writeup posted with a look back at Apple's Power Mac G4 Cube (affectionately referred to as "The Cube"), which was released to the public 'suspended' from production 10 years ago this coming weekend. At the time, back in 2001, the Cube drew a lot of jeers, mostly from PC enthusiasts who enjoyed making fun of Apple's whimsical and somewhat pretentious designs. For a ...
Ultimate geek footstool: 555 timer chip Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 12:27PMBuying products that reinforce your geek credentials usually involves a trip over to ThinkGeek, but for once they don’t have the geekiest item out there in a specific category. In the area of footstools, that award has to go to Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. The 555 Footstool is a typically functioning footstool, but it looks [...]
PC Uncovers Bible's Authors Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 9:22AMSoftware developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.
MSI formally unveils 14-inch CX480 laptop, stops short of naming a price Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 10:04AMWe know, we know -- many of you just want to see some Llano laptops already, but that doesn't mean the flow of Sandy Bridge systems has run dry. MSI just formally outed the CX480, a brushed metal 14-incher it showed off at Computex a few weeks back. It's unclear to what extent you'll be able to configure it, but you will, at least, find multiple versions with either a Core i3-2310M or Core i5 ...
MOBOTIX Unveils The New D14 DualDome Camera Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 1:22AMMOBOTIX, an industry leading provider of high-resolution, network-based security solutions, recently released the new MOBOTIX D14 DualDome Camera, a weatherproof and shock-resistant 6.2-megapixel surveillance camera that is the powerful successor to the MOBOTIX D12 camera.