Wednesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 1:45 AM on September 3, 2008

Wednesday

Dell set to unveil mini-notebook computer: source
Apple's "Rock" event expected to unveil new iPods
Uncertainty for Sony Ericsson
Fudzilla reports new GTX 260 has 216 shaders
and Nehalem only supports DDR3 800 or 1066
DigiTimes reports Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restrictions for netbooks
Ars Technica shares a rumor: AMD planning to raise FX brand from the dead
TG Daily reports AMD to increase pressure on Nvidia
Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics
Zunerama on Zune 120GB price leak? And... flash Zunes in blue?
TweakPC on Abit's decision to quit the motherboard market (in German)
TG Daily reports on a new way to create 3D texture graphics—in a flash
Massive $208 million petascale computeres gets green light
HEXUS.net on laptop choices for under £500
Ars Technica on how the 'net works: an introduction to peering and transit

Software and gaming

Interview with Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, security & Windows
A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package is available for Windows Server 2003
InfoWorld reports IE8 beta 2 hogs memory, says researcher
Google's Chromium open source browser project
Chrome tops IE, Firefox in Acid3 test
Ars Technica, Techgage, and TG Daily p/review Google's Chrome web browser
SuperSite for Windows has Google Chrome screenshot gallery
and OTA: Over-The-Air puts mobile email over-the-top
Sony launches new PSP in Japan to battle Nintendo DS
Activision confirms StarCraft II for 2009
Resistance 2 starting November 4
Shacknews reports that Epic says Xbox 360 nearing its graphical limit
Mythic VP explains what went wrong with 'Hellgate,' why he wanted 'Age of Conan' to succeed
Gamasutra has 2K Boston / 2K Australia's BioShock postmortem
PCGH tuning: The Witcher Enhanced Edition
Shacknews has Left 4 Dead preview and new video: calling it
and Demigod hands-on preview
YouGamers on Shadows of the Lich King
FiringSquad reviews Madden 09

Systems and storage

Multimedia

bit-tech's AMD RV770 architecture analysis
Overclockers Club reviews PowerColor HD 4870 PCS+
Futurelooks reviews Zotac GeForce GTX 260 Amp!
HEXUS.net reviews Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ Amp!
TheTechLounge reviews PNY GeForce 9800 GTX XLR8 512MB
Motherboards.org reviews Palit GeForce 9800 GT Super+ 1GB
Hardware Canucks have GeForce 9800 GT roundup
ThinkComputers reviews ViewSonic VX1962wm 19" widescreen LCD monitor
Digital Trends reviews Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ50 digital camera
ThinkComputers reviews nMediaPC 2.4GHz RF wireless keyboard
with track ball & remote combo set

Power, cases, and cooling