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Presidents Day Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 1:05 AM on February 16, 2009

Presidents Day

1. VR-Zone reports AMD to launch Radeon HD 4890 (standard edition) in April
   and Nvidia's partners to demo several "new" GeForce cards at CeBIT
2. Intel's X58 chipset gets new B3 stepping (Intel's PDF is here)
3. DigiTimes reports Lenovo to launch 12" Atom netbook
4. C|Net reports Intel partners with LG on mobile Internet devices
5. CENS reports TSMC outshines UMC in leading-edge process competition
6. A brief history of chip fibs, flops: Intel, IBM, AMD
7. EE Times reports heat sinks claim unparalleled cooling power
8. Sony Ericsson unveils 2 phones, video service
9. NY Times on how Google decides to pull the plug (on their products)
10. The definitive primer to the Pirate Bay trial
11. Do we need a new Internet?
12. LA Times reports debt finally topples a Fry's exec (thanks UberGerbil)

Software and gaming

1. ST-Ericsson collaborates with ARM to demonstrate the world's first symmetric
   multi processing mobile platform technology on Symbian OS (thanks ClickClick5)
2. Windows 7 UAC whitelist: Code-injection vulnerability (and more)
3. CIO: Five ways to curb Windows upgrade confusion
4. Gizmodo reports Windows 7 build 7022 leaks, packs IE 8 and new enhancements
5. Announcement - Microsoft Recite - technology preview
6. CPU-Z 1.50 released
7. techPowerUp's Radeon BIOS Editor V1.10 released
8. Motherboards.org reviews Large Software's PC Tune-Up
9. Fudzilla reports indie developer Koru Entertainment announces Type 3 --
   a graphical juggernaut said to rival Crysis
10. Ars Technica reports science gleans 60TB of behavior data from Everquest 2 logs

Systems, storage, and networking

1. InsideHW reviews Lenovo ThinkPad X301
2. PCStats on Intel's 32nm Westmere
3. Legit Reviews has Phenom II 810 & 720 BE dry ice overclocking
4. X-bit labs review Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 and GA-EX58-Extreme
5. EPIAcenter reviews Jetway NC92-330-LF (in German)
6. Benchmark Reviews on 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 triple channel kit
7. TestFreaks review 160GB Iomega 2.5" silver portable hard drive USB
8. Overclockers Online reviews 4GB ATP EarthDrive
9. ReviewStash on Alfa 500mW 802.11g USB 2.0 adapter

Multimedia, case, and cooling

1. TechReviewSource on T-Mobile Shadow (2009)
2. Hardware Canucks review Beats by Dr. Dre headphones
3. Futurelooks reviews Cyber E Sports wireless Orbita mouse
4. Overclockers Club reviews Antec Nine Hundred Two case
5. X-bit labs review Sunbeam Core-Contact Freezer