Wednesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 5:59 AM on March 4, 2009

Wednesday

The Inquirer reports Nvidia announces x86 chip
C|Net reports Apple beats Intel to Nehalem-EP chip launch
DSL Reports: Comcast drops DOCSIS 3.0 on Bay Area
and Comcast, Cablevision NJ Wi-Fi goes live
DigiTimes reports TSMC expected to kick off Atom-core SoC production
in 4Q09 at earliest and VIA unveils a new form factor smaller than Mini-ITX
Hardware-Aktuell: CrossFire on nForce 740i board by ASRock (write-up in German)
DailyTech reports Asus teases with Eee PC 1008HA pics
Ars Technica reports subsidies follow AT&T into netbook market
Netbooks may offer hackers private data gateway
TG Daily reports Fusion IO builds 800MB/s SSD for hp
HardwareZone reports Governor Schwarzenegger at CeBIT 2009 opening
Expreview reports Gigabyte debuts Sumo case at CeBIT 2009
Fudzilla reports GeForce 9800 GTX+ to go the way of the dodo
[H]ard|OCP reports no OCZ recall
bit-tech interviews Microsoft's Bill Jukes about its new BlueTrack technology
EngadgetHD reports Panasonic's new plasmas include DivX
Maximum PC on computer data storage through the ages—from punch cards to Blu-ray

Business and legal news

Software

PC World: Does Microsoft's Kumo herald an era of visual search?
Screenshots: Microsoft's Kumo.com test search engine
Which part of Office 14 will be ad-supported? Web apps
Ars Technica's hands-on: Fat-free Xfce 4.6 has nice new features
Nvidia ForceWare 182.08 WHQL driver for 32-bit
& 64-bit Windows XP and 32-bit & 64-bit Vista
ATi-Forum has some new information about Catalyst Windows 7 beta driver (in German)
TechFlash reports Amazon unveils Kindle for iPhone
Microsoft Surface physics (videos)
ITreviewed on Check Point's ZoneAlarm Extreme

Gaming

VE3D reports Empire: Total War ships to stores; digital download confusion abounds
First Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 details leaked?
Ars Technica on the roots of rhythm: A brief history of the music game genre
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning patch notes - v1.2
Plans for Diablo II 1.13 patch
GamersHell has Fallout 3 v1.4 patch
TheTechLounge reviews F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Systems and storage

bit-tech's hardware buyer's guide for March 2009
AnandTech reviews CyberPower Core i7 920 system
TechSpot's laptop buying guide - March 2009
bit-tech's first look at Asus W90 dual HD 4870 notebook
FiringSquad reviews MSI GX630 notebook DriverHeaven reviews MSI GT725 laptop
Techgage reviews Asus N50Vn 15.4" notebook
InsideHW reviews Asus X59GL notebook
Motherboards.org reviews ASRock X58 SuperComputer motherboard
CPU3D reviews Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P
Björn3D reviews 6GB Patriot Viper DDR3-1600 triple channel kit
Hardware Canucks review 80GB Intel X-25M SSD
TechwareLabs video: Hard drive click of death explanation and live demonstration