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  1. Rob Williams

    Conan O'Brien Visits the Intel HQ

    From our front-page news: When I received a press release from Intel titled, "Intel Teams Up Again with Conan O'Brien", I had to check it out right away. In just what way could Intel have anything to do with the new Tonight Show host? Well, the company is sponsoring the show throughout the...
  2. Rob Williams

    GOG.com - Breathing New Life into Old Games

    Are you a classic PC gamer looking for a new place to pick up some games? Enter GOG.com. This service currently offers well over 100 titles spanning nearly twenty years, and all are offered at reasonable prices. To make the deal even sweeter, in addition to included perks for each game, there's...
  3. Rob Williams

    Our Processor Testing Suite

    Hi all: As you're probably all aware by now, we're in the midst of upgrading all of our various methodologies on the website, and now that our graphics card test suite is all sorted out, it's time to tackle the next one: processors. For the most part, we've been using the exact same base for...
  4. Rob Williams

    Intel touts supercomputer dominance

    Intel today sent out a press release touting the fact that their processors can be found inside of 80% of the world's super computers. Not a bad feat. Now if only I could get one of these supercomputers in for testing... HAMBURG, Germany, June 23, 2009 – More supercomputers than ever are using...
  5. Rob Williams

    Intel and Nokia Expand Partnership to Develop Future Mobile Standard

    From our front-page news:Psst... guess what? Did you realize that mobile computing is ultra-popular? Of course you do. In fact, it might be impossible to not realize the fact. Ten years ago, cell phones were beginning to catch on, but they were far from being so popular that everyone owned one...
  6. Rob Williams

    OCZ Launches Sabre OLED Gaming Keyboard

    From our front-page news:Back at CES, OCZ showed off a rather unique gaming peripheral... the Sabre OLED keyboard. The concept of putting OLED on a keyboard isn't new, and it was pretty much the Optimus Maximus that put the technology on the map, but with OCZ's Sabre, the board is designed in...
  7. Rob Williams

    Kingston HyperX Contest for Canucks

    From our front-page news: You know what Canadians don't get enough of? The right to enter contests! It's true... growing up, I recall that most contests that remotely interested me, were inaccessible due to me living in Canada. "Bah", I said, and I simply gave up on contests entirely after some...
  8. Rob Williams

    Antec 1000W Quattro... dead.

    I've never had a power supply die within two months of use before... but I guess there's a first time for everything. I purchased (yes, I actually bought something) an Antec TruePower Quattro 1000W early last year for use in our Skulltrail article, after which point it was thrown in the closet...
  9. Rob Williams

    An Open Letter on the State of Video Games

    Senior Editor Brett Thomas has been spending a lot of time analyzing the video games industry recently, and come up with an interesting set of findings. In an open letter to the entire sector, he discusses the challenges facing gaming, the quickly changing landscape and some strategies to keep...
  10. Rob Williams

    Does MobileMark Need to Change Its Focus?

    From our front-page news: At Techgage, we take our benchmarking methodologies seriously, as evidenced by my post from earlier today. In order us to feel completely confident in our results, we need to make sure that we exhaust our methods from all angles, making sure that the room for error is...
  11. Rob Williams

    VirtualBox 3.0 Introduces Direct3D and OpenGL Support

    From our front-page news:I've made my love for virtualization well-known in our news section a few times in the past few months, and the reason is obvious, but simple: it's useful. I've been running Windows XP inside of my desktop Linux for months now, and haven't had much of an issue. It sure...
  12. Rob Williams

    Simplifying Intel's Processor Naming Scheme

    From our front-page news: If there's one thing manufacturers are starting to clue into, it's the fact that product naming schemes are far too confusing for the regular consumer. Take, for example, the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO and the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+. One is vastly superior to the other, but...
  13. Rob Williams

    Minecraft: The Blocky Sky's the Limit

    From our front-page news:Every so often, I'll stumble on a game that seems rather simplistic and boring at first, but becomes incredibly addictive fast. When a friend linked me to "Minecraft", I wasn't sure what to think. Each level is generated on the fly, and it's there for you to alter...
  14. Rob Williams

    NVIDIA's Betting Big on Tegra

    From our front-page news: For most enthusiasts, hearing the name "NVIDIA" invokes thoughts of graphics cards, GPUS, more graphics cards and even more GPUs. But according to the company's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, a few years down the road, the company is going to be known for a lot more than that...
  15. Rob Williams

    Moore's Law to Die Due to the Expense?

    From our front-page news: Yesterday, we posted about GlobalFoundries' demonstration of silicon built on a 22nm node, and according to some reports, that's just about as low as we're going to be able to go, at least for a while. According to market research company iSuppli, Moore's Law is going...
  16. Rob Williams

    Travel with Techgage: Taiwan for Computex 2009

    Our Computex 2009 coverage is long done with, but this article isn't about what we saw on the show floor or learned during a meeting. Rather, this article takes a look at things from a different angle: the experience. We'll talk both about what life is like during these trips, and in this...
  17. Rob Williams

    Next-Gen Consoles to Launch Sooner than Expected?

    From our front-page news: Throughout the history of video gaming, we've always been able to expect a new console "in a few years", and that rule of thumb has kept rather consistent. Since the turn of the century though, things have changed dramatically in the game console landscape, some for...
  18. Rob Williams

    Apple's Updated MacBook Pro's Deliver Outstanding Battery-Life

    From our front-page news: At last week's WWDC, Apple had much to show off, including OS X Snow Leopard, Safari 4, iPhone 3G S and of course, the revised MacBook Pro line-up, which introduced for the first time, a 13-inch model. One of the biggest things taken away from the conference was the...
  19. Rob Williams

    The ASUS MARS GPU is... expensive!

    The MARS dual-GTX 285 card that ASUS was showing off at Computex is produced in a limited quantity (1,000), so we already knew that the price was going to be high. But now that it's available for "pre-order" at SCAN, we can see it's actually going to be sold for a lot more than anyone probably...
  20. Rob Williams

    Globalfoundries Details Technology Aimed at 22nm and Beyond

    From our front-page news:In the fall of 2007, Intel helped kick off the 45nm life-cycle with the help of their Core 2 Extreme QX9650, and since then, 45nm has become pretty much the standard (with AMD releasing their first 45nm processors late last year). The next step is 32nm, and it looks as...
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