December 30, 2010
Deepcool Ice Matrix 600 Heatsink Review
QUOTE: “As with other DeepCool heatsinks, the Ice Matrix 600 cooler ships
with a special fan that has a resilient layer of rubber surrounding the entire fan frame.”
URL: http://www.frosty…
Tags: Cooling, Heatsinks
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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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December 30, 2010
With a complete lack of fanfare, Amazon has thrown the switch allowing users to loan Kindle books as promised. The feature works much the same as the loaning implementation on the Nook. Users can loan a book to one user for two weeks. Loans are apparen…
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December 30, 2010
Muy potente, muy complejo
Mi Casa Verde’s Vera home-control module is far more powerful than the Schlage LiNK home-control system we reviewed in our October/November issue (you can read that review online here). What’s more, the Mi Casa Verde doesn…
Tags: hardware, Home Control System, maximum tech, reviews
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December 30, 2010
Security firm Lookout warns that a new Trojan affecting Android devices has emerged in China. It’s being called “Geinimi” and it’s capable of compromising a “significant amount of personal data” harvested from a user’s phone, which is then sent to remo…
Tags: android, botnet, lookout, mobile, News Worthy, Security, Smartphone, Software, Trojan
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December 30, 2010
In a blog post on Wednesday, Skype offered up a post-mortem explanation to the recent outage that affected thousands of users who were unable to connect and communicate.
“For starters, it helps to understand that Skype is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) …
Tags: News Worthy, outage, Skype, Software, VOIP
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December 30, 2010
Asus hoped to ship 25 million million motherboards in 2010, but as the year comes to a close, it will fall short by about 3.2 million boards. Gigabyte will also fall short of its goal, having shipped about 18.5 million units when it hoped to reach 20 m…
Tags: asus, build a pc, ecs, gigabyte, hardware, motherboards, MSI, News Worthy
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December 22, 2010
The Thermalright Shaman is a massive eight heatpipe GPU heatsink with an equally imposing 14cm fan. Taking up three extra expansion slots and weighing a total of 680 grams, this monster should have no trouble quietly cooling a high-end graphics ca…
Tags: Coolers, Cooling Accessories, Fans, Heatsinks
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