Tuesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Tuesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 11:35 AM on August 25, 2009

Tuesday

Yahoo to compete with Microsoft despite Bing deal
TechFlash reports antitrust experts divided as Microsoft, Yahoo seek approval
Yahoo retools email, messaging
The Pirate Bay taken offline by Swedish authorities
UK proposes cutting web access to file sharers
DailyTech reports Steve Jobs focuses on making upcoming tablet a hit
Apple spoofs Microsoft's Lauren, but avoids debate over price
Intel outlines process technology roadmap
Netbook pioneer Asus eyes recovery; bets on China
Asus Eee PC named European netbook of 2009-2010 by EISA
Asus introduces EeeTop PC ET20 / 22 Series - Multimedia enjoyment with a contemporary touch
Expreview reports Core i5 750 delivers an impressive turbo frequency of 3.2GHz
AMD to drop clock speed in 12-core chips
Fudzilla reports Propus and Rana to launch in September
and AMD plans 20W single-core in Q4
USB 3 chip will bring RAID to external drives
TG Daily reports Nvidia touts rapid GPU performance boost
Donanim Haber has official details of GeForce GT220 and claims
Radeon HD 5870 will be cheaper than GeForce GTX 285 (in Turkish)
10 things we hate about wireless carriers
A series of Michio Kaku videos that will blow your mind
Dealzon's deals: $30 off 1TB WD Caviar Green
and $30 off Toshiba Satellite 15.4" laptop and
$220 off Cisco small business RV016 10/100Mbps router

Software

SCO: 'Linux is a knock-off of our Unix'
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 RTMs
Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 release notes
The best security suites for 2010
Win32:Induc, new concept of file infector?
TechFlash reports Microsoft puts Twitter, Facebook on feature phones, but not in U.S.

Gaming

Apple unlikely to launch game console before 2015
Sony losing money on PS3 Slim
Sony boss reveals plans for PlayStation
PS3 firmware 3.0 last major 2009 update, but more tiny updates likely
Blizzard answers your questions at Slashdot
Shacknews has Battle.net interview: Blizzard's Greg Canessa
on the marketplace, LAN plans, and console potential
Creative responds to negative Napoleon: Total War reaction
Eurogamer: Pyro denies reports of new Commandos
Ars Technica: Behind the scenes with Halo 3: ODST
Batman: Arkham Asylum launch trailer
Qtracker 4.91 released
Shacknews reports Mass Effect patch 1.02 released
Dragon Age: Origins - Optimum performance with middle class hardware possible
What really happened? History according to Civilization?
Technic3D reviews Need for Speed Shift (in German)