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Latest News - September 2006
- Dell and Toshiba Expanding Battery Recalls
- AMD shows off quad core 65nm wafers
- Asus P5W DH Review
- What Your HotHardware Will be Used For - Downloading Video
- HIS 1x PCI-E Graphics Card
- Ten Great Firefox Extensions
- Second Generation UMPC
- Lenovo Battery Recall is Official
- Legislation Proposes ESRB Plays Everygame It Rates
- Get ready for a Lenovo recall?
- AMD Opens New North American Chip Design Center in Fort Collins, Co.
- HP Buys Voodoo PC?!?!
- Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad-Core Kentsfield Performance Preview
- PC/Webcam Motion Detecting Security System
- Digital Home PC made silent - Asetek LCLC
- Who's Getting Video From The Web?
- AGEIA Joins 3DMark Development Group
- IBM, Intel Propose Innovative Extension To Popular PCI Express Computing Standard
- AMD Announces Strategic Agreement with Founder Technology
- MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan
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All News for September 2006
The news is just not getting any better for Sony. On top of Lenovo's recall yesterday of just over a half million batteries, Dell has upped their number of recalls from 4.1 to 4.2 million. In addition Toshiba has upped their number by 830,000 and Fujitsu is currently pondering a voluntary recall on batteries for their...
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Charlie from the Inquirer has snapped off a couple of pictures of wafers that reportedly contain 65nm Quad-Core AMD processor cores. Not much information other than the pictures, but still fun to look at nonetheless... "WHEN AND WHERE will AMD show off its 65 nanometre Rev H cores? How about two minutes ago at the Microsoft Global High Tech...
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The gang over at Neoseeker have just posted a review of Asus' feature-packed P5W DH Deluxe, Core 2 compatible motherboard. As you can see from the quote below, they really seemed to like it... "Neoseeker has published as review of Asus P5W DH Deluxe. This is our first 975X for Core...
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If you're like me, YouTube is thinking about taking out a restraining order on you, or giving you a medal. It's endlessly fascinating. LinuxElectrons outlines In-Stat's Consumer Media and Content Service's projection of growth in the UGC market. (user generated content) User-Generated Content (UGC), such as that found on YouTube...
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Graphics card vendor HIS sends word that the company is releasing the first 1x PCI-E graphics card using ATI's 1K family technology. Based around an ATI X1300 GPU, the card offers a low-profile board design along with dual-link DVI functionality. This card is a worthwhile upgrade path for those using OEM systems (dell, HP,...
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Firefox is a great browser. One of its strengths is the ability to tinker with it to get it to do all sorts of additional neat things. Joe Kissell at Macworld has a terrific round-up of free add-ons for Firefox to help you raise your personal browser geek factor to stratospheric heights: And thanks to a growing number of free Firefox extensions,...
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The foreign website PC Watch has posted some interesting shots of Intel's upcoming second generation UMPC design for your viewing pleasure. Although the text will require the use of your favorite online translator, the pictures and slides referenced in the article are universal. Overall, the reference platforms appear to be much...
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Ripped strait from our speculation last night, Lenovo and IBM have officially recalled about 168,500 Sony manufactured battery packs (an additional 357,500 battery packs were sold worldwide). The affected part numbers are: ASM P/N FRU P/N 92P1072 92P1073 92P1088 92P1089...
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Currently, games are rated by the ESRB after they're sent a video showing the most graphic parts of a game. However, Republican Senator Sam Brownback is proposing that the ESRB play each and every game before slapping a rating on it. While it may seem like a good idea, to fully examine a game's content before making a decision on it,...
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With no surprise, rumors are being floated around the net regarding a possible Lenovo recall of Sony batteries from their laptop line. This replacement would fall in line with companies such as Dell, Apple, and Toshiba who have all had recalls/replacements. On Sept 16, an IBM Thinkpad T43 exploded at Los Angeles International...
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AMD Opens New North American Chip Design Center in Fort Collins, Co. SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- September 27, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the opening of an advanced microprocessor development facility in Fort Collins, CO. Dubbed the "Mile High Design Center" (MHDC), the facility is the latest in...
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In what could be one of the most surprising events in the industry the last few years, we are hearing news from the gang at Gizmodo that none other than HP has purchased Voodoo PC. Much like the scenario where Dell bought Alienware, HP will leverage the IP and customer base from the boutique PC vendor Voodoo PC. Unfortunately,...
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Intel gave access to quad-core Kentsfield-based systems to select members of the press yesterday at IDF. Today the embargo has been lifted on a preview of performance numbers with the new 2.66GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor. HotHardware: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 quad-core performance Preview...
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Don't we all love it when clever people take stuff that's right off the shelf, or better still, in hand, and show us how to use it in innovative ways? Simple Help outines a cheap and easy way to set up your own motion detecting security system with detailed, step by step instructions. You don't need much: 1. a PC running Windows...
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Astek sends word of their new "Low Cost Liquid Cooling" solutions targeted at the Digital Home SSF PC... Digital Home PC made silent by new OEM liquid cooling solution Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco, September 26th, 2006. Despite the arrival of multi-core CPUs with lower overall power consumption, system level thermal...
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Yahoo News answers the question: How many people use the internet to watch video? ComScore Media Metrix recorded both streaming, which requires a live Internet connection, and downloads, in which a user saves a file that can be viewed later or offline. All told, 107 million people streamed or downloaded nearly 7.2 billion video clips - an...
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The Inquirer reports that AGEIA has joined Futuremark's list of vendors on their development team. Here, AGEIA will offer their knowledge of physics to the team to allow the next generation of the popular synthetic 3DMark benchmark to test the full functionality and performance of a physics API. Can you imagine a time where games...
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IBM, Intel Propose Innovative Extension To Popular PCI Express Computing Standard INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 27, 2006 - IBM and Intel Corporation, with support from dozens of other companies, have developed a proposal to enhance PCI Express* technology to address the performance requirements of new...
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AMD Announces Strategic Agreement with Founder Technology, Second Largest PC Provider in China BEIJING - Sept. 28, 2006 - AMD (NYSE: AMD) and Founder Technology today announced an agreement to offer Founder customers a range of systems based on AMD64 processors, which are recognized for their innovation and performance-per-watt leadership....
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With midterm elections coming up this November, candidates are on the move to gain voter interest, especially the interest of younger voters. MySpace.com is helping the cause, partnering with the non partisan group Declare Yourself. MySpace.com estimates that 80 percent of its user base is old enough to vote, but will a few new profile tools...
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Today Microsoft has announced that Peter Jackson, director of Kong and the Lord of the Rings series, is planning a unique Xbox Live project. Mr. Jackson feels that technology has now progressed to a point where we can properly blend the art of story telling, with interactive entertainment. "Mr Jackson, who is also producing a movie based on...
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What at one time seemed like the hot new CPU technology to own, AMD's AM2 has turned out to be somewhat of a dud since it's release. While AMD has delivered improved performance and features, the new socket hasn't been what many had hoped. XYZ Computing has decided to delve into the many reasons why AMD's AMD has failed to...
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