Black Friday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Black Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 2:28 AM on November 28, 2008

Black Friday

Asus plans to unveil $200 Eee PC netbook next year
Should Microsoft make Zune phone?
Ars Technica reports Intel rejects EU deadline, claims abuse of process
and SCO files appeal on ruling in Novell case
Rambus wins pretrial patent ruling against chip makers
Next-gen Kindle for early next year?
Fudzilla reports two Phenom II processors listed and
Smooth Creations launches a new SFF gaming PC
Asus offers Premium Service program for enthusiast motherboards
DigiTimes reports Intel to phase out Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU in Q1 09
Jepsen works to raise laptop battery life to 20 - 40 hours
DailyTech: the same chip with fewer transistors; hp's Memristor changes everything
PC Watch has VIA processor roadmap
PC Advisor reports Apple slammed for killing open-source iTunes
Apple made to drop iPhone advert
Apple sued over iPhone browser
HardwareZone's Sitex 2008 - the complete coverage
I4U publishes top 100 holiday tech gift guide 2008
AnandTech on digital cameras for the holidays
Hardware Secrets on everything you need to know about camera sensors
Hexus.net on what to pay for your DDR3 and DDR2 memory in late November 2008
tkArena has DRAM: an overview
Ars Technica gives thanks: top tech trends they're thankful for this year
TestFreaks interview Doug Smith of TiltMobilty / FuzeMobility
APH Networks on Lenovo customer service contretemps

The deals

DailyTech reports Apple slashes MacBook price to $899 for Black Friday
FiringSquad's Black Friday deals
PC World's best Black Friday deals
Kotaku lists Amazon's partial Black Friday gamer deals
Shacknews reports Xbox 360 games and DLC get Black Friday discounts
Hexus.channel reports AMD announces another round of desktop CPU price cuts
TechFlash's top tech deals
Crave on Black Friday deals you should know about
TechReviewSource touts Black Friday tech deals
THQ / Steam weekend craze
The Shacknews Thanksgiving thank-you giveaway:
win Fable 2, Fallout 3, and a PC-themed Grand Prize

Software

More MS08-067 exploits
November 2008 Windows update for Windows Home Server
Fedora 10 - fire it up
TG Daily reports Mozilla posts first Firefox 3.1 b2 release candidate build
PCGH has DirectX 10 on CPU via DirectX 11 - first benchmarks
Momentum for Microsoft DirectX 10.1 grows with major game titles,
next-generation 3D game engines, and Windows 7 API
Unigine's "Tropics" demo 1.1 shows DirectX 10.1 features
Continuing the Hotmail updates
SuperSite for Windows has making sense of Windows
Live Wave 3 part 4: Windows Live for Mobile
Speculation about Microsoft's Kojax
MSN to host launch of (RED) music service
Trillian 3.1.12.0 released
The Register reports Apple quietly releases Safari 3.2.1
Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome

Gaming

Systems and storage

Expreview posts AMD Phenom II 940 vs. Intel Q9400 benchmarks (write-up in Chinese)
InsideHW reviews hp Compaq 6735s
Overclockers Club reviews Asus P6T Deluxe OC Edition
Hexus.net on MSI Eclipse SLI: SLI or CrossFireX - the choice is yours
Techgage reviews Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5
Watch Benchtec UK unbox the Asus Rampage II Extreme on Hexus.tv
iXBT Labs review Foxconn A7DA-S motherboard
InsideHW reviews Asus P5Q3
Futurelooks reviews Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 Energy Saver
CPU3D reviews ASRock G43Twins-FullHD
ThinkComputers reviews 32GB Kingston SDHC memory card

Multimedia, power, and cooling