Saturday, March 12, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 11/03/2011




Tribes: Ascend promises jetpack-infused goodness
When was the last time you went skiing... with a jetpack? If you've been at all, chances are it was a while ago in Starseige: Tribes or its successor, Tribes 2. The latter was released nearly a decade ago and is regarded as one of the best multiplayer...
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Dual GeForce GTX 460s appear on EVGA graphics card
Remember that dual-GPU graphics card we caught lurking in EVGA's suite during the Consumer Electronics Show a few months back? At the time, we thought it might pack a pair of GF110 GPUs from the GeForce GTX 580 series. As it turns out, the Card isn't...
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BitFenix Survivor hits U.S. e-tail listings
It's taken them a little while, but BitFenix products are finally trickling into North American e-tail listings. That means folks in the States and Canada should now have an easier time getting their hands on that Survivor enclosure we reviewed back in November (and then took a second...
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IHS iSuppli: iPad helped Dell's market share last quarter
Here's some interesting analysis from the folks at IHS iSuppli. After compiling PC shipment numbers for the fourth quarter of last year, they've observed that Apple's iPad has helped Dell solidify its position as the world's second-biggest PC vendor. No, really. Here's how the research firm sees it: Acer has...
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Johnny Appleseed Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough DigiTimes: hp reportedly considers selling PC business, upstream players say no Dell: ARM servers could face software issues - PCWorld Smarthouse's exclusive: Toshiba to match Apple OZ iPad 2 pricing with 10" Honeycomb tablet SweClockers: Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 leaked specs? (in Swedish) TC Magazine: Acer...
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Snooping Timbuk2's camera messenger bag
For more than a decade, I lugged my notebook in a simple shoulder bag. I suppose you'd call it a messenger-style bag today, but I got it before fixed-gear bikes were seen outside of velodromes being ridden by men wearing skinny jeans from the women's department. In those...
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Release roundup: SSDs, memory, and Sandy Bridge boards
This week's release roundup isn't as intense as the last one, but our inbox has still accumulated a few announcements. Let's kick things off with some memory news from Kingston: Kingston Technology ships HyperX Genesis with new heatspreader. This is not so much a new product...
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Shiny things for the easily distracted
In the last two weeks, Apple has announced two major, according to them, revisions of major product lines that the majority of tech pundits have drooled over to the strains of Bowie's "Space Oddity." Kudos to the three of you who get that very mild joke. First up, on February 24,...
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