Friday, September 25, 2009

IT News HeadLines (bit-tech.net) 25/09/2009


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IDF Day 2 - Mobility Keynote
Dadi Perlmutter took to the stage for Intel's Mobility keynote, where he unveiled three new Core i7 Mobile quad-core processors and an interesting new connectivity standard.
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Core i7 notebooks hit the market
Notebooks from Dell's Alienware brand and rival MSI using the new Clarksfield-based mobile i7 processors have finally been unveiled.
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ATI Radeon HD 5850 launch date confirmed?
With the HD 5870 now released, we turn our attention to its little brother and when we might see the HD 5850 hit the shops
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PS3 Slim shortages possible
Sony has warned that shortages of the PS3 Slim are already looking likely.
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Wii trade price lowered in the UK
Nintendo has lowered the trade price of the Wii in the UK back to it's pre-hike price and discounted the console in the US and Japan.
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Microsoft to buyout EA?
Rumours are flying that Microsoft may be about to buy-out EA games.
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I'm an Evil Basterd
Those of you who follow the bit-tech blogs and podcasts with anything more than a cursory interest will know that my extra-curricular gaming habits lately have been…focused to say the least. I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate exclusively, pausing only to rush through Kane and Lynch: Dead Men after a Michael Mann marathon left me wanting a certain type of adventure.

Baldur’s Gate, as I mentioned when I set myself the challenge, is my Everest. It’s the mountain I’m climbing to prove something to myself, namely that I have an attention span longer than – hey look, there’s a squirrel outside!

I’ve not really blogged about my time with the game since then – and for those of you who are curious, I’m still in Baldur’s Gate 1 and have completed all quests in the lower half of the world map. I’m a male, true neutral, half-elf conjurer called Jacob accompanied by Viconia, Imoen, Shar-teel, Jaheira and Khalid. I was tempted to go with a full-on, all woman band of adventurers, but I always had a soft spot for Khalid.

More to the point, I had a really horrible experience with the game yesterday.

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Championship Manager 2010 Review
Beautiful Game Studios has made a lot of noise about completely overhauling it's football management franchise this year and bit-tech is here to decide whether the refreshed Champ Man 2010 is sitting top of the table or stuck in a relegation battle.
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Apple Tablet: unannounced but selling well
Apple's still-unconfirmed tablet appears to be selling well despite absolutely no information leaving the company.
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IDF Day 1 - Sean Maloney demos Larrabee
Sean Maloney took to the stage for the first of the two afternoon keynotes on IDF Day One. He showed the first demo of a working Larrabee chip and, frankly, the outcome wasn't as we'd hoped...
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IDF Day 1 - Paul Otellini's Keynote
Following his absence last year, Paul Otellini returned to the limelight with the opening keynote at this year's Intel Developer Forum. We take a look at what was announced.
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