NZXT Phantom Full Tower ATX Case
The crew at PC Perspective have the NZXT Phantom full tower case on the test bench today. Aside from a few minor gripes, it looks like they really liked the NZXT Phantom. Here is a quote from the review: After examining the exterior, interior, cooling options, tool-less options, and other intricacies I concluded that I'm very satisfied with how the Phantom was designed. It's obvious that NZXT gave PC builders every air cooling option they could stuff into this case, but they also went the extra mile and added options for watercooling enthusiasts to install their custom components too. Whether you like using air cooled or water cooled solutions, the Phantom case has got you covered.
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ISP Monitors its Customers Activity Without Consent
Is your ISP monitoring your online activity without consent? That is exactly what is happening if you are with this company. Time to go ISP shopping. Broadband ISP TalkTalk UK could be about to incur the wrath of privacy campaigners after some of its customers spotted that their online website browsing activity was being monitored and recorded without consent. The situation has caused a significant amount of concern with many end-users worried about the impact upon their personal privacy.
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Senators Fail to Agree on Privacy Approach
Senators fail to agree on privacy approach? How strange, normally politicians always agree on what is best for the common man and do so in a timely manner. After six months worth of allegations of privacy invasions involving some of the largest Internet companies, it should come as no surprise that politicians are calling for new laws. The fact that it's an election year probably made it inevitable.
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Check Counterfeiting Using Botnets and Money Mules
The award for overly complicated use of botnets in a counterfeit check scam goes to these guys. What ever happened to old school crimes? These guys are leaving an electronic trail of evidence a mile long. Oh well, no one ever said you had to be smart to be a crook. A Russian group is doing check counterfeiting in the U.S. using malware, botnets, virtual private networks, and money mules recruited online, according to research expected to be revealed at the Black Hat hacker conference here on Wednesday.
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Microsoft's Street Slide: Browsing Street Level Imagery
Wow! You guys seriously have to watch the embedded video below. This is definitely the direction maps / street view should be heading.
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Second Student Sues School District Over Webcam Spying
Just when you thought you had heard the last of it, another student is suing over that school webcam incident in Philadelphia. A webcam scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district expanded Tuesday to include a second student alleging his school-issued laptop secretly snapped images of him.
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Lawsuit Claims iPads Overheats in Direct Sunlight
Look, I'm the first person to kick Apple where it hurts when they deserve it, but this is just stupid. What next, a lawsuit over iPads that get wet when left in the rain? A new lawsuit takes aim at Apple over the temperature of the iPad when left in direct sunlight, alleging that the company's multi-touch tablet overheats and turns off too quickly when in the heat.
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Track Your Home's Energy Use Down to the Minute and the Dollar
Tracking your energy use and saving money just got easier today. Microsoft and Blue Line Innovations have joined forces to give consumers real-time information about their energy use down to the minute and the dollar. The companies have combined Blue Line's popular energy tracking device with Microsoft Hohm to give consumers information about their household energy use — and its cost — at a glance, with easy-to-use graphs that show where you can save the most energy and money.
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Super Talent Introduces new UltraDriveTM MX
Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced the new "UltraDrive MX SSD". The UltraDrive MX features a new dual-interface for both SATA II and mini-USB connections. The new dual-interface enables this SSD to offer a new level of flexibility and consumer convenience by enabling the customer to use this drive as either an internal SSD or an external SSD.
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[H] Forum Maintenance
By now most of you have noticed that the forums are currently offline. There is no need to panic, we are doing a little maintenance on the forums as we speak and, barring any major catastrophes, we will have them back online later this evening. Thank you for your patience. Feel free to submit your comments, suggestions and complaints here.
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Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know
Holy moly, imagine how annoying this plugin would get with that horn going off all the time. Actually, now that I think about it, that shrill horn noise is a pretty clever way to emphasize the number of times your personal data is collected (and sent to Google)
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San Francisco Cell Phone Radiation Disclosure Law Challenged
This is your head. This is your head on cell phone radiation. This is your head after San Francisco's cell phone radiation law is challenged. *pop* A lobbying group that represents the wireless industry is taking its fight over San Francisco's recently adopted cell phone radiation disclosure law to the courts, claiming it misleads consumers and curbs their ability to make informed choices.
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7" $150 Android Tablet Set To Go on Sale
These things are popping up all over the place aren't they? Last week it was the $35 tablet announcement, now this $150 tablet. Should Apple be worried? Running on version 2.1 of the Android OS (slightly behind Android 2.2, which is starting to roll out on the latest Android smartphones), the GenTouch sports a 7-inch, 800-by-480 TFT touch display, plus an 800MHz processor under the hood, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of internal storage, an SD/MMC memory card slot (good for expanding the tablet's storage capacity by another 16GB), and — naturally — Wi-Fi support.
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