Sunday Shortbread - Sun, 23 Nov 2008
Sunday
Steam client update released
Weekend deal - buy Sam & Max Complete Season One for $14.99, a savings of 50%
Grand Theft Auto IV - now available for pre-purchase
C|Net reports Boston-Power readies...
The TR Podcast 26: Faith, revelations, and exploring Shanghai - Sat, 22 Nov 2008
This week's episode adds two new X58 motherboards and games to the discussion, another editor to our series of biographies, and a sneak peak of our upcoming Shanghai Opteron benchmarks.
Saturday Shortbread - Sat, 22 Nov 2008
Saturday
VentureBeat on Apple's 2008 ad budget: nearly a half billion dollars
Microsoft CEO Ballmer ordered to testify in 'Vista' case
Microsoft, Rob Enderle, and their conflicting perceptions of reality
Microsoft hires away key search VP from Yahoo
DigiTimes reports Fujitsu introduces first netbook series
Microsoft announces...
Saturday science subject: Martian glaciers - Sat, 22 Nov 2008
NASA just keeps finding Earth-like features on Mars. After water ice and snow, the space agency has now uncovered water-ice glaciers hidden under "thin layers of crustal debris" near the red planet's equator. Scientific American elaborates:
The findings, published today in Science, come from the [Mars...
OpenCL spec is almost out the door - Fri, 21 Nov 2008
The Khronos group may release the completed OpenCL specification in about a month, according to a report by MacWorld. One of the site's editors was at the SC08 high-performance computing conference in Austin, where Intel's Tim Mattson revealed what's going down:
"The bottom line is, we've defined it technically,"...
New S3 Chrome graphics card is cheap, has built-in HD audio - Fri, 21 Nov 2008
Every so often, S3 posts a press release to remind everyone that AMD and Nvidia aren't the only two companies to offer discrete GPUs. After revealing last month that it, too, is working on general-purpose GPU technology, S3...
Deal of the week: Two GPUs and a classic game - Fri, 21 Nov 2008
If you've shopped around for graphics cards lately, you'll know AMD's Radeon HD 4870 and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 260's graphics cards have both been available around the $250 mark for weeks. The GTX 260 was usually a tad cheaper than that, while the Radeon was typically a tad more expensive.
Both companies...
PC market to grow less than expected in 2009, 2010 - Fri, 21 Nov 2008
The financial crisis may end up having a greater impact on the PC market than some previously believed. Market research firm iSuppli says it has revised its outlook for 2009 and 2010, cutting forecast growth by almost two thirds for next year.
Last quarter, iSuppli expected the PC market to...
Friday Shortbread - Fri, 21 Nov 2008
Friday
Engadget HD reports USB 3.0 demonstrations dazzle:
uncompressed 1080p transfer proves simple
C|Net reports Dell profits slide 5 percent
Microsoft seeks to end Vista lawsuit
Internal e-mails: Microsoft execs on Vista
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Internet Explorer 8 will go gold next year - Thu, 20 Nov 2008
Microsoft has revealed more details about its release roadmap for Internet Explorer 8. In a post on the official IEBlog, Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch says you can expect a public "release candidate" build of the new browser in the first quarter of 2009. Some time after that, the...