Library Membership Rising Due To Rental E-Books?
The e-reader revolution is in full swing--no doubt about that. Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is turning on the pages that have kept its doors open for decades in order to sell its very own e-book reader, not to mention a Plastic Logic reader right beside it (QUE proReader). But are people really ready to start reading again? Seems that way.According to a report originating in the UK, library membership may be back on the incline now that some are offering e-books. For years now, membership at libraries has
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Google Adds New Voicemail Service
If you are interested in taking advantage of some of the cool new features of Google Voice but aren’t very excited about the idea of getting a new phone number, Google’s latest offering may be of interest to you. Google recently introduced a lighter version of Google Voice that can answer calls to users’ cell phones. Google Voice offers a number of cool features, including the ability to route calls to different phones and voicemail that can transcribe messages. In order to take advantage of these features however,
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Roku HD-XR and Roku SD Netflix Streamers Unveiled
The Roku movie streaming set-top box has been a real winner in the grand scheme of things. While units like Vudu have struggled to grab ahold in the consumer market, linking the Roku box to Netflix was a golden idea. There are millions of loyal Netflix users across the US, and with a cheap box giving them access to "Watch Instantly" content on their TV, it's a no-brainer for most.Today, the company is introducing two new devices that'll be available alongside the original Roku. The first is the Roku SD, which
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QUE ProReader To Be Sold At Barnes & Noble, Will The Kindle Stand A Chance?
Can it be? Another e-reader? Yep, afraid so. But we have to say, we're loving the variety and the competition that's surfacing long after the Kindle wrapped the market around its finger, and the all-new QUE proReader is far from traditional. In fact, it's aimed at a different market entirely than the Nook or Kindle, which are both aimed at general consumers.The proReader is aimed specifically at business users, with a size of 8.5" x 11", unlike most of the personal readers which are around 6" diagonally. The
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Liquavista's Wicked E-Ink Technologies Could Revolutionize E-Readers
LCDs may be neat, plasmas may be entertaining and projectors may be awe-inspiring, but e-ink is the future. With the e-book reader revolution fully upon us, there's little doubt that e-ink manufacturers will be pumping out mind-blowing new modifications to improve upon the greyscale versions that we're used to.Liquavista is aiming to be one of the first to break the mold, and if the video posted below is any indication, this company may have something special in store for future-generation readers from Sony,
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Verizon Leaves The Door Open For Apple & The iPhone
Not long ago, Verizon Wireless launched an aggressive ad campaign against the iPhone. That doesn’t mean Verizon is completely moving on and has no interest in the iPhone, however. During Verizon’s third-quarter earnings conference call yesterday, Verizon’s chief executive Ivan Seidenberg said his company would be interested in selling the iPhone. “We obviously would be interested at any point in the future that they would be interested in having us as a partner,†Seidenberg said. “This is a decision that is
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Fox Loses Microsoft Sponsorship of Seth MacFarlane Special
Family Guy has been dumped by Microsoft. After deciding the content of the show "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show," scheduled (and heavily advertised by Fox) to air Nov. 8th, is too raunchy, Microsoft decided to drop its sponsorship of the show. In a statement, Microsoft said:"We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of Family Guy, but after reviewing an early version of the variety show it became clear
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Graphics Processors Boomed in Q3; Q4 Sales Expected To Be Strong
Market analysis firm Jon Peddie Research has released its report on graphic processor sales in the third quarter. According to the data, the strong Q2 rebound was no one-time event; GPU sales continued to climb into Q3 and are expected to rise further in Q4. Intel, AMD, SiS, and VIA all saw their market share increase, with AMD leading the pack. Matrox was the sole exception; its share of the GPU market has dropped to 0.0 percent according to JPR.AMD picked up 1.4 percentage points of market share; Intel grew
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The Motorola Droid Won’t Be The Only Android 2.0 Handset
If you’ve been following news and announcements surrounding the Android operating system, you may have picked up on the fact that Google hasn’t announced Android 2.0 or the SDK. An official announcement hasn’t stopped Verizon from talking about this new OS, however. In fact, Verizon has said the upcoming Motorola Droid will run Android version 2.0. Word on the street says this much-hyped new Android phone will officially be announced tomorrow, October 28. Two other recently released Android smartphones, the
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HotHardware and TechVi Video Podcast No. 1
We have just posted our very first video podcast, with a little help from our good friends over at TechVi. In this installment, we talk about Apple’s recent announcements, ATI’s newest DX11 video cards, Windows 7 enhancements, plus a 256GB solid-state drive with built-in raid controller... Sources:Apple Updates iMac, MacBook, Remote, Time Capsule And MoreOCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD ReviewATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 Mainstream DX11 GPUsTop Windows 7 Features That Vista Should Have Had
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Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Sneak Peek!
If you've been watching our previous coverage of Fusion-io's almost too good be true PCI Express SSD products, you'll know that while the company makes no bones about the fact that their enterprise class cards are ridiculously expensive, they are also planning on delivering an "enthusiast" class card that will align better price-wise with the average end user just looking for killer storage performance. It appears the planning process is over today and though it was delayed a month or two, Fusion-io is
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HotHardware and TechVi Video Podcast No. 1
We have just posted our very first video podcast, with a little help from our good friends over at TechVi. In this installment, we talk about Apple’s recent announcements, ATI’s newest DX11 video cards, Windows 7 enhancements, plus a 256GB solid-state drive with built-in raid controller...
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Sources:
Apple Updates iMac, MacBook, Remote, Time Capsule And More
OCZ Z-Drive m84 PCI-Express SSD Review
ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 Mainstream DX11 GPUs
Top Windows 7 Features That Vista Should Have Had
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Fox Loses Microsoft Sponsorship of Seth MacFarlane Special
Family Guy has been dumped by Microsoft. After deciding the content of the show "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show," scheduled (and heavily advertised by Fox) to air Nov. 8th, is too raunchy, Microsoft decided to drop its sponsorship of the show.In a statement, Microsoft said:
"We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of Family Guy, but after reviewing an early version of the variety show it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand. We continue to have a good partnership with FOX, Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein and are working with them in other areas. We continue to believe in the value of brand integrations and partnerships between brands, media companies and talent."We call it: wimping out.
Yes, Family Guy and any humor by its creator, Seth MacFarlane is definitely on the un-PC side, but still. Apparently the show is still looking for a corporate sponsor. Since stodgy old Microsoft wimped out, may we suggest cool, cultish Apple?
There was a preview posted to YouTube; take a look:
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Fusion-io ioXtreme PCI Express SSD Sneak Peek!
If you've been watching our previous coverage of Fusion-io's almost too good be true PCI Express SSD products, you'll know that while the company makes no bones about the fact that their enterprise class cards are ridiculously expensive, they are also planning on delivering an "enthusiast" class card that will align better price-wise with the average end user just looking for killer storage performance.آ It appears the planning process is over today and though it was delayed a month or two, Fusion-io is now executing on that plan.آ Fusion-io's ioXtreme and ioXtreme Pro cards just showed up to the Boston HH Test Labs and as we like to say around here, they're looking pretty
Left:آ Fusion-io's ioXtremeآ - Right:آ Fusion-io's ioXtreme Pro
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Left:آ ioXtreme Proآ - Right:آ ioXtreme - Click for high res.
Fusion-io ioAdministrator Software
This software functions very much likeآ Fusion-io's standard ioManager software we showed you here.آ As a quick-take on performance, we've formatted an 80GB ioXtreme Pro with maximum capacity settings and ran it through an ATTO Disk Benchmark run for grins and giggles.
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ioXtreme Pro ATTO Performance
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Simple, Half-Height PCI-Express Elegance - More details and a full review soon!
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The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit.
I have a Sony VAIO VGN-SZ430N notebook which has an onboard nVidia GEForce 7400 GO graphics card.
I used to get the "NVIDIA Control Panel" menu option in the "Right Click" context menu but the same has vanished ... and I am seeing Graphics options of "Intel" instead ... Intel Graphics are really very poor and will not allow me to play games which require 3D graphics acceleration ...
I tried installing "nVidia Display Drivers" but in vain. All I am getting is an error: "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."
If I am installing the original display the installation completes in less than a minute and the display driver does not show up in the "Device Manager" and not even in Control Panel.
I tried getting help from Sony eSupport but nothing and noone proved helpful.
Can someone pls. help me with this?
Thanks,
~Jaspal
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CPU Water Cooler noise?
Out of nowhere, my system started to make this noise. And it kind of comes and goes. I opened my case to try to solve where the noise is coming from. I believe I narrowed it down to the water cooling system. When it decides to make the nosie, it sounds like chirps, like from what a cricket would make. Has anyone ever heard of an issue like this?
If the cooler is going bad for some reason (it's only a year or so old) how much would it cost to replace just one piece?
I don't know much about water cooling, unfortunately. However, I need to learn lol. I bought my system from Alienware (just for warranty reasons and even still I wish I would've just built from scratch). I'm pretty techy with troubleshooting anything else besides this : / haha figures. So I guess it's time for me to learn. I've just been so cautious with it because I dont' know how to install it properly : (
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Verizon Leaves The Door Open For Apple & The iPhone
Not long ago, Verizon Wireless launched an aggressive ad campaign against the iPhone. That doesn’t mean Verizon is completely moving on and has no interest in the iPhone, however. During Verizon’s third-quarter earnings conference call yesterday, Verizon’s chief executive Ivan Seidenberg said his company would be interested in selling the iPhone.
“We obviously would be interested at any point in the future that they would be interested in having us as a partner,†Seidenberg said. “This is a decision that is exclusively in Apple’s court.â€
Meanwhile, Verizon will focus on the handsets it does offer, most notably its new line of smartphones including RIM’s new BlackBerry Storm 2 and the upcoming Motorola Droid. The company also plans to offer Palm handsets early next year. “Our view is to broaden the base of choice for customers, and hopefully, along the way, Apple, as well as others, will decide to jump on the bandwagon,†Seidenberg added.
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Other notable pieces of information from the earnings call include the fact that Verizon added a net of 1.2 million wireless subscribers during the quarter and its wireless unit continues to be profitable despite the fact that consumer interest in cheaper prepaid plans is growing. Additionally, Verizon plans to eliminate 8,000 jobs in the second half of this year with additional cuts to follow. Many of these cuts will be in the wireline unit.
Finally, we learned Verizon plans to offer faster wireless data for laptop card users in 25-30 cities using Verizon’s new 4G network by the end of next year. Phones that will take advantage of 4G speeds will take even longer.
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Internet stops connecting after several hours...
Hello,
The problem I have is when on the internet after several hours my connection seems to stop. I am using latest mozilla browser. Windows XP updated to current. Cable modem. Using Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCE Gigabit Ethernet Controller and updated. Virus checked with AVG free and Avira Free and found nothing. Checked with Spybot-Search and Destroy and found nothing.
When the connection stops I get that grey web page with the notice box "cannot find (whatever site I try to look up). Check with the person managing your network. Etc...Etc.." Well that person is me and I'm not much help!
Using ZoneAlarm free as firewall.
When i restart comp everything seems to work again but I seem to have the same problem hours later (like 6 or 7).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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marvell yukon 88e8001/8003/8010 pci gigabit ethernet controller
hi pc win xp pro 64 problem... i have a yukon marvell 8001 chipset and have never been able to use ethernet cable and had to opt for usb. i have updated marvell drivers and when it says setting ip etc just closes and says connection failed, little green light is on next to ethernet connector modem light flashes sayign ethernet is plugged in. i have a DFI Lan party ut Nf4 sli-d Mobo nvidia nforce networking controller.. tried drivers yk60x64 yk60x84/86 cant get it to work any tips would be helpful..
in network connections i have
local area network 11 connected firewalled NVIDIA nforce networking controller
1394 Connection Connected, firewalled 1394 Net Adapter
Local Area Connection 9 Marvell Yukon 88e8001/8003/8010 pci gigabit network cable unplugged firewalled
any tips plz?
thanks
Stu
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Graphics Processors Boomed in Q3; Q4 Sales Expected To Be Strong
Market analysis firm Jon Peddie Research has released its report on graphic processor sales in the third quarter. According to the data, the strong Q2 rebound was no one-time event; GPU sales continued to climb into Q3 and are expected to rise further in Q4. Intel, AMD, SiS, and VIA all saw their market share increase, with AMD leading the pack. Matrox was the sole exception; its share of the GPU market has dropped to 0.0 percent according to JPR.
AMD picked up 1.4 percentage points of market share; Intel grew its share by 1.6 percentage points, and NVIDIA managed to lose 4.3 percent market share (down to 24.9 percent from 29.2 percent). Nevertheless, Team Green still shipped slightly more GPUs this quarter than last; the company's number of units shipped rose by 3.3 percent. Both SiS and VIA snatched significant pieces of the market for themselves (relatively speaking); SiS improved from 0.4 percent market share to 1.1 percent; VIA jumped from 0.8 percent to 1.5 percent.
The above graph details growth in total number of units shipped as opposed to percentage of market share. Strong growth in all corners, save for NVIDIA's—the company's fortunes may improve thanks to increased availability of ION-based products, but AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series has its rival in a tough spot. NVIDIA has options—it could slash prices on the existing GeForce 200 series—for example and undercut its competition just in time for the Christmas holidays. It's even possible that the company intends to introduce 40nm flavors of its current GTX 275 and 285 series, at correspondingly higher clockrates. Such a move would essentially be a stop-gap, which is why it seems unlikely, but if NVIDIA wanted to keep its Fermi architecture at higher price points initially, it could make sense to introduce a new, faster GeForce 2xx card to hold the lower market tiers.
Back in the here-and-now, notebook/mobile GPU's led the industry. Shipments of notebooks with discrete graphics rose by 36 percent quarterly, while notebooks/netbooks with integrated graphics grew 27 percent. Looking ahead to Q4, Peddie expects a strong finish, but without the sales jumps we saw in Q2 and Q3. "The channel is full and the products in it will have to be sold off before the OEMs and their resellers take a chance of seeing the channel becoming overstuffed. That suggests that while Q4 is typically a good quarter for PCs, the quarter-to-quarter growth in Q4 may not be as robust as Q3. Graphics are a great leading indicator," Peddie said, "The graphics go in before the PC is built or shipped."
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The Motorola Droid Won’t Be The Only Android 2.0 Handset
If you’ve been following news and announcements surrounding the Android operating system, you may have picked up on the fact that Google hasn’t announced Android 2.0 or the SDK. An official announcement hasn’t stopped Verizon from talking about this new OS, however. In fact, Verizon has said the upcoming Motorola Droid will run Android version 2.0. Word on the street says this much-hyped new Android phone will officially be announced tomorrow, October 28.
Two other recently released Android smartphones, the Samsung Moment and the Motorola CLIQ still run older versions of Android. Motorola has customized the interface on the CLIQ, but it’s still not Android 2.0. Looking at it another way, Verizon and Motorola are talking about Android 2.0 but Sprint and Samsung are still stuck at version 1.5.
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The differences in version availability led Sascha Segan over at Gearlog to wonder if Motorola was getting preferential access to version 2.0. Thankfully, Segan was able to confirm that other manufacturers also have access to Android 2.0. Most notably, HTC confirmed they’ve had Android 2.0 in-house for a while now and are working on developing future devices that will run on this platform.
We’ve seen preferential treatment in the wireless industry and plenty of exclusive deals in the past, so why is the fact that multiple manufacturers are working on Android 2.0 devices important? This information is significant because Android has positioned itself as an open OS. In order for it to maintain this status, Google must not play favorites, and we’re glad to hear this doesn’t appear to be the case.
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