Wednesday, April 15, 2009

IT News HeadLines (HARDSPELL) 15/04/2009


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Dell might go it alone with handset
We have confirmed with our sources that Dell will take its new handset that the company designed to compete with the iPhone and likely go it alone, since wireless carriers just have no interest in it.
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Intel releases SSD firmware update
Intel’s Mainstream series of SSDs have courted some controversy over the last few months, after the venerable tech site PC Perspective revealed some that the drive’s write speeds slowed down after con
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ATIs HD 4750 will need additional power
According to our sources, ATIs 40nm RV740 card with GDDR3 memory, also known as the HD 4750, at least for now, will have a PCI-Express connector. As we wrote before, ATIs HD 4770, or the GDDR5 equippe
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COD: WAW got a new patch
1.4v with additional mapsActivision recently launched a new patch for its ultra-popular game Call of Duty: World at War. Version 1.4 brings four new maps to the table, as well as a couple of changes a
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Activision announces Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Activision recently announced its new game dubbed Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The game is of course based on the Twentieth Century Fox’s upcoming animated movie, and will be available for PS3, Xbo
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MSI releases X58 Eclipse Plus with NF200
Comparable to EVGAs X58 SLI Classified?Back in January, we wrote about MSIs intentions to stay serious about high-end motherboards, with a prime example of its commitment revealed in particular with t
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Activision Blizzzard leaves PC Gaming Alliance
Activision Blizzard, the largest publisher in the gaming industry, has confirmed that it has now left the PC Gaming Alliance due to budgetary concerns. Kotaku confirmed the news yesterday that Activis
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Radeon 4770 goes against 9800GT
ATIs first 40nm desktop chip, RV740, the brain of Radeon HD 4770 will have to take on NVIDIAs Geforce 9800GT card. First reports indicate that Radeon HD 4770 should end up faster than 9800GT. At the m
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Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz listed
3.2GHz for $320+ Late April is the time when AMD plans to introduce its 3.2GHz clocked, fastest Phenom II CPU and this one will definitely put even more pressure on Intel’s high end sales. Phenom II X
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Single PCB GTX 295 is May
Same clock Single PCB 295 from NVIDIA is confirmed for May time, and weve heard that end users should not really be excited about it. The clocks will be the same, the price will be the same, and we st
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More MSI mATX X58 pictures
Should hit retail as X58MIt seems like we were pretty much spot on in terms of the specs of the new mATX X58 motherboard from MSI that we wrote about yesterday, but some new pictures gives a better id
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Bluetooth 3.0 to be unveiled April 21st
Just recently, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced that it will unveil the official upcoming Bluetooth 3.0 specification on Tuesday, April 21st, along with an announcement of the comp
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Acer Aspire Revo on pre-order in the UK
Play.com has put up the Acer Aspire Revo for pre-order and the company is offering four different SKUs of the system, ranging in price from £179.99 (€200/$268) to a whopping £329.99 (€368/$4
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Larrabee die size is massive
French tech site Hardware.fr seems to have taken the only photo of Intel Senior VP, Pat Gelsinger, at IDF in Beijing, showing off Larabee. PC Perspective claims to count 64 dies in the picture, which
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Atom is eating the Celeron market
Currently some 70 percent of Intel’s entry desktop segment sales are Atom single-core 200 and Celeron 400 series CPUs, while Atom dual-cores and Celeron dual-cores control some 30 percent combined. At
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Cheap & Overclockable P45 Board From DFI?
DFI is preparing a new P45 board that is touted to be pretty overclockable and best of all, very affordable too. DFI called it Blood Iron (BI) P45-T2RS Elite which is an update to the current P45-T2RS
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Calpella Nehalem notebooks are late 09
Dual-core Nehalem in 2010 Last week in Beijing Intel voiced out that it plans a new Nehalem based notebook platform and that it is scheduled to come in late 2009. It calls it Calpella, and this is Int
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NVIDIA sells its G98 for US $9.99
At NVIDIA online shopNVIDIA has started selling its genuine G98 GPU for US $9.99 at its online shop. Of course, the GPU is encased in a 1.5-inch clear lucite block, and can be used as a geekiest key c
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OCZ launches laptop XMP RAM
If youre a laptop user jealous of all the high-performance upgrades that desktop owners get to enjoy, the time has come for you to rejoice: OCZ has announced its new range of Intel Extreme Memory Prof
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MSI working on mATX X58 board
Another "trend"?MSI seems to have followed in the footsteps of DFI and Asus, as the company is readying a mATX X58 motherboard which is looking quite promising judging by the first picture t
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AMD Renews Commitment to OpenGL API for Streamlined Application Development
AMD has made an announcement renewing its commitment to the OpenGL 3D API with full support for OpenGL 3.0 support in ATI FirePro drivers, along with extensions backed by the OpenGL 3.1 specifications
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