IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 02/11/2010

ViewSonic confirms two ViewPad tablets
ViewSonic has confirmed a number of details about its upcoming ViewPad tablets. Later this quarter, the ViewPad 7 will debut with an estimated street price of $479. The slate will have a 7" screen with an 800x480 display resolution, front- and rear-facing cameras, 512MB of memory, a...
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Black Ops trailer gets official
The next chapter in Activision's Call of Duty franchise is just about one week away. To whet your appetite, the publisher has released an official trailer set to the sweet sounds of The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter. The trailer is embedded below, and shelter appears to be in...
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Report: Next, next-gen Intel chipsets to offer USB 3.0 support
Rumor has it that select desktop and notebook chipsets for AMD's upcoming Llano platform will offer native support for USB 3.0. SuperSpeed support isn't expected in the core-logic offerings accompanying Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs, which are due out early next year. If this report from...
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Carmack blogs about Rage iPhone game
When id Software programmer and FPS pioneer John Carmack speaks, we listen. Sometimes, we even understand what he's saying. In this post over at the Bethesda developer blog, Carmack kindly separates information on id's upcoming Rage game for the iPhone from "technical geek details" that delve into...
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All Saints' Day Shortbread
7 Up MobileBeat: How Apple could become the world's biggest tech company SemiAccurate: Nvidia to paper launch GTX 580 in a week NordicHardware: The GeForce GTX 580 mystery is clearing AMD comments on graphics chips market in Q3 2010 X-bit labs: ATI still suffers from TSMC's 40nm...
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StarTech's USB 3.0 docking station
External hard drive docking stations are the perfect accessory for PC enthusiasts. We test USB 3.0-powered one from StarTech to see if it's any good.
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Halloween Shortbread
Trick or treat? C|Net: Will hp, Dell, Sony answer 11" MacBook Air? Download Squad: The Linux distro timeline is an extensive family tree of all things Linux We're from Microsoft—you can trust us Download Squad reports Firefox 4 maxes out SunSpider benchmark GigaOM: Stop Firesheep with FireShepherd Engadget:
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