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ATI Launches $50 DirectX 11 Cards With Passive Cooling
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By Jansen Ng - February 4, 2010
We enjoy a very good lifestyle in North America and Europe, but most people around the world can't afford to shell out hundreds of dollars for a new video card. That's why the majority of ATI's video cards sales are less than $100. ATI is launching the Radeon HD 5450 for those people. The card uses ATI's newest 40nm chip from TSMC, codenamed Cedar. The GPU is a mere 59mm2, enabling the Radeon 5450 to become the first DirectX 11 video card to sell for under $50. It will use DDR3 or DDR2, depending on the Add-In Board partner who sells the card. 512MB versions will sell for around $50, while 1GB versions will sell for around $60. The new card also targets another important market. The Home Theatre PC segment is growing, and users there generally desire a passive cooling solution. The Radeon 5450 has a Thermal Design Power of only 19.1W, and an idle power usage of 6.4 watts. This enables the use of a passive cooling solution. The reference card shown uses a heatsink that occupies two slots, but AIBs will mostly be selling single slot solutions.
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Microsoft Says Windows 7 Battery Life Investigation Under Way
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by Nicholas Kolakowski on February 4, 2010
Microsoft has been investigating user complaints related to the battery life of laptops running Windows 7, a problem that's apparently been drifting around since the widespread beta version was released into the wild. While there don't seem to be exact figures for the number of users affected, the issue does seem to occur for those users upgrading their laptops to Windows 7 from either Windows Vista or Windows XP. I queried Microsoft about the battery issue Feb. 3, and a spokesperson responded with: "Microsoft has been made aware that some computers running Windows 7 receive a warning that battery needs to be replaced when the battery is new or in good health. In conjunction with our hardware partners, we are investigating this issue." Good thing, too, because if the comments left over the previous few months on the Microsoft TechNet discussion forum are any indication, the battery life for some users experiencing the issue is as short as 15 minutes.
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DOJ Deems Amended Google Book Search Deal Anticompetitive
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By Clint Boulton 2010-02-05
The Department of Justice Feb. 4 urged a New York District Court not to bless Google's amended Google Book Search deal with authors and publishers, citing copyright and antitrust issues concerns that render the deal anticompetitive. The DOJ said the deal would let Google be the only competitor in the digital marketplace with the rights to distribute many works in multiple formats. The DOJ further agreed to work with Google, authors and publishers on a viable, fair solution. District Court Denny Chin, will hold a hearing on the amended settlement agreement Feb. 18. The Department of Justice said copyright and antitrust issues concerns continue to make Google's amended settlement agreement for its Google Book Search project anticompetitive, suggesting the court presiding over the case shouldn't bless the deal.
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Apple Tries a Second Time to Fix 27" iMac Issues With Firmware Update
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Cupertino hopes second times the charm with its graphical woes
By Jason Mick - February 2, 2010
Apple's fancy new 27-inch iMac has an attractive screen and decently powerful hardware incorporated into a sleek body. Unfortunately, some customers' experiences with the computer have not been so “magical” thanks to a variety of problems including cracked screens, non-booting machines, yellowed screens, and graphical issues. Apple already tried to address its graphical woes with a firmware update in December. However, many users in the company's support forums reported that the update did not fix their machines' poor graphics performance. Apple has since delayed shipments of the larger iMacs, perhaps to try to buy time. Now Apple has released a second firmware update and is hoping the second time is the charm when it comes to graphics problems. The new update is dubbed "27-inch iMac Display Firmware Update 1.0", not to be confused with the similar-sounding previous updated named "27-inch iMac Graphics Firmware Update 1.0". Available here, the update is only 294 KB, and is available for any Apple operating system Mac OS X 10.6.2 or later (all the new iMacs ship with Snow Leopard, so its unlikely you'd find one with something else).
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NVIDIA Names GTX 480, GTX 470 as First GF100 Video Cards
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By Jansen Ng - February 2, 2010
NVIDIA is betting the future of the company on its GF100 graphics chips using the new Fermi architecture. The new chips started mass production last month, and are expected to be used in new video cards that will be launched around the end of February. There still aren't a lot of specific details about the video cards that will use the new chips, but the company has just released information about the names of the first cards to use GF100 chips. The GeForce GTX 480 will be the high end video card using the highest clocked speeds, while the GeForce GTX 470 will be a more affordable card with lower core and memory timings. Several defective CUDA cores are likely to be disabled in the GTX 470, which is going to be a big production problem for NVIDIA due to the large die size of the GF100.
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Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack
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By PC World Feb. 3, 2010
Early Tuesday, Twitter says it had to reset the passwords of a small number of accounts compromised in an external phishing attack. "As part of Twitter's ongoing security efforts, we reset passwords for a small number of accounts that we believe may have been compromised offsite," Twitter wrote in a prepared statement. Twitter said it took the security action because of a "combination of multiple bad acts." One, it believes, is accounts being compromised by Twitter users signing up for what it described as "get followers fast schemes" luring people to a non-Twitter site. A Twitter spokesperson also said it suspects this third-party site "could have allowed hackers to gain access to email addresses and passwords. Those Twitter users who use the same email addresses and passwords could be affected."
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Also Read This --> Phisher Booby-Trapped Sites to Gain Twitter Access |
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Apple rips off another interface
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By Nick Farrell Monday, 1 February 2010
WHILE JOBS' MOB receives praise from its tame press for its Ibooks application for the Ipad, more critical hacks have smelt a rat. Paul Thurrott thought that it was just another example of Apple ripping off a user interface. When Thurrott attended Jobs' Mob's rally last week he just assumed when he saw the Ibook interface that Apple had roped in Delicious Monster, the shop behind the brilliant Mac app Delicious Library to design it. Delicious Monster founder Wil Shipley twittered that Apple didn't license the IBooks from him, it just copied it. Later, he twittered, "I guess it's not enough Apple has hired every employee who worked on Delicious Library, they also had to copy my product's look. Flattery?" The bookshelf view in Ibooks is nearly identical to the main bookshelf view used in Delicious Library. Not only that, Apple liked it and gave it the Apple Design Award twice, and made it a runner-up one other time.
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Also Read this --> Apple makes $200+ on each ipad |
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AMD confirms grey-screen crash
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By Gareth Halfacree 1st February 2010
AMD has publicly confirmed reports of crashes with its ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics processors, which result in users systems displaying a series of grey or coloured lines. As reported over on Tom's Hardware, the company has advised customers experiencing the bug that the issue isn't a hardware bug but a software one exacerbated by an update issued by Microsoft for Windows 7. Despite this explanation, users running other versions of Windows are complaining of the same issue - and in the release notes for the latest version of theATI drivers, Catalyst 10.1, the grey screen crash is noted as an issue which affects all versions of Windows. Company spokesman Dave Erskine has stated that "only a small number of ATI Radeon HD 5800 series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 series cards are exhibiting the behaviour" and promises that " the [Radeon] team is testing a driver hotfix and initial tests indicate that it resolves the issue."
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Flurry Of Non-Apple Tablets Take Aim At iPad
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By Rob Wright, Feb. 01, 2010
If the iPad is going to have the kind of success Apple is accustomed to seeing these days, then it will have to topple a growing number of competing devices that are scheduled to hit the market this year. While the most high-profile alternative tablets are from HP and Dell, there are a number of other manufacturers that have jumped into the suddenly crowded and hot market. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer highlighted the new HP Slate during his keynote address, but he also mentioned a few other non-HP tablets such as Pegatron's tablet offering. Similarly, Nvidia showed off several different tablet models from companies such as Asus, Microstar International, and Innovative Converged devices, that are utilizing Nvidia's Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC). All in all, there looks to be more than a dozen different tablet manufacturers vying for market share this year with Apple. Some of these devices were created by startups like Notion Ink, while others, such as the Sports Illustrated tablet prototype, are back by international media conglomerates. The biggest effect Apple's iPad may have on the competition is on price; at $499, the iPad is cheaper than some analysts and media members expected. Some tablets are running over that $500 benchmark, while some devices have already moved well under it to the $300 price range. Many manufacturers held back pricing announcements, likely preferring to wait until after Apple's event this week to put a dollar figure on their tablets.
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Leaks put Intel, AMD six-core CPUs in March and May
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By Electronista Staff January 29, 2010
Insiders at mainboard builders today revealed some of the details for the six-core processors from AMD and Intel. The latter will take the bow first and is now believed certain to launch the Core i7-980X in March. It's known to run at 3.33GHz and will be a very high end chip with 12MB of cache. Pricing may reach over $1,000, however, and would reserve it for gaming PCs and performance workstations. AMD's plans for its Thuban architecture will take more time, with new models arriving in May, but will aim considerably lower and cover more mainstream users. They will start with the Phenom II X6 line and include three models, the 1075T, 1055T and 1035T. Their clock speeds are an unknown but should allow for significantly less expensive prices. Two mainboard chipsets, the 890FX and the graphics-equipped 890GX, would ship in April to clear the way.
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