IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 14-8-2008

Special

1. First USB 3.0 Demo Possibly at IDF Next Week
   
2. Russian Hackers Continue Attack On Georgia
3. Windows Crashes During Olympic Ceremony

Solutions

1. Why a Mini-notebook is Exactly What You Will Want
   
2. HP Kicks Off SIGGRAPH 2008 With Lots Of New Gear
   
3. Lenovo Unleashes the 17-inch W700
   
4. Study Finds Macs Cost 2X Windows PCs
   
5. Strong PC Demand Boosts Chip Revenues, DRAM And Flash Prices Plunge
   
6. Electronic Arts to Sell Crysis-branded PCs
   
7. Apple Rumored to be Ignoring Centrino 2 Chipset
   
8. Asustek, MSI And Synnex To Enter Nettop War In August
   
9. Dell's Studio Hybrid Reignites The Passion For The Desktop PC
   
10. Dell Releases BIOS Updates for Failing Nvidia GPUs
    
11. HP Absorbs Voodoo Into Consumer Line
    
12. Notebook Platform Transition To Be Faster This Year
    
13. Dell Serious About Ubuntu- Launches First Consumer Linux PCs
    
14. Global PC Market Grew 16% In Q2 - Gartner
15. Acer Dishes Out Atom-based Notebook
16. Acer Announces (cheap) Compact Desktop PC
17. OCZ Releases Memory For Montevina Notebooks
18. Apple Cuts Price Of SSD-based MacBook Air
    
19. Safari, Firefox Post Market Share Gains Against Internet Explorer
20. Lenovo Intros Stylish Desktop PCs
    
21. Global PC Shipments Hang Tough In Q1 08, Says ISuppli
    
22. Intel Optimistic About Future Nettop Performance, But PC Vendors Not So Sure
    
23. Firefox 3 Market Share Stalling, But Adding To Firefox Base
    
24. Asus Launches Latest Gaming Rig- The Ares CG6155
    
25. Building A Refrigerator For Your Laptop
26. Wine Matures to Version 1.0, Finally
    
27. Kaspersky Lab Releases File Recovery Instructions For Gpcode.ak Attacks
28. Man Cleared Of Child Porn Charges, DIA Stands By Decision To Fire Him
29. Asustek To Expand Eee Brand
30. AMD Has A One-year Exclusive On PCIe External Connector
31. CPT Shows 3D Display On A Laptop
    
32. Firefox 3 And Safari 4 In Browser Speed Race
33. HP Envy 133 Takes On MacBook Air
    
34. Mafia-style Briefcase Charges Your Notebook For Free
35. Computex- Gigabyte's MID, the M528
36. Computex- Noahpad- "The Classmate, Roommate And Travelmate"
    
37. Tom's Hardware Spys The Malata PC-88001 At Computex
    
38. Low-cost PC Market To Reach 10 Million Units In 2008, Says Asustek President
39. Gigabyte's EP45-Extreme, M912 and More
    
40. AMD Launches Live! Home Cinema, Again
41. Computex- Netbooks Take World By Storm
42. Samsung To Produce 15.6" Notebook Panels
43. Ubuntu Takes On UMPCs and MIDs, Acer Follows
    
44. Computex- Windows 7 Multi-touch LCD Announced
45. Computex- Asus 10-inch Eee PC Launches

How To

1. Gigabyte Goes Extreme Cold Overclocking
   
2. Helping Your Mac Pro Run A Little Faster
   
3. Kingston looks to secure DDR capacity for 2H

Peripherals

1. HP Kicks Off SIGGRAPH 2008 With Lots Of New Gear
   
2. Weakening LCD Panel Industry Spreads To Backend
   
3. LCD Monitor Industry Players Believe Demand May Recover In Q4
4. LCD Panel Makers Cutting Small- To Medium-size Output Amid Weakening Demand
   
5. Lackluster Small- To Medium-size Panel Demand Affects June Revenues For Makers
6. LED Penetration To Reach 8% Of LCD TV Market By 2011, Says Displaybank
7. Atom Shortage May Affect Low-cost Notebook Panel Shipments In July
   
8. Transition To 16-9 Aspect Ratio Unstoppable, Says DisplaySearch
9. Blue LEDs With Red And Green Phosphors May Become Mainstream For TV-use BLUs In 2009
10. BLU Makers To Feel Pressure To Reduce Prices In Q3
    
11. Worldwide TV Chip Market Expected To Be US$1.33 Billion In 2008, Says DisplaySearch
    
12. Prices For LCD Monitor Panels To Fall By 30-45% Soon, Says DisplaySearch
    
13. Panel Makers Expect Rush Orders For PC Applications In August
    
14. 7" Panel Price Declines Stimulating Interest From Digital Photo Frame Makers
    
15. North America TV Market Remains Strong, Says DisplaySearch
    
16. BenQ Launches 16-9 LCDs
    
17. AUO Unveils Convex Curved Display
18. Sapphire To Launch LCD Displays
19. LCD Panel Makers Developing 17.3", 16-9 Notebook Panels
20. Computex- Windows 7 Multi-touch LCD Announced
21. Computex- Touch Screen Gets Serious
    
22. HP Pitches Green Printers, Samsung Green Hard Drives
23. Forget DVI, HDMI; USB Displays Coming
    
24. Samsung Claims Brightest 46" LCD Panel For Public Displays
25. Supply Of 8.9" Low-cost Notebook Panels To Be In Tight In H2 08
26. JVC Shows Path To Super Hi-Vision Device At 17x HD Resolution
27. Corning Says No Slowdown In LCD Glass Market
28. 3D Monitors Coming Down In Price, But Still Expensive

Components

1. Siggraph Attendees Drool Over Nvidia's Quadro Plex
   
2. Nvidia Takes A Big Hit In The Second Quarter
   
3. Nvidia Touts Physics, But Financial Trouble Ahead
4. Report: All Nvidia G84/G86 Chips Defective
   
5. Intel Releases New Midrange Chips
   
6. 270 Watt For The Performance Crown- AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2
   
7. Intel Set To Introduce Mobile Quad-core Processors
8. Intel's 'Nehalem' Now Officially Core i7
   
9. Intel Nehalem's Market Named Leaked to be Core i7
   
10. Graphics Wars- The Big Summer Battle
11. Microsoft Revises Memory Placement in Latest Xbox 360 Hardware
    
12. Intel graphics update- Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers-
    
13. AMD's 790GX served with secret sauce for overclocking
    
14. Elpida Ready To Launch 16 GB FB-DIMM
    
15. Nanya- Heavy DRAM Downside Pressure In August
    
16. NVIDIA Interview - "E3 Was a Disaster ... Nvision is the New E3"
    
17. Nvidia Readies Driver 'Big Bang' September, Brings OpenGL 3.0 and SLI Multi-monitor Support
18. Nvidia To Launch 55 Nm GeForce 9500 GT GPU In Q4
    
19. Alienware Offers Workstation Graphics In M15x Notebook
    
20. Channel Vendors Demand Card Makers Recall Faulty Nvidia Products
    
21. More Graphics Card Makers To Start Selling IGP Motherboards
    
22. Nvidia To Bring WHQL-certified PhysX Drivers On August 5th
23. Albatron's 'Retrotechnology' Video Cards Hit A Snag
24. Taiwan DRAM Makers To Completely Phase Out Production At 8" Fabs By 2009
25. Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Prices Crashing
    
26. The Return of Intel's Pentium MMX
    
27. Nvidia Supports ATI Radeon PhysX Efforts
    
28. OCZ Releases Memory For Montevina Notebooks
29. Asustek And GeCube Launch ATI Radeon HD 4850-based Graphics Cards
    
30. AMD Puts 5 TFlops In Your PC
31. Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT And ATI Radeon 4870 Get A 225 Watt TDP
32. Computex 2008- Nvidia Joins VIA In Celebrating Nano CPU And Mini-ITX 2.0 Launch
33. AMD Has An Ace Up Its Sleeve
    
34. AMD Delays Radeon 4800 Launch To June 23
35. Sapphire To Launch LCD Displays
36. Intel "Nehalem" Performance Is "Touchy"
    
37. Graphics- $100 GeForce 9600GSO by Forsa, Passively Cooled 8800GT by ECS
    
38. Computex- Zotac Shows Off DisplayPort 9600GT
    
39. Computex- Intel's Speedy "Nehalem"