Archive for September, 2008

Microsoft still hasn’t given an exact release date for when the “New Xbox Experience” dashboard overhaul will be released, but if you want to get an early impression of what to expect then head over to their new Web site.

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UPDATED: Those annoying pop-up ads are the target of a flurry of new lawsuits by the state’s Attorney General and Microsoft.

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QuickBooks Accounting 2009, the latest edition of Intuit’s small business accounting package, adds more online features and support for the world’s currencies.

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‘Where the beef?’ is the operative phrase.

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A tiny material issue in NvidiaÂ’s GPUs has cost Nvidia $200 million so
far: The problem
boils down to the solder bump material, in NvidiaÂ’s case high-lead that
was used in all of the firmÂ’s GPUs that were produced until late July,
and we still do not know how serious the issue really is. According to
our sources, Nvidia has switched to eutectic solder bumps in recent
weeks and there is now a new, apparently independent research report,
that claims that eutectic solder bumps, which are…

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Bargain hunters may have found two especially interesting products in
last weekendÂ’s newspaper: Discount store Aldi is selling a desktop PC
with triple-core processor for $399 and Best Buy is offering a Blu-ray
player under its house brand Insignia for $230, which isnÂ’t that far
away from the most expensive upscaling DVD players anymore.

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Samsung said it has begun sampling 50 nm DDR3 devices, enabling more power efficient memory modules with up to 16 GB capacity.

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ExtremeTech’s Loyd Case lists all the parts he’ll be using to build the quiet PC.

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Microsoft still hasn’t given an exact release date for when the “New Xbox Experience” dashboard overhaul will be released, but if you want to get an early impression of what to expect then head over to their new Web site.

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The next-generation memory style is expected to increase from 29% of the DRAM market in terms of units sold to 72% by 2011, according to IDC.

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