IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 09/10/2009

Poll Results آ– How important is DirectX 11 (DX11) to you?

Radeon HD 5770 benchmarks online
Looking over the results, it appears the card only shows promise in 3DMark06, edging past the GTX 260, but in all the other tests it struggles to keep up by a good amount, making it more of a comparableآ…

New update for iPhone fixes some annoying bugs
The version 3.1.2 update for Apple's iPhone OS is now available which promises to have fixed some very annoying issues relating to the sleep feature (not waking up properly) and lost internet/networkآ…

NVIDIA's ION 2 apparently launching this year
Word has come in from NVIDIA's head of chipset development that it's likely we'll see the company's Ion 2 chipset make it for launch this year, rather than early next. But it's not known as to when exactlyآ…

Download of the Day: Google Chrome 4.0.221.6 Beta
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Google Chrome combines a minimal design with sophisticated technologyآ…

Deal of the Day: Lenovo IdeaCentre Q700 HTPC with it all
Our Deal of the Day today is the Lenovo US (ThinkPad) - IdeaCentre Q700 Home Theater PC with TV Tuner and Remote, Dual Core, 4GB of Memory, 640GB Hard Drive and DVD+/-RW for Only $499.99 with FREE Shippingآ…

Light Peak hardware and cables could be ready in 2010
Remember that very cool Optical interface that Intel showed off at IDC called Light Peak? Well after some digging we found out that this is sort of a spin off idea of a much older concept and one thatآ…

NVIDIA decides to (temporarily) shut down chipset development
It's been reported today that NVIDIA's chipset development has grinded to a halt due to continuing legal woes with Intel. All chipset development has been postponed until the legal issues have been resolvedآ…

MSI first to announce THX TruStudio PC audio on a motherboard
MSI has today announced its latest gaming motherboard which it calls the Big Bang, the first motherboard to include THX's TruStudio PC audio technology together with Creative's EAX ADVANCED HD 5.0. Weآ…

Gateway unveils two new multi-touch all-in-one PCs
Two new all-in-one PCs have surfaced from Gateway today, both of which run Windows 7 and use multi-touch capable touchscreen displays. Both the Gateway One ZX6800 and ZX4800 respectively use a 23-inchآ…

Early peek at MSI's OC'ed GeForce GT 220 ahead of launch
MSI's cards lacks SLI support and has clocks which have yet to be revealed. Keep in mind though that the stock GT 220 has GPU/shader/memory clocks of (about) 615/1335/1580 MHz, so this OC version willآ…

Foxconn to manufacture Apple's tablet PC
The folks at Digitimes have some info to share about Apple's upcoming tablet PC. It's been discovered that this unit is actually being manufactured by Foxconn and is expected to commence shipping at theآ…

CinemaTube now works with Windows 7
There is good news for users of Brite-Viewآ’s CinemaTube. They have found a way to make this product work with Windows 7. As of right now this is a work around but still for most it seems to do the trickآ…

The Kindle 2 e-book reader drops in price again
Amazon's Kindle 2 e-book reader has just taken another price drop, now down to $259. Further to that, there's now a version available internationally for $279 which is said to commence shipping as ofآ…

Sony shows off 56-inch monitor capable of nearly 4k res at CEATEC
Users can also split up the display into four segments, each with full 1080p resolution, or else into two 2048x1080 halves for the sake of workflow. DVI, HDMI and VGA supply video inputs, but Sony isآ…

OCZ adds more affordable m84 PCI-e SSD to Z-Drive family
آ“The OCZ m84 Z-Drive is the newest addition to our line of PCI-E solid state drives and is designed to offer consumers a high performance yet aggressively priced solid state solution,آ” said Eugene Changآ…

Windows Mobile 6.5 - push aside and wait for v7?
It's a superficial update, and not a very thorough one. It's an interim product, and a vain attempt to hold onto the thinning ranks people who still choose Windows Mobile despite not being somehow tetheredآ…

Download of the Day: TagScanner 5.1.552
TagScanner is a multifunction program for organizing and managing your music collection. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generateآ…

Deal of the Day: BELKIN F5D8233-4 Draft N Wireless Router

Dual Screen Netbook Concept shown off
The odd looking contraption is from Kohjinsha and it is a netbook featuring two 10.1 inch displays. But it is not just the dual displays that make this netآ”Thingآ” interesting to look at and read aboutآ…

Intel kicks off the Core i7 Custom Desktop Challenge
Intel have put into swing their Core i7 Custom Desktop Challenge as of October 5 which allows participants to sign up online and be in with a chance to pick up some nice prizes such as Intel processorsآ…

MSI GeForce N275GTX Lightning Video Card

brite-View CinemaTube 1080p HD Media Player Video Review

Elpida Completes Development of the Industry's Smallest 40nm 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM
Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had finished development of the smallest high-speed low-power 40nm 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAMآ…

Scythe Announces Samurai ZZ CPU Cooler
Scythe extends its product portfolio by adding a new CPU Cooler for the entry level market. Samurai ZZ (Model No. SCSMZ-2000) is a top-flow CPU Cooler weighing 16.6 oz, respectively 495 g (incl. Fan),آ…

TRENDnet Wi-Fi CERTIFIEDTM Products Upgraded to Ratified 802.11n Certification
TORRANCE, Calif. -October 6, 2009-TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces that all TRENDnet wireless n products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as Wi-Fiآ…

Friday, October 9, 2009

IT News HeadLines (TweakTown) 09/10/2009

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