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Rumor: Intel to Outsource Panther Point Chipsets to Taiwan

December 31, 2010
Rumor: Intel to Outsource Panther Point Chipsets to Taiwan

While Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge processors remain the immediate focus of the world, the Santa Clara-based chip maker is already laying the groundwork for the coming of Ivy Bridge, the 22nm die shrink of Sandy Bridge expected to hit market in lat…

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Layoffs and Other Changes Loom Large at MySpace

December 31, 2010
Layoffs and Other Changes Loom Large at MySpace

Credit MySpace for once dominating the social networking scene and, more recently, trying to reinvent itself as an all-around entertainment epicenter. But let’s be real, MySpace blew its opportunity to become what Facebook already is, and there doesn’t…

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Gigabyte Goes with Gun Theme on Upcoming "G1-Killer" Motherboard

December 31, 2010
Gigabyte Goes with Gun Theme on Upcoming "G1-Killer" Motherboard

We like Gigabyte’s boards, we’re just not real keen on the pastel color scheme that has dominated the company’s product lineup in recent memory. That’s about to change.
In anticipation of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Gigabyte offered u…

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Facebook Leapfrogs Google as Most Visited Website

December 31, 2010
Facebook Leapfrogs Google as Most Visited Website

What a year it’s been for Facebook, the world’s largest social networking playground with over 500 million registered users. As 2010 comes to a close, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of this troops can celebrate that Facebook is now the most visitied webs…

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B&N to Amazon: Our Nook is Pretty Popular, Too

December 31, 2010
B&N to Amazon: Our Nook is Pretty Popular, Too

It’s a game of one-upmanship between Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Earlier this week, Amazon announced its third-generation Kindle is now the best selling product in the company’s history, and not to be outdone, Barnes & Noble is saying the same t…

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Insurance Agent Busted for Selling Counterfeit Games

December 31, 2010
Insurance Agent Busted for Selling Counterfeit Games

According to the TV jingle, ‘Nationwide is on your side,’ but at least one employee will spend 2.5 years behind bars for being on the wrong side of the law. His name is Qiang “Michael” Bi, and he was found guilty of selling more than 35,000 counterfeit…

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Samsung Bringing 19-inch Transparent AMOLED to CES

December 31, 2010
Samsung Bringing 19-inch Transparent AMOLED to CES

That Samsung has a penchant for transparent displays was quite evident at different times throughout 2010, nevertheless the Korean consumer electronics giant wants to begin the new year by reminding everyone about its obsession. Samsung Mobile Displ…

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Security Researchers Demonstrate "SMS of Death"

December 30, 2010
Security Researchers Demonstrate "SMS of Death"

Mobile security concerns often center around high-power smartphones, but at the Chaos Computer Club Congress some German researchers demonstrated even feature phones are vulnerable. By setting up a small GSM test network in the lab, researchers were ab…

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