Tuesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Tuesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 2:38 AM on March 24, 2009

Tuesday

DSL Reports has leaked tentative Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 schedule
and reports users can now buy Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 modems
EETimes: No rebound for PC market until Q3 2010, says Gartner
Best Buy bombshell: Bonuses paid to managers that
violate "price match" policy, former employees allege
DigiTimes reports TSMC resumes production as orders surge
Intel seeks to swap worthless stock options
Dell says IBM-Sun talk creates business opportunity
DailyTech reports Sony Ericsson warns of massive quarterly loss
TG Daily reports Intel delays "Menlow" Atoms, mulls increasing prices in China
Fudzilla reports Intel plans 34nm SSDs in Q4
and Radeon HD 4870 X2 not selling well
Phoronix reports ATI Linux drivers gain support for unreleased RS880
VR-Zone reports Samsung announces N310 mini-notebook
AT&T: New iPhone will be hot, son
Warner Bros. launches "made-to-order" DVD service
Detailing Netflix's streaming costs: Average movie costs five cents to deliver
CPU3D takes a visit to Boston - Specialist in servers
Digital Trends on the future of television and HDTV
Hexus.net: Win an Acer notebook from Misco
and give another one to a charity of your choice
Win an AMD Phenom X4 bundle from eTeknix

Software

Electronista reports Vista hits 30% while some XP users go Mac
Windows Home Server - Now available on MSDN
Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2
SuperSite for Windows on Windows Home Server Power Pack 2
Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0
Internet Explorer 8 tops NSS Labs' socially engineered malware test
The Register reports Stallman warns open-sourcers on Javascript-browser trap
PC World: Firefox may already be dead
PC Magazine reviews Google Chrome 2 beta
Nvidia 182.46 beta driver for 32-bit & 64-bit Windows XP and 32-bit & 64-bit Windows Vista
TweakTown's Catalyst 9.3 analysis - XP & Vista
Lavasoft's important notice: End of Ad-AwareSE definitions file updates
C|Net reports IM is coming to your MySpace profile
AVS Forum on mp3 HD - New lossless mp3 encoder - backwards compatible
Ars Technica's programming guide: The new text entry features in GTK+ 2.16
ITreviewed on Actinic Express v2.0.1

Gaming

Intel ships new tools that boost game performance
GameSpot UK reports from GDC 2009: World of Goo creators slime DRM
Ars Technica reports Sony tries to boost PS3 development with dev kit price cut
Gamasutra covers GDC 2009: Zeebo announces console launch,
'gaming for the next billion'
C|Net reports OnLive could threaten Xbox, PS3, and Wii
Joystiq: Is your Xbox 360 an E74 victim?
Play Xbox games on your cell phone
IGN has CryEngine 3 GDC 2009 demo
Havok 'AI SDK' demo
Rockstar Games announces Max Payne 3 for winter 2009
Kotaku asks, "So what's Mass Effect 2 actually about?"
id Software releases Wolfenstein-3D for iPhone
Doom: Fall of Mars is out
The Battle for Wesnoth 1.6 released
Ubisoft 24-hour sales week on Steam
Save 50% off Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition
Steam news - Wanted: Weapons of Fate now available
and TF2 & DoD: Source updates released
bit-tech reviews The Path
Gaming Heaven reviews Peggle (Xbox 360)

Systems, storage, and networking

Multimedia

Hardware-Infos: HD 4890 tested at 1000 / 1125MHz
PC Perpective's Windows 7 series: Nvidia and AMD graphics and gaming performance
Hard Tecs 4U reviews MSI Radeon HD 4830 (in German)
PCStats reviews Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI rev. B
Madshrimps review Galaxy GeForce 9500 GT voltage modification and overclocking
FiringSquad reviews Auzentech X-Fi Forte
Everything USB reviews Samsung YP-P3 Haptic touchscreen PMP
Ars Technica and VR-Zone review Apple iPod shuffle
I4U reviews Microsoft SideWinder X8 gaming mouse
Verdis Reviews on XTracPads Logic hard mouse surfaces

Power, cases, and cooling