AMD's Huddy: developers want DirectX to 'go away'
One week after graphics programmer extraordinaire John Carmack noted that DirectX is much improved and even preferable to OpenGL, AMD developer relations manager Richard Huddy is suggesting the Microsoft API is holding back PC games. In an interview with Bit-Tech, Huddy says the most common request he...
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Eee Pad Transformer to debut in Taiwan this week
Asus' first real iPad rival is just days from release—in Asus' home country of Taiwan, at least. Netbooknews quotes an Asus press release in Chinese that teases a March 25 debut for the Eee Pad Transformer, the $399 Android slate with a detachable keyboard that was originally unveiled...
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Magic Cube enclosure offers truly compartmentalized cooling
In recent years, case makers have increasingly dabbled in compartmentalized cooling. Many new enclosures feature interior partitioning to separate hardware into multiple zones. Thermaltake took things one step further with the Level 10, which offers individual components their own apartments in a monolithic tower. Now, Cubitek...
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Users complain of Sandy Bridge MacBook Pro freezes
Shelling out extra cash for Apple gear often gets you better-built products, but it's no safeguard from ugly kinks. If you've checked Apple's support forums lately, you'll know why. Aأ‚آ 43-page discussion thread suggests 2011 MacBook Pro notebooks with Sandy Bridge processors and Radeon HD discrete graphics are freezing under...
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National French Bread Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Phone Scoop reports Sprint issues statement regarding AT&T / T-Mobile deal AT&T's Randall Stephenson and Deutsche Telekom's Rene Obermann talk about AT&T / T-Mobile deal on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning (video) WSJ reports Intel courted hp executive as a possible successor to Intel CEO...
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AT&T to buy out T-Mobile USA
This is another one of those "AMD buys ATI" moments. Except this time, the buyer is AT&T and the buy-ee is none other than Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile USA. The two telecommunication firms broke the news on Sunday afternoon, although their $39-billion deal isn't expected to complete for another...
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Vernal Equinox Shortbread
The Starting Five Ars Technica reports AT&T swallows T-Mobile to create the largest carrier in the U.S. PCWorld reports Dutch court rules Wi-Fi hacking is now legal TechFlash reports Microsoft brings down botnet behind counterfeit Viagra spam Engadget reports researchers tout self-repairing multi-core processors Neowin reports hints...
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National Quilting Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough RSA says hack won't allow "direct attack" on SecureID tokens - Ars Technica Engadget reports the dual-core Sandy Bridge laptops have arrived. Dell, hp, Lenovo, and Sony start shipping systems Donanim Haber: AMD prepping 3.7GHz Phenom II X4 980 (in Turkish) Expreview reports Nvidia GeForce GTX...
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