ACSI: Apple maintains leads in consumer satisfaction
Consumers are happier than ever with their electronics purchases, according to a paper published by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) today. It's reported that satisfaction ratings for computers, appliances and pricey electronics like TVs are at or near all-time highs. For the seventh straight year, Apple outranked other PC makers scoring better than ever at 86 "points" on a 100-point scale, up 2% from last year.
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Nvidia teases Fermi successor, plans for CUDA x86
During its GPU Technology Conference today, Nvidia offered a glimpse at its plans for upcoming graphics hardware. Based on the shared CUDA GPU roadmap, it seems the company intends to launch a new architecture every two years, but CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wouldn't outwardly commit to that.
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Tuesday tech deals: Geeks.com liquidation sale, up to 85% off
Geeks.com Red Tag Liquidation Sale: Up to 85% off select items
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Nokia exec: Android is like peeing in your pants for warmth
Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President of Mobile Solutions, has likened mobile phone makers that adopt Google's mobile operating system to Finnish boys who "pee in their pants" for warmth in the winter, according to The Financial Times. In other words, temporary relief is followed by worse consequences.
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Seagate outs first 1.5TB 2.5-inch portable hard drive
Seagate has expanded its range of FreeAgent GoFlex portable hard drives, adding the industry's first 1.5TB external 2.5-inch HDD -- a form factor that has been stuck at 1TB since Western Digital launched its 1TB Scorpio Blue last July. Offering some insight on just how large 1.5TB is, Seagate says its new drive can hold up to 60 HD movies or what amounts to years of music.
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News around the web: Plants vs. zombies quest in WoW
Plants Vs. Zombies Quest In WoW: Cataclysm @ rockpapershotgun
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Twitter patches security flaw affecting thousands of users
Twitter has suffered a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via a security flaw on its new website, forcing the social network to identify the attack and roll out a patch. Over the last few hours, users were tweeting about a "mouseover security flaw," saying that "Twitter got hacked." The security flaw in question allowed messages to pop up and third-party websites to open in a browser simply when users moved their cursor over a link (clicking was not required) thanks to JavaScript's "onmouseover" function.
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Rejected Facebook friend requests can follow you anyway
Facebook has tweaked the functionality of its friend requests, changing the way friend rejections work, according to All Facebook. Instead of being able to either Confirm or Ignore a request, you can now only choose between Confirm and Not Now. The new wording is more polite, since the requesters are neither accepted nor rejected, but the consequences are worrying. When someone requests to be your friend on Facebook, he or she is now automatically subscribed to all of your public posts in their News Feed. In other words, by replacing Ignore with Not Now, Facebook has created its own version of Twitter's follow feature.
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Microsoft: hardly anyone plays first person shooters on the PC
Microsoft Game Studios manager Kudo Tsunoda has been aggressively talking up Xbox 360 Kinect in the last few days, and while doing so he's expressed his opinion on the current state of PC gaming. According to him, Halo is responsible for "hardly anyone" playing first-person shooters on the PC nowadays.
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Microsoft: 2 million IE9 downloads in 2 days
Microsoft has announced that in two days, over 2 million people worldwide have downloaded the Internet Explorer 9 Beta. The software giant says the number shows great user interest, especially when compared to the Internet Explorer 8 Beta, which launched in August 2008 and had just 1.3 million downloads over the first five days. Redmond also revealed that it has seen 9 million visits and over 26 million page views on its Beauty of the Web website since the beta release last Wednesday, while the developer-focused IE Test Drive Site has had 4 million page views in the same timeframe.
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VLC Media Player available for iPad, iPhone soon
As Apple took a new stance on its App Store submission rules earlier this month it opened the door for developers to branch out into areas that were previously more tightly controlled. One such area where this has paid off is the new VLC Media Player app, based on the popular freeware program from VideoLAN.
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Microsoft bringing Zune services to Europe, more
Weeks ahead of the European Windows Phone 7 launch, Microsoft has announced that its Zune digital entertainment platform will soon be available to more regions. Version 4.7 of the Zune software will be available in more than 20 countries, but Microsoft's various services will be limited to far less.
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HP intros new printers, including one with a 7-inch tablet
HP has announced a batch of new printers featuring the company's ePrint technology that lets you print documents from the Internet. We've heard a lot about the company's plans to release connected, webOS-powered printers since the early days of its Palm acquisition, but we're not sure if today's releases make use of the mobile operating system. If so, we haven't seen it mentioned.
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Global wireless subscriptions nearing five billion
Worldwide mobile phone subscriptions will reach five billion this month, equaling 73.4% of Earth's population according to data outfit iSuppli. Obviously some people hold several accounts and handsets so each "subscription" doesn't represent a person, but it's a remarkable milestone nonetheless. "If the importance of an event can be measured by the number of people it affects, then the proliferation of wireless communications stands out as one of the most significant phenomena in the history of technology," the firm said.
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Asus announces ROG Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard
Asus has officially unveiled its latest ROG-branded (Republic of Gamers) motherboard, the Crosshair IV Extreme. The EATX board features AMD's 890FX+SB850 chipset combo and features a slew of overclocking functions, including the ability to tweak settings remotely over USB from a connected notebook, using a Bluetooth cellphone, and even from a new iPhone app called ROG iDirect. It also sports a Lucid HydraLogix chip, allowing you to mix up to four different Nvidia and ATI GPUs together.
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Flash runs faster and more efficiently than HTML5 on mobile
Flash is faster and much more efficient than HTML5 on mobile phones, according to a post by Web developer Christopher Black. His conclusion is as follows: "HTML5 will sit side by side with Flash. Gradient fonts, drop shadows, basic video and simple transitions are probably better suited for HTML5. When it comes to rendering display objects, animation and digital rights management for video, it would be silly not to use Flash."
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News around the web: China has not done enough on yuan
Obama says China has not done enough on yuan @ Reuters
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Apple iPhone 4 coming to China on September 25
Chinese citizens will soon be able to pick up Apple's latest mobile phone straight from the source, no longer having to rely on illegal importing or cheap knockoffs. Apple has announced that the iPhone 4 will be available across China in retail locations as well as China Unicom retail stores, on September 25 at 8AM local time. The country will be getting the phone about three months after the US launch.
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IBM acquires Netezza for $1.7 billion
IBM has announced it will acquire data warehouse appliance company Netezza in a deal valued at approximately $1.7 billion. More specifically, IBM is offering $27 per share for Netezza, a 10 percent premium over Friday's closing share price of $24.60. The two companies have already worked together in the past, assembling systems designed to analyze large amounts of complex data. The acquisition still requires approval from Netezza's shareholders, but IBM expects the deal to close in Q4.
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Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft top 2010 Best Global Brands
Interbrand, a brand consultancy company, has released its 11th annual ranking of the "Best Global Brands." The top three brands, in order, are Coca-Cola, IBM, and Microsoft. In the top 10, Google gained the most in terms of brand value while Nokia lost the most. For the 11th year in a row, Coca-Cola retained its top spot as the number one ranked brand on the list.
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Weekend tech reading: Intel selling $50 'upgrade' cards to unlock built-in CPU features
Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do Hold onto your hyperthreaded horses, because this is liable to whip up an angry mob -- Intel's asking customers to pay extra if they want the full power of their store-bought silicon. An eagle-eyed Engadget reader was surfing the Best Buy shelves when he noticed this $50 card -- and sure enough, Intel websites confirm -- that lets you download software to unlock extra threads and cache on the new Pentium G6951 processor. Engadget
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Weekend Open Forum: Do you overclock?
As I'm sure is the case with many of you, I've owned several desktop systems over the years that depending on the timing and the class of processor, I've built to run at stock speeds or from scratch with overclocking in mind.
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Microsoft: Kinect will outsell the iPad
Microsoft is expecting the Xbox 360 Kinect motion-sensor gaming accessory to sell millions this holiday season and is being rather optimistic when asked about the device's chance of success. "The preorders have been really strong," a Microsoft spokesperson told Gamasutra. "As far as what we're looking at for holiday, this is going to be stuff that'll blow away any of the sales you've seen with iPad. The Xbox 360 is already selling better than the Wii and Sony right now. Kinect's really just going to boost that to a whole new level."
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Dell, Apple begin selling new high-end IPS displays
Dell has begun selling a new 30-inch IPS display. Priced at $1,499 and due to ship in early October, the UltraSharp U3011 features an IPS panel with a roomy 2560x1600 resolution (16:10), and ships "factory-tuned to AdobeRGP and sRGB modes," saving you the hassle of calibrating the beast yourself.
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PCI Express 3.0 to go final in November
The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) says it expects to finalize the PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 standard by November 2010. The 3.0 specification is due in the fourth quarter of 2010, but now we know it's slated for 60 days after the PCI SIG released version 0.9, which was posted in mid-August, according to EE Times. Furthermore, Intel is already gearing up to implement the new high-speed interconnection into its Sandy Bridge processors for servers.
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Best Buy, Morgan Stanley: iPad cutting into notebook sales
Many have questioned whether an upsurge in tablets sales would dip into sales of other portable computing devices, especially netbooks. Shedding light on that concern, Best Buy has revealed internal figures suggesting the iPad has cut notebook sales by up to 50%. Much of that is netbooks -- a segment Apple isn't in -- and since Mac sales continue growing, it seems on the surface that many shoppers are opting for the iPad over Windows-based mobile PCs.
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Weekend game deals: Dirt 2 $6, 50% off Star Wars collection
Aspiring Jedis rejoice. Steam's running a weeklong LucasArts special through next Monday, and as part of that promotion the distributor is offering 13 Star Wars games for $49.99 ($152.88 individually or $99.99 for the usual bundle price). Direct2Drive's sixth birthday celebration continues this week, with titles such as Dirt 2 slashed to only $6. Meanwhile, Impulse knocks 50% off all games developed by Enlight.
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No CDMA for Windows Phone 7 until 2011
Microsoft has revealed that there will be no CDMA Windows Phone 7 devices this year. At first, reports started trickling out that Verizon, the largest US mobile-phone carrier as well as the carrier which helped Microsoft launch the failed KIN, would not be on board until 2011, as first posted by Bloomberg. After that, it became clear that CDMA was being excluded on the whole (the decision was made earlier this year but Microsoft declined to publicly confirm it until now); only carriers that use the GSM standard are being included.
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Intel: leaked HDCP master key is real, but it's no big deal
Intel has confirmed that the recently leaked High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) master key, which permanently unlocks the DRM protocol on Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and displays with HDMI inputs, is indeed legitimate. "We can use it to generate valid device keys that do interoperate with the HDCP protocol," an Intel spokesperson told CNET.
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Cobian Backup 10.1.1.809
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