As we mentioned in our previous edition of The Cable Chronicles, Microsoft and CableLabs have come to an agreement to allow the installation and use of CableCARDs on unapproved and non-OEM systems, allowing for the wider proliferation of CableCARD equipped HTPCs beyond the handful of OEM systems that CableLabs had previously approved. With […]
If you’ve been keeping up with our articles for a while, you might have picked up on vApus Mark I: the virtualized stress test we created for internal use at the Sizing Servers testlab.
As detailed in Johan’s article, this bench consists of 3 separate applications, all of which we are very familiar with […]
AP - Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google’s search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what’s happening on the Web.
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Scientists suddenly realize that robots need ethics.
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AP - Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York.
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PC World - Intel’s decision to indefinitely delay its Larrabee graphics processor is a setback for the Linux community, delaying improved performance for users of open source operating systems. Competitors Nvidia and AMD, however, saw their share prices rise following the news.
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Could this be AMD’s comeback? It sure looks bold at a high level……
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The iPhone’s address book, which is accessible through both the Phone application and the Contacts application, helps you keep all of your contact information organized and easily at hand. But what if you want to enter information that’s not just a name, address, phone number, or e-mail?
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PC World - HTC’s roadmap for the first half of 2010 was supposedly leaked over the weekend, revealing what may be a lineup of new Android and Windows Mobile phones.
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For those of you sticking with Vista, Microsoft has finally officially released DirectX 11 for Vista, after having spent the last couple of months in beta. This final release looks to be the same as the last beta released earlier this month.
The update is KB971512, which is being released as part of a […]
We have a winner! We’ve also got AnandTech offered on Amazon’s Kindle and a preview of the new AnandTech site redesign. I hint about a call to writers and a potential reader meetup in India. …
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After nearly a year of serious waiting, the next Windows is here. Its arrival puts a stake in Vista, and may finally be what Microsoft needs to put XP to bed….
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With 2 Cypress chips on 1 card, today marks the day where AMD completes their takeover of the high-end video card market. It’s the fastest single card on the planet for $599, and quite overclockable out of the box. Goodbye GTX 295….
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The HP Mini 311 is one of the first netbooks to ship with NVIDIA’s ION platform. The question everyone’s asking is: does ION improve the netbook experience? The answer is yes, but there are other questions we still need to address….
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Tarinth writes “Google just announced its new Google DNS platform. Many have viewed this as a move to increase ad revenue, or maybe capture more data. This article explores those questions, as well as the actual benchmarking results for Google DNS — showing that it is faster than many, but not nearly as fast as […]
PC World - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to take a hard look at how it enforces consumer privacy standards in the coming months, with new rules for online companies possibly on the way, the agency’s chairman said Monday.
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A couple of weeks ago Marvell announced its ARMADA line of custom ARM based SoCs. We have a little more detail on one of its members: the 166E. Marvell hopes that the 166E will pave the way for affordable ebook readers in 2010….
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Looking for a laptop, netbook, or even a notebook this holiday season? We’ve put together our thoughts on the various price segments and have selected a few laptops worthy of mention for this buyers’ guide….
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AP - A new online tool from Yahoo Inc. will let users see and edit the personal profiles that the Internet company compiles about them to target Internet advertising.
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brothke writes “While there is a plethora of books such as Public Speaking for Dummies, and many similar titles, Confessions of a Public Speaker is unique in that it takes a holistic approach to the art and science of public speaking. The book doesn’t just provide helpful hints, it attempts to make the speaker, and […]
Symantec announced several enhancements to its storage management suite of software, its cluster file and cluster server system, that include the ability to recognize solid state drives used in tiered storage as well as full integration with Hyper-V.
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In our first P55 Overclocking showdown we take a look at the top boards from ASUS, EVGA, and Gigabyte. One failed, the other three made it through our torture tests. Find out which one deserves your attention if you are into serious overclocking on the P55 platform….
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PC World - Wi-Fi equipment vendor Ruckus Wireless has patented a technique that appears to be widely used to improve video on wireless LANs.
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InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems, which has been pretty much silent in recent months while awaiting its merger with Oracle, will open up on Thursday about the latest developments in its Java technologies.
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AFP - Google began adding real time results to its Internet search engine on Monday, channeling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries.
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An anonymous reader points out this report that a Canadian Supreme Court has broadened its interpretation of an existing law designed to punish adults who attempt to meet children online for criminal purposes; under the court’s interpretation, says the article, that would now “include anyone having an inappropriate conversation with a child — even if […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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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.
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]