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0% interest balance transfer

Need to consolidate some credit cards? Use the US Mint to do it with no transfer charge. Add comment

Sun and IBM, sittin’ in a tree

Speculation that Sun will be purchased by IBM. Sounds like a win-win to me. Add comment

Space Bat

Baaats Iiiin Spaaaaace. Add comment

Reznor dishes on TicketMaster and scalping

Trent Reznor gives the DL on TicketMaster’s complicity in scalping. (via Waxy) Add comment

ATI Radeon HD 4890 pictures

We told you about the Radeon HD 4890 last Friday, now you can see the uninteresting pictures. Add comment

ATI releases Catalyst v9.3 for Windows 7

ATI has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for Radeon/Radeon Mobility 4000, 3000, 2000, 780 and 790GX GPUs. Weighing in at 75MB, this Catalyst v9.3 is the first of many future drivers written specifically for the Windows 7 operating system. Aside from implementing specific support for Micorosft’s fledgling OS, there are no […] Add comment

Dev-Team prepping Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0

We’re going to give some time for iPhone OS 3.0 information to percolate, but we thought we’d syndicate this update which should be of special interest: And for those wondering, yes the 3.0 OS is jailbreakable on all devices.   It’s just those using 3G yellowsn0w that have to show some restraint and wait for […] Add comment

Google reveals Chrome 2.0 beta

Google’s curveball of a browser exited its first beta on December 15 and has enjoyed the “stable” tag just a short while before being plunged straight back into beta 2. The Goog is claiming that beta 2 is 25-35% faster than the current stable version, and almost twice as fast as the original beta when […] Add comment

AMD FirePro V8700 1GB video card

Phoronix takes the AMD FirePro V8700 1GB workstation card for a drive in Linux. Don’t get into a render bender. Add comment

E7400 vs E8600 cache battle

Rollin’ phat cache. MadShrimps pits the Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 against its baller brother, the E8600. Add comment

DFI LanParty UT X58-T3eH8 review

Hardware Canucks reviews the DFI board of my dreams, the LanParty UT X58-T3eH8. Excuse me while I swoon. Add comment

Iran + nuclear power + WinCC licensing?

Iranian nuclear reactor controls not using valid WinCC license. Add comment

Games he never played

Guilty secrets of a game journalist: games he’s never played. Add comment

Newspaper death watch

Newspaper death watch: Seattle Post-Intelligencer bites the dust after 146 years. Add comment

Google: disconnection too severe

Google: Internet disconnection a “disproportionate” penalty. I couldn’t agree more. Add comment

Existence of ATI Radeon RV790 core leaked

Unfortunately TheInquirer was wrong when it said that no RV790 core existed. Not only does the RV790 core exist, it was certified by the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) PCIe 2.0 compliance program on March 16. Just in case the the RV790 gets omitted from the certification page, here’s a screencap to tide you over: […] Add comment

Voices in your head, or just the new iPod Shuffle?

I think Steve Jobs’ anti-button fetish may have gone a little too far. Let me start by saying that I love the Shuffle’s concept, especially the first generation “white gumstick.” Why? It was an iTunes music player and flash drive that could survive an unfortunate encounter with a truck (in not one of my finer […] Add comment

Unannounced Phenom II X4 955 tops 4GHz on air

The rumor goes that yields on the Phenom II X4 950 have been better than expected. Rather than rolling with the 950, AMD has reportedly decided to out the X4 955 at 3.2GHz. The rumor also goes that a vCore bump to 1.45v and a dash of air cooling has topped the 4GHz barrier. Discuss. Add comment

The GeForce GTX 295 is a lie

Well, not totally, but everyone loves a good headline. Anyhow, Hardware-Infos has done the legwork to illustrate a brewing concern amongst journalists/bloggers/whatever: Is the GeForce GTX 295 a PR gag expressly designed to capture the single card speed crown? It’s an important war in the GPU industry. Like it or not, these incremental refreshes that […] Add comment

Intel goes legal on GlobalFoundries x86 license

Back in October we reported that Intel was peeved at AMD for spinning off what has become GlobalFoundries. Intel claimed that GlobalFoundries was not a subsidiary of AMD, and therefore had no right to the x86 cross-licensing agreements that have been in place since 1976. In fact, today’s kerfluffle seems like a carbon copy of […] Add comment

New Conficker variant in the wild

The epic tale of the nasty Conficker worm has received another chapter in the form of Conficker.C, a new variant primed for activation on April Fool’s day. The new variant of the Conficker worm has adopted a “defensive stance” which has made it harder to detect than its two older siblings. The mighty list of […] Add comment