Thursday, April 28, 2011

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 28/04/2011





Poll: Do you prefer single- or multiplayer gaming?
Valve is in the news this week with word that Portal 2 might be the studio's last "isolated single-player experience." There's much debate about exactly what that statement means, and even Valve seems unsure about its plans. However, the discussion brings up an interesting question: do you...

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New Brink video details class-based gameplay
The more I see of Brink, the more intrigued I am by the game. This class-based multiplayer shooter is being developed by Splash Damage, the same studio responsible for Enemy Territory games set in the Wolfenstein and Quake universes. Brink takes place in an entirely different world, and...

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Crucial starts selling m4 solid-state drives
If you were reading TR a month ago, you might have seen our review of Crucial's new m4 solid-state drive. Well, you should now be able to buy one. Crucial has announced the "immediate availability" of the drives, which it's offering in capacities of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and...

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Trackmania 2 trailer shows new eye candy
One of my guilty pleasures these past few years has been playing Nadeo's TrackMania racing games. While perhaps not all as well-known outside Europe as they should be, these titles blend gorgeous graphics with a rather unique, arcade-style racing experience rife with ramps, loop-the-loops, and impossibly fast race cars that...

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National Prime Rib Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough


ARM executive to talk at AMD's Fusion Developer Summit - X-bit labs
AppleInsider: Location tracking probe expands despite
2001 FCC law requiring all phones track users
Sony admits utter PSN failure: Your personal data has been stolen - Ars Technica;
Sony has posted an...

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Thermaltake's Level 10 GT enclosure
Is the little brother of Thermaltake's Level 10 enclosure any less eccentric, and just as important, is it a solid enthusiast case?

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Crysis 2 on the cheap, at last
As you may know from our recent poll, we've considered 60 bucks for Crysis 2 a bit of a raw deal, given everything. I'm still itching to pull on the nanosuit and invisi-punch some bad guys across Manhattan, though, so I've been watching for discounts on the game....

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Eee Pad Transformer hits U.S. e-tail, is sold out
Remember how Asus' Eee Pad Transformer was supposed to hit U.S. stores and e-tail listings today? Well, it did. Except, as Liliputing points out, the new tablet is sold out pretty much everywhere.
Liliputing checked Buy.com, Amazon, B&H, TigerDirect, Newegg, and Best Buy, as did we. All of those...

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Sony to serve up two Tegra-based tablets
Sony is the latest big-name electronics maker to confirm its plans for tablets based on Android 3.0. The company has announced a couple of tablets code-named S1 and S2. Both offer something a little unusual on the display front. The S1 has a single panel measuring...

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Valve finished with 'isolated' single-player games?
The interwebs are buzzing with news that Valve may be finished with single-player games, at least as we know them. Oh, my. The claim comes from journalist Geoff Keighley's The Final Hours of Portal 2, a $2 iOS app that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the development of...

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Report: Llano to ship in large numbers, boost AMD share
AMD has set rather bold targets for shipments of Llano accelerated processing units, if a report by DigiTimes is to be believed. The report says, according to anonymous sources at motherboard manufacturers, the chipmaker hopes to ship three million Llano processors next quarter, reportedly making Llano account for 40%...

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Apple sued over iPhone GPS tracking
Well, you had to know that was coming. As Bloomberg reports, Apple has been sued over the iPhone GPS information retention that came to light last week.
Officially, Apple claims (PDF) that iPhone GPS information is, in certain cases, gathered anonymously and transmitted to its servers in an encrypted...

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National Pretzel Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough


TechFlash: Amazon says cloud is back, seeks 'root causes' of failure
BGR: Steve Jobs says Apple doesn't track anyone, Android does
9 to 5 Mac: Apple delays iMac orders ahead of next week's
refresh with Thunderbolt I/O and Sandy Bridge processors
DigiTimes: AMD said to be...

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Nvidia's Optimus tech may be headed to the desktop
For years now, we've praised Nvidia's Optimus technology for helping endow notebooks with discrete GPUs without ruining battery life. Is Nvidia on the verge of bringing the technology to the desktop? Yes, says VR-Zone, which has a purportedly leaked PowerPoint slide to prove it.
The slide, entitled "Desktop Optimus Details,"...

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New Nintendo console due in 2012
In some ways, the Nintendo Wii doesn't really belong to the current generation of game consoles. Despite being released around the same time as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the Wii's underlying hardware is considerably less powerful. An update is coming soon, though. Nintendo has...

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