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Were there clues to the demise of E3?Aug 31, 2006 - in Reviews
Was there something we missed last May, during our coverage of the E3 Expo in Los Angeles? Actually, we did take note of something strange in the air there, as we watched the industry try to come to grips with its future evolutionary direction. But maybe there were a few other clues, perhaps in some of the panel discussions where game developers and game marketers demonstrated some serious disagreements.
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Shuttle Releases Intel Corde 2 Duo P2 3700 ComputerAug 31, 2006 - in Picture Story
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Bridgestone close to releasing wireless tire pressure monitoringAug 31, 2006 - in News
According to FCC records, Bridgestone is close to releasing their wireless tire pressure monitoring system. The system uses sensors embedded just under the tire rim to send tire pressure and temperature to a handheld device. A 1.5 second alarm is sounded if the pressure is too high or too low.
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Pretec releases monster size 8 GB SDHC cardAug 31, 2006 - in News
Pretec today announced an 8 GB SDHC card, which the company claims is the highest capacity SD card announced so far. Pretec expects mass production of the device by the end of the year.
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New NV44-based GPU gives another chance to GeForce 6200 with TurbocacheAug 31, 2006 - in News
Graphics cards featuring Nvidia's new GeForce 7100 GS graphics processor unit (GPU), which was recently added to the company's entry-level product lineup, will hit the market in the middle of September, according to sources at Taiwan-based graphics card makers.
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STMicroelectronics announces new 32 Mb flash memory for automotive useAug 31, 2006 - in News
STMicroelectronics on August 30 announced a new and enhanced version of its 32 Mb flash memory chip that is intended specifically for the automotive market.
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Books for all: Google offers full book downloadsAug 30, 2006 - in News
Google has begun offering full-text downloads of many older books. Google's Book search now has a "full view" option which lets people search for full-text books. Web surfers can flip through these one page at a time or they can download the books in PDF format.
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Spike TV gambles on 'made-for-PC' motorcycle, demo car, 'geek' showsAug 30, 2006 - in News
It's an age-old question: Would PC users be willing to invest their time to download a media portal just for the purchase of watching shows produced by the portal's producers...if those shows didn't contain porn? The Spike TV unit of MTV Networks is trying to come up with online programming that "pushes the envelope" without breaking it altogether.
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"Seamless" triple-monitor announcedAug 30, 2006 - in News
Stock traders and flight simulator addicts will probably drool over Seamless Display's new triple-monitor display. The company's is marketing their Radius320 which uses special lenses to virtually erase the pesky seam lines between the monitors. Three DVI inputs are needed to power the 4800 by 1200 resolution monitor.
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The Bear robot to the rescueAug 30, 2006 - in News
According to Associated Content, Vecna Robotics has built a prototype of the BEAR Robot for the U.S. Army.
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AMD's Yokohama Centrino to surface in Q4?Aug 30, 2006 - in News
AMD may be closer to a Centrino competitor than many may have expected. According to a media report, AMD and ATI may be introducing a notebook platform, code-named "Yokohama," in the fourth quarter of this year to compete with Intel's recently launched Napa64 platform, which includes the Core 2 Duo processor.
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A wireless hacking computer that can't be hackedAug 30, 2006 - in News
If you think seeing a dozen wireless networks makes your computer the ultimate scanning box, think again. A small security firm has made a portable computer that is capable of scanning 300 networks simultaneously. Dubbed the "Janus Project", the computer also has a unique "Instant Off" switch that renders the captured data inaccessible.
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Gamer's respond to TwitchGuru's "Sex, Drugs And Counter-Strike" reportAug 30, 2006 - in News
The response to TwitchGuru's expose on drug use and video gaming has provoked an instant, though mixed, reaction from the industry in the form of the blogosphere and forum discussions among gamers.
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Fujitsu introduces 2.5" perpendicular hard driveAug 30, 2006 - in News
Fujitsu on August 30 announced its new MHW2 BH series of hard disk drives (HDDs) for mobile PCs, its first 2.5" HDD offerings to incorporate advanced perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology for enhanced storage capacity.
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Panels for small-size LCD TVs to rise in price in SeptemberAug 30, 2006 - in News
Prices for 15" and 20" LCD TV panels stand a good chance to rise in September, according to panel makers.
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Memorex starts selling double-sided mini DVD-R discsAug 30, 2006 - in News
Memorex has started selling double-sided miniature recordable DVD-R discs. The discs can store 1.4 GB per side for a total of 2.4 GB per disc. Each disc is coated with Memorex's "DuraLayer" film that protects the data against dust and scratches.
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VGA Heat-Pipe Cooler Roundup 2006Aug 30, 2006 - in Reviews
A new generation of aftermarket heat pipe equipped VGA coolers has entered the stage. Their mission? To take the heat off the fastest, hottest GPUs on the planet.
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Microsoft to issue fix for DRM breakerAug 29, 2006 - in News
Microsoft is preparing a fix for a program that strips the digital-rights-management protections attached to its Windows Media file format, representatives said Monday night.
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Microsoft releases download of Vista RC1Aug 29, 2006 - in News
Microsoft is offering Vista beta testers a pre-RC1 ISO download. Users can download the file and create a bootable DVD using a common DVD burning software.
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Micron prepares 16 GB DDR2 for late 2006 releaseAug 29, 2006 - in News
Servers memory capacity will get a boost later this year with availability of 16 GB modules. Micron is currently sampling the devices, which are built in a 36x4Gb "twin-die" stack configuration.
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IBM, Chartered, Infineon and Samsung sample 45 nm siliconAug 29, 2006 - in News
BM, Chartered, Infineon and Samsung have developed their first 45 nm "silicon-functional circuits" and announced that the technology would be available in "design kits" for "select customers."
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AOL's new Music Now service gears up for the Zune eraAug 29, 2006 - in News
Today, AOL is launching its Music Now service, which incorporates the streaming infrastructure it acquired last November from Circuit City, plus the core of music licenses it acquired from Spinner.com back in 1999. It's being billed as something new, but you don't have to peel back too many layers to see that Music Now already has a deep and tumultuous history.
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OCZ counters Corsair with 1120 MHz memoryAug 29, 2006 - in News
Performance memory makers are upping the speed of their flasghip memory devices, a few megahertz at a time. Following Corsair, which yesterday announced a $650, 1111 MHz PC-8889 2 GB memory kit, OCZ today announced a 1120 Mhz PC-9000 device.
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Toshiba to launch new USB flash-memory seriesAug 29, 2006 - in News
Toshiba today announced the forthcoming introduction of TransMemory USB flash memories, which will bring U3 platform technology into the company's USB lineup and introduce a special-edition high-capacity USB memory.
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DDR memory gets more expensiveAug 29, 2006 - in News
Users who plan to upgrade their PC with more system memory could see some steep price increases over the next few weeks.
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Nvidia to counter ATI in mid-range segment with Geforce 7900 GSAug 29, 2006 - in News
Sub-$200 Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS-based graphics cards are expected to appear in the channel market from August 30, targeted to compete with the ATI Radeon X1650XT series, according to sources at Taiwan-based graphics card makers.
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Samsung to build 1 Gbit DDR2 SDRAM at 80nmAug 29, 2006 - in News
With its DDR2 in all densities already being fabricated at the 80-nanometer node, Samsung Electronics today announced the mass production of 1 Gbit DDR2 DRAM.
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Vizio and Maxent benefit from rising sales of 50" PDP TVs in North AmericaAug 29, 2006 - in News
Taiwanese brands Vizio and Maxent, co-promoting their products with nationwide retail store chains in the US, continue generating growth in sales on the wave of rising demand for 50" PDP (plasma display panel) TVs in the North America market, according to market sources.
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Intel refreshes Xeon MP series with new Tulsa processorsAug 28, 2006 - in News
Intel launched eight new dual-core Xeon MP processors late Thursday. The new CPUs go head-to-head with AMD's Opteron 8000 series processors and are based on the "Tulsa" core which uses the power-hungry Netburst architecture that is being phased in all other product lines such as desktop and DP server processor families.
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Corsair introduces 1111 MHz "Dominator" memoryAug 28, 2006 - in News
Forget 1 GHz memory, 1111 MHz is what you need. In what appears to be an accelerating race between performance memory manufacturers, Corsair has taken the lead.
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