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Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 1:00 AM on July 15, 2009

Wednesday

PC market to suffer first decline in 2009 since dot-com bubble
TG Daily reports sun sets on Sun Microsystems in prophet warning
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects additional
patent claims that Rambus is asserting against Nvidia
Semicon West preview: Fab 2 anticipation builds to a fevered pitch
SemiAccurate reports Intel drops a modular bomb
NordicHardware reports new SyncMaster 80 LCD monitors forthcoming from Samsung
eTeknix reports Nvidia responds to benchmark claims
TG Daily's editorial: The great netbook ripoff
The amazing world of version numbers

Software

Microsoft security bulletin summary for July 2009
Microsoft security advisory: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office
web components control could allow remote code execution
C|Net reports Microsoft's Project Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows, too
Windows 7 themes: Germany, Nature, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States
Windows Azure: Confirming commercial availability and announcing business model
SuperSite for Windows on WPC09: Microsoft networks with partners
Apple developers get new iPhone 3.1 and Snow Leopard betas
Donanim Haber: Android LiveCD is avaliable; Google
Android works on x86 PC (write-up in Turkish)
Want to put Android on your netbook? Try this.
Ars Technica reports Instant-on Linux vendors respond to Chrome OS
InformationWeek reports Firefox 3.5 vulnerability rated 'highly critical'
DirectX 11 computer shader: 3 times faster than DX10.1 due to local data share
Ars Technica reports 3D CSS transforms available in Leopard via WebKit nightlies
PC World touts Zoho office apps
DSLReports: Verizon promising application store

Gaming

It's true - Remedy comments on No PC version rumors for Alan Wake (thanks yogibbear)
CoD Prestige Edition to cost $149
TG Daily reports BioWare co-founder criticizes Activision's PS3 bashing
Shacknews reports Battlefield 1943's 'Coral Sea' map unlocked for Xbox 360
and Wolfenstein suffers brief delay (updated)
Quick intro to The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut
Empire: Total War - The naval gameplay enhancement (plans for patch 1.4)
Crysis Wars EX 1.0 released
Steam news: Team Fortress 2 and The Path updates released
Gamasutra on the history of Defender: The joys of difficult games
TestFreaks on the hardest video games of all time

Systems, storage, and multimedia

AnandTech on Gigabyte's GA-MA785GPMT-UD2H - AMD's 785G is here, sort of...
HotHardware's Gigabyte Lynnfield P55 motherboard sneak peeks
Legit Reviews on Asus P7P55D Evo
techPowerUp! reviews 16GB A-Data S805 flash drive
HotHardware reviews Pogoplug NAS device
ThinkComputers reviews QNAP TS-809 Pro NAS
InsideHW reviews AMD Radeon HD 4730 CrossFire
PCShopTalk reviews TRENDnet 7" wireless Internet camera and photo monitor
ProClockers review Eagle Tech Arion ET-AR504LR-BK 2.1 multimedia subwoofer speaker system
Digital Trends reviews Aiaiai Pipe earphones
Techgage reviews Logitech G19 gaming keyboard
TechwareLabs review Razer Goliathus gaming mouse pad

Power, case, and cooling