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Latest News - December 2008
- Hardware RoundUp
- New Year’s Ball Goes Green
- Flash & Safari Fail in Privacy Test
- 30GB Zunes Globally Freeze: Leap Year Bug?
- Happy New Year!
- HotHardware Holiday Sweepstakes!
- Jobs is Fine, but Apple Stock Drops After Rumor
- Website Security Certificate Exploit Found
- LG to Offer Additional Streaming Content
- Video Game Industry Still Flourishing
- The Best and Worst Places to Work
- MSI Announces a Hybrid SSD/HDD Nettbook
- Policing the Internet: A Website Rating System
- Netflix's Shipping Plan May Earn You a Freebie
- Hardware RoundUp
- Reputable Casemaker Advertises iPhone nano Cases
- What Carriers don’t Tell You about Texting
- It Wasn’t Me! iFart App Hits No. 1
- HP's new MediaSmart Server likes Macs
- Acer Laptop to Use New Intel Mobile Quad CPU
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All News for December 2008
Motherboards and Chipsets:DFI LanParty UT P45-T3RS Motherboard @ CPU3DECS X58B-A Black Edition Motherboard Review @ Legit ReviewsASUS P6T6 WS Revolution Mobo Review @ [H]Mid-End Motherboard Roundup @ iXBTProcessors:Gaming Performance: Core i7 vs. Core 2 Quad @ InsideHWMemory and Storage:A-DATA X Series DDR3 1600 2GB Kit Video Review @ Tech...
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It seems everyone is going green these days. This year, even the infamous ball in New York City that helps many of us ring in the New Year will also be “green.” Last month, the co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square unveiled a new Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball that is double the size of previous balls and weighs 11,875 pounds....
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As Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and Apple’s Safari all compete against one another to try to see who can be the No. 1 Web browser, certainly privacy is a key factor that influences success. While many of us hope to never have to deal with the repercussions of a flawed browser and/or stolen information,...
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In what is the first such bug we can recall, where devices of one type worldwide have seemingly frozen, 30GB Zunes globally are freezing. Reports are the freezing issue is only affecting 30GB Zunes. It has also been reported (though unconfirmed) that the freeze is isolated to the 3.1 firmware.This has to be the greatest New Year's...
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It has been another great year for us here at HotHardware.com, thanks in no small part to all of you--our awesome readers! As 2009 draws to a close, we want to take another chance to thank you all yet again for being a part of our extended families and making this just a great place to work (and play!). Happy New Year! If you’re going to be...
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It’s that time again folks! Time for another giveaway here at HotHardware! We’ve teamed up with our friends at AMD and will be giving away prizes--including a complete small form factor PC--to three lucky winners. Instead of a straightforward sweepstakes, however, we wanted to have a little fun and get all of your creative juices...
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Another day, another drop in Apple stock caused by a questionable rumor about the health of CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs' health has been in question since he appeared at WWDC in a somewhat gaunt condition. However, as Jobs himself said with a slide positioned directly behind him, the "rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated."The latest...
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A recent discovery of an exploit of the MD5 algorithm used to check the validity of Secure Sockets Layer SSL certificates (The little lock icon on the bottom right of your browser) may put to question whether your online transaction is in fact valid and secure.CNET reports that an international team of researchers will announce this today.They...
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There are always a lot of new products that come to view at CES. Sometimes, these products are kept under tight wraps, and other times, companies give us a sneak peek. Today, LG is giving us a look at one of the things they’ll be formally unveiling at CES next week, namely, new entertainment options for its Network Blu-ray Disc players. The...
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Despite the current economic indicators that show the United States deeply mired in a recession, video game companies are showing gains in sales.It has been previously discussed in industry and economic circles that the video gaming industry much like the movie industry may be recession proof as many look to these forms of entertainment as...
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The folks over at Glassdoor.com have been busy mining through their data of user-submitted information and have assembled lists of the best and worst places to work. The lists are based on data from almost 75,000 participants in 2008, representing over 11,000 companies, from a 20-question survey. A number of tech companies made significant...
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MSI has just announced the MSI U115 Hybrid, which it claims is "very first notebook computer in the world that is capable of operating both SSD and HDD hard drives simultaneously." We're highly suspect of that claim, as we know of at least one notebook right off the bat that is currently selling with the option to use both SSD and standard...
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Andy Burnham, Britain’s minister for culture, is looking for a way to police the Internet and better protect children from harmful and offensive material on the net. One of his solutions is to apply a rating system to websites, similar to that used for films. Burnham recently said that the government is planning to negotiate with President-elect...
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Netflix has announced a new shipping procedure which if the movie you’ve requested isn’t available from your local distribution center, may net you a freebie in the form of the next highest up movie in your queue. Netflix says they have 55 shipping centers across the country, so if your choice is not available in your local shipping center,...
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Video: HIS HD 4830 IceQ 4 512MB GDDR3 PCIe Video Card @ BFRMotherboards and Chipsets: Asus P6T6 WS X58 Express Motherboard (Core i7) @ HardOCP ECS A780GM-A Ultra AMD 780G+SB750 Mainboard Review @ OCWorkbench Foxconn A7VA Motherboard @ iXBT Zotac 790i Ultra SLI Supreme Motherboard Review @ Virtual-HideoutProcessors: AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black...
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It's one thing when a relatively unknown case maker like XSKN advertises an iPhone nano case. It's something completely different when a well-known case maker does. Vaja has added an iPhone nano link on their site, leading to still more speculation over a possible Macworld iPhone nano announcement. Vaja is a relatively well-known maker of...
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While many of us have often felt as if we’re being ripped off by cellular carrier’s fees for text messaging, we didn’t know how much of a rip-off this was until the New York Times recently exposed it. On top of it all, the carriers are bordering on price-fixing, with all of the major carriers raising the fees for text message rates in harmony...
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In every family, there’s generally at least one prankster. He loves to put Vaseline on a doorknob, saran wrap your car, or sneak the occasional whoopee cushion under your chair. And while it’s not always fun to be on the receiving end, we must admit, we’ve pulled a few jokes on people and enjoyed the laughs that ensued. As it turns out,...
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Hewlett-Packard's ready to release its latest MediaSmart servers, and, for a change, they don't hate the Mac.The EX485/EX487 are designed for home or home office use, in large part to enable you -- or your friends and family -- to access any media (music, photos, videos, etc.) via the Internet. You can network all your media files from all...
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Acer Enhances Award-Winning Aspire 8930G Notebook PC with New Intel© Quad-Core Processor Technology Aspire 8930G-7665 Notebook Designed for Extreme Gaming and Multimedia Performance SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acer America, part of the world’s third largest PC company (source: Gartner data, 3Q 2008), today introduced the Aspire...
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With the introduction of the new Intel Core i7 processor architecture, the company affectionately known as "Chipzilla" has once again topped itself in terms of performance. Intel planted a gift in the Core i7 launch in the form of the Core i7 920. This is Intel's entry level Core i7 processor which runs at a stock speed of 2.66 GHz, not too...
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Twitority is a new alternative to Twitters own search engine, promising better search results than those achieved using Twitters methodology. Over the weekend after Christmas, Seemic CEO Loic Le Meur put up a blog post saying Twitter's search engine is insufficiently discriminating. If you're looking for the best Twitter posts on a topic,...
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