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NVIDIA ION Recognized As Industry-Changing Technology By LAPTOP MagazineNVIDIA ION Platform Named “Best Enabling Technology” of 2009 Consumer Electronics Show SANTA CLARA, CA - JANUARY 20, 2009 - CES attendees stopped in their tracks to admire breathtaking HD video running on a 50-inch display, but the real shock came when they realized that...
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Promises, promises. Yet this sounds like a step forward, but it presents yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone: a copy-and-paste application that only works on jailbroken iPhones. The only other bright, shining light in the copy-and-paste area of late for the iPhone was PasteBud, which sounded good, but seemed so convoluted and buggy...
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On what many Americans consider a day of change, here we go again with more of the same: a massive data breach involving Heartland Payment Systems, a credit card payment processor, that was announced on Tuesday. First, the good news: no merchant data or cardholder Social Security numbers, unencrypted personal identification numbers (PIN),...
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After unveiling HyperSpace earlier this month, Phoenix Technologies and ASUS are announcing a partnership which will help accelerate the adoption of HyperSpace. Through the agreement, ASUS will incorporate HyperSpace into its next generation notebooks, though no specific models were detailed. Additionally, the company did not indicate if its...
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Pandora's free Internet streaming radio service just got a little less free. Well, it still doesn't cost you anything, but it is no longer commercial free. Pandora made the following announcements on its Twitter feed today: "Yes, for those asking, we have implemented a few audio ads. Not to worry, they won't be frequent or long. We gotta pay...
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Google has certainly made a name for itself with its free products, most notably its popular search engine and Gmail services. Now, many are speculating that Google is working on a product called Google Drive, or Gdrive. Essentially, Gdrive would be online storage with the capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. It could also...
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The ability to drive big displays now comes in a small package with the release of the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420, the industry's only low profile professional graphics solution designed for maximum display real estate with a small form factor (SFF) computer. Featuring NVIDIA nView display software and support for four 30-inch displays at 2560x1600...
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Qualcomm Acquires Handheld Graphics and Multimedia Assets from AMD— Technology and Resource Assets to Strengthen Qualcomm's Leadership Position in Mobile Multimedia — SAN DIEGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- January 20, 2009 -- Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that Qualcomm has acquired certain graphics and...
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Talk from the Tech Industry: Letter from Intel to the Incoming Obama CTO Thank you to the thousands of men and women who participated in Intel’s survey last week at CES. As I blogged about earlier, the survey looked to stimulate broad support for Intel policies, asking you what the top priorities should be for the incoming Obama administration’s...
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There's an old saying in the insurance business: If you have enough money, you can purchase insurance for just about anything--that's something that Lloyd's of London has been doing for years. YouPlayOrWePay.com is no Lloyd's, but it is now offering insurance for something that until now seemed to be uninsurable: your World of Warcraft (WoW)...
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When Windows Vista first hit the scene, it was quite a departure from Windows XP. It had been a while since a major desktop operating system release from Microsoft, and consumers along with many businesses, were slow to adopt. Add to that the new and sometimes cumbersome security features, plus reports that Vista was slower as a gaming platform,...
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When Windows Vista first hit the scene, it was quite a departure from Windows XP. It had been a while since a major desktop operating system release from Microsoft, and consumers along with many businesses, were slow to adopt the new OS, if at all. Add to that the new and sometimes cumbersome security features and reports that Vista...
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Intel published a new price list on Sunday that reflects large decreases on certain processors including a 40% decrease in price for the Top-end Core 2 Quad Q9650 (12M L2, 3.0GHz, 1333 MHz FSB 45nm) down from December 1,000 unit tray wholesale pricing of $530 to $316. Although the rumor mill may relate the change in Quad Core prices...
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Comcast, Comcast, Comcast. You can't seem to satisfy the FCC, no matter what you do. While Comcast has just switched to a new protocol-agnostic network management scheme, the FCC has some new questions for the company: namely, why its new policy affects the VOIP services of other companies, but not Comcast's own Digital Voice service. Last...
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Video:Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital @ techPowerUpHIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo @ bit-techLeadtek GeForce GTX 285 1024 MB @ techPowerUpMSI Radeon HD 4670 review at Ultimate HardwareZOTAC GeForce GTX285 and GeForce GTX295 Video Card Review @ FuturelooksMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard @ NeoseekerASUS Rampage Extreme...
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Those who desperately need to watch tomorrow's inauguration on their iPhone are in luck. Just in the nick of time, Apple's App Store approved the Ustream iPhone Viewing Application. It's only available in WiFi "to ensure the highest quality broadcast on the iPhone." That may change in the future, the company says.Of course, it's not...
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has released its report on Digital Music 2009. According to the report (.PDF). It concludes that despite initiatives by the music industry, 95% of music downloads continue to be illegal. Yes, the IFPI, or as it's known, the global version of the RIAA, says that 40 billion songs...
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After some angry Barracuda owners expressed their dissents over failing disk drives, Seagate is fessing up to the issue, and is now admitting to a firmware bug in Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22, and Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives that could make the disks inaccessible when the host system is powered on. According to some users, the drives tend...
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Acer Introduces Sleek 23-Inch Display with Sensor Touch; Enhances Desktop LineNew Display Features 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Glossy Bezel and Speakers; Desktops Range from a Pentium-Powered Small Form Factor to Radical Gaming RigSAN JOSE, CALIF., Jan. 19, 2009 – Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market, today announced the slick new Acer 23-inch...
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Searching via Google can be as much art as it is science. Yes, you can simply input what you are searching for and hope that some relevant results pop up somewhere in the first few ranked results. But when your search topic is somewhat obscure, complicated, or even too broad, you often have to tailor your search by carefully selecting which...
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Steve Wozniak, the "other Steve" that people associate with Apple, but not in the cultish near-godlike way people think of Steve Jobs, appeared on CNBC recently, and was asked about his opinion on Steve Jobs' health as well as his privacy. Also appearing on the show were Sarah Lacy (Business Week) and Matt Richtel (the New York Times). Lacy...
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High Definition Mobile Entertainment – Introducing the New ASUS F50 and F70 Series Notebooks World's First Slim and Light 16" Notebook and the World's First 17.3" Notebooks Designed for Personal Entertainment Taipei, Taiwan – Stylishly Entertaining – the ASUS F50 and F70 range of notebooks combine cutting-edge design with equally innovative...
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