Thursday, March 31, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 30/03/2011




Chrome OS onslaught to start in second half of 2011
A veritable army of Chrome OS laptops is on its way, according to DigiTimes, but it might not get here until July or later. The site has gotten word from tipsters at notebook makers that Acer, Asus, Sony, and Samsung will all kick off mass shipments of Chrome OS...
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Gigabyte tool helps 32-bit OSes with 3TB drives
It could happen to the best of us. We might just snag the latest 3TB hard drive from Hitachi, Seagate, or Western Digital, only to find out that the 32-bit edition of Windows we installed all those months or years ago doesn't jive with capacities over 2.19TB. Reading...
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Beaten down by Bit.Trip Runner
I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at playing video games. However, every so often I'm handed a beatdown that makes me question the decades I've spent clutching a keyboard, mouse, and controller. Sometimes, the drubbing comes at the hands of pimply teenagers with youthful reflexes and...
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Catalyst 11.3 drivers, new Catalyst 11.4 preview arrive
You didn't think AMD would forsake its tradition of monthly driver releases, did you? As March draws to a close, AMD has treated us to not just the expected Catalyst 11.3 release, but also a new Catalyst 11.4 preview driver rife with performance optimizations and other tweaks. The stable, production-ready Catalyst...
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A note on rumors about GTX 590 issues
Yesterday afternoon was interesting because I spent much of it revisiting the GeForce GTX 590, looking for problems. As you may have heard, some reviewers using early drivers had rather serious, quasi-explosive failures with overclocked GTX 590 cards. Like these guys at Sweclockers:
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Amazon's Cloud Drive offers personal online storage
Amazon is bolstering its online storage offerings with Cloud Drive. The service offers 5GB of storage capacity free of charge, and there are numerous options if you want more. 20GB will set you back $20 a year, 50GB costs $50, and so on. Interestingly, the Cloud...
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Knights of Columbus Founder's Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough NordicHardware's exclusive: Radeon HD 6790 based on Barts LE with 800 SPs Sapphire's HD 6790 pixellized at Fudzilla TechFlash reports Amazon launches music locker in the cloud Forbes: AMD stiff arms Nvidia for top spot in notebook GPUs Gizmodo claims iPhone 5 most probable intro...
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Choplifter getting HD redux
If you were playing video games in the 80s, you probably remember Choplifter. The helicopter-based rescue game first appeared on the Apple II before migrating to various Atari consoles, the Commodore 64, and the original Nintendo, among other systems. Retro revivals seem to be all the rage these...
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