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Thursday, 08 December 2011 07:00

US DoJ Investigating E-Book Price Fixing Too

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Although this is not really new information; it appears that there is enough evidence that the major players in the e-book market have been collaborating to keep e-book prices higher than they should be in the US that an investigation…
Wednesday, 07 December 2011 22:11

Gigabyte A55M-DS2 Performance Review Featured

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board06Although AMD’s future is far from certain we do know that they have been pushing towards lower power and lower cost devices. We have seen these in the form of their new APUs and their A75 and A55 chipsets. We have already tested the performance of the A75, now we are ready to take a look at the performance of one of the A55 based motherboards; the Gigabyte A55M-DS2. We have taken a look at the design choices and features so far and have come away with a bit of confusion as to where this product actually fits into the market. Now that we have put the board through our performance tests, let’s see if we can find out exactly where in the market the A66M-DS2 belong and if it is worth your time and money.

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 00:11

Intel talking to Google about Android

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Well, well, well. Remember how we told you that AMD is providing direct hardware and engineering support for the Android-x86 project? Well now we are hearing that Intel is working on Android for x86 too. However, instead of working with…
Monday, 05 December 2011 22:01

CarrierIQ, Not a Keylogger after all

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It looks like the CarrierIQ debacle was quite possibly be a case of Chicken Little meets the digital era with a sinister plot twist. A few weeks ago the news broke that a software researcher (Trevor Eckhart) had found that…
Editor's Note: This article was written by one of our own forum members PM_DMNKLR and was voted on by the community as the best written of the entries for November 2011. The article is reproduced here in the same format…
Monday, 05 December 2011 19:57

Kaspersky Leaves the BSA over SOPA

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With SOPA still a hot topic we are hearing about more fallout as lines are being drawn even between one time partners. We have heard that several members of the Business Software Alliance have asked the organization to pull all…
Friday, 02 December 2011 23:35

Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 Design and Feature Review Featured

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Intel is enjoying some of the most successful quarters of their life. They have launched what is arguably the fastest desktop CPU that you can buy and have coupled it with a chipset that is clearly set to perform. We…
Ok... remember how we told you that we had a suspicion that AMD might be working on an x86 based SoC.  We have already seen several signs pointing to a major push on something new and we know that AMD…
Thursday, 01 December 2011 22:32

Ivy Bridge Benchmarks Leaked

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You knew this would happen (as it does almost every time a new CPU is ready to hit the market). In the hype leading up to the release we always start to see “leaked” slides that contain pricing, technical details…
With everything going on in the world and the noise about SOPA the last thing we need is another scandal. Unfortunately that is exactly what we have with CarrierIQ, a tracking and metrics software that is reported installed on a…
With PCIe 3.0 just coming on to the scene the PCI special interest group (PCI-SIG) just announced that they are planning on releasing PCIe 4.0 sometime around 2014-2015. Now that is assuming we all survive the Mayan apocalypse, but if…
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 22:42

Is an x86 SoC AMD's next move?

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It looks like AMD might be taking a leaf out of HP’s book. According to a report from ZDNet Asia AMD will begin to shift its focus away from the desktop to the server side where the margins are much…
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 19:43

Karma pays a visit to AT&T

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Karma is a bitch they say and there are times when that is perfectly the case. The FCC was blocked from enforcing a level of net neutrality and also in its attempts to prevent carriers and ISPs overstepping their bounds…
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 07:20

Microsoft could be making Office for the iPad

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There is a rumor (according to CNET) that says Microsoft might release a version of their popular Office Suite for the iPad. Before you start slamming Microsoft or make the comment that Apple’s iWork suite is better/ just as good,…
Have you ever seen something on the Internet and though “that is the coolest thing I have ever seen!” well yesterday while looking at the state of the industry (as seen through various news outlets) I stumbled across one of…
Tuesday, 29 November 2011 06:44

AMD launches its own line of Memory

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The Internet is all a buzz with the news that AMD is now releasing memory that has the AMD brand  on it (it is rumored that Patriot is actually making the RAM). Many seem to be surprised by this new…