Thursday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 3:30 AM on April 30, 2009

Thursday

DSLReports: Verizon calls Cablevision's 101Mbps 'a parlor trick'
DailyTech: Metered bandwidth Internet pricing is coming, says ACA
Apple building chip design capability: report
techPowerUp! reports XFX readying 1GB Radeon HD 4770 variant
Fudzilla reports HD 4770 has great OC potential
NordicHardware reports Asus overclocks Radeon HD 4770 and OWC
introduces USB 2.0 display adapter—easily add additional displays to Macs & PCs
Engadget reports Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285 coming to Macs in June
Fudzilla has early Intel Havendale benchmark figures
TG Daily's Mike Magee reports AMD, Intel & others sued over CPU execution
C|Net shares a rumor: Motorola readying first Android phone
Palm Pre costs $170 to make: iSuppli
DigiTimes reports Acer chairman confirms Timeline ultra-thin notebook production problems
Ars Technica reports France reintroduces three-strikes law, clash with EU likely
PC Perspective's GOOC 2009 regional finals coverage
Technology & Business has history of Sun Microsystems quiz
bit-tech on the future of artificial intelligence
Hexus.winners competitions
XSReviews has an update to the Eteknix competition controversy

Software

Slashdot: Microsoft to disable Autorun
Gizmodo reports Windows 7's XP mode to require 2GB of RAM, true processor virtualization
More Windows 7 XP mode questions and more Microsoft answers
The Inquirer opines XP mode in Windows 7 is a scam
ATi-Forum reports Catalyst 9.5 comes on 13th May (write-up in German)
Ars Technica has details about iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4 and prerelease iTunes 8.2
Gizmodo reports iTunes 8.2 may point to Blu-ray on Macs
2Manydownloads has EVGA Precision 1.7.1

Gaming

Steam news: L4D freaky free Friday coming on Steam
Shacknews has an interview: Valve's Robin Walker on item drops & the future of Team Fortress 2
InformationWeek reports Sony expected to unveil new PSP in June
Fallout 3 1.5 patch
Crysis Wars 1.5 patch
FileShack and Steam have Dawn of War II official soundtrack as a free download
bit-tech's Dante's Inferno hands-on preview

Systems and storage

Multimedia

Hexus.net's first look at Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Atomic: Ramping up to 1,000MHz core
lab501's AMD Radeon HD 4770 review with CrossFire benchmarks (in Romanian)
t-break reviews Zotac GeForce GTX 295
Digital Trends reviews hp LaserJet P2035n
ThinkComputers reviews Hiyatek 7-port USB hub
Phoronix reviews OCZ Behemoth laser gaming mouse

Power, cases, and cooling