Monday, July 20, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 20/07/2009



New Qwest service can hit 40Mbps down, 20Mbps up
A little over a year ago, Qwest announced broadband services with speeds as high as 20Mbps. Today, the company has introduced a new tier with twice the maximum download speed and a whopping 20Mbps upstream. Or, for folks who don't work at ISPs' marketing departments, 5MB/s down and...
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''RV870'' might show up later than expected
You might have to wait another four months for AMD's next-gen DirectX 11 graphics processor. So would one think after reading an article on ATI-Forum.de, which quotes "industry-related sources" as saying AMD has delayed the RV870 GPU until November. AMD displayed a wafer of DirectX 11 GPUs at Computex...
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Monday Shortbread
Monday Microsoft deal talk, optimism overshadow results DigiTimes reports Taiwan DRAM makers aim to restore capacity in 2H09 C|Net reports AMD spinoff seeks to rival chipmaking giants and Best Buy lists well-equipped Acer laptop for $299 Engadget reports Gateway gives Intel a go with Atom N270-equipped...
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Sunday Shortbread
Sunday Tweak.dk reports starting gun fired for MSI EU MOA 2009 final and videos and results posted from MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2009 TechFlash has Microsoft earnings, a guided tour Engadget reports Intel's 34nm-based 320GB SSD creeps closer to reality and Toshiba launching Blu-ray player by...
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Saturday Shortbread
Saturday [H] Enthusiast reports VisionTek responds to rumors of bankruptcy TG Daily reports IBM sued over DRAM patents and Apple, Microsoft, other sued over touch pad products Yahoo search ad deal with Microsoft...
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Deal of the week: Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition for $210 shipped
AMD's Phenom II series has come out of the gates proving a worthy competitor, with the most recent Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition with Wings and Optional Sunroof proving more than adequate competition for Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9550 in our review. The intervening months since the review have...
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Causes and effects of input lag examined
Finally explaining why I'm always at the back of the pack in online shooters (really, I'm sure), AnandTech's Derek Wilson has posted a very thorough dissection of how input lag occurs in PC gaming. Input lag is the period of time between the input made by the user (typically movement...
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Apple disables Palm Pre's iTunes sync
In an attempt to steal some thunder from the Palm Pre, Apple has issued an iTunes update locking the Palm Pre out from syncing with iTunes. According to this report at CNET, the 8.2.1 update for iTunes "provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification...
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Friday Shortbread
Friday [H]ard|OCP shares unconfirmed rumors: VisionTek bankrupt, PNY selling graphics & memory business? DigiTimes reports Intel to unveil new product roadmap at IDF San Francisco MSI officially announced OC Genie technology 1-second automatic
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Beta GeForce drivers offer new power management scheme
Word comes from techPowerUp that Nvidia has released a new set of beta drivers for its GeForce and Ion GPUs. Available for download on nZone, this latest 190.38 release can be had in 32-bit and x64 flavors for Windows 7, Vista, and XP. In addition to adding support...
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Thursday Shortbread
Thursday Stocks, oil surge on Intel-driven recovery hopes TheStreet's tech rumor of the day: Don't buy the Intel rally The Inquirer reports Intel is not doing as well as it appears Ars Technica on...
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Massive Intel mobile, desktop roadmaps massively leaked
Somehow, the folks at PC Watch in Japan have gotten their hands on what appear to be some very large and very detailed Intel roadmaps, along with product branding decoder info for both mobile and desktop processors. Making sense of it all may take some time, so I'd...
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Corsair adds Indilinx drives to SSD lineup
Not content to put all its SSD eggs in one basket, Corsair has launched a new line of Extreme Series solid-state drives based on Indilinx's Barefoot controller. Corsair has previously only offered drives based on Samsung storage controllers, but it's apparently looking to diversify. Hedging makes sense...
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JPR: GPU shipments to plunge in '09, rebound in 2010
In the wake of an iSuppli report that predicted the PC market would suffer its first absolute decline in unit shipments in 2009 since the dreary days of the dot-com bust in 2001, Jon Peddie Research has released a new report on the state of the graphics...
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CloudBook maker Everex bails on U.S. market
A short report at PCMag.com notes that Everex, maker of the CloudBook and other low-cost systems, many based on Via processors and the Linux OS, has ceased operations in the U.S. The main source for the report appears to be Everex's own web site, which simply says,...
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