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- Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration
In recent months, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have really managed to squeeze impressive amounts of performance out of their respective web browsers, making page rendering and web applications noticeably snappier with each release. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 lags behind a bit in current benchmarks, but the IE team has a...
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Last by FubbHead at 1:10 AM on 11/22/09 - Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server arrives next week
Atom-based home servers are ganging up on shoppers this holiday season, promising perks like centralized data storage, automated backups, and media streaming at bargain prices. According to the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft will add icing to the cake next week by patching in full Windows 7 support to...
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Last by UberGerbil at 3:58 AM on 11/21/09 - Fixed TRIM firmware for 34-nm X25-Ms due this month
If you have one of Intel's new 34-nm solid-state drives and are waiting on TRIM firmware that doesn't brick your drive, good news. Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group has posted an update on the Intel Support Community forums, promising a fixed firmware update will be...
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Last by Lazier_Said at 2:20 PM on 11/20/09 - OCZ lets loose the Colossus
After five months in limbo, the Colossus has finally made it out into the wild. We speak, of course, of OCZ's new 3.5" solid-state drive family, which combines impressive performance with even more impressive capacities thanks to a...
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Last by LoneWolf15 at 1:40 PM on 11/19/09 - Microsoft warns of Windows 7 zero-day flaw
Is this the first zero-day security vulnerability in Microsoft's new operating system? According to ComputerWorld, Microsoft has confirmed the presence of a flaw through which attackers could crash Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Reportedly, exploiting the flaw can bog down those operating systems "so thoroughly that the...
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Last by TO11MTM at 7:58 PM on 11/17/09 - Microsoft exec says Win7 borrows from OS X, Microsoft disagrees
Sometimes, you just can't help sticking your foot in your mouth. In an interview with British site PCR yesterday, Microsoft Partners Group Manager Simon Aldous did just that by saying the Windows team had taken cues from Apple's Mac OS X when designing Windows 7. He went so far...
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Last by Welch at 11:54 AM on 11/13/09 - Windows 7 now has 4% of the PC market
Last week, we told you that early Windows 7 retail sales had eclipsed early Vista sales by a staggering 234%. Do usage share numbers reflect that popularity? Yes, according to new Net Applications figures gathered by the folks at eWeek. According to Net Applications' usage share data, which is...
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Last by zima at 7:23 PM on 11/15/09 - TR's 10th: The dawn of solid-state storage, yet more winners revealed
These days, mechanical storage has gotten so dense and so cheap that only $30-40 separates 500GB 3.5" hard drives from their 1TB brethren. Yet strangely, that's not what everybody is getting excited about. Solid-state drives have become the new...
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Last by indeego at 11:40 AM on 11/12/09 - New OCZ SSDs to include SandForce controllers
OCZ will soon start treading new ground in the solid-state drive world. The company has teased a brand new line of drives based on controllers from little-known startup SandForce. While OCZ is keeping specs under lid for now—more details will follow in the weeks leading up to the Consumer Electronics...
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Last by gone at 6:06 AM on 11/11/09 - Corsair adds 32GB, 64GB Survivor GT thumb drives
Ever taken a USB thumb drive scuba diving and run out of storage capacity? Well, you can now avoid that conundrum: Corsair has added 32GB and 64GB models to its Survivor line of durable flash drives. The new Survivor GT drives feature the same "super-strong, CNC-milled, aircraft-grade aluminum casing" as their...
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Last by gone at 5:57 AM on 11/11/09 - Intel working on fix for latest SSD firmware issue
Well, all those user reports weren't flukes. Intel has posted a note on the Support Community forum saying it managed to reproduce a bricking problem induced by its latest solid-state-drive firmware update, and that the company is working on a fix. Here's the meaty part from the message by Alan...
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Last by VaultDweller at 10:03 AM on 11/10/09 - Early Windows 7 unit sales beat Vista's by 234%
So far, the hype surrounding Windows 7 has been much more positive than what accompanied Windows Vista. Has all the upbeat chatter translated into higher popularity? Yes, according to early numbers from NPD. The research firm writes that, in the United States, unit sales of boxed Windows 7 copies eclipsed...
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Last by droopy1592 at 12:29 PM on 11/09/09 - Toshiba crams 320GB into new 1.8-inch hard drive
Hard-drive makers don't just ramp capacities in their 3.5" and 2.5" products—teeny 1.8" drives are also quietly growing in storage density. This morning, Toshiba announced a new 1.8" mechanical hard drive lineup, the MK3233GSG series, which combines capacities...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 3:01 PM on 11/08/09 - Super Talent unveils USB 3.0 flash drive
Now that both Asus and Gigabyte have USB 3.0-compatible motherboards on the way, the next step is devices. Super Talent hasn't skipped a beat, announcing a trio of USB 3.0 flash drives with hefty capacities and impressive top transfer speeds. The new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive series includes...
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Last by spanky1off at 9:10 PM on 11/05/09 - Kingston, Paramount offer movies on flash drives
Is this the beginning of the end for DVDs and Blu-ray? Only time will tell, but today's news still seems like a step in that direction: Kingston and Paramount Digital Entertainment have partnered up to distribute movies on USB and SD flash products. The agreement covers "full-length motion picture feature films,"...
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Last by KoolAidMan at 9:56 PM on 11/04/09 - WD gets into the Serial Attached SCSI business
Look out, Hitachi, Seagate, and Toshiba. Western Digital has amped up its enterprise product line by introducing the S25, its very first hard drive with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, 10,000-RPM spindle speed, and 2.5" form factor. A look...
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Last by UberGerbil at 2:08 AM on 11/04/09 -
A quick look at Kanguru's e-Flash eSATA/USB thumb drive
Who needs USB 3.0?
A new hybrid eSATA/USB connector nicely marries the two standards to provide external storage devices with plenty of bandwidth and adequate power. We take a look at Kanguru's hybrid e-Flash drive to see if it's a worthwhile upgrade over standard USB thumb drives.
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Last by d0g_p00p at 12:04 PM on 11/05/09 - Intel, Numonyx announce phase-change memory breakthrough
Get ready to say goodbye to system RAM and flash-based solid-state drives... eventually. After several years of joint research, Intel and Numonyx, the chipmaker's former NOR flash division, have announced a "key breakthrough" in the development of phase-change memory (PCM): a 64Mb test chip that "enables the ability to...
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