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Saturday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 9:38 AM on November 7, 2009

Saturday

1. Apple's Steve Jobs: CEO of the decade
2. TG Daily reports Apple plans iPhone lockdown
3. Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store
4. The Washington Times reports 14 more charged in insider trading
5. A charge hard to level at Intel: Raising prices
6. Nvidia: Fermi in Q1 2010
7. Hardware-Infos: Nvidia's CEO talks about Fermi (in German)
8. VR-Zone on the Nvidia-Lucid controversy
9. Google's obsession with Microsoft burns hotter
10. Fudzilla reports ARM plans multi-core CPU in 2013
11. Comcast slammed for non-existent throttling changes
12. Ars Technica reports HTTPS, SSL attack vector discovered; fix is on the way
13. Walmart, Amazon & Target in DVD price war
14. Sharky Extreme on weekly CPU prices
15. TechReviewSource's 2009 holiday gift guide
16. HotHardware and TechVi video podcast no. 2
17. The Register reports falling bread shuts down Large Hadron Collider

Software

1. DigiTimes reports PC demand did not grow significantly after Windows 7 launch, says PC vendors
2. Vista sold more PCs than Windows 7 did
3. Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 redux
4. Ars Technica posts October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux
5. Ask the artist: How Windows 7's iconic home screen evolved
6. SuperSite's Windows Mobile 6.5 review part 1: The sky is falling
7. Firefox turns 5 years old on November 9th
8. [H]ard|OCP on Unigine Heaven benchmark with DX 11 tessellation
9. NGOHQ has AMD Catalyst 9.11 beta
10. SuperSite Blog reports Zune HD device firmware 4.3 is out
11. Twitter announces Retweet limited rollout
12. Security updates available for Adobe Shockwave Player
13. Nero 9 Lite released

Gaming

1. Shacknews reports id's Rage unlikely to use dedicated servers and Modern
   Warfare 2 shunned by several digital distributors due to Steam 'trojan horse'
2. VentureBeat on how investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate
3. GameSpot reports Call of Duty sequel confirmed for 2010
4. Expreview reports S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat screenshots emerge
5. Bethesda Blog: John Carmack on Doom Classic development, fan questions
6. Ars Technica's hands-on with Assassin's Creed 2
7. Shacknews has preview: Why Skate 3 isn't Skate 2 DLC
8. Atari 800 celebrates 30th anniversary
9. Shacknews reports Dragon Age: Origins patch 1.01 and Torchlight update 1.12 released
10. Dragon Age: Origins toolset
11. Left 4 Dead 2 demo update released
12. GameTrailers have Shattered Horizons trailer
13. Fraps 3.0.0 released
14. Steam client update released
15. TechFlash reports auction offers chance to spend a day with Microsoft's Xbox team

Systems, storage, and networking

1. HardwareZone reviews Acer Ferrari One netbook
2. Donanim Haber posts video: Road to 7GHz with AMD Phenom II (in Turkish)
3. Björn3D reviews Phenom II X4 965 (125W TDP)
4. AnandTech's P55 overclocking showdown: Asus, Gigabyte, and EVGA at the O.C. Corral
5. Phoronix reviews ECS P55H-A
6. Motherboards.org reviews Asus M4A785TD-V Evo
7. Legit Reviews on 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT SATA 6GB/s
8. TweakTown reviews 146GB Seagate Savvio 15K.2 SAS 2.0 2.5" HDD
9. Technic3D reviews 128GB Corsair Voyager GT (in German)
10. TestFreaks review 32GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CFC
11. ThinkComputers reviews Asus RT-N13U wireless router and print server

Multimedia, power, cases, and cooling

1. Fudzilla reports AMD's Radeon HD 5870 EyeFinity detailed
2. Motherboards.org on AMD Radeon HD 5850 CrossFire
3. Futurelooks reviews Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 4890 1GB
4. Digital Trends reviews Apple Magic Mouse
5. XSReviews on Roccat Kova mouse
6. DriverHeaven reviews 500W Nesteq ASM XZero PSU
7. TestSeek Labs review Zalman ZM500-RS PSU
8. TestFreaks review PowerMat wireless charging unit
9. Guru3D and techPowerUp! review Corsair Obsidian 800D case
10. Rbmods on Nexus Edge case
11. TWL reviews NZXT Beta case
12. CowcotLand reviews Fractal Design R2 case (in French)
13. TweakTown reviews Xigmatek Bifrost VD1065 VGA cooler