Miscellaneous Tech News worthy of mention
December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: 22nm, AMD, apu, chip, fusion, ivy bridge, News Worthy, processor, sandy bridge, Taiwan, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacture Company, tsmc
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December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: business, jobs, layoffs, myspace, News Worthy, Social Networking
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December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: build a pc, g1-killer, gigabyte, hardware, motherboards, News Worthy
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December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: facebook, Google, News Worthy, online, website
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December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: b&n, barnes and noble, ebook reader, eReader, hardware, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, nook
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December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: copyright, court, games, law, legal, nationwide insurance, News Worthy, Videogames
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December 31, 2010
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…
Tags: AMOLED, CES, ces 2011, consumer electronics show, maximum tech, News Worthy, samsung, samsung mobile display, transparent display
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December 30, 2010
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…
Tags: GSM, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, phones, Security, sms, text messages
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