IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 29/10/2010

Designer laptop has fancy materials, underwhelming hardware
Danish designer and former MacBook modder Munk Bogballe has announced a new laptop for, well, rich people. The Classic Bespoke starts at over $7,000 and comes draped in luxurious materials, including hand-shaped aluminum, aniline leather, sipo mahogany, and the option to have power and reset buttons inset...
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Firefox 4 won't go gold until next year
Catching up to the competition is going to take Mozilla a little longer than expected. As CNet News reports, Mozilla has postponed the final release of Firefox 4.0 until 2011. The completed browser was originally due this year, but in a recent mailing list post, Mozilla Director of Firefox...
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Third-gen Intel X25-M SSD reportedly sold in China
These days, solid-state drives based on SandForce, Marvell, and Indilinx controllers are generating all the media buzz. Intel is still hard at work on the next generation of its famous X25-M SSD line, however, and we may see the fruits of its labor before too long. Expreview reports that a...
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Statue of Liberty Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough VR-Zone shares rumor: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB / GTX 470 price cut repealed on November 14th AppleInsider: Apple again warns margins will decline due to new products Apple news roundup: Inside the new MacBook Air's screen and Apple may cut out carrier middleman with...
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Catalyst 10.10c graphics driver hotfix now available
AMD is in a graphics driver release frenzy. Just five days ago, the company rolled out its Catalyst 10.10 drivers alongside a 10.10a hotfix update. Today, a download page for a new, Catalyst 10.10c driver hotfix appeared on AMD's support site. The download link appears to be broken right...
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Concept Sony phone has slide-out PSP-style controls
You might have seen Sony's recent ad campaign—you know, the one that ridicules smartphone gaming and promotes the PSP as a genuine handheld gaming platform. Deep inside its labs, however, Sony is attempting to bridge the gap between grandma-texting devices and portable gaming systems. Engadget has the scoop: ...
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Poll: Which mid-range graphics card would you buy?
After a brief reprieve, our weekly poll returns with a vengeance. With our review of AMD's new Radeon 6850 and 6870 graphics cards hitting on Monday, we're curious what you think of the options available in the middle of the graphics market. This segment has traditionally been...
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Court injunction halts LimeWire downloads
The LimeWire peer-to-peer file sharing app first debuted more than a decade ago. BitTorrent wasn't around at the time, but LimeWire used the then-new Gnutella network to spread its warez wares and adopted torrents when they began to take over the P2P scene. All good things must come to...
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Acer slates due November 23; prices to start at $299
A number of hardware makers seem to be waiting for Android 3.0's arrival next year before releasing their first slate devices, but apparently, Acer won't be one of them. As the Wall Street Journal reports, company Chief Executive Gianfranco Lanci revealed in an interview that Acer's first slates will...
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