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Kingston Launches Ultra-Secure USB Flash Drive

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced the release of the DataTraveler® 5000 USB Flash drive. The DataTraveler 5000 is FIPS 140-2 Level 2 cert…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

ATI Confirms 5700, 5800 Problems; Promises Fix

AMD has confirmed that a previously reported issue of …

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Intel & Micron Announce 25nm NAND Flash Production, SSDs to get Bigger/Cheaper in Q4

Moore’s law applies to more than just microprocessors. At roughly twice the density of 34nm flash, IMFT’s announcement means we’ll see SSD capacities double this year – without prices going up….

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Will Amazon Buy Netflix?

The Wall Street Journal says that now may be a good time for Amazon to buy Netflix. What do you guys think? Deal or no deal?

Netflix, which has a market value of $3.4 billion, said about 48% of its customers streamed at least 15 minutes of …

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[H]ardware Round-Up II

Cooling
Noctua NH-U12P SE2 CPU Cooler @ Legit Reviews

Memory/ Storage
Patriot Valkyrie NAS Raid Device @ Pro-Clockers
Vantec NexStar Universal Storage Adapter @ ThinkComputers

Motherboards
ASUS P7P55D Premium and P7P55D-E Pro @ Overclockers …

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Thief Steals from the Wrong Booth at CES

And the award for stupid criminal goes to this jackass. Blame Greg L. for the linkage!

What the thief didn’t realize was his whole act was caught on camera at the booth he had stolen from. That booth belonged to Swann Security, a company that specia…

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MSI Big Bang XPOWER Specs Leaked

The crew at VR-Zone posted a handful confidential slides from MSI that show the specs and features for the upcoming Big Bang XPOWER X-58 motherboard. Hit the link for all the slides and motherboard pictures.

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Fake Antivirus Scam Hits Facebook

There is a new anti-virus scam making the rounds on Facebook again. To top that off, there is also a virus going around and people are shooting each other over Facebook.

Police say a dispute on Facebook led to a shooting outside a Philadelphia hi…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

National Have-Fun-at-Work Day

[H] reader Eric Kartmann (seriously) sent word that today was national Have-Fun-at-Work day. Well….did you?

January 29 is National Have-Fun-At-Work Day. Can you make it come true at your job – whatever it may be? The following five suggest…

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The Apple iPad: It’s Just Ahead of its Time&#63

Please tell me this lady did not just say the iPad is “ahead of its time.” Hopefully that was meant as a joke / sarcasm, especially after she listed off all the things the iPad doesn’t do:

The iPad is hampered by a well-documented string of missing…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |