Sunday Shortbread
Sunday Slowdown, shortages in focus at Computex Bright Side of News reports Gigabyte announces new motherboard lineup for Computex 2009 EE Times on 10 companies in trouble and Chartered Semi denies takeover report NordicHardware reports Cooler Master UCP-900W is 80Plus Gold certified Engadget reports Nvidia GPU...
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Saturday Shortbread
Saturday TG Daily reports AMD's Abu Dhabi backer eyes up Asian foundry U.S. cyber-spy report leaves czar role open: sources DSLReports: Time Warner Cable acknowledges 'debacle' Ars Technica reports HDMI spec updated to 1.4, adds unwanted complexity eWeek reports Gartner, IDC agree: Semiconductor sales to decline...
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Deal of the week: A cheap, expandable home server
The concept of a home server might be a tough sell when you're looking at relatively bulky, unappealing systems with price tags in the $500-700 range. The new wave of Atom-powered home servers promises to change that, however. And among those, Acer's Aspire easyStore H340 looks like a particularly interesting...
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Intel Lynnfield sample benchmarked, photographed
According to the latest whispers from Asia, Intel's Lynnfield quad-core processor (nicknamed Core i5 by some sources) will launch in early September. What kind of performance can you look forward to? Anand Lal Shimpi from Anandtech has secured a Lynnfield sample from an anonymous source, and he's taken...
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HP mulls ARM-powered netbooks
Could the world's biggest PC vendor turn its back on Intel with a future netbook? Quite possibly, according to one of the company's executives. HP Personal Systems Group Executive VP Todd Bradley had a chat with Bloomberg, and he made no secret of HP's interest in alternatives to the...
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New Super Talent SSDs target Eee PCs, Inspiron Mini
Have a nine-inch Asus Eee PC or Dell Mini 9? Feeling let down by the included storage solution? Then Super Talent has something for you: two lines of new solid-state drive upgrades with high performance ratings and prices starting...
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Etc.
Howdy all. Getting quiet out there as everyone gears up for Computex. Funny thing: the Facebook updates I'm seeing show an industry-wide progression toward Taipei, as folks update from places between home and there. Cyril and Adam are getting ready to head out to cover the show...
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Dell chooses GeForce 9400M for new 14'' consumer laptops
Avoiding Intel integrated graphics is no easy task when you're shopping for affordable consumer laptops. Dell's newly released Studio 14z should make that selection process much easier, though. The new notebook lineup starts at just $649, and all models feature GeForce 9400M integrated graphics chipsets from Nvidia. In the
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Friday Shortbread
Friday Dell, its quarterly earnings down 63%, predicts recovery DSLReports on Time Warner metered billing TOS changes Comcast about to launch 100Mbps Internet? FiringSquad reports new HDMI spec adds Ethernet capabilities ...
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AMD speeds up GPU-accelerated video transcoding
Accelerating video transcoding using the GPU is all the rage these days, and AMD is working hard to stay ahead of the curve. Earlier today, the company quietly released a Catalyst driver hotfix that includes a brand-new ATI Stream transcoding runtime. The runtime promises quicker video transcoding with lower CPU...
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Say hello to Bing, Microsoft's 'decision engine'
"Because the world doesn't need just another search engine. It needs a decision engine." Microsoft has revealed the branding and marketing initiative for its revamped search engine. Code-named Kumo and demonstrated as another iteration of Live Search, the search engine will now go public as Bing. A Bing.com teaser page...
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Super Talent ships faster IDE SSDs
Solid-state drives are all the rage these days, but the vast majority of them have Serial ATA interfaces. That's great for performance, but not so great if you're trying to upgrade an older notebook. Super Talent hasn't forgotten about those legacy systems, because it's started shipping no fewer than seven new...
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AOL, Time Warner announce breakup
Eight years ago, riding high on the dot-com bubble, AOL purchased Time Warner for a mind-blowing $106 billion. Today, MarketWatch says Time Warner has announced a plan to divorce itself from the ailing Internet services and media business. According to MarketWatch, Time Warner intends to buy back Google's 5% stake...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday Time Warner to separate AOL near year end DSLReports: AT&T announces HSPA 7.2 upgrade Engadget reports SATA revision 3.0 specification completed and released Intel: The future of netbook vs. notebook PC World reports Asus G51 gaming laptop due in US by July TG Daily reports Apple
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Unannounced Core i7s show up in listings
Some online retailers just love jumping the gun on unannounced products. PC World reports that this time, a couple of e-tailers have posted listings for Core i7 processors that are nowhere to be found in Intel's official price list (PDF) or CPU database. The two sites, PCs...
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