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An injunction handed down (PDF) by Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas gives Microsoft 60 days to rectify patent concerns or else Microsoft Word cannot be sold or supported in the US. The ruling stems from a 2007 lawsuit filed by Toronto firm i4i Inc. The suit […] Add comment
UDP and uTP support in the new uTorrent 2.0 beta make it faster than ever. Try it! Add comment
In only a year of existence the iTunes App Store has gathered tremendous praise as well as plenty criticism as the central hub and application marketplace for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Yet, some of the policies Apple have adopted have given some users and many developers a pause. Add comment
IM Flash Technologies, the joint venture between Intel and Micron, has announced volume production of 3-bit multi-level cell (MLC) NAND cells by the end of 2009. While the current crop of flash drives and capacious SSDs use 2-bit cells, the 3-bit cell could improve capacities by fifty percent for the same physical dimensions. IMFT has […] Add comment
UPDATE: It has since been revealed that the “Core i9” will be going to retail as the Core i7 980X. You can read about it here. We’ve been discussing Intel’s upcoming Gulftown for quite a while now. Tapped to succeed the Bloomfield (Core i7) at the top of Intel’s performance heap, the new Core i9-branded […] Add comment
NVIDIA has just announced that Intel and major motherboard manufacturers have all grabbed an SLI license for motherboards based on the upcoming LGA1156 P55 chipset. It’s not any particular surprise, but it’s a win for the budget conscious. SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 10, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard […] Add comment
The monkeys must grab the bags of money and not just shriek and go running all over the place, like they did in the practice run. [via] Add comment
Based on a modern contemporary of the C language called C99, OpenCL is a framework that rapidly and easily assists developers in the creation of scalable applications. Imagine a single body of code that could just as easily run on a CPU, GPU, DSP, or any other execution engine; that is the promise of OpenCL. […] Add comment
Windows 7 is winding its way to retail, and one of the features offered to users of Windows 7 Professional (or better) is the so called Windows XP Mode. The XPM client virtualizes a copy of Windows XP within Windows 7 and allows users to run applications installed to that VM without any sign of […] Add comment
It’s August 6, and that means those of you with Technet or MSDN subscriptions can get your hands on a legitimate ISO of the Windows 7 RTM without dredging the intertorrents. As we previously announced, today MSDN & TechNet Subscribers will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English. On October 1st, the remaining […] Add comment
The NZXT Beta EVO adds additional cooling and a bottom-mounted PSU to the popular Beta design. Add comment
BFG Tech’s latest NVIDIA cards are cooled by a self-contained liquid cooling loop similar to the CoolIT Domino ALC Add comment
Benchmark Reviews has updated it’s list of the best Socket 1366 heatsinks for the quarter. Add comment
QuakeCon is August 13 – 16 in Dallas. Anyone going? Add comment
Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued by Microsoft. Meeeemmmorieeeess… Add comment
Chromium has a head, er, I mean a bug. Add comment
Twitter’s not doing so well this morning as it battles a denial-of-service attack. Add comment
Fusion-io, makers of really really fast SSDs, announced a new line of workstation storage cards, the ioXtreme. Marketed primarily towards workstations used in film and television production, as well as high-end gaming rigs, the ioXtreme has an 80 gigabyte capacity and screaming fast transfer speeds averaging around 520 MB/second. Icrontic spoke with David Flynn, Chief […] Add comment
The race to pick a codec that will service the HTML5/canvas video initiative is heating up as Google has just acquired On2, the video compression firm with a stable of quality desktop and mobile codecs. If would be great if Google decides to open-source On2’s VP7 and VP8 video codecs and free them up as […] Add comment
“Every time I think I’ve seen the most outrageous App Store rejection, I’m soon proven wrong.” Add comment
This is going to creep you out a little. Start searching. Add comment
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