Saturday, May 1, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 01/05/2010



HP said to have scrapped Windows 7 slate
Yesterday, we talked about HP's plans for slates and other devices running the newly acquired Palm webOS platform. What we didn't know is that, allegedly, HP has gone ahead and canned the Windows 7-powered slate Steve Ballmer demonstrated at CES in January. So says TechCrunch, quoting a "source...
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Steam to hit Macs on May 12
Valve Software has set a date for the Mac release of its popular Steam platform. According to Shacknews, Mac users will be able to grab the Steam client on May 12. Mac versions of Valve's entire library of games should become available on the same day, too—and as we've...
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Arbor Day Shortbread
Arbor Day Adobe CEO: Jobs' Flash letter is a 'smokescreen' for 'cumbersome' restrictions Wired reports iPhone finder regrets his 'mistake' TUAW: iPad 3G's being marked for shipment and the Gizmodo iPhone saga...
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Ubuntu 10.04 brings new user interface
About every six months, Canonical comes out with a new version of its hugely popular Linux distribution. Ubuntu 10.04 is now available for download in regular and netbook remix editions for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Version 10.04 has the LTS label, which stands for long-term support and means...
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Shuttle to show Gulftown-based J3 barebone next month
Small-form-factor systems don't have to have low-power processors and crummy, low-end graphics. Shuttle will demonstrate that early next month at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, where it will unveil a new J3 barebone system. The Shuttle J3 will support not only Intel's six-core Core i7-980X Extreme, which is...
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Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI tackle AMD's 890FX chipset
With 44 Gen2 PCIe lanes and six 6Gbps SATA ports, AMD's new 890FX may be the finest high-end chipset on the market. Join us as we take a closer look at the 890FX in three premium motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI.
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HP sees webOS on phones, slates, maybe netbooks
When HP revealed plans to buy Palm yesterday, we speculated that the merger could result in an HP slate running Palm's webOS platform. The folks at Engadget have followed some of the post-merger discussion—and talked to Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein as well as a top HP exec—and it sounds...
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