Friday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 4:28 AM on May 8, 2009

Friday

TheStreet reports AT&T is considering a $10 price cut for the iPhone's monthly service plan
C|Net reports Nvidia posts losses as inventory eases
and looks to Windows 7, 'Tegra' for growth
Betanews: Even more fusion after the latest AMD reorganization
Google's latest domination
Fudzilla reports new 45nm AMD Athlon IIs listed
DigiTimes reports Computex to go ahead as scheduled despite swine flu concerns
and Acer starts selling ultra-thin notebook
Engadget: Dell's $299 Mini 10v netbook spotted, SSD options added
VR-Zone: Asus Eee PC 1002HAE to be aluminum
Fudzilla reports SiS announced Atom chipset
Corsair Memory: Most dual-channel memory kits to be 8GB by year end
NordicHardware reports MSI follows with 1GHz Radeon HD 4890 Cyclone, handpicked GPUs
DailyTech reports Blu-ray players sales growing
TechDirt: MPAA shows how teachers should record
movies by camcording their TVs (thanks stefan231)
Threat Level: It's time to legalize personal-use DVD copying
bit-tech's hardware buyer's guide - May 2009
iXBT Labs post i3DSpeed, April 2009
PC Perspective's podcast #55
Win a Dell Outlet Inspiron 1735 from Hexus.net

Software

Report: Windows 7 retains Explorer fault known since NT days
Network World reports despite pledge, researchers release VBootkit 2.0 code
Ars Technica reports WGA dubbed Windows Activation Technology with Windows 7
Preparing for Windows 7 with the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor
SuperSite for Windows on upgrading to Windows 7
PC World's speed test: Windows 7 may not be much faster than Vista
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate is available
TG Daily reports AMD posts controversial virtualization value math
AnandTech investigates VMmark scores: Should VMmark be part of your hardware decisions?
Intel, Novell extend collaboration to drive Moblin adoption
Linux Today on what you should expect from Fedora 11
Nvidia GeForce / Ion 185.85 WHQL driver is out
GPUTool community technology preview 1
Phoronix reports AMD releases R600 / 700 programming guide
C|Net reports Google issues, then re-issues Chrome security fix
InformationWeek reports Android 1.5 coming next week
CPU3D reviews DVS Online Backup 2009

Gaming

Systems and storage

TweakTown reviews MSI Wind U100 10" netbook
InsideHW reviews hp Mini 2140
AnandTech reviews Core 2 Quad Q8400: Intel's $183 Phenom II 940 competitor
DriverHeaven reviews Athlon X2 7850 B.E. CPU / Radeon HD 4770
X-bit labs on Nvidia's Ion platform: GeForce 9400
+ Intel Atom and Foxconn BloodRage
Motherboards.org reviews Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P
X-bit labs 7,200RPM 2.5" hard disk drives roundup
and 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB... Does anyone want more?
Legit Reviews on 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200.4
Rbmods on 32GB Verbatim SecureDigital Class 6
Guru3D reviews QNAP TS-439 Pro Turbo NAS