Monday, September 9, 2013

IT News Head Lines (X-bit labs) 9/10/2013

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Toshiba THNSNH Solid State Drive Review: Dark Horse
Have you ever seen consumer SSDs from Toshiba? Yes, this maker sometimes releases press announcements about new SSD models, but we have never seen them in retail. However, now things have changed. Please meet flagship Toshiba THNSNH256GCST with 256 GB storage capacity.

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ASRock Z87 Extreme4 LGA 1150 Mainboard Review
This board is built on the new Intel Z87 chipset. It is a mainstream model: not two simple to suffer from lack of public interest to it, yet not too complex to scare potential users away by excessive onboard technologies and high price.

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U.S. District Judge to Appoint Monitor to Review Apple's Antitrust Compliance Policies
Apple Under Fire for E-Book Pricing Policies, Conspiracy

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First Images of Nokia Lumia 1520 "Bandit" Phablet Get Published
Nokia's Lumia 1520 Phablet Confirmed by Multiple Leaks

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Apple Evaluating 4.8" - 6" Displays for Next-Gen iPhones - Report
Apple Continues to Assess Large Displays for Future Smartphones

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Western Digital Reveals Thin External Hard Drive with 2TB Capacity and Encryption
WD Debuts My Passport Slim 2TB Thin Drive with Metal Case and Hardware Encryption

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Asrock Unleashes a Legion of FM2+ Mainboards for Next-Gen AMD APUs
Asrock Rolls-Out FM2+ Family of Motherboards with Advanced Capabilities

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Chinese Manufacturer Xiaomi Unveils World's First Nvidia Tegra 4-Based Super Phone
Industry's First Nvidia Tegra 4-Powered Smartphone Is Out

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Microsoft Could Enable Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Using Cloud Tech - Company
Microsoft Mulls Different Cloud-Based Services for Xbox One Console

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Demand for Displays with High-Resolutions and High Pixel Densities on the Rise - Analysts
NPD DisplaySearch Reveals High-Res/High-PPI Display Trends

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Lenovo: With Low-Power x86 Microprocessors, There Is No Need for Windows RT
Lenovo's Spokesman Sees Further Depreciation of Windows RT Value

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Amazon to Offer Discounted E-Books to Owners of Printed Book
Amazon Kindle MatchBook to Wed E-Books with Printed Books

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Microsoft Does Not Expect to Lose Considerable Amounts of Money on Xbox One Hardware
Microsoft: Xbox One Will Be Sold at Break Even, Money Will Be Earned by Selling Games

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Globalfoundries Authorized to Expand Its Fab 8 in New York State
Globalfoundries' Fab 8 Module 2 Gets Okay from Authorities

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Google Android Passes One Billion Activations
Over a Billion of Android-Powered Devices Sold

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Roundup: Radeon HD 7790 Based Graphics Cards
Let's find out which one is the best of the five: the Radeon HD from Asus, Gigabyte, HIS, MSI or Sapphire. We will also run some tests in CrossFireX mode.

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2-Way SLI Performance: Palit GeForce GTX 770 JetStream and Zotac GTX 770 AMP! Edition Graphics Cards Review
Two graphics cards on enhanced PCBs, with increased clock speeds and unique cooling systems will not only compete against one another in our today's test session, but will also stand in a 2-way SLI configuration against a dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690.

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Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H Mainboard Review: Close to Perfection
This is an entry-level mainboard, but not the most junior model in the family. It uses the features and functionality of the Intel Z87 chipset almost to the fullest, but has no numerous additional onboard controllers, thus staying reasonably priced. The new Gigabyte UEFI BIOS makes a terrific impression making this board stable and reliable in nominal mode and easy to work with during CPU overclocking.

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Asus Z87-K Mainboard Review or Practical Overview of LGA1150 Platform
This mainboard is fairly simple, but this is why it actually turned out relatively inexpensive. At the same time it features everything necessary for proper usage, which is its primary selling feature. As for the processors and chipsets comprising the new LGA1150 platform, the situation here is much more complicated.

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MSI Z77A-GD65 GAMING Mainboard Review: LGA 1155 Mainboard from New MSI Gaming Series
The major but not the only distinguishing features of new Micro-Star gaming mainboards compared with the regular models is the replacement of the generic network controllers with Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2200, which allows assigning priorities with focus on gaming traffic, thus reducing the delays during online gaming.

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Asus P8Z77-M and Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H Review: Two LGA 1155 MicroATX Mainboards Comparison
The technical specifications of both these mainboard models based on Intel Z77 Express are almost identical, the prices are also very similar, so they seem like great candidates for side by side comparison. However, they turned out quite different from one another even when running in their nominal mode, not to mention the overclocked mode.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2 GB Graphics Card Review
Nvidia continues to roll out 7xx series graphics accelerators into the market. Today we are going to introduce to you a very worthy replacement to the good old single-GPU flagship solution - GTX 680. It is the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 graphics card.

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Battle of the Kings: AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX TITAN Performance Review
Today we are going to compare three fastest graphics accelerators of our times against one another in this ultimate performance test.

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BOOSTx7: GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST Graphics Cards Reviewed
Today we are going to discuss seven different graphics cards from EVGA, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, ZOTAC and Nvidia. Which one of these entry-level products is the one?

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Altera and Micron Demonstrate Working Hybrid Memory Cube with FPGAs
Altera and Micron Show Off HMC Device with 160GB/s Memory Bandwidth

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Images of Nvidia's Own-Brand Tegra Note Media Tablet Hit the Web
Nvidia's Own Tegra Note Tablet Pictured, Specifications Unveiled

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