Tuesday, March 3, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 03/03/2009



The Governator Gives CeBit Audience a Pep Talk
CeBit is taking place in Hanover, Germany this week and the news is already rolling in.
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Prosecutor Wants Pirate Bay Quartet in Jail
On day 10 of the Pirate Bay trial, the prosecution made its closing statements to the court.
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PC Gaming News - March 3, 2009
Well let's see if we can get more than three submissions posted today! For starters, we have a few tidbits including Runs of Magic info, a patch for Napoleon in Italy, and a 2K sports title heading to retail.
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Apple Unveils Newer, Faster, Still Little Mac Mini
Faster. Greener. Still mini.
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Asus' Dual Panel Touchscreen PC Concept
Things were already a bit touchy-feely at the Asus booth at CeBit with the company’s EeePC T91GO. Fighting for the spotlight, there’s the Dual Panel touchscreen PC.
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Apple Introduces Updated, Cheaper iMac
Apple today announced updates to its iMac and Mac mini and Mac Pro. One of the biggest pieces of news is the 24 inch iMac priced more affordably than ever. For the same price as the previous generation 20-inch iMac ($1,499), the new 24-inch iMac..
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Apple Reveals Mac Pro with Nehalem Xeon CPUs
The Apple store went down this morning and while the little post-it note on our screens came with the message, “we’re updating the store for you and will be back shortly.â€‌ We tried not to get too excited. Could be nothing, we thought. It wasn’t.
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Twintech GTS250 Claims Windows 7 Support
Twintech GTS250 Claims Windows 7 SupportThis afternoon Twintech revealed its GTS250 line of graphics cards, featuring on-board HDMI in 512MB and 1GB flavors.
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Psion Countersues Intel Over Netbook Term
Psion Countersues Intel Over Netbook TermTensions are heating up as Psion launches a counter-suit against Intel for the alleged trademark infringement of the term Netbook
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AMD 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 Coming in April
AMD 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 Coming in AprilAccording to HKEPC, AMD plans to release the 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 955 in April while the 3.1GHz Phenom II X4 950 will not even make it to the market.
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ATI Cuts Price of HD 4870 512MB
ATI Cuts Price of HD 4870 512MBEveryone likes cheap without cutting down quality. Apparently ATI is hacking HD4800 prices like a crazed maniac from a slasher movie.
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Asus Launches 5 GeForce GTS 250 Cards
Asus Launches 5 GeForce GTS 250 CardsAsus has unleashed three GeForce GTS 250 models with Dark Knight fans, part of its new ENGTS250 series.
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Net Tablet: Always Innovating Touch Book
When a new netbook hits the market, we usually stifle a yawn, heave a sigh and try to sound interested as we hammer out the same specs we’ve been printing for roughly a year and a half. The Touch Book from Always Innovating has just made my day.
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PC Gaming Roundup - March 2, 2009
Today we're starting the morning off a little late (or starting the day early in comparison to previous roundups), and the news machine is spitting out a slim helping. However, we have a few goodies including Atlantica Online and Twelve Sky 2
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Windows 7 Team Improves Speed of Start Button
With the huge pool of Windows 7 beta testers thanks to the publicly released build 7000, Microsoft has been tracking various performance measures and the progress its made in the latest versions.
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Apple Updating iMac on March 24?
With the revamp of its notebook line and before that, the iPod and before that, the iPhone, word on the street is the iMac will be next to take the spotlight...
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OCZ Says Its New Vertex SSD Beats Intel's X25-E
Fudzilla is reporting that OCZ's Vertex series of solid-state drives has started shipping. These SSDs, complete with a 64MB on-board cache, are rumored to rival the very best of Intel's solid-state technology.
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Intel Making Industrial Strength Atom CPU
While we may know of the Atom CPU right now as the brains inside nearly every netbook on the market, Intel’s got more diverse aspirations for its tiniest current processor.
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Deal: Pickup Core i7's for Less than Core 2's
Browsing through online retailers for the latest prices on CPUs, we came across some good prices on the latest AMD and Intel offerings.آ For example, a quick run over to PriceGrabber looking fore Core i7 CPUs, lands us with some attractive figures.
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Intel, TSMC Agree to Make Atom-based SoCs
Intel announced earlier this morning that it has reached an agreement with chip manufacturer TSMC, and will send its Atom processor CPU cores to TSMC for System on Chip (SoC) applications.
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