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1. Modern life is rubbish

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... their wife give birth has on some men - after seeing their former lover's parts in all their functional, biological starkness, it's so hard to get that spark of passion back. This is a minor, petty, example ...

2. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Phenom II overclocking and Fermi Tesla GPUs We covered a number of hardware-related topics this past week at TG Daily, including Lucid's Hydra SoC, shattering the Phenom II 7GHz barrier, the debut of ...

3. ATI reveals Radeon 5970 overlocking details

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Hybrid approach wins out ATI has revealed a critical engineering decision that led to the successful production of its Radeon HD 5970 graphics card. "When we were first designing the 5970, we came to ...

4. Nvidia auctions "ultimate" gaming system on eBay

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... built" by veteran case modder Richard "Darth Beavis" Surroz and is valued at over $10,000. "With a one of a kind Nvidia themed paint job created by Smooth Creations, the system features two watercooled ...

5. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... weeks ago. And, not long after, Andy Rubin - Google's vice president of engineering for Android - went on the record as directly saying the company was 'not making hardware.'" As expected, Arrington attempted ...

6. Tiny brain is no bar to intelligence, say scientists

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... add detail to remembered images or sounds, but not add any degree of complexity. To use a computer analogy, bigger brains might in many cases be bigger hard drives, not necessarily better processors." ...

7. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Unlocked and overclocked AMD has introduced its long-awaited ATI Radeon HD 5970 (Hemlock) GPU. According to company spokesperson Devon Nekechuk, the 5970 features advanced Overdrive technology that allows ...

8. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... with content protection powered by Flash Access 2.0," Adobe explained in a statement. "Additionally, Flash Player 10.1 now leverages hardware decoding of H.264 video on Windows PCs, netbooks and mobile ...

9. ARM accelerates Android mobile development

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   Open source drives innovation ARM has launched a solution center for hardware manufacturers developing Android-based mobile platforms. According to company spokesperson James Bruce, over 35 members of ...

10. Weekly hardware roundup

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    Analog joystick mouse and crashing Hackintoshes This past week was a busy one at TG Daily. We covered a number of hardware-related topics, including the very first OpenOffice joystick mouse, crashing ...

11. LucidLogix preps Hydra SoC for early 2010 launch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... assistance from the game developers." TG Daily: Can you provide an update regarding the development and delivery of the Hydra 200? Kimberly Stowe: "Hydra 200 hardware is solid and we are continuing to ...

12. Google slashes price on Picasa storage

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    Picture this Google said it's dramatically reduced the price of Picasa storage - that's where your cherished family pictures are all in a cloud. In a blog posting, Google said that it's "dramatically" ...

13. Best Buy sells Acer notebook for $250

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Not Atom, Celeron Best Buy is selling an Acer notebook for $250 that comes with a Celeron 900, 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive. The firm said the deal was part of a holiday computing selection at ...

14. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... processors. In the long term it will be hard for Nvidia to sell chipsets and it can't turn to AMD because that owns ATI. Freedman reasons that if Nvidia can't sell parts to go with Intel or AMD processors ...

15. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    A British man has been told he can take his employer to tribunal on the grounds he was unfairly dismissed because his views on climate change constitute a religious belief. A British man has been told ...

16. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... they control the hardware, software, user experience, most of the channel, the gate that allows applications in, and virtually all of the user experience. It is no surprise that this is one of their most ...

17. Maingear Shifts into overdrive with hard-core gaming machine

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    Maingear has unveiled a personal "supercomputer" for PC gamers and enthusiasts. Maingear has unveiled a personal "supercomputer" for PC gamers and enthusiasts. The Shift - which is housed in a tank-like ...

18. ATI HD 5900 spotted in the wild

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... and has problems fitting into a full sized tower case. Apparently you cannot stick a hard drive next to the GPU. The card uses one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector.  ...

19. Snow Leopard glitch means Windows 7 runs faster - on Macs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... the Microsoft product was driving their iMacs better.  The conclusion can only be that it is a driver problem within Snow Leopard which is not controlling the big iMacs' graphics hardware properly.  ...

20. Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... calm and pointed out that there is indeed a critical bug in the 64 bit RC version of Ubuntu 9.10 which fails to recognize multiple hard drives, so, sadly, the failure of the OS to install was down to coding ...

21. Ubuntu is still rubbish

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... something. Version 9.10 is due for unleashment in a couple of days and it's, err, just as crap as the last version I tried. This machine has a Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM and three SATA hard disks. The C: ...

22. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... to  CEO Jerry Shen, but Gigabyte vice president Richard Ma said that his company currently has no plans for either a smartbook or e-book reader. Both MSI and Gigabyte say they are optimistic about ...

23. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... of alternative sites to try. Hell, why not start your own? If we can do it, how hard can it be? But please do not presume for a moment that everyone - or, indeed, anyone - is in the slightest bit ...

24. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... score of 13,883, while a standard 7200RPM hard-disk only managed to rack up a score of 3,708.  The test system comprised an Intel DG45ID desktop motherboard, Core 2 Duo E6550 desktop process @ 2.33 ...

25. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... software that exploited "specific" hardware. "This paradigm shift is a good thing for us, as it opens up a myriad of opportunities in terms of Tilera adoption. For example, there is a definite move ...

26. Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    Psystar has introduced a $50 software suite that allows OS X Snow Leopard to run on generic Intel-based hardware. The suite - known as Rebel EFI - is reportedly compatible with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core ...

27. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... group. Installation, after formatting my hard drive, went flawlessly. I was quite pleased with the GUI, which looked and felt immeasurably more stable than the bloatware passing itself off as Win95. I ...

28. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... press releases and headlines about storage systems, you might think SSDs were the mainstream technology and that nothing else mattered. Compared to dumpy old Winchester technology-based hard drives, ...

29. Apple refreshes iMac lineup with 21.5 and 27-inch displays

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... memory, a 160GB hard drive, five USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 800, Nvidia GeForce 9400M integrated graphics and a SuperDrive. The $800 iteration is loaded with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of ...

30. Kindle is no answer to reading books digitally

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Sunday, 18 October 2009

    ... by buying the consumables - the ink and the paper. The same model could easily be replicated for e-readers, the hardware is free and the books and newspapers cost. It's hardly rocket science to work out ...

31. Sony announces 250GB PS3 Slim for $350

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    Sony has unveiled an updated version of the PS3 Slim. The $350 console features a 250GB hard drive and will be available on November 3. Sony has unveiled an updated version of the PS3 Slim. The $350 ...

32. Acer beats up Dell on shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... PC market; however the timing of Windows 7’s is favorable for the industry, due to expected economic improvements and an overdue hardware replacement cycle,” Ms Kitagawa said. “We anticipate renewed interest ...

33. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... that semiconductors and the internet are not going to go away. Intel's results also indicate that associated markets, such as peripherals, DRAM, hard drives, monitors and the rest are also likely beneficiaries ...

34. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... maintenance release of Windows 2000) instead of lean current generation OS on new hardware.   If we wanted a lean product there is simply nothing leaner in the Windows 7 world than Starter Edition. ...

35. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... and is comparable to 3,000 enterprise hard disk drives that span 14 data center racks and consume 40,000 watts of power. As TG Daily previously reported, Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun has prompted ...

36. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... can be fitted with one terabyte hard drives.  There's also a RAID 1 mirroring array. The Elite 7000 comes with a S-ATA DVD ROM drive, a S-ATA DVD writer drive and an optional S-ATA Blu Ray writer. ...

37. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 October 2009

    ... "ill conceived" and selective call ban. However, Google media counsel Richard Whitt defended the company's controversial policy by noting that local carriers often charged "exorbitant" termination rates ...

38. Vendors have their head in the clouds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... however, pointed out that "cloud" systems also raised questions about how legal discovery could be made. A subpoena issued to secure some documents or other would involve the seizure of a hard drive but ...

39. Gateway takes on Apple's iMac

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... X4500HD Graphics4GB DDR2 dual channel memory (800MHz)750GB SATA hard drive 8x DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti optical drive Multi-in-one digital media card readerIntegrated 802.11 b/g/DRAFT-N Wi-Fi10/100/1000 (Gigabit) ...

40. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... into an alternative reality.  In the world they think they knew being hardware independent is the model and Microsoft is King.  In the world they suddenly find themselves in Apple, who isn’t ...

41. Super Talent and Toshiba encrypt SATA SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... new hardware data randomization technology. Data randomization [occurs] automatically with every write to the drive to prevent unauthorized copying of blocks of data." However, James emphasized that ...

42. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... in the fast-paced high-tech economy appeared with the dot-com bust at the dawn of this century. Mid-sized companies that primarily drove that growth were hit the hardest. Companies like Sun Microsystems ...

43. Toshiba shows off Cell chip TV

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... Cell Regza 55X1 HDTV allows for eight simultaneous time shift channels and also a has 3TB hard drive to cope with the stream - you can even watch all eight channels at once if you're a sucker for punishment. ...

44. Windows 7 won't help PC sales until next summer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ... planning for replacement hardware in the spring, this isn't converted into actual sales until well into the summer. Compal is the main manufacturer of Dell's enterprise PCs, while Wistron will fulfil ...

45. Dell unveils five Alienware gaming rigs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... ALX – The Aurora line features the new Intel Core i7 processor, including an optional Extreme Edition overclocked to 3.6GHz. According to Dell, the Aurora line of desktops are designed for hardcore gaming, ...

46. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... display, DDR3 system memory, dual hard-drive configurations and Nvidia's GeForce GTS 250M with 1GB of GDDR5 video memory. Toshiba has unveiled a laptop targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia enthusiasts ...

47. ATI introduces Radeon HD 5800 GPU for DirectX 11 gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 22 September 2009

    ... generation GDDR5 support. In addition, Bergman noted that the DirectX 11 API was developed on AMD graphics hardware - which represents the "cornerstone" of DirectX 11 gaming. "With more than 20 DirectX ...

48. Scientist predicts brain downloads

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 21 September 2009

    ... seems have stopped short in the design department. He said the average brain had short term memory limits and held as much long term data as a PC hard drive in 1990. While the brain was a good parallel ...

49. Seagate 2TB Barracuda drive features 64MB cache

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 20 September 2009

    Seagate has introduced a 2 terabyte hard disk drive with a 64MB cache. The Barracuda XT - which features a 6GB/s SATA interface - is targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia developers. San Francisco, ...

50. Seagate upgrades network docking station for FreeAgent hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 September 2009

    Seagate has introduced a retrofitted docking station that allows users to easily access and share digital content stored on FreeAgent Go portable hard drives. According to Seagate, the FreeAgent DockStar ...