New Year's Eve Shortbread - The Tech Report

New Year's Eve Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 6:02 AM on December 31, 2008

New Year's Eve

Apple shares turn negative on Steve Jobs health "rumor"
Online holiday sales fall 3 percent
C|Net snags reports: VIA readying dual-core Nano processor
and Apple working on large-screen iPod Touch
C|Net: quad-core MacBook Pro on the way?
NordicHardware on A-Data XPG dual SSD 3.5" RAID enclosure
What will - and won't - Microsoft do in 2009?
TechFlash: Microsoft.com as search brand?
Fudzilla reports price cuts from Nvidia and ATI effectively boost GPU sales
ATi-Forum: AMD Dresden production 40nm GPUs for other manufacturers? (in German)
DigiTimes: hp asking Intel to ease restrictions on Atom processors, say Taiwan
notebook makers and Lenovo to reorganize business in mid-January, says report
Dell preparing senior management changes: report
Ars Technica: Antitrust - AMD, Intel, and the cases in between
Beyond3D reports PS3 cluster used in attack of MD5 cryptographic vulnerabilities
Gizmodo reports new BD+ copy protection cracked months ahead of schedule
Editorial: Should you buy Blu-ray?

Software and gaming

Systems and storage

Hardware-Infos: Phenom II power consumption released (write-up in German)
Madshrimps have Phenom in-depth performance scaling analysis
InsideHW on gaming performance: Core i7 vs. Core 2 Quad
Intel's Larrabee: A many-core x86 architecture for visual computing
and game physics performance on the Larrabee architecture (PDFs)
Overclockers Club reviews 6GB Mushkin HP3-12800 triple channel memory kit
Hi Tech Legion reviews 4GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 dual channel memory kit
TestFreaks review 128GB Patriot Warp SSD
Icrontic reviews 128GB RiDATA Ultra-S Plus SSD

Multimedia

Power, cases, and cooling