IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 31/08/2010

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Pictured
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Bulgarian e-tailer IskamPC.com had NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTS 450 listed online momentarily (presumably in error) before removing the listing. Luckily, Fudzilla were able to grab a shot of the ASUS GeForce GTS 450 based before the listing was removed. The card is a non-reference design, with ASUS's DirectCU cooler. The specifications are identical to the ones previously leaked.

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Samsung Korea Launches Wave 723
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Samsung Korea has announced the launch of their new smartphone, Samsung Wave 723. Based on the proprietary Bada platform, the Wave 723 features a 3.2-inch display and offers wide range of games, navigation, social networking, e-book, health and lifestyle applications to use with.

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Watch more videos on your Android-powered smartphone
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Technically speaking, a smartphone running Google's Android OS is not the best platform of choice for enjoying video content, simply because it is incapable of supporting the huge myriad of media formats available. But if you are the kind of person who uses a smartphone for viewing videos while on the move,there is hope yet.
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Acer ships new netbook with dual-core Atom N550 in the US
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Dual-core Atoms? Who needs them, you might ask. Apparently, enough of them for Acer to justify a new netbook, the D255, which sports the dual-core Atom N550  processor instead of the single-core N455 found in most netbooks today.

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Toshiba Folio 100 Android Tablet Leaked
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Online sources have leaked a new Android tablet from Toshiba. The 10.1-inch Folio 100 is based on Froyo (Android version 2.2) and features Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and 16GB internal memory.

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AMD drops ATI branding
vr-zone.com - Following strong speculation suggesting AMD is phasing out the ATI logo, TechReport confirms that the rumours are indeed true. With the Fusion era finally approaching, with CPU + GPU on the same die, it was only a matter of time that both technologies were consolidated under the same brand name. AMD further justifies the branding change by the results of internal surveys.

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Google planning video rentals via Youtube?
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Apparently, Google's decision to compete against Apple goes further than just the current smartphone wars. And based on the current signs, it seems that the search giant is also planning to set itself up for a clash against Apple's iTunes service by offering video rentals via its Youtube site. Sounds fun, right?
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Prolimatech Armageddon CPU Cooler Review
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Wider yet slimmer, will the successor to the highly popular Megahalems be able to pull an upset over Thermalright again? Will 140mm cooling reign supreme over 120mm?

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More Radeon HD 6870 Benchmarks Leaked
vr-zone.com - The folks at PCinlife Forums are at it again. This time 3D Mark Vantage Extreme & Performance, Crysis Very High and Unigine Heaven benchmarks are out. And the results are very impressive. A second benchmark for 3D Mark Vantage Extreme gives a score of X12092, slightly more than the previous leak. This score is well above any single GPU card. In fact, it is closing in on the dual-GPU monster Radeon HD 5970. The Performance score is P24499. Once again, over 20% faster than the GTX 480, and approaching HD 5970 territory.

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