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Tech blogger Michael Arrington recently insinuated that TV personality Leo Laporte was predisposed to giving the Pre a positive review as he freely received a one-week evaluation unit from Palm Corporation. As you will see in the following video, Laporte does not handle this kindly; he is infuriated by an allegation that calls his reputation […] Add comment
Hello dear friends and savvy readers! We know that you — unlike our illustrious editor in chief who wielded an embarrassingly primitive facsimile of a mobile for vastly too long — probably have a smartphone! You probably even use it to hop on the 3G information super slowway and browse the web. We’ve decided to […] Add comment
The Inquirer, everyone’s favorite tech news/blog site for juicy rumors, news, and half-truths; seems to be in rough waters these days, and the staff is abandoning ship. We first saw signs of turmoil when Charlie Demerjian announced he was starting a new site right before Computex on May 31. Chuck D is no stranger to […] Add comment
In a world… This spring, one man battled against a Fortune-500 corporation. It sounds like a movie trailer, but in reality, these words describe a contest that happened entirely in the world of social networking. Ashton Kutcher, @aplusk on Twitter, competed against CNN in a race to one million followers. In the spirit of rooting […] Add comment
The Federal Telecommunication Commission and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division has shut down a California-based Internet service provider and web hosting company accused of being a one-stop shop for criminals, spammers, pedos and scammers. Pricewert LLC, aka 3FN, Triple Fiber Network, APS Telecom and APS Communications; is […] Add comment
The Stockholm District Court has argued in a report filed with the Svea Court of Appeals that judge Tomas Norström was not biased in his ruling against The Pirate Bay. Concern for Norström’s associations arose when it was revealed that he is a standing member in the Svenska föreningen för upphovsrätt (The Swedish Copyright Association) […] Add comment
The next iPhone with revamped internals, dubbed the iPhone 3GS, arrives on June 19. Add comment
11-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin has graduated with an atrophysics degree and a 4.0 GPA from East LA Community College. [via] Add comment
The newly-minted Intel Core i7 975-EE topped 5GHz on air at Computex. [via] Add comment
DFI has demo’d tech to flash a mobo’s BIOS using another PC connected via USB. [via] Add comment
OCZ’s sleek 10.1″ Neutrino DIY netbook has dropped Intel’s 945GSE in favor of NVIDIA ION. [via] Add comment
Sweden’s Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament in Brussels as a result of elections held Sunday throughout Europe. The Pirate Party received approximately 7 percent of Sweden’s popular vote to secure one, and as many as two of the 18 seats Sweden holds within the parliament. Pirate Party leader, founder, and […] Add comment
A leaked Best Buy internal memo has helped to resolve some of the speculation regarding Microsoft’s pricing and upgrade plans for Windows 7. Beginning June 26, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate editions are eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 7 once the operating system launches on October 22. […] Add comment
Researchers in the US have demonstrated experimental “memory” with a theoretical density of 1 trillion bits per square inch and a storage lifetime of more than a billion years. The research team led by physicist Alex Zettl at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley built their memory prototype out of a nanoparticle of […] Add comment
NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes: Anisotropic filtering fixes for GTX 200-series GPUs on Windows 7. Resolved visual corruption in Empire: Total War on […] Add comment
Rambus today ceded on four of nine claims leveled against NVIDIA in an ongoing patent dispute being overseen by the International Trade Commission. Memory IP firm Rambus (Nasdaq: RMBS) began proceedings with a November 2008 ITC filing alleging NVIDIA products containing GDDR-GDDR3 memory, controller and interface technologies infringed on nine patents held by the company. […] Add comment
Intel Corporation announced amidst Computex that it would revive efforts to accelerate programs by caching their I/O on flash memory modules bundled with upcoming Lynnfield chipsets. Intel has dubbed the technology Braidwood and explains that it leverages flash memory to store application I/O to significantly accelerate tasks like opening a program or executing common tasks. […] Add comment
Intel Corporation on Thursday announced that it would purchase Wind River Systems for approximately $884 million USD in a gamble to put more of its microprocessors in mobile and wireless products. Intel’s purchase values Wind River at 44 percent more than their $11.50 share price at the time of the deal’s close. Wind River Systems […] Add comment
The FOSS project known as ReactOS, devoted to making an open source distribution that’s compatible with Windows binaries, has introduced a new SATA driver and received a Verisign certificate. The ReactOS Foundation which owns the rights and trademarks to the ReactOS project will now be able to certify its releases and digitally sign drivers for […] Add comment
The clamor from the peanut gallery turned into a roar as our E3 visit approached. “Booth babes!” they yelled. “Hot chicks!” they shrieked. “Pics or GTFO!” they wailed. I was tasked by the multitudes of horny Icrontians: Take pictures of hot chicks. Sure, I can do that. But if I do, then you must know […] Add comment
Leo Laporte calls Mike Arrington an asshole on the air. [via] Add comment
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