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Halloween Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 9:02 AM on October 31, 2009

Halloween

1. C|Net reports executive charged in Galleon case leaves IBM
2. Ars Technica reports House, Senate get separate bills to kill net neutrality
3. FCC economist: Congestion pricing could mean efficient network operation
4. DigiTimes reports Acer ready to join price competition, says chairman
5. DailyTech reports OLED prices to be lower than LCD in 2016
6. Ad man behind '1984,' 'Think Different,' and 'I'm a Mac' stepping down
7. [H]ard|OCP: AMD clarifies driver support on DX9 only hardware in Win7
8. C|Net reports new Apple iMacs plagued by choppy Flash video playback?
9. Fudzilla reports many Phenom II X4 CPUs to be discontinued
   and two Intel H55 boards leaked
10. The Consumerist reports Microsoft Stores to sell bloatware-free PCs
11. Expreview reports China successfully developed "Milky Way One" supercomputer
12. VR-Zone reports Silicon Power announces 16GB SDHC class 10
    and photo-realistic images rendered by Fermi
13. Fudzilla reports Nvidia's GeForce GT 240 launches November 17th
14. Donanim Haber reports EVGA and Nvidia announce GeForce GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX (in Turkish)
15. ATi-Forum reports HD 5800 series and HD 5700 series not yet at full performance (in German)
16. Ars Technica reports Apple tablet may be more focused on video than print
17. Creative joins the eBook market
18. VR-Zone reports HTC launches Tattoo and new 'Quietly Brilliant' branding
19. The Pirate Bay founders banned from running the site

Software

1. Upgrade stops responding (hangs) at 62% when you upgrade to Windows 7
2. Now available: Secuirty baselines for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8
3. Microsoft haunted by Windows 7 upgrade issue
4. Let's kill the OS upgrade disc
5. Study: Win 7 is lean, but many Windows 7 laptops are badly bloated
6. C|Net reports Mozilla releases first beta of Firefox 3.6
7. Technology Review on software that fixes itself
8. Ars Technica reports Microsoft Office Accounting dies on November 16, 2009
9. SuperSite for Windows on Apple TV 3.0
10. Fudzilla reports Nvidia ForceWare 195.39 beta released, supports OpenCL 1.0
11. Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3
12. Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 eBook available for free (direct download)

Gaming

1. AMD: "Nvidia is somewhat abandoning the gaming market"
2. Nokia to close gaming service N-Gage
3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves celebrates Halloween
   with a title update and a Double Cash Weekend
4. Shacknews reports Borderlands gets patched on consoles
5. God of War III demo is go
6. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition unveil
7. PC Perspective on Left 4 Dead 2 demo: AMD and Nvidia graphics performance
8. Gaming Heaven reviews Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony (Xbox 360)
9. Website du jour: BioShock 2
10. Steam client update released

Systems and storage

1. VR-Zone reviews Lenovo ThinkPad T400s
2. I4U reviews Asus Eee 1101HA netbook
3. iXBT Labs review Athlon II X3 425 & 435
4. [H]ard|OCP reviews Asus Crosshair III Formula
5. Hardware Secrets on MSI P55-GD80
6. HotHardware reviews Asus Maximus II Gene
7. Expreview's Micro-ATX X58 motherboards roundup
8. ProClockers review 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-15000 Platinum triple channel kit
9. Guru3D reviews 60GB OCZ Agility EX SSD
10. TWL reviews SanDisk UltraBackup USB drive

Multimedia

1. InsideHW reviews LG W2486L
2. TestFreaks on Spyder3Express monitor color calibration device
3. Ars Technica reviews AX 720 headphones
4. HardwareZone reviews Sony Ericsson Satio & Samsung Pixon12
5. DriverHeaven reviews Sharkoon FireGlider laser gaming mouse
6. CowcotLand reviews Enermax Micro Aurora wireless keyboard (in French)

Power, casing, and cooling

1. Futurelooks reviews 1050W Ultra X4 PSU
2. Hardware Secrets reviews 750W Asus U-75HA PSU
3. bit-tech's first look at Seasonic's X-series power supplies
4. Björn3D reviews In Win Maelstrom case
5. bit-tech reviews NZXT Beta case
6. Legit Reviews on nMediaPC HTPC 8000 wooden HTPC case
7. OverclockersHQ reviews Sunbeam Airbox 3.5” eSATA / USB external enclosure
8. TweakTown reviews Xigmatek Balder SD1283 HDT CPU cooler