Microsoft Flight Simulator X gets a little more real

Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 12:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Microsoft has partnered with Aero-News, a world wide real-time news service for aviation and aerospace.  Flight Sim X will be gorgeous already, but this partnership raises the possiblity of real time weather and other new and unique features.

The Quadfather gives a press conference

Subject: General Tech | July 28, 2006 - 11:51 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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An ATI VP gave a ten minute presentation on what the ATI-AMD merger will mean to consumers.  Head to [H]ard|OCP to find out what was said.

ATI CrossFire(TM) and Intel® CoreT 2 Extreme platforms now available

Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 05:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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MARKHAM, CANADA - July 27, 2006 - 'Boundless gaming' comes home today as ATI
Technologies (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) announced that leading system
integrators and OEMs from around the world are bringing to market the
powerful combination of ATI's RadeonR X1900 CrossFireT multi-GPU graphics
and the IntelR CoreT 2 Extreme processor.

NVIDIA® SLI(TM) SELECTED BY GLOBAL PC BUILDERS FOR INTEL® CORE(TM) 2 DUO LAUNCH

Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 05:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, CA—JULY 27, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced that many of the world's leading system builders have elected to launch new enthusiast gaming Intel Core 2 Duo-based systems exclusively with NVIDIA SLI technology.

But who will take care of the tubes?

Subject: General Tech | July 27, 2006 - 12:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Register was a fly on the wall at a meeting at ICANN where the USA has more or less given up control of that body in favour of more international control.  It will still be an almost exclusively English-speaking commitee, and it is yet to be seen if the decision will have any real impact on most peoples use of the internet.

Having trouble holding onto your mouse

Subject: General Tech | July 26, 2006 - 03:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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After gaming for 12 hours straight, do you find the mouse slipping out of your grasp, and getting you killed?  If you don't want to buy the weird mouse with the fan in it, take a look at what Think Computers found, Mouse Grips V2.0.

A warning for those a little slow on the patching

Subject: General Tech | July 26, 2006 - 12:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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With patch tuesday now immediately followed by explot wednesday, getting those Windows updates has become a little more pressing.  CNET has some info on the 2 newest proof of concept vulnerabilities, so patch before they find their way into the wild.

The sweet sound of ... neodymium?

Subject: General Tech | July 25, 2006 - 03:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Think Computers gave a listen to Altec Lansing's VS2321 Powered Audio System.  It is a 2.1 system that really doesn't take much space even less money, which sounds and looks good.

Kate 3.0b shows off Linux with a mission

Subject: General Tech | July 25, 2006 - 12:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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TECHGAGE looks at a new beta for a distro of Linux release by a team of Polish programmers, called Kate.  Very colourful and running Xfce4 to display the desktop.  Although a lightweight distro, it comes with Open Office, The Gimp, Super Tux and more.  The attention getter is updateos, a very easy way to upadte the entire system.

Taking control of Vista's image based install

Subject: General Tech | July 24, 2006 - 12:16 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Slashdot has linked to an article examining Vista's new way of installation.  Instead of many .cab files and other compressed data, the Vista disk is an image of a fully functional OS install.  Read on to find out what tweaks you might expect to be able to ad to it.

AMD and ATI Acquisition

Subject: General Tech | July 24, 2006 - 11:36 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Today, in a $5.4 billion deal, AMD and ATI announced their plans to combine forces to become an industry processing powerhouse. AMD's leadership in CPUs, combined with ATI's leadership in graphics and digital media processing technologies, will enable significant new product innovations, resulting in more integrated, open standards-based solutions to address customers' needs. AMD aspires to re-invent the industry as the customer-centric technology leader and partner of choice.

iPods of the future

Subject: General Tech | July 21, 2006 - 01:45 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Join Elite Bastards as they talk about the next generation of iPods.  From the features that will definately be included, to a wish list of things that should be.

Itty bitty mice for your laptop

Subject: General Tech | July 21, 2006 - 12:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Get frustrated by the touchpad on your notebook?  Even worse, you have a mouse with no middle button?  ExtremeTech reviews 2 mice for laptops that migth just have what you need.

We don't need no stinkin' story line

Subject: General Tech | July 21, 2006 - 12:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Scantily clad female wrestlers groping each other in a quest for the championship.  I can't imaging why [H]ard|OCP would be interested in a game like Rumble Roses XX.

"Are you looking for a wrestling game that features scantily clad 3D women wearing so little it

actually makes you uncomfortable to play in the presence of real women? If so, we found your game!"

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Look who just turned 700

Subject: General Tech | July 21, 2006 - 12:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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For their 700^th review 3dGameMan went recursive, and reviewed themselves reviewing hardware over the past 7 years. 

"After 700 reviews and over 650 video reviews, it's time to reflect. Take a peek through 7 years of

Rodney Reynolds Video Reviews. Rodney also explains how he got started doing video reviews and much

more. Warning: It will be funny at times, so popcorn is definitely recommended! Watch the Video to

find out more..."

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Intel Announces Management Changes

Subject: General Tech | July 20, 2006 - 04:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 20, 2006 —
Intel Corporation today announced that it is making a number of senior
management changes focused on improving the company's structure and
achieving faster and better decision making. The company also announced
that two senior executives will be retiring.

Pricing schemes in high tech

Subject: General Tech | July 20, 2006 - 01:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Zone is shaking their collective heads about how high tech pricing works, and how it is that companies who charge twice as their competitors are still around.

Intel Second-Quarter Revenue $8 Billion

Subject: General Tech | July 20, 2006 - 11:44 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 19, 2006 - Intel
Corporation today announced second-quarter revenue of $8 billion,
operating income of $1.1 billion, net income of $885 million and
earnings per share (EPS) of 15 cents. Excluding the effects of
share-based compensation, the company posted operating income of $1.4
billion, net income of $1.1 billion and EPS of 19 cents.