Saturday, April 27, 2013

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 28/04/2013






[H]ard|OCP Week in Reviews
Today is Friday and you know what that means! It is time once again for the [H]ard|OCP Week in Reviews! For anyone that might have missed them, we like to take a quick look back on the hardware evaluations and articles we posted earlier in the week. We kicked the week off with our NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 3-Way SLI review, followed by our evaluation of the Enermax Triathlor 650W PSU. Finally, we wrapped things up with our AMD Radeon HD 7990 video card review.

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[H]ardware Round-Up II
Cases: BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX @ TechReport
Corsair Obsidian Series 350D Case @ PC Perspective
Corsair Obsidian Series 350D Case @ eTeknix
Corsair Obsidian Series 350D Case @ Guru3D

Storage: Patriot Supersonic Magnum 256GB @ Hexus

Video: ASUS GTX650-E-2GD5 @ Hardware.Info

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America's Most Damaged Brands
It looks as though Apple, Groupon and Best Buy are three of America's most damaged brands right now.

How mighty brands fall. Bad leadership, bad planning, a run of bad products: any of these can damage a brand in a short amount of time, and it can take years to recover: if, indeed, the brand recovers at all. What brands are the most battered in the United States right now?

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Facebook Friends Are Worth $174.17 To Brands
A new study says a "like" on Facebook is worth $174.17 to brands. Is it just me or does it sound like this study was paid for by Facebook?!?

A study from Syncapse is generating some attention in the marketing world. Surveying over 2,000 Facebook users, it has determined that a Facebook Page like is worth $174.17.

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Google Glass Already Hacked
Well that didn't take long, now did it?

Although only just reaching the hands of select developers, Google Glass has already been hacked, paving the way for developers to install applications and modifications outside of Google's control.

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Intel Starts The Countdown To Haswell
Intel has kicked off the countdown to its next-generation Haswell processors. The press release says the new processors will arrive in 3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds.



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Technology Gone Wrong: The Budweiser Buddy Cup
Someone please tell me this is fake. As if things weren't bad enough now with everyone checking in, Instagraming, Facebooking and Tweeting while you are partying, now there is this.



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Polish Prime Minister Gives U.S. President The Witcher 2
This is hands down the best gift ever given to our president by another world leader.

DVD, title: "Best of the Witcher 2: Video Trailers for President Barack Obama," distributor: Atari. Zubrowka Bison Grass Vodka. Book, title: "Blood of Elves," by Andrzej Sapkowski. Book, title: "The Last Wish," by Andrzej Sapkowski. Set of four 2″ x 1.5″ clear glass liqueur glasses, each has "Zubrowka" engraved in white. 13.5″ x 9.75″ x 4.5″ "Witcher 2" gift box, inside are three golden "Witcher 2" coins, a "Witcher 2" book, "Witcher 2" stickers, "Witcher 2" make your own aircraft. 5.5″ x 6.5″ x 3″ ivory-colored bust of "Witcher 2" character "Gwynbleioo," a DVD box set of "Witcher 2" bonus DVD, Game DVD, and Game Guide. "Witcher 2" playing cards, and 5 wooden die in black sack with "Witcher 2" emblem. 11.75″ x 7″ x 5″ brown leather carrying case with handles and lock. Rec'd—5/28/2011. Est. Value—$497.08.

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Cliff Bleszinski Keynote Presentation @ ECGC 2013
This video of Cliff Bleszinski's keynote presentation at the East Coast Game Conference this year is pretty interesting.



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Gaming [H]eadlines
Dead Island Riptide Review @ Joystiq
Mars: War Logs Out On Steam @ Kotaku
Painkiller Hell & Damnation Full Metal Rocket @ Blue's News
Wii U Spring System Update Live @ Shacknews

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ACLU Says CISPA Is Dead
We can all breathe a sigh of relief...at least for now.

CISPA is all but dead, again. The controversial cybersecurity bill known as the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act, which passed the House of Representatives last week, will almost certainly be shelved by the Senate, according to a representative of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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Google Bans Non-Play Store App Updates
Google has updated its terms and conditions agreement to make sure all updates are done through Google Play's update mechanism. Apparently the search giant was not happy about Facebook pushing updates on Android users.

After Facebook was found to be updating its Android app without using the Google Play store's update mechanisms, Google has clarified its terms and conditions to ensure no other developers attempt to circumvent its store. While Google has always outlawed "applications that cause users to unknowingly download or install applications from sources outside of Google Play," it's added a new sentence to its "Dangerous Products" section.

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MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming Motherboard
MSI's Z77A-GD65 gaming motherboard is on the test bench at eTeknix today for a little review action.

For this board to wow me, it needs to show the world why it's a gaming board and at the same time that it's very much worth being called a gaming board. It is all good and well whacking the gaming moniker on a product, but if it doesn't perform in that market, then it's going to be one huge failure towards the manufacturer. So the big question arises asking if this board can do just that? Has it pulled it off, showing that it is worth every extra penny over a normal GD65?

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Taking Google Glass Into The Men's Restroom?
Ewww, aside from being a perv, what the hell was this guy doing going into all those public restrooms wearing Google Glass?

Scoble explained to a befuddled Keen that he had been wearing Glass non-stop all week; that he had walked into 20 men's restrooms wearing the device on his head; and that not once had anyone raised a stink, stared at him askew, or punched him in his nose.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 3-Way SLI Review
We follow-up with a full evaluation of GeForce GTX TITAN 3-way SLI in today's latest games. We will compare GTX TITAN 3-way SLI to GTX 680 3-way SLI and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3-way CrossFire in a triple-display setup at 5760x1200. Find out what it takes to run Crysis 3 maxed out across three displays.

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