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Latest News - August 2008
- Hardware RoundUp
- Super Talent Pico Gold 8GB USB Drive
- Do Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks?
- HotHardware's Summer Sweepstakes! Win a new Rig!
- Comcast: Metered Usage, But Where's the Meter?
- Lian Li Launches Silent Force Power Supplies
- 12.5 Million Records Go Missing in Data Breach
- Hardware RoundUp
- Comcast Announces 250 GB Broadband Cap
- Thin TVs are In at IFA 2008
- NVIDIA To Support SLI On Intel X58 Chipset
- NVISION 08 Video Highlights
- VeriSign: 200 Billion Mobile Messages In 2008
- Razer Announces Ltd. Ed. PAX 08 Razer Deathadder
- Seriously, Steve Jobs is Not Dead
- Spore Civilization Phase Video Preview
- NVISION 08 Day 2: Keynote, NASA, Kyle Busch...
- Houston, We Have Virus Lift-Off
- Samsung Introduces SSDs for Low-Cost PCs
- U.K. Ad Authority Bans iPhone Ad
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Video:ATI All-In-Wonder HD Video Card Review @ MotherboardsASUS HD4870-X2 @ t-breakMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte GA-EG43-S2H Motherboard @ CPU3DSapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 @ TechwareLabsMemory and Storage:Internal 3.5" Multi Card Reader Review @ DragonSteelModsPower:APC Power-Saving SurgeArrest P7GT Power Strip @ TechwareLabsTopower PowerBird...
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There's simply no denying that many tech enthusiasts love all things small. As of late, with the likes of products such as the Asus Eee PC, Lenovo ThinkPad X200, Dell Studio Hybrid and other small form-factor systems; thin, small and light is definitely "in" and has become a fad of sorts. What is this obsession with small? ...
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Email spam got you down? Is your first name Aaron? A study by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton shows that the first letter of your email address has a lot to do with the amount of spam you receive. The study (.PDF), titled "Do Zebras get more Spam than Aardvarks?" analyzed traffic logs from the U.K. ISP Demon Internet....
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It's that time again folks! In conjunction with our friends at Intel, AMD, Kingston, WD, and Thermaltake we have assembled one hot rig to give away this month! We're announcing yet another new sweepstakes where you could win a full Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650-based system, complete with a pair of screaming...
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On Thursday Comcast announced a 250 GB cap for their broadband service. We applauded the fact that they finally gave some transparency to their "hidden" cap, which had always snagged a few users, without telling them exactly how much their use should be, but then we realized: where's the meter? Time-Warner Cable is currently trying out...
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Lian Li launches the all new Silent Force Power SuppliesSilence is golden 29 August 2008, Keelung, Taiwan – Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched the Silent Force Power supply unit (PSU) series. After one year in development, and with strict attention to detail, the Silent series has been extensively researched to make it stand out from...
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Earlier this week we reported on Scotland's Sunday Herald's claim that the Best Western hotel group was hit with the world's largest known data breach of eight million people's sensitive information, as well as Best Western's adamant denial. Even if the Sunday Herald story turns out to be true, the Best Western data breach would no longer...
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Video: Gigabyte Geforce 9800GT (512Mb DDR3) @ CPU3D XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card @ Tweaktown Palit Radeon HD 4870 Sonic Graphics Card @ Tweaktown Gigabyte 9800GT Review @ OCC Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Toxic Video Card Review @ TheTechLounge EVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB FTW Video Card Review @ TheTechLoungeMotherboards and Chipsets:...
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How many of you are aware of the 5 GB cap that Frontier DSL has imposed? Or of the trials in Beaumont, TX that Time-Warner Cable is running? It's only a matter of time before others impose caps. And here we are, with a big ISP imposing a cap. But really, let's be honest: this ISP already had one, just one that was hidden.Today...
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CES might be the largest consumer electronics (CE) trade show in the U.S., but it isn't the only large-scale CE show, nor even the oldest. Taking place this week in Berlin is the IFA 2008 consumer electronics show, of which its origins actually date as far back as 1924 when it started as a trade show for the radio industry. Things have changed...
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At the conclusion of their NVISION 08 visual computing conference, NVIDIA pulled together a few members of the press the reveal some very interesting news regarding SLI and Intel's upcoming X58 chipset platform for future Nehalem microarchitecture-based processors, aka Core i7.Up until this announcement, NVIDIA had only planned to support...
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HotHardware attended NVIDIA's very first NVISION 08 visual computing conference that took place August 25 - 27 in San Jose, California and captured some of the sights and sounds from the event. This video is a compilation of the featured speakers and artists that participated in the keynotes. Featured speakers include Jen-Hsun Huang (NVIDIA...
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It's an obvious statement that mobile messaging is growing, but some recently released numbers from VeriSign indicate just how fast mobile messaging is growing and how it is generating staggering revenue for mobile service providers. You might be familiar with VeriSign as the company behind secure networking solutions for SSL, identity authentication,...
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RAZER™ ANNOUNCES THE LIMITED EDITION PAX 08 RAZER DEATHADDER™Only 400 units of the customized multi-award winning Razer DeathAdder will be available for sale at PAX 08 Seattle, WA – August 28, 2008 – Razer™, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming peripherals, has announced that an exclusive and...
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If you had read a Bloomberg story that floated across the wires at 4:27 PM yesterday, your heart might have stopped, and you might have rushed to sell your Apple stock. But no, it was all a mistake, and quickly retracted. The retraction was rather terse, though, saying only "An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently...
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With the release of EA/Maxis's Spore (one of the most hotly anticipated games of 2008) only a mere 10 days away, more details about the $49.99 game have come out as well as another sneak-peek video of what gamers can expect come September 7. In the meantime, players have been busy creating creatures for Spore, with the $9.99 Spore Creature...
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The second day of NVIDIA’s NVISION 08 visual computing conference began with a keynote address hosted by local television personality and tech analyst Scott Budman. Budman only did a relatively small amount of speaking at the engagement, however, as he shared the stage with a number of guest speakers, including Eileen Collins of NASA,...
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Surprisingly, this apparently isn't the first time this has happened to NASA. They haven't, to this point, been using antivirus software on the laptops astronauts take into space with them. A lesson for us all? Yep. However, the virus wasn't something that would bring the ISS crashing to Earth. The W32.Gammima.AG worm is pretty old: discovered...
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"Smaller, faster, less expensive," might just be the motto over at Samsung these days. At least that's what it feels like with Samsung's announcement today that it has started sampling low-density, multilevel cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSDs) that are "only 30 percent of the size of 2.5-inch SSDs," "higher performance," and "highly...
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The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an ad for the iPhone after complaints that it was misleading. No, it's not about "twice as fast, half the price." Instead it's about the browsing prowess of the iPhone. The ASA received two (yes, only 2) complaints about the ad, which said the following: "You never know which part...
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Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor intensive and time consuming. And ultimately the final result might not survive the close scrutiny of those expecting real-world emulations. A new technique developed by scientists at The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada, however, might make capturing...
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Video:Samsung SyncMaster 2263UW 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers.orgAcer X193W+ 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ TheTechLoungeMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte EP45-Extreme Motherboard Review @ HardwareLogicASUS M3A78-T AMD Motherboard @ TechwareLabsGigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H @ bit-techECS P45T-A Black Series Motherboard...
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