Wednesday Shortbread - The Tech Report

Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 5:46 AM on November 4, 2009

Wednesday

Ars Technica: Are new rumors of an Nvidia x86 CPU plausible?
DigiTimes reports AMD readies 2 desktop platforms for May 2010
Fudzilla reports Nanya predicts DRAM boom
Bing U.S. market share stabilizes but Yahoo! continues to fall
Yahoo teams with OneRiot on real-time search
Microsoft to set up cloud research center in Taiwan
C|Net reports T-Mobile experiencing widespread outage
and Sony Ericsson details its first Android phone
Canalys Q3 2009: iPhone, RIM taking over smartphone market (thanks jdaven)
Ars Technica reports blacksn0w unlocks 3.1.2; Apple looks to curtail jailbreaking
AT&T sues Verizon over 3G ads
TechCrunch reports Swedish government promises superfast broadband to all
Cable uncapper faces criminal charges
Digital Trends on augmented reality
Will 'The Terminator' be back? Sci-fi franchise could sell for $200 million
Dealzon's deals: $400 off 18" hp dv8t w/ Blu-ray & HDMI out, $113 off 26" LG LCD TV,
$590 off 12" Lenovo Elite ThinkPad X200, and $20 off 640GB Seagate external HD

Software

'Fix It' released for Windows 7 upgrade problem
80% of viruses love Windows 7
Microsoft: State of the security union is good
Ars Technica has October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE 6
AnandTech on choosing the right foundation: Which hypervisor do you evaluate?
Phoronix reports AMD's UVD2-based XvBA finally does something on Linux
TweakPC has Windows 7 tuning and tips - Update (in German)
HT4U's workaround to get RivaTuner to work with Radeon HD 5000 cards (in German)
Ars Technica's hands-on with Firefox 3.6 beta
Microsoft Systems Center Essentials 2010 beta

Gaming

Official: Futuremark working hard on DirectX 11 benchmark
Kotaku: Xbox 360 with $100 card for $200 this weekend?
Fudzilla reports Xbox Live Rewards pilot starts
TF2 blog: Left 4 Dead 2 pre-order giveaway madness
BioWare's Mark Darrah talks about Dragon Age: Origins
Shacknews reports Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter for PC has gone gold
Hexus.net: AMD and Nvidia in Batman Arkham Asylum AA fiasco - Who's telling the truth?
PCGH has Dragon Age: Origins CPU benchmarks - 75% boost for quad-cores
Trinity engine with DirectX 11: That's what future RPGs and strategy titles might look like
Development on Doom Classic as written by id's John Carmack
How to run Quake III and HD videos on a netbook
Ars Technica reviews GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
The latest on Battlefield 2142 patch
Torchlight's current fix status
Darkest of Days "Instant Action" patch & level tools released
FileFront has Dragon Age: Origins This is War trailer

Systems and storage

HardwareZone reviews Gigabyte M1022 booktop and Sony Vaio X
TechReviewSource on Lenovo ThinkPad SL510
AMDZone, BmR, FiringSquad, Guru3D, LostCircuits, Neoseeker,
OCC, and PureOC review Phenom II X4 P965 BE C3 revision
Neoseeker: Nitrogen adventures with AMD TWKR
techPowerUp! reviews Athlon II X3 425
Madshrimps have Gigabyte P55-UD3P overclocking test
Bright Side of News reviews Asus P7P55D Deluxe
HardwareOC reviews ECS P55H-A (in German)
TweakTown reviews 600GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 SAS 2.0 6Gb/s hard disk
Motherboards.org reviews 128GB Patriot Torqx SSD
Velocity Reviews on 32GB Corsair Flash Survivor USB drive
TestFreaks review QNAP TS-219P Turbo NAS