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Yahoo!, T-Mobile partner up on Mobile Search

Today T-Mobile announced it will be partnering with Yahoo! to bring mobile search to a most of its phone lineup. The service, called Web2Go, will include Yahoo!’s own one search as well as a customizable home page and a host of other features. Add comment

The $600 holiday PC

It’s the holiday season, and that means it’s time to send yourself spiraling into crushing debt made possible by the power of plastic. While you could responsibly commit to a reasonable budget, we know that the seductive potential of a $600 PC that isn’t terrible may be too much for your feeble will. If you’re […] Add comment

Tuniq Potency 550W power supply review

While Tuniq is becoming a popular name in cooling, their name does not typically jump to mind when considering power supplies. All the same, this new-comer to the PSU market is hoping to make quite a splash. In a relatively short period of time, Tuniq has cranked out seven higher end power supplies ranging from […] Add comment

AMD overclocks 45nm Phenom IIs to 4+GHz

At a press event this morning, AMD overclocked engineering samples of the upcoming 45nm Phenom II processors using air, liquid, phase change, and liquid nitrogen cooling. On air, they didn’t hit 4GHz, but easily broke the barrier with liquid cooling and phase change. Liquid nitrogen netted speeds over 6GHz. No photos were allowed at the […] Add comment

Gigabyte and MSI X58 boards

TechReport focuses on Gigabyte EX58-UD5 and MSI X58 Eclipse Core i7 X58 motherboards. Add comment

Intel E7200 processor

Techware Labs reviews the Intel E7200 processor. Add comment

Walton Chaintech APOGEE 2.5″ SSD

Remember Chaintech? They’re back now as Walton Chaintech with the APOGEE 2.5″ solid state drive. Add comment

ASRock K10N78-1394 motherboard

AMDZone reviews the ASRock K10N78-1394. It’s good, but loses to 780G-based offerings. Add comment

Archive DVDs easily with AutoGK

We don’t endorse anything untowards, but we can’t help but imagine the possibilities presented by AutoGK. You provide the DVD, it provides quality DiVX or XViD files at the touch of a button. It’s simple, it’s fast, it’s feature-rich, and it’s not crapware. We’re loving this bloat-free week. Add comment

Gadgets’n’Gizmos Thursday

It’s Thursday, and that means, er, nothing. But we do have gadgets for you! The BlackBerry Storm reviews are starting to hit the web. All sources indicate that it’s good, but not yet ready to slay the incumbent iPhone. Cue the “rains on RIM’s parade” jokes. It’s rare that new developments in the flash drive […] Add comment

Samsung’s blistering fast 256GB SSD

On Wednesday night, Samsung announced that it has begun production on a 256GB SSD that qualifies amongst the world’s fastest drives. The as yet-unpriced drive hammers benchmarks like the fist of an angry god by boasting 220MiBs/200MiBs sustained read/writes. Meanwhile, early marketing details have not revealed the speeds of random read/writes which are a bigger […] Add comment

USB 3 zips along at 450MBps

At this week’s SuperSpeed USB DevCon, the robustness of the freshly-minted production standard for USB 3.0 was shown to onlookers. While retaining backwards compatibility with the current ecosystem of USB devices, the new specification was demonstrated by moving an uncompressed 30 FPS 1080p stream along at 450MBps. This system is expected to be used in […] Add comment

Teach your lazy friends to Google

All of us know That Guy: he constantly asks you for pertinent links he could easily Google himself. Arm yourself against irritation! Let Me Google That For You is your weapon in this war. Add comment

Nehalem Overclocking Calculator

UPDATE: We have relaunched the overclocking calculator as a web application! The web version has several bug fixes which make it more accurate.You should check it out right here. Armed with QuickPath Interconnect, Intel’s new Core i7 CPU has a whole suite of multipliers and frequencies that make overclocking more complicated than ever. To keep […] Add comment

Ubuntu 9.04 preview

Phoronix previews Ubuntu 9.04. Who came up with the name “Jaunty Jackalope?” Add comment

NVIDIA ForceWare 180.47 analysis

TweakTown benchmarks NVIDIA’s latest drivers, the Forceware 180.47 suite. Add comment

ASUS Rampage II Extreme

t-break breaks down the ASUS Rampage II Extreme. It’s one of the hottest X58 boards on the market right now! Add comment

Build your own HTPC guide

OCinside.de has a beginners guide on how to build your own HTPC. Add comment

Core i7 overclocking videos

Hexus.tv overclocks the Core i7 with liquid nitrogen and air cooling. Add comment

FCC makes public its “white space” rules

Today, the FCC adopted a Second Report and Order outlining the rules associated with deploying broadband access across the soon to be opened white spaces. With the move from analog to digital TV service, the opening of the spectrum to allow the in between spaces was fought for as a broadband spectrum. Having been approved as […] Add comment

What is tri channel memory?

The release of Intel’s new Nehalem-based Core i7 CPU has brought the demand for tri-channel memory to the desktop for the first time. In this short number, we’ll explore what it is, how it works, how to buy it, and how to avoid getting burned by Windows. Add comment