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Thursday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 8:28 AM on October 1, 2009

Thursday

DigiTimes: DDR2 price rally may last no more than 6 months, says analyst
and AMD Fusion Partner Program may help improve profitability, says channel
C|Net: Apple buys map service to compete with Google?
and Wednesday's the Pirate Bay acquisition deadline
Apple Genius Bar: iPhones' 30% call drop is "normal" in New York
Microsoft opens Chicago and Dublin datacenters; preps for more hosted offerings
The 10 million Mac year
AdMob: Apple iPhone takes record 40% share of worldwide smartphone OS market
Courier user interface
Gizmodo reports Nokia Booklet 3G will be a Best Buy exclusive in the U.S.
NordicHardware: Asus P7P55 LX - new entry-level P55 board coming
Fudzilla reports motherboard makers to refresh P55 boards
Gizmodo reports Pioneer churns out the world's first 12x Blu-ray burner
Fudzilla reports Nvidia's GT 220 and G210 ship October 12th
TG Daily reports Mental Image debuts iRay rendering technology
VR-Zone reports Creative introduces Inspire S2 wireless
speaker system with high performance apt-X audio codec
Zalman CNPS10X Flex unveiled (in French)
Comcast is buying NBC. Or not.
Hollywood warming to Internet as DVDs begin to fade
TG Daily: 10 most important IT fruits revealed
Dealzon's deals: $50 off 120GB Xbox 360 Elite, $100 off Acer Aspire One red 6-cell netbook,
$100 off Acer Aspire One blue 3-cell netbook, $20 off 128GB Super Talent SSD, and $50 off
re-certified 4GB Microsoft Zune, and Dell Inspiron Mini 10v laptop - Nickelodeon Edition
starting at $329

Software

MSI AfterBurner: MSI graphics card performance booster
Björn3D and Guru3D have first looks at MSI AfterBurner
HotHardware reports new Nvidia drivers disable PhysX if a non-Nvidia GPU is detected
Ars Technica reports 6,000 products certified so far for Windows 7 Logo Program
Windows 7 compatibility sticker, but not for netbooks?
SuperSite for Windows has Windows 7 review part 8: Digital media features
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 beta
VR-Zone reports Acronis introduces True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition
and BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac available for download from Oct 2
Ars Technica reports Nero goes from disc burning to Motorola Cliq with MobileSync
VR-Zone introduces Quality of Service Test (QoSTest - new Internet speed benchmark tool)

Gaming

AT&T invests in OnLive streaming gaming
Game Crazy closing 200 stores, liquidation sale starts this weekend
Engadget reports PSP firmware 6.10 lets the PSPgo tether to Bluetooth cellphones
VR-Zone reports SanDisk launches 3 new memory cards for gaming consoles
Shacknews has Stardock interview part 2: Brad Wardell on PC gaming
Shacknews reports Modern Warfare 2 DLC coming spring 2010
and Dead Space sequel entering production soon and Battlefield
Bad Company 2 'Battlefield Moments' trailer offers shooting,
swearing, and gameplay
GameTrailers have new Dragon Age: Origins trailer
Steam news: Left 4 Dead update released
Impulse: Sins of a Solar Empire gets a massive update
Ars Technica on the first hours of Uncharted 2
Technic3D reviews Risen (in German)
Gaming Heaven reviews Championship Manager 2010 (PC)
PC Plus on playing games in Linux

Systems and storage

HardwareZone reviews Dell Vostro 320 AIO
AVID6EEK's 4.61GHz total loss watercooling overclocked PC experiment
LostCircuits on Athlon II X4 620 and 630
X-bit labs on Intel's Clarkdale and
Lynnfield overclocking on the Asus P7P55D Deluxe
XtremeComputing reviews MSI P55-CD65
Hi Tech Legion reviews MSI P55-CD53
Hardware Secrets reviews 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black and RE4 hard drives
ThinkComputers reviews CRU DataPort SecureDock

Multimedia

OCC and PC Perspective cover Nvidia GPU Technology Conference
AnandTech, Ars Technica, Beyond3D, [H]ard|OCP, Hexus.net, Legit Reviews,
PC Perspective, and VR-Zone on Nvidia's Fermi GPU architecture
VR-Zone has Nvidia Fermi pictures
TweakTown reviews Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1GB
PCStats reviews Gigabyte GV-N285OC-2GI
Gizmodo reviews Nikon D300s DSLR
TechFlash posts video: Hands-on with Microsoft's pressure-sensitive keyboard
TechSpot reviews OCZ Sabre OLED gaming keyboard
TweakTown reviews VidaBox premium wireless keyboard with laser trackball
Rbmods on Roccat Valo keyboard
Sharky Extreme reviews Logitech Performance Mouse MX (and more)
Neoseeker reviews OCZ Behemoth gaming mouse
TestFreaks on how stuff works: Cell phone towers