Wednesday, January 26, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 25/01/2011




Monday Night Combat designer explains tweaks for PC version
There's good reason for PC gamers to cringe at the thought of yet another console port. And even more cause for concern when the game in question is a first-person shooter. The FPS genre may have been born on the PC, but it's become a fast favorite in...
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TI: Nvidia beat us to the punch with Tegra 2
I think it's clear at this point that Nvidia's Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip is going to show up in quite a few iPad rivals this year. Acer, Asus, and Toshiba are just a few of the names involved. According to CNet News, Nvidia's design wins are so...
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National Irish Coffee Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough The new Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU pwns the gamer's sweet spot (Click Read more... to read reviews) Fudzilla via Donanim Haber: AMD working on new multi-GPU technology Manufacturer - Socket burn in Sandy Bridge platform is just accident - Expreview Expreview: Sapphire
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Ultrastar 7K3000 hard drive offers three terabytes to enterprise
The Deskstar 7K3000 is the only three-terabyte, 7,200-RPM hard drive currently available on the market. Today, Hitach is announcing an enterprise-oriented version dubbed the Ultrastar 7K3000. This new model is mechanically identical to its desktop counterpart, which means you get up to three terabytes of storage spread...
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$2,899 hand-built PC has unique chassis
Announcements about garish, LED-covered "enthusiast" cases make it into my inbox on a weekly basis. Genuinely tasteful and visually appealing cases, on the other hand, are rarer birds. I reckon we've caught another one, though: the chassis that houses Darwinmachine's Hammerhead HMR989 PC. 'Tis truly a sight to behold:
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Expect motherboard prices to rise, says Asus
Motherboard prices could rise by as much as 15% in the first half of this year. So says this report from DigiTimes, which calls that figure an "estimate of industry sources." There's more to the story than anonymous sources, though. Chewei Lin, the general manager of Asus' motherboard...
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Report: AOL gets much of its cash from duped subscribers
Now that AOL has struck out on its own, the firm's business model seems to be attracting more attention, not all of it positive. As Business Insider points out, a recent New Yorker piece suggests that AOL generates much of its revenue from subscribers who don't actually...
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