Saturday, April 2, 2011

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 01/04/2011




Enter here for a shot at winning an XFX Pro Series 650W PSU
We've reached the third and final stretch of our XFX power supply giveaway marathon. This time, the prize is one of XFX's Pro Series 650W power supplies, which is worth a good $90 before shipping at Newegg. To enter the contest, simply read the rules and regs below, answer...
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April Fool's Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Real World Tech on AMD Bulldozer benchmarks - what do they mean? Gamestop announces acquisition of Spawn Labs and agreement to acquire Impulse, Inc. Wait until June for a fix? Throttled WoW player wants ISP fined - Ars Technica Ars Technica on the dawn of...
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Ontario APU sneaks into Acer tablet
The folks at The Inquirer have spent some time with a rather interesting Iconia Tab W500 tablet from Acer. Rather than using ARM or Atom hardware, the system employs the very same Ontario-based C-50 APU found in Acer's impressive Aspire One 522 netbook. To this Fusion...
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Google adds motion-sensing technology to Gmail
Reading and replying to e-mails with your keyboard and mouse is so last century. Google has announced the addition of a new, Kinect-like motion-sensing technology to its e-mail client: Gmail Motion. Unlike the Xbox 360 controller, no new and expensive equipment is required—just your PC's webcam:
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MSI hops on Fusion bandwagon with slim X370
New laptops based on AMD's first wave of Fusion processors are still popping up. The latest one is the work of the folks at MSI, who put the AMD E-350 accelerated processing unit into a thin and light 13.4" notebook: the MSI X-Slim Series X370. How thin and light are...
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Intel licenses Lucid's Virtu software for Sandy Bridge mobos
Intel motherboards tend to be shunned by enthusiasts, but select models based on H67 and upcoming Z68 chipsets will look a little more appealing thanks Lucid Technologies' Virtu software. Showcased at CES earlier this year, Virtu allows users to enjoy to enjoy the Quick Sync video transcoding mojo built...
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Report: Nvidia has a new GeForce GTX 560 on the way
Well, well, new graphics cards are sprouting like mushrooms lately. According to the folks at Expreview, Nvidia is prepping a new graphics card based on its GF114 graphics processor: the GeForce GTX 560. Now, wait a minute. Didn't that card already come out in January? Actually, no. That was...
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Release roundup: RAM, cases, and power supplies
We've got a trio of announcements to cover this week: one from Corsair, one from Cooler Master, and a third from the folks at Sharkoon over in Germany. Corsair announces availability of 2000MHz Vengeance DDR3 kits. If you enjoy having obscene amounts of memory bandwidth at...
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