IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 05/08/2010

Crysis 2 won't come out this year, after all
"But will it run Crysis 2" probably won't become a catchphrase this year. That's because, as IGN reports, Electronic Arts has decided to postpone Crytek's upcoming shooter until the first quarter of 2011. EA's Jeff Brown gave IGN a pretty straightforward explanation for the delay. "We moved to the game...
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U.S. Coast Guard Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough C|Net reports FTC to spell out Intel settlement (at 9AM CDT) InfoWorld reports trade unions ask shareholders to vote against Michael Dell Slowdown in hard drive shipments signal trouble for PC market, says Information Network Donanim Haber on AMD's Bulldozer (in Turkish) TC Magazine reports...
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Microsoft teases new, 'touchy' device
No doubt miffed that gadget blogs were inexplicably excited about Apple's Magic Trackpad last month, the folks at Microsoft Hardware have posted a couple of tweets with teaser images revealing a mysterious upcoming product. Assembled together, the two images look like so:
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11.6-inch IdeaPad has a Core i7, poor battery life
Lenovo's IdeaPad U160 is one of a new breed of ultraportable notebooks endowed with Intel's latest ultra-low-voltage Core i7 CPUs. This new 11.6" system sports a Core i7-640UM, which has two Hyper-Threaded cores and a peak Turbo speed of 2.26GHz. As one might expect, there's a bit of...
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Latest Kingston HyperX modules have liquid-cooling support
Few folks liquid-cool their PCs, let alone their memory. But those who do will be happy to know that Kingston has released a trio of memory kits specially tuned for liquid cooling—and with external piping to match. The HyperX H2O family includes two 4GB dual-channel kits rated for operation at...
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Report: Ontario notebooks from Acer, Asus, and HP due in 2011
Last month, AMD revealed that its Ontario APU will ship in the fourth quarter of this year. We may have to wait a little bit longer for actual systems based on the chip, though. DigiTimes expects thin-and-light notebooks based on Ontario to arrive in the first quarter...
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