Wednesday, November 18, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 18/11/2009


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ASUS' fully fledged Maximus II Extreme takes P55 to a new level
Details with pics have shown up on the web of ASUS' upcoming ROG series P55 board which they call the Maximus III Extreme. The board will make a showing by ASUS at DreamHack at the end of this month inآ…



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ATI Radeon HD 5970 Video Card Presentation by David Cummings
Last week a fellow called David Cummings, Director of Marketing for Desktop GPU from AMD, flew into Taipei and gave local press here in Taiwan a solid presentation on the new ATI Radeon 5970 dual GPUآ…



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AMD's new dual-GPU monster takes the crown today
Today brings the introduction of a graphics card many hardcore gamers and enthusiasts have been waiting for; ATI's answer to the GTX 295. Certainly better late than never and in this case with a few extraآ…



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Download of the Day: Adobe Air 2.0.0.10760 Beta
The Adobeآ® AIRآ™ runtime enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. Since applications built for Adobe AIR run on your desktop computer without a web browser, they provideآ…



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Deal of the Day: Asus VW266H Black 25.5-inch 2ms LCD
Offer: NewEgg has the amazing Asus VW266H 25.5" LCD monitor for only $239.99 after rebate with free shipping! It features a 25.5" 1920x1200 resolution, HDMI, DVI, 2ms response time, built-inآ…



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New Social Networking Apps available for the Xbox 360
Wow, who would have thought that social networking would force its way into the world of console gaming. Well it has and can be accessed now even on the Xbox 360. Yep thatآ’s right, earlier today a fewآ…



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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 gets GPU acceleration
Over the last few years there has been an explosion of flash video. This really got going when YouTube hit the scene but was beginning its climb even before then on certain, um آ… questionable sites. Butآ…



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AT&T and Samsung to offer Go netbook at subsidized price
Subsidized netbooks are common now in the U.S. after being mostly in Europe for a long time. AT&T is building up its netbook fleet and has announced that it will be offering the Samsung Go as a subsidizedآ…



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Hitachi offers new 2TB external storage solutions
Hitachi has announced that it is now putting its new Deskstar 7K2000 2TB 7,200 rpm HDD into external storage solutions. The new 2TB drive is now available inside the Hitachi SimpleDrive for $249.99. Theآ…



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MSI N240T video card supports voltage overclocking
MSI has unveiled the world's first N240GT video card that supports over voltage overclocking with Afterburner. Afterburner is MSI's overclocking application and the company claims that the GPU can beآ…



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Fusion-io ioXtreme PCIe SSD gets reviewed
I am a computer enthusiast like most of you are who read TweakTown. I want my machine to be as fast as possible, but I am not yet willing to spend the money it takes to get an SSD. They are still tooآ…



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Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB Overclocked



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Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 2GB Video Card



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MSI GeForce N240GT 512MB GDDR5 OC Video Card



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HIS introduces the HIS 5970 2GB GDDR5, the worldآ’s fastest GPU in the market offering the power of two 5800 GPUs and 3200 stream processors
Hong Kong آ— Nov 18, 2009 آ— Today HIS unleashed the revolutionary new HIS Radeonآ™ HD 5970 2GB GDDR5. Building on the success of HIS 5800 series, HIS 5970 offer the power of two 5800 GPUs and 3200 streamآ…



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MSI unveils its top-of-the-line R5970-P2D2G graphics card
[Taipei - Taiwan] World renowned graphics card and mainboard brand and manufacturer, MSI, captured the hearts of powerful performance enthusiasts after unveiling its all-new R5800, R5700 series of graphicsآ…



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GIGABYTE Presents an Ultimate Immersive HD Gaming Experience with Radeonآ™ HD 5970 Graphics Card
Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2009 آ– GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today is pleased to launch the latest addition to its selection of premiumآ…



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Seagate Celebrates 30 Years with a Contest
To help Seagate celebrate its 30th anniversary, we are asking everyone to send in a picture of yourself, a friend or a family member from 1979. By doing this, your name will be entered into a drawingآ…



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POWERCOLOR LAUNCHES THE FASTEST GRAPHICS ON THE PLANET: HD5970
Taipei, Taiwan آ–November 18, 2009 -- TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today introduces the fastest graphics card on the planet: the PowerColor HD5970. As the most powerfulآ…



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MSI Afterburner overclocking competition
[Taipei, Taiwan] Sick and tired of the clichأ© that the overclocking competitions are always chasing for the highest performance? What about competing the overclocking percentage this time? MSI - the worldآ…



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Intel Capital Announces Seven Investments at 10th Annual CEO Summit
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Nov. 17, 2009 آ– Intel Capital, Intel Corporation's global investment organization, reaffirmed its dedication to foster worldwide innovation with the announcement of seven newآ…



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AMD Introduces ATI Radeonآ™ HD 5970: Fastest Graphics Card in the World
Massive overclocking potential enables PC gaming enthusiasts to dominate their gameplay with DirectXآ® 11, expand the game experience with ATI Eyefinity technology and accelerate with ATI Stream technologyآ…



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New ATI Stream Development Platforms Now Available from Colfax and Exxact
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced developers can now acquire fully configured ATI Stream technology-enabled development platforms from Colfax and Exxact. These new systems provide developers and researchers withآ…



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MAINGEAR SHIFT Employs Worldآ’s Fastest Graphics Card
Union, New Jersey آ– November 18, 2009 آ– MAINGEAR Computers, award-winning builders of custom computers for PC gamers and enthusiasts, is proud to announce the immediate availability of AMDآ’s highly toutedآ…



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Gaming Just Got Real آ— Introducing the ASUS G51J 3D Gaming Notebook
Sydney, Australia, 18 November 2009 - The new ASUS G51J 3D is designed to deliver a truly immersive 3D gaming and multimedia experience to gamers everywhere, with NVIDIAآ® 3D Visionآ™ and specially designedآ…



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Antec Expands TruePower Quattro Series with TPQ-1200
Fremont, CA آ– November 17, 2009 آ– Antec, Inc., the global leader in high-performance computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself markets, today announced the TPQ-آ…



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OCZ Technology Launches Cutting-Edge High-Capacity Colossus 3.5آ” SSD Line with up to One Terabyte of Storage
San Jose, Calif.آ—November 17, 2009آ—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and flash-based storage as an alternative to hard diskآ…



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NZXT Unleashes Tempest EVO Gaming Chassis
El Monte, CA آ– November 17, 2009 آ– NZXT, a company built on realizing the dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to announce the Tempest EVO, a sleek, all black, steel mid tower gaming chassis. Buildingآ…



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Microsoft Cloud Services Vision Becomes Reality With Launch of Windows Azure Platform
LOS ANGELES آ— Nov. 17, 2009 آ— Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the Windows Azure platform at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). In his opening keynote address,آ…



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Leadtek launches new WinFastآ® GT 240 graphics card series
Taipei, Taiwan, November 17th, 2009 -- Leadtek Research Inc., known globally for extreme visual graphics technology development, today announced the launch of its WinFastآ® GT 240 graphics series, a newآ…



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AECTIC COOLING introduces the Accelero XTREME GT Cooler
(Pfأ¤ffikon/Switzerland, 17 November 2009) The Swiss low noise cooling solution provider ARCTIC COOLING today unveiled the Accelero XTREME GTX Pro, a new VGA cooler of the reputable Accelero series. Thisآ…



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Manli Unveils GT240 Graphics Cards with GDDR5 Technology
Taiwan, Nov. 17, 2009 آ– Manli Technology, a leading manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards, netbook and multimedia, today introduces the GT240 series graphics cards GT240 512M-D5, GT240 1G-D3 andآ…



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Inno3D GeForce GT 240 for the Digital World
Hong Kong 17th November 2009 آ– Inno3Dآ® are excited to announce the Inno3Dآ® GeForceآ® GT 240 graphics card. The GeForceآ® GT 240 opens up visually tantalising possibilities by providing the graphics processingآ…



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2009 HPCwire Readersآ’ And Editorsآ’ Choice Awards Recognize Rise Of NVIDIA Tesla GPU Computing Solutions
PORTLAND, Ore.آ— SC09آ—Nov. 17, 2009آ—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today received an unprecedented five awards in the annual HPCwire Readersآ’ and Editorsآ’ Choice Awards, which were presented at theآ…



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ZOTAC Launches New Mainstream GeForceآ® GT 240 Series
HONG KONG آ– Nov. 17, 2009 آ– ZOTAC International, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today unleashes a new range of mainstream graphics cardsآ– the new ZOTAC GeForceآ® GT 240 seriesآ…



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NVIDIA And Partners Form Industryآ’s Broadest Parallel Computing Development Ecosystem
PORTLAND, Ore.آ— SC09آ—Nov. 17, 2009آ—NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) and its ecosystem partners will deliver, over the next few months, the industryآ’s broadest set of software releases to developers using GPU Computingآ…



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Available immediately for retail: USB3.0 Controller from Sharkoon
Sharkoon USB3.0 Host Controller Card: PCIe-Controller with NEC-آµPD720200 Chip and two USB3.0 Ports / MSRP 39.90 euros // also starting calendar week 48 the USB3.0: Sharkoon Hard Drive Docking Stationآ…



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DFI Patent Dual System Platform, Hybrid is Disclosed
DFI , Taipei, 20091117 آ–Due to the serious issue of global warming, in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, saving energy has become the responsibility of every global citizen. DFI is committed toآ…



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BIOSTAR Launches GeForce GT240 Graphics Card
November 17, 2009, Taipei Taiwan, BIOSTAR Corporation, a leading manufacturer of graphics cards worldwide. Today announced the GeForce GT240 series graphics card VN2403THG1. The GeForce GT240 GPU is basedآ…



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