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  1. Rob Williams

    Palm to Close All Retail Outlets

    From our front-page news:Things have not been looking too great for Palm the past few months, and many are questioning their future. Over the course of the last few years, they've had a class-action lawsuit filed against them for accident-prone Treo 600/650's, then last year we saw a Foleo...
  2. Rob Williams

    Should We Care About Window 7's Release Date?

    From our front-page news:Despite the fact that Windows Vista was just launched (almost exactly) one year ago, there has been a lot of Windows 7 talk recently. There have even been "leaked" screenshots, such as the ones found on this Chinese blog. If you take a look there, you will notice one...
  3. Rob Williams

    Microsoft Finally Turns a Profit with Xbox

    From our front-page news: Ahh, the Xbox 360. It's hard to believe it's already been just over two years since the console has first launched, but it's true. It's also true that it took that long for Microsoft to turn a simple profit. Incredible. Until now, they've been losing money on each sale...
  4. Rob Williams

    Harsh Lessons in Overreacting

    From our front-page news:I've been known to overreact and jump to conclusions in the past, but Marie Lupe Cooley takes everything to a new level. When she saw a help wanted ad in a newspaper that looked similar to her current position, she assumed she was soon to be sacked. Of course, the most...
  5. Rob Williams

    KDE Desktop Environment Heading to Windows

    From our front-page news: Earlier, I posted my experiences with the ASUS Xonar audio card in Linux, and to continue with that theme, Ars Technica has a first-look at the KDE desktop environment, which will soon be available for all Windows users. This to me, is a great thing. KDE is a...
  6. Rob Williams

    CoolIT Freezone Elite CPU Cooler

    Thanks Greg, I had no idea there were such notable changes like that. Talk about misunderstanding...
  7. Rob Williams

    Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Performance Preview

    I was referring to the desktop side of things. We don't review server hardware.
  8. Rob Williams

    DDR3 Price Premium to Shrink to 10% in 2H

    Nice win man! If the kit is one of their latest batch, then it should be pretty good for overclocking. I even managed to overclock their pre-release kit (last year) to DDR3-1500, so I can imagine the new stuff is even better.
  9. Rob Williams

    ASUS Xonar Under Linux - Does it Work?

    From our front-page news: After reading Rory's review of the ASUS Xonar D2 back in September, I knew this card was one I had to have in my possession. For the past two years, I have been using the Chaintech AV-710 and certainly got my use out of it, but I knew it was time for an upgrade...
  10. Rob Williams

    AGEIA Not Acquired, After All

    From our front-page news:We linked to a rumor yesterday, one that claimed AGEIA had been acquired. Not surprisingly, it has already been debunked. According to X-bit labs, AGEIA is denying any acquisition and boldly states that they have a road map in place and plan to follow it. AGEIA is...
  11. Rob Williams

    DDR3 Price Premium to Shrink to 10% in 2H

    From our front-page news: When Intel launched their P31 chipset last May, it was a definite step forward. The chipset itself brought some great new features to the table, and performed extremely well. It still retains its spot as one of the best chipsets available today. The most notable...
  12. Rob Williams

    Game Developers Choice Award Nominees Listed

    From our front-page news: I am not an awards buff... and gaming awards are no exception. If I like a game, then good... I don't care if it gets an award or not. But I could be a hypocrite, because I am somehow intrigued by awards for games voted on by game developers themselves. That tends to...
  13. Rob Williams

    Store coupon strategy...

    Here's a clever strategy for grocery-store coupons from The Simple Dollar: sit on your coupons for a month, then spend them. Coupons are often the leading edge of product promotion, which features progressively deeper savings. By waiting a month, you can apply your coupons to an already...
  14. Rob Williams

    DisplayLink - Multi-Display Setups with USB

    In a world where multi-tasking is a necessity, multi-display configurations are becoming ever more popular. DisplayLink is a new kind of technology that promises to take the hassle out of adding additional displays to your PC - even six is possible. Best of all, you don't need a second GPU. You...
  15. Rob Williams

    CoolIT Freezone Elite CPU Cooler

    As far as I am aware, the Freezone component in the Elite is absolutely identical to the original, minus the black guard. It becomes the "Elite" because of the included MTEC control module.
  16. Rob Williams

    Vista... sucks

    Did you try more than zero PCs? ;-) I ran into a problem with that OS on every PC I used it on. I remember the day I first installed it onto my own PC... I had a BSOD after the first reboot. It was with that, that I decided to go to Windows 2000 instead, which at the time, was far more stable...
  17. Rob Williams

    Rumor: AGEIA Could Have Been Acquired

    From our front-page news: Since AGEIA's PhysX PPU first hit the market, there was instant speculation with regards to how quick they'd be acquired, any by whom. After all, it would be a mighty challenge to develop, market and sell dedicated PPU units by the lonesome. Back in November, AMD's...
  18. Rob Williams

    Microsoft Changes Mind on Vista Virtualization, All Versions Now Allowed

    From our front-page news: You might recall during Vista's launch last January that many were upset due to the license not allowing virtualization on non-Business/Ultimate versions of the OS. Of course there was no need for this, and rather, it was a cheap ploy to have people purchase the larger...
  19. Rob Williams

    ATI FireGL V8650 versus NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600

    From our front-page news: Despite the fact that workstation cards are useless to us gamers, it doesn't even matter. The way we admire these cards can be compared to how we'd admire a fancy exotic car, with jaw dropped and wallets sobbing. Believe it or not though, some people actually need such...
  20. Rob Williams

    World of Warcraft Reaches 10 Million Subscribers

    From our front-page news: In March of 2005, World of Warcraft hit a staggering 1.5 million subscribers, and in December of the same year, it skyrocketed up to 5 million. Since then, things have begun to slow, not surprisingly, and it took another year and a half to finally reach 9 million...
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