Wednesday, April 1, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 01/04/2009

Super Talent preps super-fast PCIe flash drives
Looks like Fusion-io won't be the only one with mind-blowingly fast PCI Express solid-state drives anymore soon. Super Talent has announced the RAIDDrive, a similar solution that plugs into a PCI Express 2.0 x8 slot and can purportedly reach sequential speeds of up to 1.2GB/s for reads and...
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Official Skype software arrives on the iPhone
Being a fancy smart phone with Internet access capabilities, you'd think the iPhone was bound to run voice-over-IP software eventually. And indeed, a version of the popular Skype VoIP client made its way onto the Apple App store...
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April Fool's Day Shortbread
April Fool's Day X-bit labs report Nvidia threats it could ban Larrabee from entering the market TG Daily reports Intel responds officially to Nehalem power concerns Fudzilla reports Radeon HD 4770 to launch in week 19 (after...
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TR overtaken by LOLcatz
First, we started blogging, which only served as a gateway to unboxing. Podcasts soon followed, as did our inevitable foray into social networking. Slowly but surely, we've managed to keep TR up to speed with all the latest internet trends. It's no wonder, then,...
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All-in-one MSI nettop looks like old Apple Cinema Display
Now that netbook makers have product lines covering almost every possible permutation of components under their belts, they seem to be switching gears and taking a stab at all-in-one nettops. Asus did it with its Eee Top ET1602, which hit U.S. shores earlier this month, and now MSI
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OCZ formally launches DIY netbook
Following a quiet appearance at CeBit earlier this month, OCZ has formally announced its Neutrino "do-it-yourself" netbook. The system is pretty much what you'd expect: a 10" netbook with an Atom processor, chipset, and various other essentials, but with no memory or storage built in. According to the
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Eee PC 1004DN has built-in optical drive
Here's something you don't see every day: a netbook with an integrated optical drive. Asus has announced the Eee PC 1004DN, which would look almost like a regular 10" Eee PC if it weren't for the DVD burner on the right side of the casing. Behold:
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Tuesday Shortbread
Tuesday Sharky Extreme reports Intel to host live Nehalem Q&A on Thursday ComputerWorld reports Apple WWDC dates announced; rumors abound DSL Reports: '12-14 months' from faster upstream DOCSIS 3.0 Microsoft and TomTom settle patent fight The Inquirer reports GlobalFoundries courts Nvidia DigiTimes reports Taiwan motherboard makers
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Intel's Xeon W5580 processors
Intel's Nehalem-based Xeons are finally here, and they've left us gasping for air. This may well be the largest performance jump from one CPU generation to the next that we've ever seen. The downside? We're still looking for one.
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Nvidia unleashes a pack of new Quadros
Hot on the heels of Intel's new server processors, Nvidia has pulled the curtain off a new batch of Quadro FX graphics cardsآ—likely in a bid to get into those new Xeon 5500-based workstations we've been hearing about. Nvidia's announcement talks of seven new cards, but the Quadro FX...
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Nehalem-based Xeons have landed
Almost five months after the debut of its Core i7 desktop processors, Intel has announced a whole lineup of new Xeons based on the same Nehalem architecture. We've been busy benchmarking these server offerings over the past few days, and we should have detailed architectural information and performance...
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'Leaked' Mac netbook photo, specs seem oddly plausible
Tongues have been wagging about a potential Mac netbook for some time now, so it's not exactly surprising to see an obscure Russian source post purported images and specifications of such a system. 9to5Mac has posted the goods right here, although even it points out that the image...
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Analyst: Dell could make a bid for Palm
According to the latest analyst musings, carriers weren't too impressed with Dell's first stab at a smart phoneآ—a rejection that could send Dell back to the drawing board or on the hunt for a buyout target. Well, eWeek now says there's a good chance Dell could aim big and...
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