IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 25/09/2010

Museum Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Bloomberg reports Oracle plans to acquire chipmakers, industry-specific software... like AMD? X-bit labs: JEDEC issues standards, requirements for solid-state drives SemiAccurate reports AMD's 6870 coming in November VR-Zone shares rumor: AMD Barts XT (HD 6770) faster than HD 5850 Ars Technica: hp Slate video
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Deal of the week: Something for everybody
We've got a little bit of everything in today's deal post—enough to satisfy gamers, storage buffs, folks building power-hungry PCs, and Canadian laptop shoppers. Let's start with our storage deal. Newegg currently sells OCZ's 90GB Agility 2 solid-state drive for $199 shipped, down from a quoted $249. Better yet, you...
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Kids get their own notebook courtesy of Toshiba
Kids these days are usually more comfortable with technology than their parents. It's no wonder, then, that according to an Opinion Solutions survey commissioned by Toshiba, almost 74% of school-aged children want to see "gadgets" under the tree at Christmas. The same survey says roughly 25% of parents...
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Small-form-factor Zino HD gets quad-core, Blu-ray upgrades
For close to a year, Dell's Zino HD has offered a colorful, AMD-based alternative to Apple's Mac Mini. Now there's a fresh version that can be built up with a Blu-ray drive, quad-core CPU, and discrete Radeon HD graphics. Oh my. The new Zino shares the same...
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Microsoft: We need to 'lead the way' with PC gaming
Isn't damage control fun? On the heels of Kudo Tsunoda's unfortunate statements regarding PC shooters, another executive, Microsoft Game Studios General Manager Dave Luehmann, has vowed to "lead the way on the PC"—and admitted that it still has some work to do on that front. "There's been a...
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AMD: Third-quarter revenue will be lower than expected
After a disappointing second quarter, AMD was looking forward to revenue going "up seasonally" in the third quarter. It wasn't meant to be. The chipmaker broke the news yesterday, saying Q3 revenue will in fact be down 1-4% compared to the previous quarter. Considering AMD posted revenue of $1.65 billion...
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National Punctuation Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough DailyFinance reports AMD lowers forecast: Chipmakers suffer from weak computer market X-bit labs: AMD's 8-core Bulldozer processors to get massive cache - documents and AMD to offers 2 Fusion Zacate processors for desktops and AMD to refresh high-end microprocessor line next quarter Fudzilla reports Nvidia...
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Release roundup: A gaming laptop and a gaming headset
We're not seeing too many e-mails about new product launches in our inbox this week. Luckily, Toshiba and Thermaltake have made up for it with some new gaming goodies: New Toshiba Qosmio X500 Series Delivers Extreme...
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YouTube user posts Win7 HP slate 'review'
HP's Windows 7-based slate is alive and well, judging by a video that appeared on YouTube earlier this week. The video, titled "Hp Slate review" and uploaded by a user who calls himself "x313xkillax," appears to be legit—or at least, a pretty good fake. Surprising, I know.
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American McGee reveals more about next Alice game
American McGee's Alice is easily one of my favorite PC games of all time. The game has it all: imaginative level design, solid gameplay, a unique feel, exceptional music, and a bloody butcher knife. Now, nearly a decade after the original's release, we're learning more about its sequel,...
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