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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 3:53 PM on September 10, 2009

Thursday

1. DigiTimes reports Asus sees on-month increase, while
   MSI and Gigabyte see decline in August 2009 revenues
2. Ars Technica and Engadget have Apple event recaps
3. TG Daily reports Intel comes under pressure from ARM
4. Asus utilizes new processors and built-in parallel
   computing support to deliver incredible performance
5. Adaptec launches MaxIQ SSD cache performance solution for
   maximum application acceleration in data center environments
6. Fudzilla reports RV870 pricing and name revealed
7. VR-Zone reports on first AMD Radeon HD 5870 performance numbers
8. AMD Radeon HD 5870 reportedly caught on camera
9. Hardware-Infos has final specs for HD 5870 and 5850
   and reports HD 5850 / 5870: 1600SPs and 80 TMUs
10. Fudzilla reports AMD 890GX chipset runs at 700MHz
11. Ars Technica reports CableCARD now a go for homebrew
    home theater PCs (Microsoft's official PR is here)
12. Microsoft raises the bar for delivery of live HD online video using HTTP
13. Comcast offers 100Mbps
14. Best Router reports Netgear announces WNDR3700 "ultimate networking machine"
15. Sprint unveils 'Any Mobile, Any Time' plan
16. The future of Windows phones and Windows Mobile
17. Motorola unveils Google phone, carrier deals
18. U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup
19. Obama near choosing cyber security chief: source
20. VR-Zone's Comex 2009 coverage and sneak peek
21. C|Net reports Google offers rivals a place in e-books program
22. Microsoft's Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week)
23. Dealzon's deals: $62 off 1TB Seagate Barracuda, $10 off 500GB
    Samsung Spinpoint F3, and $70 off Dell S2309 23" LCD monitor

Software

1. Wall Street still worrying over netbook impact on Microsoft's Windows 7 sales
2. Windows 7 reintroduces remote BSoD
3. Microsoft sued over XP's "spyware" copy protection
4. Ars Technica reports i4i says Microsoft went behind its back in Word patent tiff
5. Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers?
6. Antigen 8.0 end-of-life and engine revision
7. Firefox 3.5.3 released
8. DailyTech's browser war: Firefox 3.6a1, Opera 10.0,
   IE 8, Safari 4 & Chrome 4 benchmarked part III
9. VR-Zone's iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3.1 review
10. DailyTech reports Rhapsody gets approval for iTunes App Store
11. SuperSite for Windows has quick take: Ford Sync by Microsoft
12. Microsoft releases beta of new Windows compatibility tool
13. DirectX end-user runtimes (August 2009)
14. MDT 2010 is released
15. Announcing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3
16. Norton AV / Internet Security 2010 released
17. Stardock unveils Impulse Phase IV

Gaming

1. Ars Technica, Gamasutra, and IGN mark its 10th
   anniversary with a look back at Sega's Dreamcast
2. New Dreamcast game coming this October
3. Maximum PC on building a MAME arcade cabinet from an old PC
4. GameSpot's Sonic the Hedgehog Q&A
5. Shacknews has Left 4 Dead 2 interview
6. America's Army 3 and Source 2007 Engine updates released
7. Steam's weekend deal: Braid for 66% off

Hardware

1. NordicHardware on Dell Adamo XPS - only 9.99mm thin
2. Fudzilla reports AMD's Athlon II X4 620 pops up at Newegg
3. XtremeSystems Forums: Thread about AMD's upcoming Magny Cours
4. [H]ard|OCP reviews Asus P7P55D Deluxe
5. Benchmark Reviews on Corsair X256 CMFSSD-256D1 MLC SSD
6. Beginnings of the holodeck: AnandTech on AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity & 6 display outputs
7. [H]ard|OCP on AMD's Eyefinity technology