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First of all, we were pretty excited to see so many comments and votes (5000!) on our last IT poll. It is good to see that professional IT is so much alive at Anandtech.com. So yes, we should have updated this blog quicker, to keep the momentum going. The reason why this update comes rather late is -once again – that we are working on the much delayed hypervisor…
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PC World – All signs point to the launch of slate-like touchscreen computers next year. The highly-anticipated Apple tablet will appear sometime in 2010, according to a variety of sources, and the soap opera known as the CrunchPad may or may not appear, depending on the outcome of a likely bout of legal wrangling. There are signs that Microsoft may enter the market too.
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BRISTOL, CT—Despite the clear dominance the Vikings displayed in their definitive 36-10 week 12 victory over the Bears, ESPN analysts compared the teams’ offensive and defensive performances, and scrutinized slow-motion highlights of the game for nearly five minutes during Monday’s broadcast of NFL Live.
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Updated ATI and Intel acceleration results. Do you hate how painfully slow Flash video playback can be even on the fastest PCs? Adobe’s prerelease of Flash 10.1 is about to change all of that. By offloading H.264 decode onto capable GPUs, full screen, high resolution flash video is finally possible without stuttering. Even on an Atom….
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That’s right, just in time for the holidays we’ve partnered up with Intel to give away a complete Lynnfield Core i7 System….
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MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures.
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In our Radeon HD 5970 review, we ran in to some issues when trying to overclock the card to 5870 speeds of 850MHz/1200MHz. At the time this is something we attributed to the VRMs, meanwhile AMD suggested that it was cooling related, and that we should manually increase the fan speed.
As it turns out, we were both right, we just didn’t have the tools at…
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davekleiman writes with news that former eBay chief exec Meg Whitman took the stand today to kick off the battle that has been brewing between Craigslist and eBay. The waters are further clouded by Whitman’s upcoming bid for governor of California. “eBay wants to shed light on the ‘coercive plan’ that it has said Newmark hatched with Craigslist Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster to dilute eBay’s ownership stake, ultimately stripping eBay of its seat on the Craigslist board. Craigslist has hit back that eBay used its board seat to glean information to launch its own classified site, Kijiji. Craigslist also claims that eBay used deceptive tactics to direct traffic away from its site.”
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We just got off the phone with Nick Knupffer of Intel, who confirmed something that has long been speculated upon: the fate of Larrabee. As of today, the first Larrabee chip’s retail release has been canceled. This means that Intel will not be releasing a Larrabee video card or a Larrabee HPC/GPGPU compute part.
The Larrabee project itself has not…
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Google unveils real-time and search-with-a-photo features
Macworld Want to know what's being updated on the Internet right now? Turns out you're not alone, which is one reason why sites such as Twitter Search have become so popular. Now Google is moving aggressively into the real-time search area with a new latest … Google Launches Real-Time Search Google revamps search with real-time results Google Real-Time Search Provides Fresh Results |
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AP – A college student found guilty of copyright infringement has to destroy files he illegally downloaded years ago.
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NewsFactor – Verizon is ramping up the testosterone in its newest ad campaign against the Big Man on Campus, Apple’s iPhone. Falling just short of saying other phones are for girlie-men, Verizon’s ads tout their phone’s “racehorse taped to a Scud missile” speed as opposed to that of a “digitally clueless beauty pageant queen.”
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There’s not much to talk about from a CPU standpoint with AMD in 2010, so AMD is heavily focused on 2011 and what it plans to do with its first on-die GPU in Llano. Bobcat and Bulldozer also make it back into the headlines as AMD is long overdue for another microprocessor architecture. Bobcat stands to be AMD’s first competitive mobile architecture while…
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Online-Privacy Protections Get Closer Scrutiny From FTC
CNNMoney.com WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Federal Trade Commission officials got conflicting advice Monday on whether the US government needs to do more to protect consumer privacy from abuses. Privacy issues are under scrutiny as technology makes it easier for … FTC to Consider Stricter Online Privacy Rules US regulators look at privacy of consumer data FTC Takes On Online Privacy |
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As it promised in October, Google has now started to add search results in real-time to its engine, giving end-users the option of seeing relevant links that have just been added to its index.
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I really need you to keep this a secret, okay? You cannot tell another living soul. Really, this is extremely personal, so before we go any…
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Intel’s first discrete GPU has been canceled, I explain why it doesn’t really matter….
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Apple has snapped up music streaming biz Lala in what many initially thought to be a move to step beyond the strict download market of iTunes. On closer inspection it seems that Lala was a somewhat less-than-ideal target and Apple may just be gunning for ready-made engineering talent. “On balance, the purchase appears to give Apple the chance to bring in engineers that will be useful now, and could be even more so if it chooses to enter streaming or subscription services. But, for the moment, there’s nothing about the purchase that seems to provide the company with any key technologies it was missing in terms of diving into markets. Until another company demonstrates that there’s money to be made (or iPods to be sold) through streaming, there’s no reason to think that a move of this sort is immanent.”
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If It Warms Up, Who's Going to Pay?
Wall Street Journal Poorer countries insist there will be no environmental agreement unless wealthy countries help them adapt to the possible effects of global warming. Samuel Fankhauser offers a blueprint for cooperation. By SAMUEL FANKHAUSER As the most important … 'Climategate' at centre stage as Copenhagen opens Email leaks hang over Copenhagen Climate Conference Climate talks need unity of purpose, not sniping |
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Raja and I have been working on a Holiday Guide the past couple of weeks and hopefully we will complete it this week. Our emphasis has been on finding components that offer a great bang for the buck even though they might not be the absolute best in their class. While we will offer our opinions on what is best in class, our focus has been on balanced performance,…
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The company, which has been silent while waiting to be acquired by Oracle, will discuss Java EE 6 and other software on Thursday
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AP – JDA Software Group Inc., which makes inventory management software for retailers, said Monday it has priced a debt offering to qualified institutional buyers.
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Updated! We clarify one of the more confusing points of AMD’s nomenclature with regards to Bulldozer. AMD is referring to integer cores whenever it mentions core count in its roadmaps….
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Kindle to get audible menus, bigger font
msnbc.com 'The Saboteur' is a stylized shooter set in Nazi-occupied Paris in the 1940s. Msnbc.com's video game reporter Todd Kenreck takes a closer look at the game's unique style. A better economy may lure buyers, but these trends could seal the deal. … First look: Nook's slow responses hurt its appeal Amazon will update Kindles with text-to-speech for vision impaired New Kindle features for the blind and vision-impaired |
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Over the summer we discovered that Apple’s newly redesigned MacBook Pro offered battery life to die for. Approaching 8 hours of battery life on a single charge we were curious to see how the rest of the lineup fared. We won’t see any new MacBook Pros until 2010, so if you’re buying a new MacBook Pro read on to see the 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch compared….
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Former Family Ties actress Meredith Baxter came out as a lesbian on The Today Show. What do you think?
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AP – The Associated Press is inviting Facebook users to vote on the 10 top news stories of the year, marking the first time the public has been invited to weigh in since the news cooperative began its annual survey in 1936.
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SOUTH BEND, IN—Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Savior of All Mankind, and current defensive coordinator at Middle Tennessee State, said Monday…
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For US$34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.
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WASHINGTON—During an unexpected visit Thursday to an organizational meeting for this year’s White House Christmas party, Vice President Joe…
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AP – AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade the way it began this one, as an independent company. Unlike the 1990s, though, when AOL got rich selling dial-up Internet access, it starts the 2010s as an underdog, trying to beef up its Web sites and grab more advertising revenue.
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In his first article on AnandTech, Loyd Case takes us through building his first Windows Home Server out of components he had laying around the Case House….
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We take a look at Biostar’s top end P55 motherboard and find that it really is a heavyweight contender with a middle range price tag….
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We take Seagate’s latest drive technology for a quick spin and wonder if SATA 6Gb/s technology will ever benefit desktop based hard drives….
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Says the New York Times: “With the curious resurgence of vinyl, a parallel revival has emerged: The turntable, once thought to have taken up obsolescence with eight-track tape players, has been reborn.”
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Several sources have shared the news that “Google Goggles,” publicly known as Google Visual Search, will be “coming soon” to an Android phone near you. Rather than typing in the search term, you will be able to just take a picture with your phone and search results will be returned. The new search was recently featured on CNBC’s “Inside the Mind of Google.” Unfortunately Goggles didn’t pass muster with a recent focus group, so it could be a while before Google decides this is ready to hit the streets.
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It’s not often we write about prices going up.
Last week there was a rumor going around that AMD intended to raise prices on the 5800 series. At the time we wrote this off as yet another highly-speculative rumor based on shaky evidence. Official price hikes are virtually unprecedented, after all.
Then things changed.
We’ve talked…
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PC World – In the “I’ll do anything for attention” category this morning, Spike TV Video Game Awards host Geoff Keighley can reportedly be heard pimping for Microsoft’s upcoming Halo:
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New Update on TRIM fw.Intel and Indilinx SSDs now have TRIM support – we put it to the test. At the same time Kingston helps Intel bring SSDs to the masses with a 40GB X25-M G2 based SSD priced at $115 or $85 after rebates….
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “According to Ambassador Ron Kirk, the head of US Trade Representatives, the secrecy around the ACTA copyright treaty is necessary because without that secrecy, people would be ‘walking away from the table.’ If you don’t remember, that treaty is the one where leaks indicate that it may contain all sorts of provisions for online copyright enforcement, like a global DMCA with takedown and anti-circumvention restrictions, three-strikes laws to terminate offending internet connections, and copyright cops. FOIA requests for the treaty text have been rebuffed over alleged ‘national security’ concerns. One can only hope that what he has said is true and that sites like Wikileaks will help tear down the veil of secrecy behind which they’re negotiating our future.”
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