Wednesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 6:16 AM on June 3, 2009

Wednesday

TweakTown covers AMD Fusion press conference - The future is Fusion
DigiTimes reports DRAM prices may return to cost levels in 3Q09, says A-Data chairman
and Nvidia's 5-year plan coming to fruition as GPU compute goes mainstream:
Q&A with Ujesh Desai, VP of product marketing
The Register reports US Patent Office backs Nvidia with Rambus rejection
AppleInsider reports Apple sued over methods for repeat iTunes, App Store sales
C|Net reports Court orders Dish to pay $103 million to TiVo
DSLReports: Comcast 50Mbps to see price cut
NordicHardware reports Shuttle shows Intel H57 motherboard
VR-Zone reports OCZ demos 1TB SSD Powess @ Computex
Nvidia's 3D Vision Discover glasses
Fudzilla reports AMD RV870 / R800 to launch this year
Acer to sell netbooks running Google's Android
TG Daily on Palm’s massive iTunes gamble: Are they nuts?
PC touch screens move ahead
HardwareZone covers Computex: Asus, MSI, and Nvidia
t-break covers Computex day 1 and day 2
Guru3D covers Computes day 0 and day 1
Follow Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2009
Website du jour: YouTube XL

Software

SuperSite Blog on Windows 7: RTM in July, general availability on October 22, 2009
Why Windows 7's netbook success isn't a slam-dunk
SuperSite for Windows: Windows 7 Starter? That's how they get you
Internet Explorer 6 forces Bing as default search provider
Ars Technica reports Hotmail access via Outlook Express dies on September 1
Betanews on Apple vulnerability patch count: 10 QuickTime, 1 iTunes, 0 Java
Opera releases first test version of new browser
Fudzilla reports Nvidia finally embraces DirectX 10.1
DailyTech reports Adobe, Nvidia partner to deliver GPU-accelerated mobile Flash
GamersHell reports Futuremark releases new benchmarks updates
The New Zealand Herald: Anger after Canada
guesstimated software piracy figures (thanks p645n)

Gaming

SuperSite for Windows: Xbox 360 at E3 2009
Shacknews has God of War 3 hands-on impressions
and Left 4 Dead 2 HD cam footage and Wolfenstein screenshots: Mystical Nazis
DailyTech covers Nintendo's E3 2009 keynote
TG Daily reports Sony debuts PS3 motion controller
Sony lifts curtain on new PSP
The Peregrine: A new glove controller for the PC
Oh Gizmo! reports Logitech unveils force feedback flight system
No Mutants Allowed has Fallout 3: Point Lookout DLC trailer
Final Fantasy XIV announced
World of Warcraft patch 3.1.3 has gone live
Demigod v1.01 released
bit-tech reviews The Sims 3
Gaming Heaven reviews Punch Out!! (Wii)

Systems and storage

TweakTown reports Intel keynote sheds light on forthcoming products
bit-tech's hardware buyer's guide for June 2009
PCStats has top 20 best ever beginner's guides - A wealth of info on DIY PC fixing
HardwareLogic's CyberPower Cobra Venom system review w/ Core i7 975
ITreviewed on Shuttle Prima SX58H7
VR-Zone reviews hp Pavilion dv2
TweakTown reviews OCZ Neutrino DIY 10" netbook
VIA Arena reviews Lenovo IdeaPad S12
AnandTech, Boot Daily, DriverHeaven, FiringSquad, Guru3D, Hartware,
Hexus.net, HotHardware, PC Perspective, Techgage, and TweakTown
on Intel's Core i7 975 Extreme Edition
AnandTech, Björn3D, EOC, FiringSquad, Guru3D, InsideHW, LostCircuits,
and Neoseeker review Phenom II X2 550 BE & Athlon II X2 250
TweakPC reviews Athlon II X2 250 (in German)
Beyond3D Forums on Larrabee - New crypto instructions unveiled
PCStats reviews Core 2 Duo E8500
iXBT Labs review Asus P5Q-VM
Motherboards.org reviews Asus P5Q Pro Turbo
PureOverclock reviews 6GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000
CPU3D reviews 6GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600 kit
Benchmark Reviews on 120GB OCZ Summit MLC SSD
Hardware Bistro reviews 32GB Kingston 32GB Class 4 SDHC