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The mass-transit systems of the world, with dozens or even hundreds of different destinations, can be confusing to tourists and locals alike. Last month, William Bright, a design director for Nerve.com, started providing free, downloadable maps that could be displayed on the LCD screens of the iPod players. The website, appropriately named www.ipodsubwaymaps.com, was an instant hit, but it also attracted the attention of lawyers from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), who sent cease and desist letters to Bright. Read more
Via's S3 graphics unit is not quite the first destination when gamers are looking for a performance graphics card. But with dual-graphics solutions quickly moving into the mainstream segment, it was not a question if but rather when Via would enter this increasingly lucrative opportunity to grow its graphics chip sales. The firm now announced it has begun sampling the K8T900 chipset, which supports the firm's dual-graphics card technology Multichrome. Read more
Being stuck in traffic is a hated situation commonly experienced by city dwellers, but Streetdeck is selling car computer software that makes those painful waits more enjoyable. The StreetDeck software helps drivers find destinations with voice-prompted GPS navigation along with playing back music, videos and pictures, which is in line with the company's motto of "Pray You Get Stuck in Traffic". Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more
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