Friday, March 13, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tom's Hardware) 13/03/2009



AMD Overclocking Contest: We Have a Winner!
Last month we launched the AMD CPU Virtual Overclocking Contest, and today we’re proud to announce our first winner.
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Intel Could Face Fines for Unfair Pricing Model
News broke earlier this week that Intel could be facing sizable fines from the European Union in relation to the company’s pricing model.
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Imagine Mozilla Firefox Without Google
According to a report in BusinessWeek, executives at Mozilla (the company responsible for popular browser, Firefox), are thinking about cutting ties with Google.
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Google Glitch Opened Up Private Documents
Google Saturday acknowledged that a glitch with its Google Docs utility exposed some private documents.
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New Charges Brought Against Sarah Palin's Hacker
During the presidential race in 2008, someone hacked into Sarah Palin’s personal email account and posted the contents online for the world to see. Whether or not it was “real hackingâ€‌ is heavily debated...
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ARM in more Netbooks than Atom by 2012
Several analysts are predicting that ARM processors will be in more notebooks than Intel's Atom processor by sometime in 2012.
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Dell Unveils All-in-One Desktop With Multi-Touch
Dell announces the new Studio One 19 all-in-one desktop with multi-touch
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Microsoft Speaks on Windows 7 Technical Bits
As much as the new features of Windows 7 appear to be tailored to improve the end-user experience, Microsoft still needs to consider the corporate environment.
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AMD Partners Debate Radeon HD 4870 Price
AMD Partners Debate Radeon HD 4870 PriceAlthough ATI reduced the price of its Radeon HD 4870 last week to better compete with Nvidia's GTS 250 rebranding, apparently ATI's partners don't think the price reduction is such a good idea.
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AMD: Nvidia/MacBook Debacle May Hurt Industry
AMD is worried that the Nvidia 9600M/MacBook Pro heat issues could negatively impact the entire GPU industry.
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Intel's GN40 for Atom Does 1080P, But Not Blu-ray
The Intel Atom isn’t a powerhouse processor – this we know and accept. But its multimedia capabilities could be helped with video acceleration, which is where Nvidia hopes to jump in with its Ion chipset. But not so fast, says Intel!
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PC Gaming News: CryENGINE 3 Info and More
Disney's upcoming action racing game Split/Second is just one of many goodies filling the gaming news bucket today. Click on to find out the scoop!
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Microsoft Makes a... Notebook Cooler
Microsoft’s best known for its software, but often times its hardware products are just as often found as part of users’ systems.
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Rapid Review: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2
Rapid Review: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is the latest real-time strategy game for the PC based upon the very successful Games Workship tabletop wargame franchise.
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BFG Dishes Out Watercooled GeForce GTX 285
According to BFG Technologies, consumers can now pick up its new watercooled GeForce GTX 285 H2O graphics card starting Monday.
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Analyst: Windows 7 to Add $1.5B to MSFT Revenue
Although Microsoft’s product line is now diversified into many areas, its core business is still its operating system.
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Intel Atom 1.86 GHz Too Rich for Netbook Blood
Look at any netbook on the market today, and you’ll see that the specifications for each one even across different OEMs are remarkably the same.
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Microsoft Wants Windows 7 Users to Upgrade
We learned before that there will be six versions of Windows 7, but will that be all? Perhaps not.
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Dell E6400 XFR: The Toughest Laptop Ever?
Dell E6400 XFR: The Toughest Laptop Ever?With a chassis made of ballistic armor and the DoD's seal of approval on heat, wind and shock, the Dell Latitude E6400 XFR could be the toughest laptop on the block.
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A-DATA to OCZ: We Can Slap a 64 MB Cache on an SSD, Too
Not to be outdone by the impending release of OCZ’s high-performance Vertex series of solid-state drives, A-DATA has announced a new 256 GB SSD that features the same 64 MB of internal cache as OCZ’s product.
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ioDrive Duo: Meet the Worlds Fastest SSD
Fusion-io wowed us with its first ioDrive last year. Now, its ioDrive Duo is bringing increased capacity and unsurpassed speed to the storage world.
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Samsung Launches 1.5 TB "EcoGreen" HDD
Just when you thought 1 TB hard disk drives were getting a little cramped, Samsung today announced its efficient 1.5 TB drive.
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Patriot's New SSD Borrows Page from VelociRaptor
Patriot's latest solid-state drive is the third generation of products in its Warp line of SSDs. But a convenient add-on bundled with the 256 GB SSD borrows a page--and design flaw--from Western Digital's first batch of Velociraptor hard drives.
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Samsung Cramps 24-SSD RAID Experiment
Samsung Cramps 24-SSD RAID ExperimentBy now, the Internet has been abuzz with a new marketing video from Samsung. In it, a group of intrepid Samsung marketers take the company's new 256 GB solid-state drive and hook it up to 23 of its closest friends. But how do they achieve their results?
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Via's New VX855 Chipset Does 1080p Video
While Intel and Nvidia continue to take swings at one another over who has the best netbook platform, Via introduces a new energy-efficient chipset that has potential to outshine both
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AMD Ships 50 Million ATI 'Hollywood' Wii GPUs
While everyone can see that Nintendo is making money hand over fist thanks to amazing sales of the DS Lite and the Wii, some of the console maker’s partners are also riding the wave.
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Caustic Promises 200x Boost in Raytracing by 2010
Caustic Graphics, a small startup out of San Francisco, is promisingexponentially faster raytracing as early as next year. Founded by agroup of former Apple engineers, the new company is touting itsCausticOne graphics accelerator card as the solution t
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Hynix Settles to Pay Rambus Royalties
Rambus has scored itself yet another royalty haul as Hynix has agreed to pay up.
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