Friday, May 21, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 21/05/2010



Three new SSDs join Corsair Force lineup
Barely three days after we compared Corsair's Force F100 to a tandem of competing OCZ drives, Corsair has rounded out its Force SSD family with three additional models. The Corsair Force F60, F120, and F240 drives have capacities of 60, 120, and 240GB, and they all feature the same...
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Acer busts out convertible ultraportable
With the news buzzing about slate devices, everyone may be forgetting about good-old convertible tablet PCs. As Engadget reports, Acer has decided to remind everyone with its new Aspire Timeline 1825PT, which melds Intel Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage hardware with a swivel-mounted 11.6" multi-touch display. The Timeline 1825PT reportedly has a...
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OCZ adds 750W Fatal1ty PSU
Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel has had his nicknamed emblazoned on OCZ Technology power supplies for well over a year now, and OCZ is still in cahoots with the pro gamer. As a matter of fact, the company has added a 750W model to its line of Fatal1ty-branded PSUs. The
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Weights and Measures Day Shortbread
Appetizers Fudzilla reports Seagate readies next-generation hybrid drives TC Magazine reports PowerColor making progress with its Radeon HD 5970 Eyefinity 12 KitGuru: End of the road for GTX 470? AT&T may lose iPhone exclusive, but doesn't think you'll care DailyTech reports "Hurt Locker" producer sends scathing email to...
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By the way, Surround Gaming is delayed until July
I suppose we should have posted this bit of news separately before now, but in case you didn't read to the very end of my Eyefinity write-up earlier this week, here's the relevant bit of reporting from it: Nvidia still intends to counter with its own version of Eyefinity,...
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Google throws new format into HTML5 video cage match
Until today, the HTML5 video codec debate was at a stalemate. Apple, Google, and Microsoft were publicly backing H.264 exclusively, while Mozilla and Opera were instead behind the purportedly royalty-free Ogg Theora codec. Google has now attempted to untangle things with its new WebM format, which combines the VP8...
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