Saturday, April 10, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 10/04/2010



OCZ launches Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD series
While roaming the halls of CES in January, we came across the Vertex 2, a new enthusiast offering based on SandForce's oft-hyped SF-1200 storage controller. OCZ has now formally announced the Vertex 2 alongside another, similar drive series based on the same controller, the Agility 2. Both...
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Report: 6-series Intel chipsets coming in early 2011
You know the saying: where there's smoke, there's fire. DigiTimes claims to have learned of Intel's schedule for upcoming 6-series chipsets. This schedule likely applies to Intel's next-gen Sandy Bridge processors, as well, since previous reports tell us the upcoming CPUs will require those chipsets, According to DigiTimes, the...
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New Super Talent value SSDs top out at $175
Value-oriented SSDs are still multiplying. Late yesterday, Super Talent unveiled four new, modestly priced solid-state drives, the VSSD series, with capacities ranging from 8GB to 64GB and prices stretching up only to "around $175." The VSSD lineup also includes 16GB and 32GB models. Like pretty much every other SSD on...
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Winston Churchill Day Shortbread
Winston Churchill Day The tech recovery of 2010 is underway Nvidia chief envisions a year of 3D glasses and tablets MacRumors: New MacBook Pros (and possibly MacBook Airs) coming on April 13th? Apple...
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The TR Podcast Episode 62: Fermi in the flesh, new VelociRaptors, and emptying the mail bag
Join us for a compilation of intriguing listener questions and discussion of our latest hardware reviews.
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Metal Gear Solid creator foresees end of consoles
With all that talk about the end of the PC as a gaming platform, the last thing you'd expect is for a high-ranking game designer to predict the end of consoles. As AllVoices reports, however, that's just what Metal Gear Solid series creator Hideo Kojima has done. There's a twist,...
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iPhone OS 4 delivers multitasking, iAd, and more
As planned, Steve Jobs gave the first demonstration of Apple's next mobile operating system this morning. Mac sites and gadget blogs are rife with coverage, and the folks at Engadget even put together a nice live blog of the event, complete with quotations and a wealth of photos. Jobs presented...
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Intel may be cooking up quicker Atoms for nettops
When it comes to the Atom line, Intel has been quite clear: speed increases aren't the name of the game—after all, the company wouldn't want to cannibalize sales of its quicker, more expensive Core CPUs. Nevertheless, Fudzilla has word that Intel is cooking up a pair of slightly quicker Atom...
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