Friday, September 11, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 11/09/2009



Zune HD to stay U.S.-only for now
Microsoft's Zune HD might show a lot of promise, but it'll be tough to get for folks outside the States. Ars Technica has received confirmation that the touch-screen player won't be available in Canada, Europe, or other international markets. "For the time being the Zune HD device will remain...
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The TR Podcast 49.5: Tales from Beijing
Join Jordan in this special episode of the podcast as he travels to Beijing, China to cover MSI's Master Overclocking Arena 2009 world final.
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Kanguru flash drive has dual USB, eSATA connectivity
We've seen awkward attempts at external Serial ATA thumb drives before, but they usually needed power from an auxiliary USB connection. Kanguru's new e-Flash drive (PDF) is a different specimen: it has an eSATA plug on one side...
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Eyefinity pushes over 24 million pixels with one next-gen Radeon
Say you're AMD, and you make graphics chips that nearly double in performance with every generation. Yet games haven't been getting all that much more demanding over time. What would you do with all of that excess power, especially if you wanted to stir up interest in your...
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AMD intros new notebook platform with 45nm CPUs
The tiger is out of its cage. AMD has pulled the curtain off a new mainstream notebook platform, which it code-named Tigris and now stamps with the Vision Technology badge. This platform brings with it eight processors based on 45-nm process technologyآ—AMD's first in the mobile spaceآ—alongside a...
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Samsung, Toshiba have 640GB mobile drives, too
We wrote about Western Digital's first 640GB mobile hard drive yesterday, but WD competitors are also prepping similar drives for the coming weeks or months. Samsung, for one, recently announced its 640GB Spinpoint M7 hard drive, which also uses a two-platter design to achieve that capacity. The rest of...
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