Friday, February 27, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 27/02/2009



Pirate Bay Trial Update: Days 8 & 9
The Pirate Bay trial continues into its second full week, and the drama continues.
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Apple Shareholder Meeting is All Steve-talk
Earlier in the week reports emerged about Steve Jobs' absence at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting due to take place this week. While the meeting went ahead as planned, it seemed shareholders had little else to talk about other than the CEO’s health.
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VIA Nano Hits Netbooks in Samsung's NC20
Intel’s Atom processor rules the roost when it comes to netbooks. While AMD isn’t even trying to go head to head with Intel’s miserly CPU, VIA’s hoping to capture a piece of the pie with its Nano processor.
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Microsoft Reveals New Windows 7 Changes
The latest entry on the Engineering Windows 7 blog details some of the changes that the team has made to for the upcoming Release Candidate (RC) since the last public beta.
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Asus' Mammoth 18.4" W90 Laptop Now Available
The 4870 X2-packing Asus W90 notebook is now available for purchase.
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Microsoft Announces SP2 RC for Vista, Server 2008
With all the talk of Windows 7, we shouldn’t forget that Microsoft is still supporting the currently existing operating systems of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
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HP to Support Solaris on ProLiant, Blade Systems
HP to Support Solaris on ProLiant, Blade SystemsHewlett-Packard is now set to sell and support the popular Solaris operating system from Sun Microsystems on its line of ProLiant servers at the same level it currently does with Microsoft Windows.
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Red Hat Enters the Virtualization Ring
Red Hat Enters the Virtualization RingRed Hat, well known for its Linux based operating system and middleware now wants to be more of a player in the Virtualization market.
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Picture: MacBook Pro Glossy vs. Matte FIGHT!
Check out the new MacBook's matter display compared with the "glassy" one
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Windows 7 Shipping Sept/Oct, Says Compal
Until Windows 7 is announced to have gone gold and/or released to manufacturers, we’re likely to see continued speculation on the shipping date of Microsoft’s highly-anticipated operating system.
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Nokia CEO: We're Thinking Laptops
Last month we were a little surprised to hear Dell was considering entering the smartphone market. While the initial canned response to the odd news was “bandwagoner,â€‌ the same cannot be said for Nokia’s decision to enter the laptop field, or so we thought.
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iBUYPOWER Launches Gamer Fire 600 AM3 PC
iBUYPOWER Launches Gamer Fire 600 AM3 PCiBUYPOWER's latest gaming rig - the Gamer Fire 600 - is based on the latest AMD Socket AM3 platform, one of the first in the industry.
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Microsoft Working on Windows 7 for Netbooks
In order to better compete with Google's Android operating system in the netbook market, Microsoft is preparing a version of Windows 7 specifically for netbooks.
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Asus' Eee PC 1000HE: A Tiny Powerhouse
Those who live by laptops and travel frequently, or those who prefer to hack up their portables and install customized operating systems, know that size and weight greatly affect the overall computing experience. One of the most recognizable platforms i
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The Mini Linux PC the Size of a Wall Plug
The Mini Linux PC the Size of a Wall PlugFabless chip design company Marvell unveiled a new concept for a computer that fits inside the palm of your hand, or on your wall socket.
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Dell Says Its New XPS 435 is "Mind Blowing"
Dell Says Its New XPS 435 is The Studio XPS 435 has appeared on Dell's website.
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Insane Storage: Store 10 TB in a Quarter
Insane Storage: Store 10 TB in a QuarterA breakthrough in storage technology by researchers brings capability of packing the contents of roughly 250 DVDs onto a disk the size of a quarter.
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ASRock Brings Supercomputing to X58 Mobos
Yesterday ASRock said that it will unveil its personal Supercomputer system at CeBIT '09, sporting its ASRock X58 Supercomputer motherboard.ASRock said that its X58 SuperComputer motherboard spawned from the world's need for something practical and cost-e
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Zotac's Watercooled GeForce GTX 285
Graphics power is never enough. I remember when getting my hands on an 8800 GTX was the epitome of graphics performance. Alas, that's no longer the case. Zotac today sends word that its putting the final touches on a new GeForce 285 GTX card that's built
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Nvidia Fires Back at Intel's Anti-Ion Sentiments
Earlier this week, Intel sent out a document that hoped to dissuade system builders from pairing Nvidia’s Ion platform with the Atom processor. Today, Nvidia fired back with arguments of why Ion is the best solution for the Atom.
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