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GIS Day Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 2:35 AM on November 18, 2009

GIS Day

Boy Genius Report: Apple Black Friday deals leaked?
C|Net reports Gartner says chip sales will rebound in 2010
AMD-Nvidia showdown looms as demand for graphics recovers
Donanim Haber reports Nvidia Fermi provides more (double
precision) compute power than AMD Cypress (in Turkish)
VR-Zone: Fermi in trouble?
Bright Side of News reports Nvidia shows NV100 / GF100 running Unigine DX11 benchmark
Gaming PC executives respawn with Origin custom gaming PCs
A decade later, Intel's Itanium chip makes a profit
DigiTimes reports DRAM prices likely to drop in December, say module
makers and Intel, NEC to develop supercomputer technologies
C|Net reports Intel an investor in storage firm for Apple users
Intel's Otellini worries about PC "pinch points"
TG Daily reports Otellini, Barrett others sued by shareholder over antitrust
Report slams Amazon over sales tax collection fight with states
T-Mobile admits employee sold private data
Verizon offers six months free DSL promo
TechCrunch reports Bing captures almost 10% search share in U.S.
TorrentFreak reports The Pirate Bay tracker shuts down for good
Hollywood wants to own your outputs (and that's a good idea)
Study shows MacBooks are more reliable than netbooks
Engadget reports Lenovo T410s leaks out, features not one but two ThinkLights
TC Magazine reports the Asus G51J 3D gaming laptop will reach North America, too
VR-Zone reports MSI releases N240GT series with Afterburner OC tool
TC Magazine reports Antec delivers the TruePower Quattro 1200W PSU
Expreview reports Accelero Twin Turbo Pro cooler makes its official debut
BCCHardware's podcast #17
Björn3D's Gigabyte Thanksgiving instant SLI contest
Guru3D's MSI Overclock and AfterBurner skin contests

Software

C|Net reports Google hosting Chrome OS demo event Thursday
PDC 2009 day 0: Vista is through
Microsoft: Azure to go live in January, for pay in February
What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week
Microsoft ordered to stop some Windows sales in China
December 2009 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems
Windows 7 application compatibility list for IT professionals
Ars Technica: Inside "MinWin" - The Windows 7 kernel slims down
FiringSquad reports Nvidia posts new WHQL-certified 195.55 driver
Microsoft broadens supercomputing reach through new offerings
Microsoft's Presentation Companion 1.0 (beta)
TG Daily reports Google tarts up its translate tool
PC World reports Kaspersky unveils Anti-Virus for Mac
TC Magazine reports ARM sets up Solution Center for Android

Gaming

Research and Markets: Report forecasts that Apple will help
drive mobile game market sales to $11.7 billion by 2014
Engadget reports Facebook for PlayStation 3 'begins'
this Thursday with firmware update 3.10 (video)
Joystiq reports Mad Catz offers alternative to Xbox 360 wireless N networking adapter
Shacknews reports Pandemic Studios not closing, but consolidating
Left 4 Dead Blog: An update for all you zombie killers in the UK
Ars Technica reports DSi downloads can be moved—with a little help from Nintendo
Joystiq reports Mass Effect 2 box art affected by massive change
Legion Hardware on Left 4 Dead 2 graphics performance
TestFreaks review Shattered Horizon
Shacknews reports Avatar: The Game PC demo arrives
FileFront has Dragon Age: Origins patch v1.01b
Borderlands, Left 4 Dead 2, and Section 8 updates released
Walmart cuts prices on toys, video games
GoGamer's 48-hour madness

Systems and storage

Engadget reports Alienware M17x owners complaining
of 'skipping, stuttering audio,' with no fix in sight
Digital Trends reviews Apple MacBook 2009 and hp TouchSmart 300
NordicHardware on Asus Maximus III Extreme - The new standard for overclockers?
[H]ard|OCP reviews Gigabyte P55M-UD4
TechSpot's Intel P55 motherboards roundup
Motherboards.org reviews Intel DP55WG motherboard
The SSD improv at AnandTech: Intel & Indilinx get TRIM, Kingston brings Intel down to $115
TC Magazine reports Intel aims to release new firmware for 34nm SSDs this month
PC Perspective's 40GB Kingston SSDNow V Series desktop bundle review (with RAID)
Legit Reviews: 2 Kingston 40GB V Series boot drive SSDs in RAID 0
InsideHW reviews 500GB Samsung Spinpoint F3
ThinkComputers reviews Asus SBC-04D1S-U external slim Blu-ray combo drive

Graphics

Expreview reports Radeon HD 5970 ready to offer massive overclocking headroom
TC Magazine reports Sapphite ups Radeon HD 5970 clocks
NordicHardware reports on factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870 cards
AnandTech, Benchmark Reviews, FiringSquad, Guru3D, [H]ard|OCP, HardwareZone,
Hexus.net, HotHardware, Legit Reviews, Legion Hardware, Neoseeker, PC Perspective,
and TechSpot on AMD Radeon HD 5970
Hardware Canucks, PureOC, and TweakTown on Sapphire Radeon HD 5970
techPowerUp! on Asus EAH5970
DriverHeaven and Hartware (in German) on PowerColor HD 5970
techPowerUp! on HIS HD 5970 CrossFire
HardwareZone on Nvidia GeForce GT 240
OCC reviews Palit GT 240 Sonic

Mouse and casing

[OC]ModShop reviews SilverStone Raven 3200dpi gaming mouse
Madshrimps review Sunbeam Automaton case
BCCHardware reviews NZXT Beta Evo case
EOC reviews Antec Sonata case
ProClockers and Tweaknews review Thermaltake BlacX Duet dual HDD docking station