IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 31/10/2010

Friday night topic: Halloween costumes
Halloween is just a few days away, and I'm horribly behind on getting a costume together. This happens every year, it seems. Usually, I end up cobbling together some kind of zombie outfit at the last minute. I've reused the same makeup kit for a while now,...
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Deal of the week: A 60GB SSD for $125 shipped and a Steam sale
We've got a fresh solid-state storage deal this week, although if you're not crazy about flash memory, we also see Valve is running a juicy Halloween sale at the Steam store. Our solid-state deal is Corsair's Force 60GB, which Newegg now has on sale for $124.99 with free shipping—or...
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Quick take: 6850 and GTX 460 overclocking
Their value propositions were already strong, but will they overclock? You betcha.
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Geocities archive to be released on BitTorrent
Remember Geocities? Yahoo shut down the unofficial home of horrific web design a year ago, but it hasn't gone away entirely. A group calling itself the Archive Team has compiled a massive collection of Geocities pages and plans to release the compendium on BitTorrent. As TechRadar...
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Industry heavyweights collaborate on PCIe SSDs
A group including Intel, Dell, IBM, and EMC is collaborating on a standard for PCI Express-based solid-state disks. Ars Technica has the skinny on the group's plans, which aim to define a standard connector and form factor for PCIe SSDs. It looks like the consortium is leaning...
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New details revealed about Asus' upcoming slates
Asus has a cornucopia of slate devices primed for releases over the coming months, and DigiTimes has gotten the scoop about them straight from the company's CEO, Jerry Shen. According to Shen, Asus will begin its onslaught in January with a 12" Windows- and Intel-powered slate. The company has "made...
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Microsoft posts record-breaking revenue
Yes, believe it or not, Microsoft is still raking in truckloads of cash. In other news, the sky is still blue, and grass still grows green. Those truckloads of cash were especially full during Microsoft's last fiscal quarter, which ended on September 30. All in all, the software giant...
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Frankenstein Friday Shortbread
Eight is Enough Microsoft reports record first-quarter results Electronista: Oracle claims Google 'directly copied' Java in Android Bright Side of News: Seagate is not going private? SandForce remains safe Intel, Dell, IBM & others form working group to standardize PCIe SSDs and superfast SSDs are coming, but...
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Release roundup: Slates, SSDs, and notebooks
We've got a couple of exciting items in today's roundup of product launches: a new solid-state drive from OCZ and a fresh slate-type device from Barnes & Noble. Meanwhile, Eurocom and Cooler Master have chipped in with a pair of announcements. ...
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Western Digital's Caviar Green 3TB hard drive
WD's 3TB Caviar Green is the first internal hard drive to breach the 2.19TB barrier. We probe its performance, noise levels, power consumption, and overall value proposition.
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Maximum PC compares seven 802.11n routers
Raise your hand if you have a wireless router at home. Yeah, I thought so. As a follow-up to a comparison of budget 802.11n routers published earlier this year, Maximum PC has rounded up seven high-end routers from an assortment of manufacturers. Each router's wireless...
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