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Report: New chipset revision to fix Haswell USB 3.0 bug by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:43 AM on March 13, 2013 Earlier this month, rumors started floating around about a USB 3.0 bug in next-gen Haswell systems. Hardware.Info, which broke the story, said the bug... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets	57
Rumor: Ivy Bridge-E pushed to Q4 by Geoff Gasior — 10:23 AM on March 8, 2013 Just about 14 months have passed since Intel launched its Sandy Bridge-E processors for high-end desktops. Their Ivy Bridge-E replacements are due out... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets	30
Report: Intel's Haswell suffers from USB 3.0 issue by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:22 AM on March 4, 2013 This story has been making the rounds over the weekend, and it's a little disconcerting. According to Hardware.info, which cites both a "reliable source" and... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets	77
Time Warner Cable: Not enough consumer demand for 1Gbps Internet by Cyril Kowaliski — 2:16 PM on February 27, 2013 Google is definitely stepping on Time Warner Cable's toes in the Kansas City area. While the cable operator continues to offer the same Internet and... Type: News story Tags: Internet	241
Google Chrome to get tab noise indicator by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:08 AM on February 26, 2013 Don't you hate it when you have a gazillion tabs open, and then one of them—you have no idea which—decides to start blaring some annoying... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	26
Chrome 25 supports voice recognition API by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 22, 2013 Voice recognition is showing up everywhere lately—phones, tablets, Macs, and even the desktop PC of one of our editors (but only because he broke... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	11
Firefox 19 introduces home-brewed PDF viewer by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 20, 2013 One thing I love about Chrome is the integrated PDF viewer. I don't have to watch Adobe Reader stall my browser anymore—and once PDF files... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	40
Microsoft to begin retiring Messenger on April 8 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:16 PM on February 15, 2013 I don't know many people who still use Microsoft's Messenger service. Starting April 8, though, that number is going to shrink rapidly to zero. Microsoft... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	36
Firefox nightlies now include Modern UI browser by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:38 AM on February 14, 2013 The Modern UI version of Firefox for Windows 8 has been ripening for a while. Development began last March, and experimental builds appeared... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software Windows	36
Newell wants Steam to be a network API by Geoff Gasior — 10:29 AM on February 4, 2013 Steam had humble beginnings, but over the years, Valve has turned it into the most popular game distribution service around. One could argue that... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet	45
Firefox to enforce 'click to play' for non-Flash plug-ins by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:09 PM on January 30, 2013 Day-to-day web browsing in Firefox is about to get a little different. According to a blog post by Michael Coates, Mozilla's Director of Security... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	28
Build your own cloud with BitTorrent Sync by Geoff Gasior — 10:38 AM on January 25, 2013 Cloud-based storage services like Dropbox and Mega just got some fresh competition from an unexpected source. The folks at BitTorrent have announced Sync, a... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	33
Megaupload sucessor to offer 50GB of free storage by Geoff Gasior — 12:24 PM on January 18, 2013 He's baaaack. Kim Dotcom's Mega service is set to launch tomorrow, and TechCrunch got an early look at what this Megaupload successor has... Type: News story Tags: Internet	33
RIP, Internet activist and Reddit alumnus Aaron Swartz by Geoff Gasior — 12:21 PM on January 14, 2013 On Friday, programmer, writer, and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. Described by many as a genius, Swartz had a hand in developing the RSS specification... Type: News story Tags: Internet	78
IE lets websites track cursor movements by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:41 AM on December 12, 2012 Microsoft has been campaigning to improve Internet Explorer's public image—and it's got a long road ahead if security oversights like this one keep popping... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	34
Downloaded documentary tells Napster's story by Geoff Gasior — 10:49 AM on December 10, 2012 Napster forever changed not only the music industry, but also the Internet. The seminal music sharing service was a revelation when it was released in... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Internet	14
New IE ad pokes fun at the haters by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:31 AM on November 29, 2012 Let's face it: Internet Explorer has an image problem. For years, Microsoft's browser was synonymous with sub-par security, poor standards support, and sluggish performance. IE... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	79
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 9:28 AM on November 19, 2012 For years, we here at TR have been quietly sowing the seeds of a Johnny Cash-meets-Darth Vader meme, which we expected to take over the... Type: News story Tags: Internet The Tech Report	28

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