Saturday, November 28, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 28/11/2009



Black Friday Shortbread
Black Friday C|Net: Revealing Apple's 2009 Black Friday deals Engadget's latest Black Friday deals roundup starring SonyStyle, Sam's Club, and more C|Net reports EU hearing on Oracle-Sun set for Dec. 10 Ars Technica reports...
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Thanksgiving Shortbread
Thanksgiving The year of the mega data breach Demand from PC OEMs still outpacing DRAM supply, says Nanya C|Net reports Buffalo ships first USB 3.0 hard drive DigiTimes reports ramp-up of 20nm nodes
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Chrome OS boots quickly from a USB thumb drive
You don't have to run Chrome OS on a speedy solid-state or mechanical hard drive to enjoy swift system startups on a netbook. Using a third-party build of the public pre-release Chrome OS source code (a.k.a. Chromium OS), the folks at Engadget were able to get more than acceptable...
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Shopping Reminder Day Shortbread
Shopping Reminder Day Black Friday 2009: Boom or bust? Nvidia continues to mock Intel "creatively" Global PC shipments to grow 2.8% in 2009, revenues to drop 11%, says Gartner MSI reportedly to layoff 10 - 20% of employees in early 2010 Microsoft CFO to leave, look...
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Gigabyte X58 mobo gets 6Gbps SATA, USB 3.0
Motherboards with next-gen I/O are multiplying like rabbits lately. After this morning's three AMD contenders, Gigabyte has unleashed a new specimen aimed at high-end Intel rigs: the GA-X58A-UD7. Like those AMD boards and the new Intel P55 lineup that preceded them, the GA-X58A-UD7 bears Gigabyte's "333" label....
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iSuppli: AMD is back in the semiconductor top 10
AMD is back in the saddle. After dropping out of the top-10 semiconductor supplier rankings and slipping into 12th place last year, AMD will emerge in ninth place this year, according to a round of preliminary numbers by iSuppli. The market research firm has compiled a complete scoreboard showing...
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D.B. Cooper Day Shortbread
D.B. Cooper Day iSuppli: Semiconductor market declines less than expected, Samsung shines in 2009 AnandTech on AMD's 2010 / 2011 roadmap from the IT professional's perspective [Hard|OCP shares more Fermi rumors - Not good Fudzilla reports Fermi expected in January and many Core i7 Macs dead...
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New Razer gaming mouse has adjustable buttons
Gaming mice of all shapes and sizes are proliferating so much lately, they almost seem to be outnumbering regular premium mice. Razer has contributed to the trend with the Imperator, a new right-handed mouse with adjustable buttons for "palm and fingertip gamers." The Imperator has a sleek, black design with a...
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OCZ readies external USB 3.0 solid-state drives
On the heels of Gigabyte's three new USB 3.0 motherboards, OCZ has announced a partnership with Symwave that will soon yield some speedy external USB 3.0 solid-state drives. Actually, OCZ and Symwave expect to produce "the industry's highest performance external Solid State Drive (SSD) storage product." The two partners haven't...
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Seagate's Barracuda XT hard drive
Seagate's Barracuda XT is the first hard drive to support the third-generation Serial ATA 6Gbps standard. We've taken a closer look at the 'cuda, exploring its 6Gbps credentials and how the drive fares against Western Digital's latest Caviar Black.
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Clarkdale processors listed, pictured
How about that. A European online retailer has broken the embargo on Intel's upcoming Clarkdale processors and listed six of them on its website. Shocking, isn't it? HPM-Computer looks to have pulled down the listings already, but not before the guys at Expreview were able to nab screenshots with...
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