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Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 4:52 AM on March 6, 2009

Friday

1. Hexus.channel reports Abit closes down entirely
2. iSuppli reports credit crisis finally impacts PC market in Q4
3. DigiTimes reports Acer, hp, Dell, and Lenovo included
   in China stimulus program, Asus rejected
4. C|Net has report: Taiwan to overhaul memory chip industry
5. DailyTech reports EU eliminates full-time monitoring of Microsoft for antitrust compliance
6. President Obama's CIO pick brings new meaning to term "federal Googlement"
7. Google letting cash "pile up": CEO
8. Beyond3D's analysis: Intel - TSMC announcement more complex than reported
9. Fudzilla reports RV790 GPU to come shortly
10. ATi-Forum reports ATI will quit partnership with some
    AIB and get new partners (write-up in German)
11. GPU Café reports ATI already using 5GHz GDDR5
12. Expreview reports Asus offers Formula Series graphics cards at CeBIT
13. DriverHeaven, HardwareZone, and InsideHW cover CeBIT 2009
14. HardwareZone's IT Show 2009 preview
15. DailyTech reports Samsung Q1EX UMPC now available
16. C|Net reports 4G race gaining speed, data says
17. DSL Reports: Targeted cable ads based on income, ethnicity, or gender
18. Ars Technica on darknets and the future of P2P investigators

Software

1. Phoronix reports Catalyst 9.3 will be the last unified release
   that supports all Radeon GPUs going back to the R300 series
2. The Register reports zero-day Adobe PDF peril goes click-free
3. PCGH has 5 Windows 7 Editions confirmed: Special Starter Edition for netbooks planned
4. Microsoft security bulletin advance notification for March 2009
5. C|Net reports Office 14 crawls toward beta
6. SuperSite for Windows has Windows 7 feature focus: BitLocker To Go
7. Behind the scenes at Microsoft Live Labs: The process
8. Maximum PC's browser battle: Nine browsers of today and tomorrow compared
9. TechSpot: Access multiple email accounts with Gmail in 3 easy steps
10. TechDomain Australia reviews GigaTribe private P2P software

Gaming

1. VR-Zone reports Sony considering Larrabee for future PlayStation
2. Rumor killers: Sony "no PS3 price cut"
3. Fudzilla: Could sales of the Xbox Elite be ending?
4. Amazon.com's video game trade-in store launches with 1,500+ eligible titles
5. Steam news: Unreal Tournament III free weekend - on now
6. PCGH on Sacred 2 with PhysX patch: Video shows effects
7. UT3 Titan Expansion and patch download mirrors
8. Shacknews reports Empire: Total War patch due next week
9. Team Fortress 2 update released
10. Website du jour: There's Something in the Sea - What's coming in BioShock 2
11. Beatles getting 'Rock Band' game
12. bit-tech shows how AI in games works
13. GamersHell has HardwareOC Crysis Warhead benchmark v1.2 & Crysis benchmark v1.5
14. Gaming Heaven and ITreviewed on Tom Clancy's HAWX
15. Gaming Heaven reviews Tomb Raider Underworld: Beneath the Ashes
16. ITreviewed on Resident Evil 5

Systems and storage

1. HotHardware reviews Dell XPS 625 Phenom II gaming system
2. Hard Tecs 4U on practical power consumption of
   Phenom II and Core 2 Quad processors (in German)
3. SilentPCReview's AMD 790GX showdown: Gigabyte vs. MSI
4. Madshrimps have 1000GB OCZ Z-Drive SSD performance preview at CeBIT
5. Hardware Canucks review 128GB Patriot Warp v2 SSD
6. TestFreaks review 16GB OCZ Diesel USB 2.0 flash drive

Multimedia

1. Overclockers Club reviews Leadtek Winfast GTX 260 Extreme+
2. Big Bruin reviews Sparkle GeForce 9800 GTX+
3. Elite Bastards review Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate 512MB
4. InsideHW reviews Samsung 2433BW display
5. SilentPCReview on AMD Maui: Ultimate HTPC integration
6. Futurelooks reviews SanDisk Sansa slotMusic music player
7. TweakTown reviews Razer Carcharias gaming headset

Casing and cooling

1. Legit Reviews on Cooler Master Storm Sniper case
2. Motherboards.org reviews Thermaltake Spedo Advanced Package case
3. Ap0calypse reviews Thermaltake BlacX eSATA hard drive docking station
4. PCStats reviews IcyDock MB673SPF-B 3-bay tooless hard drive bay module
5. [H] Enthusiast reviews Thermaltake SpinQ, A1VS, and BigTyp 14 Pro
6. PC Perspective reviews Thermaltake SpinQ CPU cooler
7. Hi Tech Legion reviews Noctua NH-C12P CPU cooler
8. Björn3D reviews Coolink Chilla Ramic