Friday, February 5, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 05/02/2010



Fallout: New Vegas trailer released
We've already gotten a few downloadable expansions for Fallout 3, but soon, fans of the series will get to enjoy a whole new Fallout game. As Shacknews reports, Bethesda has announced that Fallout: New Vegas will launch this fall for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. The publisher has...
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Asus aims to outship Lenovo, Toshiba on the laptop stage
Acer isn't the only Taiwanese PC vendor with bold ambitions. As DigiTimes found out from Asus Notebook General Manager Shien-yueh Hsu, Asus also aims to become a bigger player in the notebook market—much bigger. The company is hoping to ship 20 million notebooks in 2010, a number that would reportedly...
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USO Day Shortbread
USO Day Ars Technica reports Nehalem Mac Pros take 20% performance hit when playing audio NordicHardware reports Asus shows USB 3.0 notebooks Engadget reports JooJoo tablet now in production, will support full Flash at launch ...
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AMD releases $49 Radeon HD 5450
DirectX 11 has officially reached the ultra-low-end market, thanks to the arrival of AMD's cheapest Radeon HD 5000-series graphics card yet: the Radeon HD 5450, which AMD says you can expect to find listed soon for $49-59. The Radeon HD 5450 is based on a new GPU, Cedar, which has 292...
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Intel talks six-core processors, future prototypes
In a press conference earlier today, Intel provided a sneak peek at some of the papers it will present next week during the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The chipmaker revealed a few juicy details about Gulftown, its upcoming six-core, 32-nm processor, as well as some interesting...
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ARM CEO foresees netbooks taking over
Could ARM-based netbooks one day dominate the industry? In an interview with PC Pro, ARM CEO Warren East predicted that netbooks could eventually make up 90% of the PC market, and he expressed a desire to see his company's ARM application processors power a significant portion of those systems. East...
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