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  1. Rob Williams

    Rogers Intercepts Personal Searches to Own Service

    From our front-page news: "Ugh" is about all I can say lately whenever thinking of Rogers, a company that loves pushing their customers' buttons, because it's fun, and profitable. After all, there's a blatant lack of competition up here, so they could easily pull off any stunt they want. Who's...
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    IT Guy vs. Dumb Employees

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    ASUS P-Series AMD 690G Barebone PC

    Rory has taken a look at ASUS' 690G-based barebones rig: What if you could build a sub-$500 HTPC that was slim, fast, and capable, without the headache of picking bargain-barrel parts to accomplish your design goals? What if it had HDMI and 7.1 audio? With the help of their Pundit series, ASUS...
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    AMD's HD 4870 X2 Gets Early Testing

    From our front-page news: When AMD launched their HD 4000 series last month, good things happened. Both cards (HD 4850, HD 4870) debuted at fantastic prices, and competed severely with NVIDIA's recent offerings. It was the first time in a while we saw such a thing. Well, what could top that...
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    Albatron Refuses to Give Up on PCI

    From our front-page news: When the PCI-Express standard began to overshadow AGP, some people were upset. Sure, AGP was still capable, but PCI-E was pushing things towards the future. Faster bus speeds, lower latencies... perfect for the ultra-powerful GPUs we see today. So with AGP pretty-well...
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    Microsoft Officially Drops Price of Premium Xbox 360, Adds 60GB Model

    From our front-page news: In a case of "we all saw that coming," Microsoft officially announced their plans to drop the price of their Premium ( or "Pro") console to $299 and release a new 60GB version at the old 20GB's price point. What we weren't so sure about was their intention to...
  7. Rob Williams

    Palit GeForce GTX 280 1GB

    With so many options on the market right now, what makes the GTX 280 a good choice for anyone? The fact that it is the highest-performing card out there sure helps, but it's still not for everyone. To join this club, you better hope you have one massive resolution to push. You can read the full...
  8. Rob Williams

    Hackers On Planet Earth Conference Next Weekend in NYC

    From our front-page news: For our readers in the New York area who are still not aware of the HOPE conference happening next weekend, take this as one of your last reminders! The 'Hackers On Planet Earth' conference will be happening between July 18 - 20th and will be the seventh of its kind...
  9. Rob Williams

    Voodoo "Unboxes" the Envy 133

    From our front-page news:It was only the other day that the veil was taken off of Voodoo's new Envy 133, and now Rahul Sood, CTO for HP's Gaming Business, has posted numerous "unboxing" pictures on his blog. You may just want to grab a towel to wipe off any potential drool. This thing is...
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    Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop HDD, Mobile 500GB 7200RPM

    From our front-page news: It hasn't even been long since we first saw 1TB drives hit the market, but here Seagate goes and throws 50% more storage into the same amount of space. Seagate claims that this bump is the largest ever, in the over fifty years that hard drives have been around. Of...
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    Amarok 2.0 Alpha 1 Released

    From our front-page news:It's been a relatively long-time coming, but the first 2.0 alpha release for the popular Linux audio player, Amarok, has now been released. Since 2.x is highly dependant on KDE 4 libraries, that desktop environment is required in order to run it. Those of you, like me...
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    New Technology Could Make the Internet 100x Faster

    From our front-page news: A group of Australian scientists at the University of Sydney have developed a new technology that could hopefully one day speed the Internet up without costing a dime. They use photonic integrated circuit boosts instead of fiber optic cables which can guide data in one...
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    Rogers Actually Listens to Customers; Hell Freezes Over

    From our front-page news: In a way, I'm speechless. Maybe, just maybe those thousands of unhappy Canadian voices finally got through to the folks at Rogers. Or, I'm seriously hallucinating. I'll take it as the former until someone pinches me. According to a press release from Rogers, the...
  14. Rob Williams

    iPhone Reviews Start to Trickle Out

    From our front-page news: The first batch of iPhone reviews started to come out late last night from the big three Apple reviewers: Walt Mossberg, David Pogue and Edward Baig. The verdict? It's what we all expected. The hardware and software have been long revealed to us all, which leaves little...
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    NVIDIA Supporting PhysX-on-Radeon Effort

    From our front-page news: NVIDIA's PhysX technology has been getting a lot of attention lately, and in case you happened to miss our coverage from two weeks ago, be sure not to skip it as we take a hard look at the performance factor, and also see where the technology stands today. But where...
  16. Rob Williams

    Mega Man 9 to Resemble Old-School NES Title

    From our front-page news: If you consider yourself to be a true gamer, then chances are that you fully believe that gameplay should always come before graphics. There is no shortage of great-looking games on the market today, but many of them fall far short in the gameplay department. I won't...
  17. Rob Williams

    Voodoo Envy 133 is Expensive, but Gorgeous

    From our front-page news: Big notebooks are out and small notebooks are in. I personally didn't realize how great smaller notebooks could be until I first took a look at a Hypersonic offering back in May, then proceeded by an ASUS offering which shared the same form-factor. I don't recall a time...
  18. Rob Williams

    Hasselblad's Kodak CCD-equipped H3DII-50 Offers 50 Megapixels

    From our front-page news: No matter the technology, people enjoy seeing higher numbers. Faster processors, more memory, more horsepower and of course, more megapixels. The company to reign supreme in that arena for a while has been Hasselblad, who are now offering the H3DII-50, a 50 megapixel...
  19. Rob Williams

    Hans Reiser Leads Authorities to Wifes Body

    From our front-page news: We haven't covered the Hans Reiser trial to any great degree, due to it not being something of particular interest to most of our readers, but it's a twisted tail regarding what used to be a very popular software developer. Hans was first accused of murdering his wife...
  20. Rob Williams

    Outside the US, iPhone Plan Prices are Asinine

    From our front-page news: With the iPhone 3G right around the corner, are you getting ready to make the 11th a fun-filled day? Many aren't, and unless you have been living under a BlackBerry, you'd know that most people outside of the US are getting the roughest end of the deal. The...
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