Wednesday, April 20, 2011

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 20/04/2011





Rage previews reveal new details
Gameplay trailers are all the rage these days—literally. Yesterday, we caught glimpse of 12 minutes of gameplay footage from Battlefield 3. Today, our attention turns to a five-minute snippet of gameplay from Rage.

A press embargo has clearly...

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Seagate, Samsung combine hard-drive units in $1.4B deal
Wow. Looks like the Wall Street Journal was more or less right on the money yesterday. Seagate and Samsung have announced a "broad strategic alignment," as part of which Seagate will take over Samsung's hard-drive operations in exchange for a cool $1.375 billion (paid half in cash, half in...

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National Hanging Out Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough


AppleInsider: Apple sues Samsung for allegedly copying look and feel of iPhone, iPad
Engadget: Apple spent nearly $5.7b on Samsung parts
in 2010, faces 'strong' response to its patent suit
Seagate and Samsung announce broad strategic alignment
DigiTimes: PC component shortage raises specter of
second-rate components...

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AMD intros sub-$100 Radeon HD 6670, 6570 cards
This, I believe, rounds out the Radeon HD 6000 series. Originally scheduled for a first-quarter release, AMD's new Turks graphics processor has made its official debut on two new budget cards: the Radeon HD 6670, which starts at $99, and the Radeon HD 6570, which you'll find priced at...

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Prey 2 to feature open-world bounty hunting
You know, the more I hear about Prey 2, the more I get the feeling that the word "prey" will be the only thing in common between that game and its predecessor. We already knew that Human Head was going to change the gameplay mechanics, main character, and graphical...

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XFX's Radeon HD 6950 1GB takes on Zotac's GeForce GTX 560 Ti AMP
The GeForce GTX 560 Ti and Radeon HD 6950 1GB both target PC enthusiasts seeking potent mid-range graphics. We compare a couple of hot-clocked XFX and Zotac variants to see which offers the best combination of performance, noise levels, power consumption, and overall value.

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World Amateur Radio Day Shortbread
7 Up


ITworld: Congressman blames iPad for killing jobs
X-bit labs: Intel set to detail Itanium "Kittson" later this month
and Intel relocates Itanium engineers to Xeon projects - sources
VR-Zone reports Gigabyte first with Z68 board in retail
Samsung: We'll have 2GHz dual-core smartphones next year...

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Completed Release 270 Nvidia drivers hit the web
Nvidia's graphics driver release schedule is still less disciplined and regular than AMD's. When new GeForce drivers do show up, however, they tend to pack a wallop. That's the case of the new Nvidia Release 270 drivers, which bring wide-ranging performance improvements, a handful of new features, and new...

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Tegra 2 pops up in a couple of smartbooks
Ever heard of Malata? We hadn't either, but the Chinese electronics manufacturer is prepping a couple of notebook designs with Tegra 2 hardware under the hood. Liliputing has the goods on the 10" and 13" systems, which probably fall into the smartbook category.
The Malata PC-B1002 serves up...

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Zacate, Sandy Bridge square off in low-power showdown
The arrival of AMD's Brazos platform has made low-power computing platforms much more interesting. So has Intel's Sandy Bridge lineup, which has spawned a Core i3-2100T CPU with a 35W TDP. Like the Core i3-2100, the T variant serves up dual cores, Hyper-Threading support, and 3MB of L3...

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New video shows 12 minutes of Battlefield 3 gameplay
The last few Battlefield 3 trailers are impressive and all, but they're all fairly short, only revealing snapshots of in-game action. That's changed with EA DICE's latest official video, which shows a little under 12 minutes of gameplay... and ties some of the already-released snapshots together into a single, continuous...

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