Girl Scout Day Shortbread - The Tech Report

Girl Scout Day Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 7:02 AM on March 12, 2010

How soon is now? Pre-order timing for iPad confirmed, 5:30AM PT
VR-Zone shares rumor: Dual-GF100 to release later?
Dual-Fermi Nvidia card not coming anytime soon
Expreview reports Inno3D ready to ship GeForce GTX 480 / 470
ATI has announced its Open Stereo 3D Initiative at GDC 2010
Nvidia CEO sees Tegra 2 in all but Apple
and wants chipset license back from Intel
The Register reports Super Micro to launch AMD render cloud
DigiTimes reports motherboard components reportedly in shortage
DailyTech reports OCZ's new 30GB Onyx SSD to debut for under $100
I4U reports SanDisk G3 SSD ships to retail
Seagate wins patent appeal over Siemens
TechFlash reports Bing takes a swipe at Google in latest British ad campaign
Ars Technica reports FCC commissioner rips ISPs on broadband prices, competition
Fudzilla reports FCC releases its own broadband test service
DailyTech reports Japanese create "caring, mothering system" of cell phone snooping
Verizon Wireless: 'All you can eat' has got to change
Researchers aim to reduce copyright infringement false positives
SuperSite Blog reports Windows Live support moves to forums
PCPer podcast #97
A car covered in computer keyboards
Bright Side of News reports the land of cotton is going nanotech
Win a Dell XPS laptop with OC3D and Dell Outlet
Dealzon's deals: $248 off 13" Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, $24 off 8GB iPod touch,
$254 off 15.6" Lenovo G560, and $40 off Xbox 360 Arcade

Software

The Register reports U.S. computer boffins claim fix for multi-core 'concurrency bugs'
C|Net reports browser ballot not on tap for Asia
Beyond3D reports Khronos Group releases OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0
Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A)
Ars Technica reports Canonical's design team responds to theme criticisms
Commerical gaming coming soon to Linux?
SuperSite has making Windows 7 Home Premium the ultimate OS, part 4: Disk encryption
Active Directory Explorer v1.3
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010
C|Net reports Thunderbird beta 'Lanikai' released
Facebook to announce plans to take over the Internet with Facebook pages
Nvidia Optimus driver 189.42 for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit
Google Chrome 5.0.342.3 beta for Windows
Opera 10.51 snapshot for Windows and UNIX / Linux
AOL AIM 7.2.6.1
Betanews reports FCC releases iPhone app to learn more about network conditions
Hardware jailbreak for iPhone eases reboot pains

Gaming

OnLive broadband game service to launch June 17
TechFlash reports Xbox 360 back on top in U.S., in down month for video games
TechRadar UK: For and against DRM in games
Shacknews reports Deus Ex's Warren Spector warns against going overboard with motion controls
and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 DLC due alongside Modern Warfare 2's as DICE throws gauntlet
EA maintenance, now with extra hardware
Joystiq reports Mass Effect 2 DLC 'Kasumi's Stolen Memory' lands on April 6
VG247 reports BioWare drops potential February 1, 2011 date for Dragon Age 2
GDN reports Unreal Engine 3 adds Steamworks
PreCentral reports Unreal Engine 3 demoed on webOS with video (thanks dpaus)
Ars Technica on SOCOM 4 (played with PS Move) and Mafia 2
LanOC Reviews on Altitude
Square Enix, Eidos Interactive publisher week - day 4 on Steam (sale ends 8AM PT)

Systems and storage

TestFreaks' tips and tricks: Optimize your computer for speed and efficiency
AnandTech, Björn3D, Boot Daily, FiringSquad, Hartware,
Legit Reviews, and OC3D review Core i7-980X
AnandTech's Core i7-980X overclocking update: Breaking 4GHz with 6-cores
Hardware Canucks' Asus Crosshair IV Formula sneak peek
Björn3D reviews Asus Maximus III Extreme
iXBT Labs review MSI 770-C35
Phoronix reviews Jetway NC96-510-LF
TweakTown reviews 4GB A-Data PC3-17600 memory kit
PureOC reviews 128GB Kingston V+ SSD
ThinkComputers reviews Axus FiT RAID 500 storage device