Tuesday, March 29, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 28/03/2011




National Black Forest Cake Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Ars Technica reports major Canadian ISP admits throttling World of Warcraft TC Magazine: Intel starts shipping first 'Oak Trail' Atom processor AMD: Fusion makes a lot of sense for next-generation game consoles AnandTech on Intel's H67 - a triumvirate of tantalizing technology Intel unveils
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Leaked slide teases PCIe 3.0 for Ivy Bridge
The good folks at SemiAccurate have come across an interesting slide revealing details about Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processor and its accompanying Panther Point chipset. Ivy Bridge, the 22-nm successor to Intel's Sandy Bridge, looks like it could have 16 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 connectivity integrated in...
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Slick, $699 ThinkPad packs Sandy Bridge
The first of those slick Sandy Bridge ThinkPads we saw at the Consumer Electronics Show is now available—and it starts at a surprisingly reasonable $699. Say hello to the ThinkPad Edge E420s, which Lenovo promises to ship within eight business days if you order now.
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Intel's 320 Series solid-state drive
Intel has another new solid-state drive, and this time it's an all in-house affair with 25-nano flash. Keep reading for the skinny on the Intel 320 Series SSD.
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Firmware update addresses Kingston SSDNow V100 failures
Owners of Kingston's SSDNow V100 solid-state drives, take note. Kingston has released a firmware update for them, and it "strongly recommends" that users apply that update. Why, you ask? Because of a "technical issue" that has been found to cause a purportedly small percentage of SSDNow V100 drives to...
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Just Cause studio boss calls DRM 'completely useless'
There's always something refreshing about PC game developers taking a stand against restrictive copy protection. Judging by an interview with ComputerAndVideoGames, Avalanche Studios chief Christofer Sundberg is one of those folks—not only that, but he also advocates for better PC games altogether. Sundberg, whose studio created the cathartically fun open-world...
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The TR Podcast 84: Wicked graphics and solid state storage
Join us for another episode of vocal tech reporting as we dive into the latest PC gaming news, the most expensive graphics cards on the market, super-fast SSDs, and why Mark Hamill is still the best Joker.
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Sunday Shortbread
Eight is Enough The Seattle Times reports Microsoft presses state to tackle software piracy PCWorld: RIAA thinks LimeWire owes $75 trillion in damages Computerworld: Mozilla regrets keeping quiet on SSL certificate theft Engadget: Samsung 11.6" 9 Series laptop official at $1,199, still comes with 64GB SSD Computerworld...
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National Nougat Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough iSuppli's 4th quarter 2010 microprocessor shares - final microprocessor revenue share data AMD: Game developers not exactly interested in hardware-accelerated physics ATi-Forum shares rumor: Specs of Radeon HD 7990? (in German) iPad 1 vs. iPad 2 strength test by iFixYouri.com and 9to5mac.com C|Net shares
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Friday night topic: What now for power?
The crisis in Japan has raised new doubts about nuclear power. At the same time, it seems our current alternative forms of energy, beyond traditional fossil fuels, very likely couldn't come close to meeting our present energy needs. (Let's assume, at least for the sake of debate, that...
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Enter here for a chance to win an XFX Pro Series 750W PSU
We announced the winner from our first XFX PSU contest yesterday, but we've still got two more XFX power supplies to give out. Today, we're letting folks enter for a chance to win the XFX Pro Series 750W, the second-highest-wattage model of the bunch.
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