Wednesday, February 24, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 24/02/2010



GeForce GTX 400-series cards listed for sale
Nvidia only just broke the news that its next-gen GF100 graphics processor will officially launch on March 26, and already, premature retail listings have popped up on the web. Sabre PC is currently listing no fewer than three cards: two GeForce GTX 480 models from XFX and PNY alongside...
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National Pancake Day Shortbread
National Pancake Day U.S. to unveil broadband plan March 17, sees barriers Comcast exploring 250Mbps service San Jose Mercury News reports Walmart buys Santa Clara's Vudu C|Net reports Amazon, Microsoft sign patent...
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Lenovo may plan Atom-powered ThinkPad X100e
The ThinkPad X100e Lenovo sells right now doesn't really fit the description of a netbook, what with its 11.6" display, Athlon Neo processor, and full-featured edition of Windows 7. As Engadget reports, however, a Lenovo support page suggests a more netbook-like version of the laptop is on the...
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AMD ships 12-core Opterons to customers
Somewhere out there, a few companies are receiving production-ready 8- and 12-core Opteron processors. AMD's sever and workstation marketing chief John Fruehe broke the news on his blog earlier today, saying Opteron 6100-series CPUs (code-named Magny-Cours) hit production in January and have been heading out to "OEM partners" this...
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Nvidia sets GF100 launch for March 26
Well, this is as official as it gets. Nvidia has put up an agenda page for its appearance at the Penny Arcade Expo (a.k.a. PAX East) in Boston, Massachusetts next month, and it turns out the company will host a special, "must see" presentation on March 26 at 6:00...
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