Friday, January 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 09/01/2009


Possibility:IBM Planning Mass Layoffs
Possibility:IBM Planning Mass LayoffsIt is definitely a possibility when you look at the larger picture. IBM would not be the only entity moving itself into â€کrestructuring’ mode, like many others. This type of information has nearly become s staple of daily news.
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Play Crysis on Your Cellphone; Thank AMD
What kind of sumpercomputer can pre-render HD content, temporarily store it in a virtual cloud, and then stream it across the Internet to numerous portable devices? Why, AMD's upcoming Fusion Render Cloud, of course!
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CES '09: EMTEC to Reveal Gdium Mobile Netbook
Yesterday EMTEC announced that it would reveal the ultra-portable, affordable Gdium Mobile Netbook this week at CES. As long as it doesn't eat "raw and wiggly" fish, everyone should be ok.
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AMD Unleashes the Dragon
Consumers looking for elite-level computing branded with a low-end price tag should look no further, as AMD today launched its "dragon" platform technology featuring the new AMD Phenom II X4 processor.
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Dell to Unleash XPS 625 Based on AMD's Dragon
Like a smear of grape jelly on a peanut butter sandwich, Dell grabbed AMD's spotlight and announced that its upcoming XPS 625 desktop spread supports AMD's "Dragon" platform.
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Samsung Unveils 22-inch 3D Monitor
Today at CES 2009, Samsung unveiled its brand-spanking new 22-inch, 120Hz 3D monitor compatible with Nvidia's new Geforce 3D Vision. Someone touch me, please.
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CES '09: SanDisk's 40,000 RPM SSD--What?
SanDisk today demonstrated its new line of G3 SSDs, which it claims is state of the art.Using a new rating method called vRPM or virtual RPM, SanDisk compares its SSD drives in terms of platter rotation rates of traditional HDD drives. So how fast do thes
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CES '09: Patriot's Nifty SSD RAID Enclosure
Patriot Memory has something interesting coming down the pipeline, so we've learned today at CES in Vegas. The company demonstrated a SSD RAID enclosure that takes two 2.5 inch SSD drives, marries it with a onboard RAID controller, and packs everything in
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CES '09: Sony Launches VAIO P Series Lifestyle
One of the cooler things we saw at Sir Howard Stringer’s Keynote this morning was the Sony VAIO P Series notebook. In a sort of Steve Jobs move, Stringer whipped the notebook out of his pocket and gave a quick rundown of the features.
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Ballmer Confirms Win7 Beta in the Wild
Ballmer Confirms Win7 Beta in the WildDuring last night's opening CES keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked much about Windows 7 and how it would be the world's best operating system. Naturally, this is what he would say.
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CES '09: Asus' New Line of Ultra-sexy Laptops
Notebooks are all the rage these days, becoming inreasingly smaller, more light weight, and just overall faster and better. It's no wonder notebook sales have taken over desktop sales recently.
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CES '09: HP Firebird's a Small Big Puncher
HP's high performance Voodoo PC division demoed the smaller sibling of the Blackbird today at CES '09 . The unit looks very similar to the intimidating looking Blackbird that we took a look at a while back.
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CES '09: Asus' 512GB SSD Laptop; World First
We had the chance to briefly talk to Asus tonight, prior to CES' full opening in the morning. One thing we learned from Asus is that the company is preparing to launch what it claims is the world's first 512 GB SSD ultra-portable.
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Apple Unveils 17-Inch MacBook Pro
Apple Unveils 17-Inch MacBook ProApple's new 17-inch MacBook Pro is the thinnest and lightest in the world and sports an eight-hour battery life -- and that'll be its battery for life.
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Turn Any USB HDD Into a Backup Device
We take an early look at Clickfree's latest tool that will turn any external drive into a backup drive.
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Thermaltake Xpressar RCS100 Coming for Radeon HD 4K
Thermaltake Xpressar RCS100 Coming for Radeon HD 4KReady to take the leap into liquid cooling or phase change cooling, but not quite ready to figure it all out yourself? Thermaltake presents us with its Xpressar RCS100. Graphics Cooling solution to follow.
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CES '09: Run 3 DVI Displays Over USB
If you've got several possibly aging LCD panels laying around the house, DisplayLink may be able to get them back on the desk without much investment or resources. Today we had some hand's on time with DisplayLink's DVI-over-USB and DVI-over-Wireless USB
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Apogee GT Triple-Channel DDR3 Memory Kits
Apogee GT Triple-Channel DDR3 Memory KitsAnd yet some more new memory to add into the decision mix for the new system build you might be planning. It seems that everyone is scrambling to get their triple-channel DDR3 kits out the door.
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