Wednesday, October 7, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 07/10/2009


InsideHW
Mouse 2.0 coming from Microsoft?
Microsoft's hardware research team unveiled five mouse prototypes aimed at taking advantage of the push toward multi-touch computing, jump-started with the introduction of Windows 7. The five mice are still in early concept stages. Each takes a different approach to multi-touch through a complete re-haul of the standard desktop mouse. All five designs were demoed in a video released online yesterday by the research team.
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Metallica to sell individual tracks online
If you remember 1999, Metallica almost single handily took down the original P2P client Napster after Ulrich found hundreds of theirs songs available through the client, for free. Things has changed, and since 2004, the rock band Metallica has been selling HQ downloads of all the band's concerts, in MP3 or FLAC, but only as a full album.
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Finally flash for smartphones
On October 5, Adobe unveiled two very interesting news. First, they introduced Adobe Flash Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices. Flash 10.1 will bring full Flash including GPU acceleration to smartphones, and the company said that public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year.
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Scythe Mugen-2 CPU Cooler
It is a huge cooler, with five individual tower heatsinks, each one connected to the base by one U-shape copper heatpipe, with a 120-mm fan blowing air on them. LINK (http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/822)
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Vantec NexStar Vault 2.5-inch SATA Enclosure
It’s much more than that tough, the Vault automatically formats your drive half public and half private, so the end user really just has to put the drive in and that’s it. It can’t get much easier than that really. LINK (http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/vantec-nexstar-vault-2-5-sata-enclosure/)
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PowerColor Radeon HD 5870
Just when you might have thought a HD 4890, or a HD 4870 X2 was fast, ATI was put something together that is going to change your whole perspective on what fast is all about. LINK (http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/hd5870launch/)
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Azza Titan 850W
Azza’s first products were motherboards, but recently they moved on to designing and manufacturing computer cases and power supply units. LINK (http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=848)
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AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz
With small modifications on its Deneb core, AMD managed to significantly reduce the size of the core die to just 168 mm², and offer the first ever quad-core processor under $100. Meet Propus , quad-core for the masses. LINK (http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Athlon_II_X4_620/)
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