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Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 2:55 AM on August 21, 2009

Friday

1. DailyTech reports Palm CEO rejected Apple CEO's call for truce on poaching employees
2. bit-tech asks, "Does Nvidia have a future?"
3. Forbes on a scheme for protecting content
4. Justice Department clears Oracle-Sun deal
5. U.S. wants to define broadband, opens wireless inquiry
6. DailyTech reports Rogers Cable launches 50 Megabit DOCSIS 3.0 service
7. C|Net reports potential Pirate Buy buyer could lose P2P partner
8. TorrentFreak on how The Pirate Bay wiil be legalized
9. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon band together to oppose Google Books settlement
10. Bright Side of News reports AMD to launch ATI Evergreen on historic USS Hornet aircraft carrier
11. VR-Zone reports Canon expands PowerShot line with 6 new cameras
12. TG Daily reports analyst sees shiny Apple TV set by 2011
13. Fudzilla reports Asus Eee keyboard to be seen
    in October and OCZ launches the Zee flash drive
14. Wi-Fi connection issue hurts iPhone 3G owners
15. Scientists make bendable, transparent LEDs—without organics
16. Digital Trends on the future of electronic paper
17. The top 100 malicious sites enlisted
18. PCPer podcast #70

Software

1. DailyTech reports Microsoft says it will temporarily stop selling Office if Word ban isn't lifted
2. Will two Windows Mobiles get consumers interested?
3. TweakPC's Windows 7 tuning and tips (in German)
4. 25 years of PowerPoint
5. TweakTown's Catalyst 9.8 Vista driver analysis
6. C|Net reports Google's 64-bit Chrome starts emerging—on Linux
7. Apple reconsidering C64 emulator for iPhone?
8. Gmail Blog: Mail and contact import for everyone
9. Stress tests rain on Amazon's cloud

Gaming

1. GameStop posts disappointing profit
2. DailyTech reports PS3 Slim gets new Cell processor
3. PlayStation Home v1.3 coming this September
4. Sony turns PSP into e-book readers
5. Linux got game
6. Developer follow-up: Battlefield 1943
7. Shacknews reports Crysis 2 images and movies tease new nanosuit
8. Mass Effect updated to 1200
9. Modern Warfare 2 texture streaming
10. Shacknews has Rage interview: id's Tim Willits and Matt Hooper
11. GameTrailers have John Carmack interview part 3 and Guild Wars 2 debut trailer
12. East India Company Privateer GamesCom trailer
13. DiRT 2 - Official game page
14. World of Warcraft client patch 3.2.0a
15. IGN presents the history of Warcraft
16. Joystiq reports Harmonix looking at Project Natal for 'Rock Band 3'
17. SuperSite for Windows has Wolfenstein (Xbox 360) quick take
18. The Steam weekend deal - Save 50% on 1701 A.D.
    and Killing Floor new content update and weeklong discount
19. GamersGate has Serious Sam 2 on sale for $14.95

Systems and storage

1. TweakTown's Windows 7 vs. Vista CPU & memory performance comparison
2. ProClockers review ASRock Ion 330 nettop PC
3. HardwareZone reviews Lenovo IdeaPad U350
4. SemiAccurate reports Intel to use Larrabee graphics on CPUs
5. Legit Reviews on Phenom II X3 705e and Phenom II X4 905e processors
6. Tech ARP posts mobile CPU comparison guide rev. 5.1
7. Gadget Lab reports hardware hackers create a modular motherboard
8. Expreview posts early pictures of the Asus TUF series motherboard
9. Preparing for P55: AnandTech on motherboards, memory, and Nvidia
10. HotHardware on Gigabyte Invitational Editor's Day 2009 - Lynnfield / P55
11. Hardware Canucks preview MSI P55-GD80
12. PCShopTalk reviews ECS X58B-A2
13. TWL reviews 500GB Seagate Momentus 7200.4
14. PC Perspective's SSDs roundup: Indilinx vs. Samsung vs. Intel

Multimedia

1. DriverHeaven's Radeon HD 4890 roundup: XFX / PowerColor / Asus
2. Neoseeker reviews VisionTek Radeon HD 4770
3. HT4U reviews MSI N260GTX OC Twin Frozr (in German)
4. Futurelooks reviews Samsung SyncMaster LD190 LCD monitor
5. InsideHW reviews Canon PowerShot D10
6. TWL reviews Genius GHP-05Live headphones
7. DragonSteelMods review Callpod Dragon v2 Bluetooth headset
8. Digital Trends reviews HTC Touch Pro2
9. TestFreaks on big 4 networks video streaming for the iPhone

Power, casing, and cooling

1. XtremeComputing reviews 550W OCZ Fatal1ty Series PSU
2. OverclockersHQ reviews Cooler Master SNA 95 notebook charger
3. OCC reviews Thermaltake Element T case
4. Hardware Secrets reviews SilverStone Raven RV02 case
5. CowcotLand's external HDD enclosures roundup (in French)
6. TechSeek.com Labs review Aerocool V12 and Touch-2000 fan controller panels
7. Benchmark Reviews and Hardware Secrets on NZXT Sentry 2 fan controller
8. FrostyTech reviews Scythe Zipang 2 SCZP-2000 heatsink
9. Hi Tech Legion reviews Cooler Master Hyper N620 CPU cooler
10. Overclockers Online reviews Tuniq TX-3 thermal compound