Wednesday, November 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 11/16/2010



Nvidia quietly releases GeForce GTX 460 SE into the wild
Nvidia has added a new graphics card to its mid-range lineup: the GeForce GTX 460 SE. This card is positioned as an alternative—and perhaps an eventual replacement—to the current GeForce 460 768MB. It will cost the same and, according to Nvidia, deliver similar performance. The new GTX 460 SE offers 288...
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National Fast Food Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough C|Net: Intel Sandy Bridge chip coming January 5 X-bit labs: Researchers discover secret password- protected debug mode in AMD microprocessors DigiTimes: SSD prices dropping, while HDD prices rise and ...
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Intel collaborates with Hitachi on Ultrastar SSD400S solid-state disk
Intel and Hitachi have collaborated on a new line of enterprise-class solid-state disks. Today marks the introduction of the Ultrastar SSD400S family, which will be available in 6Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel flavors. The latter will live inside a 3.5" form factor, while the former can...
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AMD's Brazos platform: The benchmarks
The moratorium on Zacate benchmarks has finally lifted. Come see how AMD's first accelerated processing unit fares throughout our mobile test suite.
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Is HP's Slate 500 a hot seller or a rare beast?
There's a bit of a "he said, she said" story shaping up around the recently released HP Slate 500. Visiting the Slate 500's product page, one is greeted with the following message:  Due to extraordinary demand, the HP Slate is on backorder. Orders are expected to ship in 6...
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Imminent Gran Turismo launch makes PC driving games that much more depressing
After one pay-to-play demo, numerous delays, and years of waiting, Gran Turismo 5 finally has a release date for the PlayStation 3. You'll be able to sit behind the wheel of over a thousand meticulously modeled cars on November 24, according to Joystiq. All indications suggest...
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AMD joins the MeeGo project
At the MeeGo conference 2010 in Dublin, Ireland earlier today, AMD announced its plan to join the MeeGo project. MeeGo, as you might know, is the result of Intel and Nokia combining their mobile operating system projects into a single effort. AMD Software Development Corporate VP Ben Bar-Haim...
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