Thursday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 3:47 AM on January 22, 2009

Thursday

Staff finds White House in technological Dark Ages
Fudzilla reports Seagate to issue another fix for Barracudas gone belly-up
CNN Money reports Apple trounces Wall Street estimates
VR-Zone: Creative reports further loss - needs some Zii miracle
Seagate Technology reports fiscal second quarter 2009 preliminary results
C|Net reports Sony warns of first loss in 14 years
Microsoft expected to cut jobs as profit weakens
Intel to consolidate manufacturing operations; company to halt production at five older factories
Intel's annual IT performance report posted
Expreview has Intel's upcoming Pine Trail-D nettop platform detailed
Fudzilla reports AMD plans Athlon X2 7850
DigiTimes reports Acer considering to stop shipping the 8.9" Aspire one in 2Q09
TG Daily on the next Android smartphone
Microsoft's money backs an IBM adversary - again
[OC]ModShop on Intel and AMD: what went wrong
TestFreaks interview Davide Rutigliano, CEO of Art Studios Entertainment & co-creator of EFi-X
KY court blocks move to seize gambling domains

Software

Microsoft was advised not to brand Home Basic as Vista
DailyTech reports majority of Windows 7 installations will be 64-bit
Windows 7 deployment changes
Ars Technica: Is Microsoft working on a software center for Windows?
and paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar vs. the OS X Dock
Wired reports Ubiquity experiment may find a home in Firefox's 'Awesomebar'
BetaNews reports Mono 2.2 may overtake .Net in some critical categories
MacNN reports QuickTime 7.6 fixes 7 security issues
Futuremark launches Mirada, world's first benchmark for in-car graphical displays
tkArena on Pinnacle VideoSpin
Digital Trends shares digital photography tips: improving picture quality

Gaming

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg responds to statements made by Kaz Hirai
Sony and the "ten-year" console: Ars looks at the argument
Shacknews reports GameStop cuts off Dawn of War 2 pre-orders, supposedly due to Steam?
Custom PC reports Nvidia and AMD to accelerate gaming AI on GPUs
WoW Insider writes of the disaster of patch 3.0.8
Playing Left 4 Dead PC splitscreen with two Wiimotes
PCGH on Codename Panzers: Cold War - multi-core optimization but no DX10 support
and 26 years of virtual aircrafts
YouGamers review Rise of the Argonauts (PC)
GamersHell has F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin demo

Systems

Multimedia

Donanim Haber: AMD slides show Radeon HD 4870 X2 beats
GeForce GTX 295 in top games (write-up in Turkish)
Neoseeker reviews BFG Tech GeForce GTX 295 OCX
Boot Daily reviews Asus GeForce GTX 285 / 295
HotHardware reviews XFX GeForce GTX 260 (216) Black Edition
DriverHeaven reviews HIS HD 4870 IceQ 4+ Turbo
Overclockers Club reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 4670
Overclockers Online reviews Samsung SyncMaster 2463UW
Digital Trends reviews SageTV HD Theater
t-break reviews Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime
techPowerUp! reviews Sleek-Audio W1 wireless kit
Technic3D reviews Microsoft Sidewinder X8 gaming mouse (in German)
GPS Trends reviews TomTom One 130

Power, cases, and cooling