Wednesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 4:24 AM on December 2, 2009

Wednesday

Newegg's 24-hour sale
Comcast releasing promised usage meter
C|Net reports Comcast poised to get NBC Universal
Latest consumer reports survey not kind to AT&T
FTC slams spam gang with $15 million fine
DailyTech: After laptops experience overheating,
performance issues, Dell censors user comments
DigiTimes reports Acer to launch Chrome OS netbook in 2H10
and Intel notebook platforms for 2010 to not push WLAN chips
Fudzilla reports Asus to launch Karim Rashid designer netbook
Do you want to buy Intel's 32nm 6-core CPU for 2010... today?
Fudzilla reports three Arrandale 32nm arrive January 3rd
and Intel's x57 chipset generation priced up
Engadget reports next-generation SD specification comes to light, 300MBps just around
the corner and Zii Trinity mobile platform packs 1080p punch, looking for OEM love
and Universal's BD-59 Blu-ray / DVD flip discs to debut on Bourne trilogy releases
Sapphire's Bill Donnelly and Razer's Robert Krakoff talk to DriverHeaven
The Hobbit (movie) filming delayed until next summer
2009 OCC Christmas contest
Hi Tech Legion's holiday giveaway - week 5

Software

Microsoft: 'Black screen of death" claim is bogus
Ars Technica reports Microsoft to switch internal focus to Windows 8 in July 2010
The other Patch Tuesday is the fourth
Ars Technica on how one man designed the Windows 7 boot animation
One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing
SuperSite for Windows: Platforms matter
Ars Technica reports VirtualBox 3.1 adds live migration and branched snapshots
Office Web Apps access comes to Windows Mobile,
iPhone, BlackBerry & more (with some caveats)
PreCentral reports webOS 1.3.2 released for Pixi, Pre standing by
Google Gears is dead; long live HTML 5.0
PowerPivot for Excel November CTP 32-bit and 64-bit
Risk and health assessment program for Windows Desktop (WDRAP) - Scoping Tool v1.0

Gaming

VR-Zone has an update on the AMD - Nvidia PhysX controversy
UC Irvine takes video games to the next level
Fudzilla reports console sales numbers are in
Ars Technica reports EA restructures Battlefield: Heroes pricing; fans enraged
Shacknews reports Empire: Total War multiplayer beta opens next Monday
alongside more downloadable content and Serious Sam HD delayed on Xbox 360
and Assassin's Creed II DLC packs announced
Joystiq reporst DICE lighting artist lists Mirror's Edge 2 on portfolio
DiRT2 offers exhilarating DirectX 11 gaming experience - only on Radeon graphics cards
bit-tech's DirectX 11 performance first look: DiRT2
PCGH has DiRT2 DX11 - Maxed out screenshots
TweakTown's DiRT2 DirectX 11 Radeon HD 5000 series comparison
Ten Ton Hammer on Dragon Age: Origins - Creating your own adventures
Motherboards.org on Blur
DriverHeaven's game of the year 2009 awards
NFS Shift patch 1.02 and DLC
Diablo II patch 1.13 status- updated 11/18
Avatar: The Game now on sale at Impulse and Steam
Left 4 Dead 2 update released on Steam
Steam's midweek madness: Zeno Clash 66% off