Friday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 9:51 AM on August 28, 2009

Friday

Gizmodo shares a rumor: Apple may be working on XL tablets running full Mac OS X
GPU performance to multiple a whopping 570 times by 2015 - Nvidia
Dell's numbers show PC industry staggering back
Gizmodo reports GScreen's dual-screen Spacebook coming soon(ish)
Fudzilla reports AMD 3GHz tri-core coming soon
Intel embedded pre-release seed board program
VR-Zone reports Corsair releases 8GB & 16GB DDR3 memory kits for Core i5 / i7
NordicHardware reports Symwave enables RAID with USB 3.0 storage devices
VR-Zone has more details about ATI Eyefinity Technology
ATi-Forum: R300 to R500 soon with no driver support (in German)
Fujitsu Microelecronics and TSMC to collaborate on 28nm process technology
DigiTimes reports TSMC continues to spend on equipment
U.S. unveils new rules on border searches of laptops
Italy antitrust probes Google on coercion claim
C|Net reports Microsoft's agency sued over Bing TV advertising
Room for another electronic reader? Discovery thinks so
Ars Technica: Maybe antiferromagnetism can speed up your hard drive?
PCPer podcast #71
Dealzon's deals: $100 off Lenovo C300 desktop PC, $206 off Dell Vostro for today
only, $40 off MSI Wind U120-024US, and Xbox 360 deals from Amazon

Telecom

New WPA with TKIP exploit presented in paper
C|Net reports insiders question label deal for The Pirate Bay bidder
Slashdot: U.S. gov. says all music downloads are theft
Revolving door between lobbyists, FCC continues
C|Net reports bill gives president emergency control of Net
Regulators open inquiry into wireless industry
DailyTech reports Time Warner Cable to offer online programs, FiOS TV market expands
Nokia unveils its first Linux phone

Software

Gaming

Microsoft: Xbox 360 failures 'well behind us'
Kotaku reports Xbox 360 not even at halfway point, no slim planned
Gizmodo reports PS3 Slim eats half the electricity of the PS3 fat
FiringSquad reports Sony touts new PS3 ads
Game industry's lobby crushes its opposition on anti-game laws
Top 11 gamers as found in real life
Battlefield 2 patch 1.50 dated, detailed
Modern Warfare 2 'leaked spec ops' gameplay (video)
Wolfenstein - Lite Server v1.0
Steam client update released
Gaming Heaven reviews Batman: Arkham Asylum
Technic3D reviews BioShock 2 (in German)
Steam's weekend deal: Save 25% on the THQ Collector Pack, which now
includes Dawn of War II and Ubisoft expands catalog worldwide—New
titles are 10% off until 9/3
Website du jour: Left 4 Dead University

Systems and storage

TechSpot PC buying guide - August 2009
VR-Zone reviews PROLiNK Glee TA-009 netbook
SemiAccurate reports Intel details Becton, 8-cores & all (thanks UberGerbil)
Donanim Haber has Core i7 860 tested; faster than Core i7 920 (in Turkish)
ATi-Forum: Athlon II X2 250 test (in German)
Expreview reports Asus rolls out 2 Absolute Pitch Series motherboards for HTPCs
Techgage previews Gigabyte P55-UD5
Hi Tech Legion reviews EVGA Micro X58 SLI
Hardware Secrets on everything you need to know about DDR, DDR2 & DDR3 memories
InsideHW reviews 2TB Verbatim 2-disk RAID external hard drive
Benchmark Reviews and HardwareZone on 64GB Kingston SSDNow V+ Series
Hexus.net reviews 128GB Corsair Flash Voyager GT
PureOC reviews 32GB OCZ Throttle eSATA flash drive
Netbooknews: How is a USB flash drive made? A trip to the Kingston production plant (video)
Björn3D reviews Patriot Corza NAS