Saturday Shortbread
Saturday C|Net reports ICANN names new CEO IBM loses injunction against Dell executive PC brands lobby while preparing for China software filter TechFlash reports Amazon cuts off North Carolina affiliates over sales tax bill Ars Technica on creating worthless copyright "consensus": Canada's case study Expreview reports AMD releases...
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Deal of the week: Windows 7 for 50 bucks
The Windows 7 RC might be free and almost as polished as the final product, but it'll start booting you off every two hours after March 1, 2010. If you act now, though, you can get a Windows 7 upgrade license for as little as 50 bucks. Newegg, along with...
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Apple cuts itself a bigger slice of Imagination Technologies
Just over six months after grabbing its first piece of Imagination Technologies, Apple has upped its stake in the British graphics IP company from 3.6% to 9.5%. Reuters says Apple has bought a total of 13.7 million new IMG shares. 2.2 million of those shares reportedly cost the iPhone...
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Users complain of adware in Lenovo updater
Lenovo caught a lot of flak when it discontinued its automatic software update service for ThinkPad laptops. To the relief of many, a new service replaced it on May 31. But there's just one little problem: some users on the Lenovo forums claim the new updater displays pop-up...
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Friday Shortbread
Friday Gartner: PC sales to pick up by end of the year DigiTimes reports AMD aims to gain back 15% share of notebook market and Gigabyte looking to upgrade brand image as PC product vendor ...
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Battlefield Heroes opens to the public
We first heard about Battlefield Heroes and its mixture of Team Fortress 2-style graphics and casual gameplay almost a year and a half ago. Today, as Shacknews reports, members of the public can now play the game free of charge—at least to begin with. To try the casual shooter,...
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Gateway LT3103u has netbook price, notebook guts
Today, netbooks and consumer ultraportables usually sit in separate price ranges—$500 or less for netbooks, $700 or more for their ultraportable cousins. With its upcoming LT3103u, however, Gateway has managed to blur the line between those two,...
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Microsoft discloses Windows 7 pricing
We knew Windows 7's release date (October 22), and we knew the retail launch will center on three editions (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate). One crucial piece of the puzzle was still missing: price. Earlier this morning, Microsoft made that information public through the Windows 7 Team Blog. Straight from...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday GlobalFoundries announces new Fab 2 executive leadership team Microsoft CEO still open to partnership with Yahoo Microsoft debuts power consumption website DSLReports: Comcast, Time Warner hope to tame Internet video FiringSquad reports Lynnfield specs leaked ahead of launch techPowerUp!: Details on Intel's core brand product...
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TR's summer 2009 system guide
Our latest system guide features a Phenom II- and DDR3-powered Econobox, a highly versatile Mini-ITX build (which can take a Core 2 Quad and a PCIe graphics card), and much, much more.
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id Software bought out by Bethesda parent firm
No, this isn't a belated April Fools joke. id Software has really sold itself to another company. Not just any company, either. The lucky buyer happens to be ZeniMax Media, the parent firm of Bethesda Softworks and Bethesda Game Studios—you know, the guys who made Fallout 3, Oblivion, and the...
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Report: Atom-based Nokia netbook could launch next quarter
The collaboration Intel and Nokia announced yesterday may bear fruit sooner than we thought. IntoMobile quotes a purported Bloomberg report that says we might see a Nokia-branded netbook debut as soon as next quarter. Here's an excerpt from the post: June 24 (Bloomberg) — Nokia Oyj ordered netbook computers...
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A quick look at Western Digital's latest My Book NAS
While enthusiasts may be comfortable rolling their own home file servers, network-attached storage devices make more sense for mainstream users. We take WD's latest My Book NAS for a spin to see what it's like.
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Eee PC 1005HA has 10.5-hour battery, costs $390
What, did you expect Asus' netbook team to go on vacation early? Nonsense. They've been keeping busy with the launch of the Eee PC 1005HA, a new 10-inch system that has a thinner profile, less weight, and a longer-lasting battery than its forebears. Looking at the 1005HA's spec sheet might feel...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday ExtremeTech's Lloyd Case pens the last column Ars Technica reports hospital confirms Steve Jobs liver transplant Apple's Jobs has "excellent prognosis" after transplant At this rate, Microsoft won't need Yahoo at all ...
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