eldavojohn writes “In the ongoing BP debacle, the Obama administration imposed a six-month moratorium on offshore drilling and a halt to 33 exploratory wells going into the Gulf of Mexico. Now a federal judge (in New Orleans, no less) is unsatisfied with the reasons for this and stated, ‘An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling […]
An anonymous reader writes “The Australian Government Standing Committee on Communications has released the results of a year long enquiry into cybercrime in a report titled Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime. This report includes a recommendation that Internet Service Provider customers should be forced to install anti-virus and firewall software […]
AP - Though Apple stores will be carrying the iPhone 4 this Thursday, you’ll have to wait until next week if you want to buy it from its official U.S. wireless carrier, AT&T Inc.
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Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced new blade and rack servers designed to deliver more performance while combining hardware and software capabilities to improve server reliability and lower energy costs.
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Recently, HP’s performance ZR series of LCD displays have attracted quite a bit of attention. We’ve heard your comments and pleas for reviews of the 22” and 24” ZR series of HP displays, and those are still very much forthcoming. But for today, we’re breaking some news with a review and launch announcement of HP’s […]
Today Apple announced the gold master release of iOS 4 to the general public. While the rollout has gone relatively smoothly thus far, with both Anand and I moving from the latest release candidate to the gold master build without issue, we noticed something unnerving while doing performance and battery life testing involving one of […]
Five years ago we dissected the original Xbox 360. Today we're back with the new, slim Xbox 360 and have put together a similar guide to disassembling the console. In addition we've gone in and looked at the power savings and noise reduction made possible by further integrating the CPU and GPU onto a single […]
Earlier this year Apple updated its entire MacBook Pro lineup. The update wasn't cosmetic, the 2nd generation unibody design carried over from 2009. Instead the 15-inch and 17-inch notebooks got Core i5/i7 CPUs paired with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M GPUs. The 13-inch model was left with a Core 2 Duo and only saw a big […]
Reuters - Youthful Neda Agha-Soltan became a symbol of the violence of the 2009 Iran protests when shocking footage of her dying moments reached millions on the Internet after the contested presidential election last year.
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AP - A hacker took over more than 100 computers and used them to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls by threatening to release their personal data, federal prosecutors charged Tuesday.
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PC World - Salesforce.com officially launches Chatter today at Cloudforce 2010–the largest cloud computing event of the year. Chatter brings social networking to the enterprise in much the same way salesforce.com brought Web 2.0 to the enterprise–enabling the benefits of social networking to be utilized for new strategic advantages.
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eldavojohn writes “For those under eighteen who play video games in China, life just got a little harder. Not only is gold farming illegal, but starting August 1, virtual currency platform makers are expected to put in safeties that prohibit underage players from using virtual currencies — because doing such a thing might promote ‘unwholesome’ […]
Just two days before the official iPhone 4 release Apple delivered its promised iOS 4 update to all iPhone 3G and 3GS owners. The new OS release enables Apple's own variant of multitasking, organizational folders and lays the foundation for much of what we should expect to see from Apple over the coming years.
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vossman77 writes that BitTorrent is no longer the MPAA’s enemy number one. They are now more concerned about illicit, for-profit movie download sites. This reader adds, “Just a thought, but maybe if the studios offered a low-cost, for-profit, legitimate download site without DRM, they could receive the profits at the expense of the cyberlockers.” “Movie […]
Finding a reasonable gaming laptop without spending a ton of money can be difficult; finding one with DX11 support and high quality components for $1100? That's just being greedy, isn't it? And yet that's exactly what MSI's GX640 brings to the table. Sporting AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 5850, it's a slight step down in performance […]
Who makes the fastest mobile GPUs right now? That question can be a bit tricky to answer, since getting identical laptops other than the GPU is difficult at best. Thankfully, AVADirect was good enough to send us a couple Clevo W860CU notebooks that are indeed identical, outside of the GPU. One sports AMD's top-of-the-line Mobility […]
Two years ago the best SSD you could buy was made by Intel and it cost $7.44 per GB of MLC NAND. Today Intel is actually the value leader. The 80GB X25-M G2 will set you back $205 at Newegg, or $2.56 per GB. The performance crown now belongs to companies like Micron and SandForce. […]
AP - Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev visits Silicon Valley for the first time on Wednesday, eager to reinvent his country’s outmoded, oil-dependent economy — and lure talent and money from the high-tech capital.
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sciencehabit writes “Scientists observing the x-ray sky first noticed noise in their signals that was eventually ascribed to x-rays produced when the solar wind interacts with the tails of comets. Once alerted to this phenomenon, researchers then noticed that similar x-rays are generated when solar wind particles strike neutral atoms just above Earth’s magnetosphere, the […]
Our previous comparison between AMD and Intel laptops is now a year old, and plenty has changed since then. With a couple of the more recent releases on hand, it's a good time for another head-to-head comparison. Unfortunately, getting the latest AMD-based laptops can be tricky, so we don't have their recently announced "Vision 2" […]
Today, we take a look at an X58 motherboard from ASRock, the Extreme3. The Extreme3 is the next iteration up from the ASRock X58 Extreme, with the notable additions being USB3 and SATA 6Gb/s functionality. The good news is that ASRock have managed to provide the extra features whilst retaining a sub $200 price point, […]
Another year, another Computex. Every time it comes around, vendors attempt to tease and tantalise both journalists and Joe Public alike with concept models, previews, machines running really fast, and the ubiquitous booth attendants holding motherboards upside down. As part of our motherboard coverage here at AnandTech, rather than post separate news articles for each […]
Business intelligence projects fared well at the 2010 Computerworld Honors program, which recognizes IT projects that benefit society.
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The past couple of years have shown us a lot can be done with very modest CPU power thanks to Moore's Law. Everything from netbooks to smartphones rely on a new category of "fast enough" silicon that is more power than performance optimized. A number of companies are working on a similar approach to server […]
A few months back, Anandtech carried the review of the Patriot Box Office media streamer. Pursuant to a very good reception from readers, we have decided to start a dedicated home theater section where we will be covering products in this space. Of primary interest will be media streaming boxes, but we will also cover […]
theodp writes “Google faces an imminent California Supreme Court decision on whether an age discrimination suit against it can go forward. But that hasn’t kept the company from patting itself on the back for how it supports ‘Greyglers’ — that’s any Googler over 40. At a company of about 20,000 full-time employees, there were at […]
eldavojohn writes “Media darling Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, has been told by his lawyers to avoid the United States on the grounds that the US military would like to ask him a few questions about his source of the Collateral Murder video. Assange claims to be holding yet more video (of a US attack […]
We've been playing around with two OMAP 3430 based phones for a while now - the Nokia N900 and Motorola Droid. Though they aren't the newest smartphones to come across our bench, both are important baselines and still very relevant devices, each for totally different reasons: The Motorola Droid is the phone that launched Android […]
CWmike writes “With Monday’s iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. However, the first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer iPad, may have been left vulnerable to some or all of the 65 bugs. iOS 4 cannot be installed on […]
AP - The city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave final approval to the country’s first law requiring cell phone retailers to post the amount of radiation emitted by the phones they sell.
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PC World - Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security’s Web application firewall together with Trustwave’s own enterprise security tools.
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AFP - RealNetworks, the software company known for its media player that allows users to play audio and video, said Tuesday it was cutting about five percent of its workforce.
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AP - Intel Corp. and the Federal Trade Commission are in talks to settle an antitrust case against the chip maker, a move that could make it more difficult for rivals to pursue damages.
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NewsFactor - In another swat at Apple, Google is reportedly readying a music download service that could compete with iTunes (and Rhapsody and other digital music services). The Wall Street Journal is citing unnamed sources that reveal a Google-branded music play.
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Consider this one big step for SSD-kind: Intel just sent along a note letting us know that its X25-M and X25-V SSDs are now available at Best Buy. The drives appear to be priced competitively if you look at Best Buy's online listings. An 80GB X25-M G2 will set you back $230 + tax while […]
Fiberlink Communications thinks it can cut patch management costs for IT departments with a new cloud-based service.
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I've gotten this question a few times already so I thought I'd just answer it once publicly. The new Xbox 360 Slim we tore down yesterday does in fact have an IR receiver, it works perfectly with the Xbox 360 IR remote that shipped with the first 360s five years ago.
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AP - Gourmet may be dead as a magazine, but the brand lives on.
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Thirteen years ago I wrote my first articles on a Geocities hosted website called Anand's Hardware Tech Page. In celebration of our 13th year of operation a number of our gracious sponsors have provided us with hardware to give away to you. This site has and always will be yours, and as a way of […]
Tagging along with the launch of the Eee Pad and Eee Tablet at Computex 2010, ASUS has also unveiled a range of new notebooks. Amongst the new releases are fourth generation Eee PC netbooks, G series gaming monsters, eco-friendly U series notebooks, and the latest from the co-branded Lamborghini performance line. With these new notebooks, […]