Eight is Enough
- NYT: Windows 8 could make CES appearance
- GizmoCrunch: Microsoft tablet in January, runs Windows 7 with Apple-like UI?
- SemiAccurate: Radeon HD 6900 appears all over
and the secret of the AMD 6900’s second switch - Fudzilla reports reference HD 6970 has dual-BIOS
and Nvidia attacks AMD great drivers claim - ChipHell has Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 info (in Chinese)
- TC Magazine: Seagate makes the Barracuda Green hard drive line official
- Ars Technica: iPhone jailbreaker set to bring Cydia to Mac OS X
- Shacknews cites report: SSD hard drive improves loading
in Gran Turismo 5; SSD mandatory for next-gen?
- hp exec: Costly metered pricing is what consumers want
- DSLReports: We’re not an ‘enemy’ of usage-based billing
and Comcast testing new set top box - U.S. senators press China on piracy, counterfeiting
- DailyFinance: Best Buy shares slip on weak earnings
- C|Net: Yahoo! layoffs of up to 700 employees set for tomorrow
and Goldman Sachs see ‘challenging’ 2011 for Microsoft
and Dell acquires Compellent for $960 million - The NY Times: Time Warner views Netflix as a fading star
- Microsoft joins lobbying group battling Google ITA acquisition
- WSJ: Rivals say Google plays favorites
- Ars Technica: Google, Microsoft distribute malware after domain name trickery
- C|Net: Google can fix you mom’s PC, sort of
- TorrentFreak: Incompetent BitTorrent researchers strike again
- C|Net cites study: Streaming is killing off DVDs
Hardware news
- X-bit labs: TSMC intends to build a $10 billion Fab 16 production facility
- Fudzilla reports ARM targets servers and
Acer irked by AMD rebrands in Russia and
Germans ask IBM to make them the world’s fastest supercomputer - TUAW: Joshua Kors has no idea how to use a Mac, returns it
and Xserve no longer offers SSD option - Engadget: Dell’Fractal‘ workstation designs revealed
- TC Magazine: Acer dual-touchscreen notebook set for January 14 launch in the U.K.
- VR-Zone: Toshiba unleashes NB500 series notebooks
- MSI to unveil new laptops at CES 2011
- Engadget: MSI to reintroduce WindPad tablets at CES,
claims Oak Trail improves performance and battery life - DigiTimes: Foxconn expected to ship 4 – 4.2 million notebooks in 1Q11
- TC Magazine: Gigabyte teases G1-Killer motherboard line again
and Hitachi officially intros its 3TB internal and external hard drives
and Toshiba unveils new enterprise-oriented SSDs and HDDs - Engadget: Pantech’s Verizon LTE modem configured for Mac use, follow along at home
- TC Magazine: Colorful debuts single-slot, customized GeForce GTS 450
- VR-Zone: Philips launches new 3D TV; includes world’s
first 21:9 cinema proportioned 58PFL9955H and
Creative announces ZiiEagle Movie Box, comes with 668 movies - TC Magazine: New Boxee Box software update brings fixes, better 3D viewing
- Engaget: Kaleidescape launches 100-disc Blu-ray movie server
- Dealzon’s deals: 20% coupon for 12.5” Lenovo IdeaPad U260, $175 off
hp Elite 400z desktop, $100 coupon for 13.1” Sony Vaio Z Series, and
$210 off 240GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
Mobile
- Microsoft to show off true iPad competitors at CES?
- MacRumors: Toshiba and Apple to invest $1.2 billion in factory to produce iPhone LCDs
- 9 to 5 Mac reports Apple is looking for Verizon iPad system engineers
- DailyTech: Verizon considers data family plans, Android killing RIM
- DSLReports: Android 80% of Verizon smartphone sales
- Analyst report: Why Verizon wants to sell the iPhone
- Touchscreen smartphone to become dominant by 2015 – research
- DigiTimes: Taiwan handset makers hoping for pooling of LTE patents
and Nvidia seeing popularity grow in tablet PC market - Engadget: eLocity A7 tablet finally shipping, $399 still buys you Froyo and Tegra 2
- Fudzilla: Tegra 2 has 2.5X graphics performance of iPhone A4
- VR-Zone: HTC Legend gets Android 2.2 Froyo, but only in Europe
- Fudzilla: LG Optimus 2X brushes competition aside
and U.S. army to equip troops with smartphones - Engadget: Nokia to revamp Symbian UI, ship dual-core phones in 2011
and Nokia delays E7 slider into ‘early 2011’ - TUAW: Aigo’s iPhone 4 battery case features internal charge cable
- TC Magazine: Gmail webapp goes multi-lingual
- Engadget: Slingplayer Mobile for iPhone updated to 2.0
with high quality video streaming and new guide - DailyTech: Epic’s “Infinity Blade” iOS RPG rakes in $1.6M in four days
- Engadget: Nook Color getting Android 2.2 and Market
in January, current hacks could make it blow up
and new Kindle sells ‘million,’ bests all 2009 Kindle sales
Software
- The Official SBS Blog: Windows SBS 2011 Standard released to manufacturing
- TweakTown’s Catalyst 10.12 Windows 7 driver analysis
- Try Adobe Flash Player 10.2 beta in Ubuntu Linux
- Unixmen: Remove all unused kernels with 1 command in debian-based systems
- TR alum Joel Hruska on marking time: 3DMark 11 performance explored
- TUAW: Microsoft Office 2011 update fixes bugs
and Indie Mac Gift Pack offers discounted Mac software for the holidays - Windows Product Key Retriever 2.00
- Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 3.13
- PeaZip 3.5.1
- SetFSB 2.3.158.124
- CleanMem 1.6.2
- CrystalDiskInfo 3.9.4
- Norton Power Eraser 1.6.0.36
- TC Magazine: GPU-Shark is ready for Cayman (Radeon HD 6950 / 6970)
- Google Chrome 9.0.597.19 and 8.0.552.224
- ImgBurn 2.5.4.0
- Skype 5.0.0.156
Gaming
- Engadget: OnLive MicroConsole torn down, Marvell Armada found lurking within
- Ars Technica reports WoW: Cataclysm breaks PC gaming sales records
- Shacknews: Microsoft confirms Kinect and Top Gear for Forza 4,
stresses “controller-based” racing and Insane revealed as trilogy;
Guillermo del Toro acting as external creative director and
Minecraft entering beta later this month with price bump - Joystiq: Force Unleashed 2 character pack, Endor DLC out today
- Fudzilla: April 2011 release for new MK
- Fallout: New Vegas and Team Fortress 2 updates released on Steam
- The 2010 Ars Technica gaming gift guide
- Ars Technica: Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary a sad, wasted opportunity
Hardware
- Engadget: How to boot Ubuntu on the Cr-48 Chrome OS netbook
- TewakTown reviews V3 Avenger Core i7-930 gaming desktop PC
- t-break reviews 600GB Western Digital VelociRaptor
- ThinkComputers reviews Zotac GeForce GTX 580 1536MB
- Guru3D reviews Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum
- Benchmark Reviews on SteelSeries 6Gv2 mechanical gaming keyboard
- Examiner’s gaming keyboard buyer’s guide
- The PC Format guide to… power supply units
- [H]ard|OCP reviews 750W NZXT HALE90 PSU