Our debut into the wonderful world of vocal tech reporting
Date: February 9, 2008
Time: 1:09:38
Hosted by Jordan Drake
Co-Hosts: Scott Wasson, Cyril Kowaliski, Geoff Gasior
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Show Notes
Our debut episode features all of your favorite staffers from The Tech Report! Scott starts of by introducing Geoff, Cyril, and Jordan (a new member of the team and host of The TR Podcast). Our editors talk about the latest tech news, including Nvidia's buyout of Ageia, Microsoft's bid for Yahoo and more. Geoff and Scott talk about the latest PSU roundup and Skulltrail, and Cyril explains the pricing between AMD's Radeon HD 3870 and Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GT. Future episodes will be released every other Saturday right here on the front page.
Send in listener mail and we'll answer on the podcast! - jdrake@techreport.com
Tech News:
Nvidia to purchase Ageia Technologies - Read more...
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion - Read more... - Update...
Hyper-Threading to be revived in the new Silverthorne - Read more...
Intel X48 enthusiast chipset coming in mid-March - Read more...
Lenovo's new 'Macbook Air Killer' - Read more... - Update...
Tech Topics:
700-1000w PSU roundup - Read more...
Skulltrail review from Scott - Read more...
GeForce 8800 GT, Radeon HD 3870 hit near-price-parity - Read more...
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