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Saturday Shortbread

Eight is Enough

1. Canada: We might be America's hat, but we don't like data caps
2. PCMag: PC prices on the rise? Thank Apple for that
3. Engadget: USB 3.0 for Mac review and benchmarks (with a LaCie 2big USB 3.0)
4. WSGF's 5-screen Eyefinity demo reel - setup, Heaven
   demo, HAWX, Half-Life 2, Just Cause 2 & Battle Forge
5. TG Daily: Glasses-free 3D company wants to make a CES splash
6. Ars Technica: MSE 2.0 arrives with heuristic scanning, network traffic inspection
7. Engadget: Android 2.3 Gingerbread's source code now available
8. TUAW: id Software's Rage v1.11 update adds
   Game Center, gyroscope controls, and TV support

Saturday

1. Fudzilla: AMD, TSMC execs face insider trading probe
2. C|Net has more details about sale of Apple, Dell secrets
3. Data Center Knowledge posts the Apple Data Center FAQ
4. TUAW: Sharp spends $1.2 billion on LCD production plant, Apple alleged client
5. TechFlash reports iPod creator joins Amazon board
6. Aza Raskin: Leaving Mozilla, starting Massive Health
7. Fudzilla reports Nokia opens new front in war against Apple
8. C|Net: Google, CT headed for showdown over Street View
9. DSLReports: Comcast, Level 3 still negotiating and
   and last minute wrangling on FCC neutrality rules
   and France not kicking people off the Internet fast enough
10. iTnews Australia reports UN mulls Internet regulation options
11. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg named Time Person of the Year - why?
12. Ars Technica has a history of computing flamewars—in handy graph form

1. PC Perspective: Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7 / i5 CPUs and MBs already for sale in Malaysia
2. Expreview: LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 enterprise PCI-E SSD hits store shelves
   and Yeston non-reference HD 6970 PCB exposure with 15-phase power supply
3. Fudzilla: Nvidia mobile 500 generation is DX11, CES
4. VR-Zone: Gainward planning another non-reference card, the GeForce GTX 570 Phantom
5. TC Magazine: Revoltec debuts the FightMouse Elite gaming mouse
6. Engadget: Razer Scarab has regular mouse pad looks, precision gaming DNA

1. $10 off 8" hp D820A3 digital picture frame
2. $30 off 1TB Toshiba MK1059GSM SATA 3.0Gb/s notebook HDD
   (extra $10 off with promo code EMCYTZT251)
3. $110 off 32" Haier HL32P2 720p 60Hz LCD HDTV
4. $10 off Razer Mamba gaming mouse
   (extra $20 off with promo code EMCYTZT252)
5. $74.40 Seiko SNAA35 men's watch
6. $40 off Asus P6X58D Premium X58 motherboard
7. $10 off 4GB Patriot G Series 'Sector 5' Edition PC3-10666 memory kit

1. C|Net: BlackBerry PlayBook landing as soon as February?
2. Engadget: Palm's tablet is codenamed 'Topaz,' keyboard accessory leaks out
3. Fudzilla: Nvidia reportedly lands Tegra 2 order from Samsung
4. 2011: The year of the femtocell?
5. TechReviewSource has Verizon Wireless 4G LTE: A review
6. C|Net: Leaked accessory hints webOS tablet is near
7. Nokia to launch tablet in Q3 2011
8. TC Magazine: NEC bringing dual-screen Android tablet to CES 2011
   and Fujitsu LifeBook T580 convertible tablet available in the U.S.
   and Creative's 7" ZiiO tablet available in the U.S.
9. Engadget: E Fun Next3 Android 2.1 tablet available for $230
10. HotHardware: Android 2.2 Froyo breathes new life into Dell Streak
11. TR alum Joel Hruska reviews Maylong's $99 M-150 tablet
12. Engadget Chinese gets hands-on with the Meizu M9
13. PreCentral: Verizon Pre 2 pops up on eBay, actual release date still elusive
14. Engadget: Samsung Galaxy S receives Gingerbread port right from the Nexus S source (video)
15. TUAW: Skyfire browser headed for iPad
16. Engadget: Yahoo! Messenger and ooVoo Mobile do
    video chat on Android, but only for a select few and
    Kindle for Android updated with periodicals and
    integrated web store, can be installed on SD card
    and Microsoft rolls out updated Windows Phone 7
    Connector for Mac
17. Fudzilla: 4,200 Windows Phone 7 apps now available
18. Windows Phone 7 guides for IT professionals
19. Infinity Blade | Tips from Epic's development team
20. Engadget reports Dungeon Defenders: First Wave brings Unreal Engine to Android this month
21. MCV: EA cuts prices to dominate Apple's App Store

1. Avira: 25% of PC users disable antivirus software
2. Microsoft strikes back at Google on e-mail back-up plan
3. SuperSite on how Microsoft can fix Windows 8, part 2: Virtualize compatibility
4. Microsoft releases update that enables Exchange 2010 Archive access for Outlook 2007
5. Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1 evaluation
6. HPC Pack 2008 R2 client utilities package and
   MS-MPI redistributable package with Service Pack 1
7. TUAW: All signs point to January 6th launch of iWork '11
8. Linux Journal: Wi-Fi on the command line
9. Dropbox 1.0.10 Final
10. VirtualBox 4.0.0 beta 4
11. WinRAR 4.0 beta 3
12. Silverlight 4.0.51204.0 Final

1. Citing source, Eurogamer claims Microsoft quadrupling Kinect accuracy
2. Engadget: Xbox 360 gets a limited edition orange Tron controller
3. Shacknews reports Take-Two Interactive wrangles $42.6 million in profit; shares jump 8%
4. EA CEO: $99 Nintendo Wii would see 'new life'
5. Shacknews: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 'hardcore' mode features permanent death
   and Gears of War 3 early beta access offered in Bulletstorm 'Epic Edition'
   and Crysis 2 trailer lets you be the weapon and
   Dragon Age II trailer: PC combat walkthrough and
   BFBC2 Vietnam trailer shows fortunate sons, hits PC today
6. Dead Space 2 'Isacc Clarke at Visceral' episode 01
7. Natural Selection 2 beta gameplay trailer
8. Shacknews Weekend Confirmed episode 39 (podcast)
9. Cataclysm 10-day trial edition now available
10. Left 4 Dead 2 update and TF2, CS: Source, DoD:
    Source & HL2: Deathmatch updates released on Steam
11. Shacknews has Uncharted 3 first look preview
12. Marketing in secret: Ars Technica has the story of XBLA's ilomilo
13. Blizzard's weekend sale—save $10 on StarCraft II
14. TF2 Official Blog: Huge sale in the Mann Co. Store this weekend only
15. Ars Technica reports Xbox Live Marketplace holiday sale starts December 21

1. AnandTech reviews hp Mini 5103: Looking at the dual-core Atom N550
2. StorageReview's Synology DiskStation DS411+ review
3. Expreview, FiringSquad, and WSGF review AMD Radeon HD 6870 and 6850
4. Hardware Heaven reviews Asus Radeon HD 6870 DirectCU
5. Digital Trends reviews Sharp Aquos Quattron LC-60LE925UN
6. Engadget's Nox Audio Scout headset review
7. [H]ard|OCP reviews 650W Diablotek PHD650 PSU
8. Tweaknews reviews In Win Griffin case

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