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Latest News - September 2007
- New WoW Sound Engine: A Tale Of 2 PCs
- AT&T Terms of Service: “Don’t Diss Us or Else”
- Gap, Inc.: Dude, Where's Our Laptop?
- Here Phishy Phishy Phishy...
- Halo 3 : Running In Scaled 640p?
- Intel to Rebrand Processors in 2008
- CNet To Microsoft: Please Dump Vista
- Fusion-io NAND Flash PCIe Drive, Blinding Speed
- Apple, AT&T sued over "price discrimination"
- iPhone Update Appears To Brick Legit Phones
- Diamond Viper HD 2900 XT 1GB CrossFire
- Viewsonic Announces Three New Monitors
- Sleeping Around The IT Cubicles
- Microsoft says to extend XP sales
- Palm enters low-end with the Centro
- Sharkoon CPU-Cooler with "Golf Ball" Fan
- HIS Unleashes the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MB
- Hardware Round-Up
- Dell Set To Launch SP2008WFP 20" LCD
- Dell officially unleashes the XPS M1730 notebook
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All News for September 2007
World of Warcraft will run just about any PC that has been shipped in the past 5 years. Blizzard has obviously spent a lot of time optimizing the game so that it runs well on even the lowest end PC with integrated graphics, and to be honest it still looks pretty decent at those lower settings. Blizzard has continued to strive to make the...
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It's bad enough Comcast has their secret limited unlimited service, whereby they will cut you off if you (in their opinion) hog too much bandwidth (although they won't tell anyone what that limit is). Now AT&T won't let you be critical of them.Have you taken a look at AT&T’s Terms of Service for High-Speed Internet (HSI) lately? Some...
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Just about anyone who lived through the 90's knows what The Gap is. It was almost impossible to escape their advertising blitz, and even harder not to spot people wearing clothing from one of their brands.Life is generally just peachy at The Gap until somebody nabs a laptop with 800,000 personal information belonging to applications, not...
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Phishing, we all hate it. Not the kind with Uncle Earl out on his 14 foot “yacht” and 8 sick-packs that were never going to see the shore again, but the kind of misleading e-mails and/or web sites that result in innocent users (such as Uncle Earl) giving out personal data to people who would intend to misuse it.Despite anti-phishing technology...
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The war between next-gen consoles (are they still next-gen? They're here aren't they?!) often has a lot to do with graphics quality. Given that High Definition (HD) is the current buzz-word of the day, it's not a big surprise. What is a big surprise is that some sharp-eyed forum posters have started looking at the picture quality of Bungee's...
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Rumor has it that Intel will rebrand its processor line, beginning in January. There is quite a bit of data, but it is still a rumor.At the moment, the Intel Centrino mobile platform has five different logos with brands like Centrino, Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro. Starting from January 1, 2008, Intel will consolidate the Centrino Duo and...
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Windows Vista. Those two words either make users cringe in fear or perhaps evoke happy times with the new OS. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of middle ground here. Perhaps some of the more jaded simply gave Vista a try before there were proper drivers for their hardware, or perhaps before some patch on Microsoft's part that fixed some...
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How about a 80, 160, 320 or 640Gig NAND Flash drive on PCI Express card? Sounds interesting, right? What if we told you such a product could hit an amazing 800MB/sec sustained data rate? OK, so it's an expensive Enterprise SAN type product but great oogly-moogly! That's some blinding speed. Salt Lake's Fusion-io is poised to release such...
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It's amazing that lawsuits like this aren't immediately thrown out. It's not enough that Apple / AT&T have been sued over the battery (three times!); now they are being sued over the $200 price cut. Dongmei Li, a resident of the borough of Queens, sued Apple earlier this week for "price discrimination" brought on by the $200 drop in the...
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Apple warned that its latest update, 1.1.1, might disable some hacked, unlocked phones, but it appears there are cases of unhacked phones being bricked. It is not clear exactly why this is occurring, as Apple has yet to comment on the problems. But the rash of reports from those who have not unlocked or modified their phones...
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For those of you that like to jump right down to the news, we wanted to pop in and let you all know that we've just posted a new article here at HotHardware. We recently got our hands on a pair of Diamond’s Viper HD 2900 XT 1GB cards and have compared their performance to the original 512MB Radeon HD 2900 XT, and to a trio of GeForce 8800...
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Viewsonic has added three new monitors to its lineup. All the new screens are priced at under $349. New offerings include 19" and 22" in widescreen format, and a non-widescreen 19". With a Dynamic Contrast ratio of up to 4000:1 (typ), the VX1940w and VX2240w provide many benefits such as enhanced light and dark images and reduced...
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Careerbuilder.com conducted a survey of IT workers, and according to the results, more than half of IT workers are sleeping on the job. And when they are awake, nearly half might be preparing to sleep around, too, admitting at least kissing their co-worker. That's if they're sober, which isn't all the time. Ah, multitasking. Look on the bright...
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Microsoft has learned there are plenty of people who still want XP, as evidenced by the popularity of XP downgrades among OEM offerings. Now they have conceded still further, and announced on Thursday plans to continue selling Windows XP through June 2008, 5 months later than announced when Windows Vista was released. The world's...
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Palm has been struggling, but with the introduction of this new phone, they hope that a low-cost PalmOS phone can still make an impact in the marketplace.Measuring 4.2 inches long by 2.1 inches wide and 0.7 inch deep and 4.2 ounces, the Centro has more of a cell-phone-like form factor but still has a full QWERTY keyboard and 65,000-color,...
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CPU-Cooler with Golf Ball Fan Silent Eagle CPU Cooler: multi-socket heatpipe cooler with preinstalled Silent Eagle 2000 Fan / Frameless fan design Sharkoon introduces a new CPU-Cooler for AMD (939) and Intel (775) systems. The Sharkoon Silent Eagle CPU Cooler consists of a...
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HIS Unleashes the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MB GDDR3 (LIMITED EDITION), Delivering the Ultimate Visual Experience — Graphics card unleashes the power of DirectX 10 for immersive high-definition gaming, and delivers exclusive HD multimedia features such as HDMI for high-fidelity audio and video, all at unbelievable...
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Video & Sound : Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT Ultimate Review @ AMDZone ASUS Xonar D2 sound card review @ Elite Bastards AMD's Integrated Gambit @ Penstarsys NVIDIA...
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We have just received word that Dell plans to launch a brand new LCD today. We're told that at 12:00PM Central Time the new $289 Dell SP2008WFP display will be available on www.dell.com. Click for full view... The new SP2008WFP is Dell's first flat panel monitor with integrated webcam and...
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Gamers Gain Supremacy with the Dell XPS M1730 NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2007 – PC gaming leader Dell today unleashed the XPS™ M1730 notebook, aka “the beast,” for gamers who want to experience the peak of mobile gaming performance. Available...
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Microsoft is updating its Live Search web search service, They're hoping that pleasing users with more relevant search results will help it to crawl out of the distant third place it finds itself in -- behind Yahoo a little, behind Google a lot. Microsoft says its goal is to encourage people who are using its Live Search service...
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Unfortunately, MHz makes a difference. Changes to the system requirements for the next Apple operating system could exclude those systems with 800 MHz CPUs.The increase in system requirements would exclude a number of Mac systems from running Leopard, such as the 800MHz PowerBook G4 (Titanium), 800MHz PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver), 800MHz iMac...
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