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Latest News - May 2007
- EMI On YouTube
- Modders vs. Microsoft
- AMD Phenom Die Photo
- The Prius Breaks the 100MPG Barrier
- Jobs & Gates : Buddies For Life?
- Google Picks A Fight With Redmond With: Gears
- Palm Invents The $500 Keyboard
- AA and AF Demystified
- Intel Delivers Dual Channel Demodulators
- Big Screen Cell Phones Are Here
- Super High-Vision: Next Generation TV
- Abit iDome Speakers and AirPace Music
- How Much Could Your ISP Know About You?
- What HotHardware Readers Already Know
- Microsoft Cures Carpal-Tunnel, Boredom
- MLB Calls Slingbox Placeshifting Illegal
- Zune: 1M Sold, 99M To Go
- AMD, Micron To Go Private?
- NVIDIA To Host Annual Meeting Of Shareholders
- Hardware Round-Up
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All News for May 2007
YouTube and EMI have apparently reached an agreement that will allow users to watch and/or listen to music from the EMI label on YouTube. The story says that EMI could be getting some revenue every time their content appears in user-generated videos. It's hard to guess what this might mean to EMI bottom line, but it could very well end up...
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XBox Live allows users to connect their systems to the Internet and play games online. Apparently some systems have been banned in the recent past due to "hardware modifications" that violate certain agreements. But that hasn't stopped crafty modders from going about their business. In fact, the development of new firmware allows one's XBox...
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AMD has just revealed another detail regarding their upcoming desktop quad-core processors that we wanted to share with you. A few weeks ago, we talked about AMD's new branding for their desktop derivatives of the Barcelona core, now dubbed the Phenom FX, X4 and X2. If you're unfamiliar with Phenom, the processors will be based on AMD's...
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Lithium Technology Corporation has unveiled a new line of batteries to be used in electric and hybrid vehicles. Made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) cells, LTC is confident that they could transform a 46MPG Prius into a 125MPG green machine. “Batteries made...
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Those two names are icons in our industry and have been referred to as anything from nearly symbiotic to oil and water. So what happens when the two of them sit down in the same room for a conference? A mutual admiration society is formed: "Both opened their portion of the event by praising each other's work....
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Google released their "Google Gears" open source tools to software programmers yesterday . It's a handy virtual widget that allows users to work on web-based applications when they are off-line. Web-based applications that handle e-mail, news, and process information like spreadsheets and text documents can be altered or generated anytime,...
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Palm's latest offering, the Foleo, was much anticipated. They unveiled it yesterday, and now Palm's sale to another company is much anticipated. The Foleo is a laptop sized digital device for reading your e-mail, synching with your smart phone and --not much more. The main selling point is a large qwerty keyboard. Jeff Hawkins of Palm, in...
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We have all seen these video options in our favorite games. We have found that when we activate these options, our game suddenly looks prettier. But what is anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, and how do they work? In a nutshell, AA smoothes out jagged lines:...
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Intel Delivers First Dual Channel Enhanced Demodulators For Consumer Electronics Devices TVonics Adopts New Demodulators to Deliver Advanced TV Capabilities SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 29, 2007 – Intel Corporation today unveiled its first Digital TV dual channel demodulators for the...
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As cell phones have gotten smaller in recent years, it is a bit of a paradox to say that a cell phone boasts a "big screen." Nonetheless, Fujitsu's F904i features a 3.1 inch 16:9 widescreen display (big compared to other cell phones) and is scheduled for sale on Friday. "The F904i is equipped with a 3.0...
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While many of us still do not have access to High-definition TV signals, NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) has already started development of the "Super Hi-Vision" TV system, which they hope will replace HDTV in the future. Apparently, SHV is capable of 7680x4320 resolution. What does that number mean exactly? Picture this: 16 HDTV screens arranged...
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Hello everyone. Just in case you like to just right to the news and missed the new link at the top of the page, we wanted to let you all know that we've just posted a new article in which we evaluate the features and acoustic performance of Abit's iDome speakers and AirPace Music wireless access point. The iDome satellites turned out to be...
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If you're not already wearing your tin-foil helmet you now have 10 seconds.Ok your time is up. Wired has sent out a few probing questions to bigger ISPs to see what kind of data they collect on their usage of their users and what it would take for them to turn that same information over to various 3rd parties.. "Wired News, with help from...
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Google paid $3.1 billion for the online advertising company DoubleClick. Microsoft countered by buying aQuantivefor $6 billion. Wall Street thinks they're crazy. You and I know that's cheap. Because you and I are doing most everything online now, and if you want to talk to us, you have to talk on the internet. Why do ad buyers keep pouring...
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Steve Jobs wowed everybody with a demonstration of his multitouch screen iPhone. The little buttonless screen appeals to the touchy-feely instinct in all of us. You can't call anyone with it, but Microsoft's "Surface" multitouch tabletop PC takes the whole concept to an enormous other level. On Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off...
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Major League Baseball is joining the growing ranks of companies who are less than enthusiastic about the "placeshifting" feature. Here's a tidbit from Ars Technica: "Like other professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball is jealous of its content. The latest company to come under its scrutiny is Sling Media, makers of the Slingbox...
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Microsoft has finally hit the 1 million sales mark with its Zune series of MP3 players, and is now only about 99 million short of catching up to the 100 million mark of rival Apple. Still, it's a very good sign that a major player like MS can muster up so many sales in a relatively short time, especially given that companies like Apple and...
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According to a story on EETimes, rumors were circulating last week that claimed AMD and Micron (among others) were planning to go private. We don't know how much truth there is to this rumor, but considering AMD's current financial situation, it's likely the company is exploring a number of possible routes and going private is just one of...
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NVIDIA To Host Annual Meeting Of Shareholders SANTA CLARA, CA - MAY 29, 2007 - NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, will hold its Annual Meeting of Shareholders at its headquarters in Santa Clara, California on Thursday, June 21, 2007,...
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Video: Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB Graphics Review @ MVKTech NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (G84) @ Digit-Life ASUS Radeon HD 2900XT vs. ASUS GeForce 8800 GTX @ Legion Hardware Power:...
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DRAM manufacturing is not sexy. It's a substantial market - $34 billion dollars worldwide in 2006, slated to grow to $46 billion by 2010- but it's unlikely to have a made-for-TV-movie made about it anytime soon. But it's a small point of honor for South Korea that they are the world leader in the manufacture of DRAM, and it appears they...
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If you thought the Pentium name was dead, think again. We've just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the performance, power consumption, and overclockability of Intel's brand-new Pentium E2140 dual-core processor. This chip is a derivative of the 'Conroe' core used in the Core 2 Duo family of processors, but with...
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