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Samsung recalls SD cardsMar 7, 2007 - in News
Market sources recently said Samsung Electronics has recalled a batch of SecureDigital (SD) cards from downstream packaging and testing houses due to a defective controller IC.
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The Sytrin SHF1 Hard Drive CoolerMar 7, 2007 - in Reviews
Cooling the unsung hero of your PC, with bling!
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Storage study shows billions and billions of gigabytes servedMar 6, 2007 - in News
A study on storage trends by IDC shows that we are using billions of gigabytes of storage at an increasing rate. The study predicts that there will be a 57% annual growth rate in storage and that the amount of information created will reach 988 exabytes in 2010. For those of you have to look up what an Exabyte is (like I did), it is a one followed by 18 zeros.
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GDC 2007: Microsoft Games PreviewMar 6, 2007 - in Picture Story
Mass Effect is BioWare newest title, an exclusive game for the Xbox 360.
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Microsoft looks beyond searchMar 6, 2007 - in News
Microsoft's Research division today opened the doors to the firm's annual TechFest, highlighting research projects that allow a first look at Microsoft products that we may be seeing in the not too distant future. Microsoft is showcasing more than 100 different projects, but most share one key theme: Search, organize and present data.
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Nvidia and AMD DirectX 10-capable GPUs to arrive in Q2Mar 6, 2007 - in News
With Nvidia's Vista driver finally available, the graphics chip maker is expected to roll out its mainsteam and low-end DirectX 10-capable chips, the G80 and G84, in the second quarter of 2007.
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Commodore To Return As Boutique PC MakerMar 6, 2007 - in News
Hey Jude, take an old brand and make it better...
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The Best Gaming Graphics Cards for the Money: March 2007Mar 6, 2007 - in Reviews
Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great - that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.
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Fujitsu intros first 2.5" 7200 rpm hard drive with SATA 2.5 interfaceMar 5, 2007 - in News
Fujitsu today announced the first 7200 rpm notebook hard drives that come with a 3.0 Gb/s Serial ATA 2.5 interface, as opposed to the widely available 1.5 Gb/s port.
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Eidos' Traxxpad turns the PSP into a keyboard, drumsMar 5, 2007 - in News
Eidos Interactive wants PSP owners to harness their musical powers with its new Traxxpad software. Traxxpad turns Sony's popular handheld game device into a music keyboard, drum machine and sequencer. Users can create, mix and sample tracks on the go and even helps out amateur musicians by tweaking tones to the nearest note.
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Nvidia introduces two very expensive workstation graphics cardsMar 5, 2007 - in News
Are you a CAD or raytracing professional with several thousand dollars to burn? If so then Nvidia has two brand new Quadro cards for you. The new Quadro FX 4600 and 5600 are not only faster than their predecessors, but also have more on-board memory. The 4600 sports 768 MB of GDDR3 memory running at 384-bit bandwidth and 57.6 GB/sec. The 5600 is even more powerful and has 1.5 GB of memory running at 76.8 GB/sec.
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SATA revision 2.6 addresses SFF PC and UMPC needsMar 5, 2007 - in News
The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has posted a revision of the SATA specification, which includes enhancements for native command queuing and small form factor environments.
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God of War 2 PreviewMar 5, 2007 - in Picture Story
"Kratos! If someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"
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41% of U.S. households have a game console - Nielsen surveyMar 5, 2007 - in News
According to a recent survey done by Nielsen, 41% of all U.S. households have a video game console which is up from 39.1% in 2005. An even more staggering figure is that 1.6 million people are playing a console at any given minute, according to Nielsen.
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Analysis: AMD mainstream CPU prices hit record lows in U.S. retailMar 5, 2007 - in Reviews
Following a later than expected launch of the Athlon 64 X2 5600+ and 6000+ processors, prices of AMD's mainstream CPUs have dropped to levels lower than we've seen over the past 21 weeks. AMD is in a critical phase where it needs to stabilize its processor prices and maintain competitiveness with Intel at the same time.
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Understanding Hard Drive PerformanceMar 5, 2007 - in Reviews
We've added 15 more hard drives to our hard drive lists, and analyzed a full model family to try to understand why some models perform better than others. Which capacity point is the fastest? Does 16 MB cache offer advantages over 8 MB? We answer these questions and many more.
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Top 10 Geek Movies for 2007Mar 4, 2007 - in Picture Story
"Death Proof" is Quentin Tarantino's half of "Grindhouse," the low budget double feature homage B-movies of the 1970s.
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Samsung announces mass production of 60 nm DRAMMar 2, 2007 - in News
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass producing DRAM modules with 60 nanometer technology. The 1 Gigabit DDR2 modules can reach either 667 or 800 Mbps speeds and will be used in 512 MB, 1 GB and 2 GB memory modules.
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Hackers use brute force to crack Windows Vista's activationMar 2, 2007 - in News
Hackers have proclaimed victory over Microsoft's vaunted Windows Vista activation protection. The folks at Keznews forums say they have made a simple number guesser that takes a serial code and then tries to activate it through Microsoft's servers. It can take a while, but they say it eventually works.\
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Darth Vader's younger brother hits the big timeMar 2, 2007 - in News
The creators of the popular Chad Vader online video series which lampoons Darth Vader's younger brother are hitting the big time. Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan made the films on a shoe string budget and now have a potential commercial deal to make several more episodes for a major website.
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Researchers create nanoscale "lightning" switchesMar 2, 2007 - in News
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a prototype nanoscale electronic switch that is described to like a "lightning" and could replace nanoscale memory circuits sometime in the future.
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Courts says being sent child porn emails give enough grounds for searchMar 2, 2007 - in News
A federal appeals court has ruled that the police can search a computer after someone has been sent child pornography emails. While this may seem like common sense, the judge also ruled that the police don't need to prove that the person had solicited or even read the messages.
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BBC to put shows on YouTubeMar 2, 2007 - in News
England's largest TV network, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has signed a deal with YouTube. Continuing with the increasing trend seen with American networks, the BBC will begin uploading episodes of its TV shows.
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Intel upgrades entry-level Core 2 Duo chipsetMar 2, 2007 - in News
Intel will be offering a slightly upgraded version of its 945GC integrated graphics chipset for Core 2 Duo, Pentium D and Pentium 4 HT processors beginning in early April of this year.
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Graphics partners try to keep the faith as AMD pulls the rug on CeBITMar 2, 2007 - in News
Reports from Taiwan's graphics card manufacturing industry are revealing that AMD's recently announced delay of its upcoming flagship graphics processing unit (GPU), the R600, was not just a shock and disappointment to fans of the former-ATI, who have been waiting for graphics cards based on the new chip, but also to AMD's partners, who were set to introduce products based on the chip at CeBIT in March.
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Weird and Wonderful PCs: Your Stories Part 2Mar 2, 2007 - in Reviews
From Cheez-It boxes to heavy metal cases, here are more great stories about cool, strange and fantastic PCs and PC mods.
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Statewide ban of YouTube hits 1600 Australian schoolsMar 1, 2007 - in News
Australia's second most populous state has enacted a sweeping ban on YouTube at schools, after a street gang uploaded a video of themselves assaulting another student.
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YouTube removes Oscar vidsMar 1, 2007 - in News
YouTube has removed dozens of clips from last Sunday's Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made the request after bootleg videos of the opening speeches and a comedy song featuring Will Ferrell and Beyonce began appearing on the popular video sharing site.
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Nano-piezotronics to enable new "body electronics"Mar 1, 2007 - in News
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) say they have developed a "new class of electronic components" that could lead the way to bendable and battery-less electronic devices inside the human body - which could monitor blood flow, organ activity and other vital signs.
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PowerColor introduces X1950 PRO Silence EditionMar 1, 2007 - in News
PowerColor has announced the PowerColor X1950 SCS3, claiming it as the best performing noiseless graphics card in the world.
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