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Lamborghini Murcielago VS Ford GT on highway
2007-12-30 19:42:00
Brakes are four-piston aluminum Brembo calipers with cross-drilled and vented rotors at all four corners. When the rear canopy is opened, the rear suspension components and engine are visible.
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Panasonic Announces Ultra-thin Blu-ray Drive for Notebooks
2007-12-30 16:01:00
Panasonic says the thinnest Blu-ray drive ever made will be on display at CES 2008 in January Ardent road warriors are always on the lookout for smaller, thinner and lighter notebook computers. With Blu-ray movies becoming more commonplace the same road warriors are also looking to systems with Blu-ray drives as well. The problem with Blu-ray drives is that the typical Blu-ray drive for notebooks is about 0.5 inches thick. The typical standard DVD drive for a notebook is only 0.28 inches thick. This represents almost twice the heft for the Blu-ray drive compared to the standard DVD drive. Panasonic announced a new ultra-thin Blu-ray drive aimed at notebook computers and UMPC systems that measures in at only 0.37 inches thick. This new drive is capable of reading Blu-ray discs and writing to Blu-ray media as well. The thin drive will also read and write to standard DVD and CD media. InformationWeek reports Toshiba will have an equally thin HD DVD drive as well. While Blu-ray...
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Apple Vows to Succeed Where Botched Online Movie Services Failed
2007-12-30 15:58:00
Apple to announce movie rental download program weeks after Wal-Mart cancels similar service for lack of consumer interest Movie fans know going to the movie store isn?t always convenient and late fees are a pain. So why haven't downloadable movie rentals caught on yet? Even the infamous Enron had plans to produce infrastructure for video-on-demand libraries as early as 2000. With the recent demise of Wal-mart's downloadable services, the time might be ripe for new blood. According to the Associated Press Apple will announce the new movie rental service next month that will work on top of its iTunes infrastructure. The new service is not to be confused with existing movie and TV downloads on iTunes. The new service would increase content several times over, with titles from several different studios. Apple has a much stronger user base for its iTunes service, which allowed Apple to attract its first major movie studio for the rental deal -- Twentieth Century Fox. Apple ...
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Samsung Unveils 31-inch OLED Screen
2007-12-30 15:52:00
Samsung 31-inch OLED screen prototype to be displayed at CES 2008OLED panels are the next big thing when it comes to TVs and other consumer electronics from cameras to cell phones. The OLED screen promises more compact dimensions, less power consumption and brighter images.Small OLED screens are currently found on some cell phones and LCD TV makers are looking for larger OLED screens to use in HDTVs. Reuters reports that Samsung recently unveiled a 31-inch active-matrix OLED screen. Samsung says it will have a 31-inch OLED prototype TV on display at CES 2008 in January.Samsung declined to comment on the commercial availability of TVs using the 31-inch OLED panel stating that the panel being available for retail purchase would depend on TV makers? plans. With the very high cost of the Sony XEL-1, the first commercially available OLED TV retailing for over $1,700 USD, the price for a 31-inch Samsung panel equipped OLED TV is a frightening thought for many. Samsung didn?t comment on po...
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Play Virtual Pool Moblie on a Palm Treo 700wx
2007-12-30 15:47:00
Play Virtual Pool Mobile on a Palm Treo 700wx with wm5 Windows Mobile 5 Operating System.
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AMD Spider Phenom Computer Review
2007-12-30 15:43:00
http://live.pirillo.com - We'll be giving away another computer! The old computer sent to me by AMD will be given away the day after Christmas, provided we've reached 20,000 YouTube subscribers. Th... (more) Added: December 21, 2007 http://live.pirill
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Dell Latitude XT Tablet Specs, Images Leaked
2007-10-14 13:45:00
LesDeLLiens.com unloads Latitude XT details In late May, Dell announced to the world that it would bring a Tablet PC device to the market this fall. Dell showed a grainy video of its new Latitude XT in action, but failed to give any concrete details on the device. Some features were simply inferred from the video like the 12.1" display, built-in fingerprint reader and Windows Vista operating system. Thankfully for us, LesDeLLiens.com has unloaded a wealth of information on the Latitude XT in addition to some high resolution imagery. Consumers will be greeted with an ATI RS600ME northbridge and an SB600 southbridge. The GPU to be used will be an ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 with 256MB of HyperMemory which can be paired with either a traditional CCFL or LED-backlit 12.1" WXGA display. LesDeLLiens.com says that the Latitude XT will come with an Ultra Low Voltage Core 2 Duo U7600 (1.2GHz) processor although other processor options are likely to be available. Up to 3GB of...
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New Wii System Software Adds USB Keyboard Support
2007-10-14 13:43:00
New Wii software learns to work with USB keyboards Those who have noticed their Wii sporting a glowing blue light (or no light at all for a non-Internet connected console) will be pleased to know that a new system firmware has been released. New in version 3.1 of the firmware is expanded USB keyboard support, improving greatly over keyboard implementation in previous firmware versions. Hyperlinks may now be included in messages, which can be launched directly into a web browser with a Wii Remote click. Users of the Internet Channel will find with the new 3.1 firmware an experience that better matches a full-featured web browser. Speaking of the Internet Channel, there also appears to be an updated version of the browser software available for download. Also, an improved ?Everybody Votes? Wii Channel is also online, allowing users to input questions of their own. Version 3.1 firmware builds on all the changes introduced in version 3, such as an on-screen digital clock...
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Magnetic Storage Breakthrough Wins Scientists Nobel Prize in Physics
2007-10-14 13:40:00
Nobel Prize awarded for discovery in magnetic storage breakthrough made in 1970s The Nobel Prize is synonymous to many with developments and inventions that revolutionize a particular field. This year the Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to French scientist Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg. The pair won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics for their discovery of the phenomenon of ?giant magnetoresistance,? or GMR. This phenomenon is where weak changes in magnetic resistance give rise to big differences in electrical resistance. This is one of the core principles that allows for the development of sensitive reading tools for retrieving magnetically sorted data in devices from computers to portable media players. The Nobel Foundation regards Fert and Grunberg's accomplishment as "one of the first major applications of nanotechnology." BBC News quotes Professor Ben Murdin of the University of Surrey, UK, as saying, ?Without [giant magnetoresistance] you wo...
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Honda Hybrid Sports Car Concept Recalls The Bemoaned CRX
2007-10-14 13:36:00
Honda revives the CRX's spirit with a small hybrid concept In early February, DailyTech first brought you news that Honda was working on a small sports car to take some of the "green" spotlight that has been hogged by the Toyota Prius since 2000. Honda later unveiled the vehicle as the Small Hybrid Sports Concept (SHSC) in March. The radical-looking concept was powered by an efficient 4-cylinder engine, Honda's Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid system and paired with a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The SHSC's powertrain was rather conventional, but its design was a bit too far reaching to be taken seriously as a production model. Honda is at again and today showcased a new small hybrid sports car in the form of the CR-Z. The CR-Z recalls the lightweight CRX hatchback and features more production-worthy styling than the SHSC. Honda simply describes the CR-Z as a "design research model of a lightweight hybrid sports car," and notes that the powertrain ...
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Mozilla Firefox Coming to Mobile Devices in 2008
2007-10-14 13:28:00
Mozilla takes aim at the mobile market The Mozilla Foundation unveiled plans to create a mobile version of Firefox that will be available to phone manufacturers sometime in 2008.The company is hiring new staff and raised the mobile platform to a first class/tier-1 platform, which means developers will "make core platform decisions with mobile devices as first-class citizens."Mozilla recently made two new high-profile acquisitions, hiring Christian Sejersen from Openwave's mobile browser development and Brad Lassey, recruited from France Telecom R&D. Sejersen will be responsible for creating a new R&D center that will be located in Copenhagen, Denmark, while Lassey will be able to focus solely on mobile Firefox development."People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web, and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it," said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla engineering VP.Among other things, mobile Firefox will be able to run ...
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Al Gore Announced Corecipient of Nobel Peace Prize
2007-10-13 18:06:00
l Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on climate change just won the Nobel Al Gore has many admirers and critics, but on Friday the spotlight was on him again as the Nobel Peace Prize committee showered him with praise for his work promoting climate awareness and climate research.The Nobel Peace Prize was not the first award received by Al Gore, 59, for his environmental work, but it was certainly the largest. Al Gore had previously won an Oscar for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which was a surprising box office hit.Gore shares the Peace Prize with the United Nations' International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), found in 1988, which is widely considered by scientists and governments worldwide as the top authority on global warming and climate change.The IPCC has over 2,000 leading climate change scientists and experts that conduct research into climate change and collate data and information from research papers of thousands of other scientist...

Apple, AT&T Sued for iBricking, Monopolistic Behavior
2007-10-13 18:03:00
The consumers are bringing the fight to Apple Inc. Cupertino-based Apple Inc. has been busy writing firmware to lock the iPhones and iPod Touches from third party applications and unlocking. Now after trying to put out one literal iFire, as predicted in a previous DailyTech article, Apple Inc. has found itself the target of not one, but two separate lawsuits seeking class action status.Apparently Apple's answer to owners of frozen iPhones that they should ?buy a new phone? did not go over well. One lawsuit was filed at the state level by Saratoga attorney Damian Fernandez, who is representing California resident Timothy Smith.The federal suit was filed by the offices of Hoffman & Lazear in Oakland and Folkenflik & McGerity in New York, on behalf of two individuals Paul Holman and Lucy Rivello; both iPhone owners.The federal case accuses Apple of unfair business practices, violations of antitrust laws, violations of telecommunications laws and violations of wa...
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RIAA Case Juror Speaks: 2 Jurors Wanted $3.6M Fine
2007-10-13 18:00:00
It turns out that Jammie Thomas could have been worse off The tech news industry has been buzzing with news of the $222,000 verdict in the precedent setting civil case Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas, the first instance of an RIAA complaint going to a trial by jury.Now a juror from the case has opened up and discussed their feelings about the case and what went on inside the courtroom.While some may feel the $9,250 per song fine levied against Thomas was extreme and unreasonable, she could have been far worse off, if a couple of the jurors had their way.In an interview with THREAT LEVEL on Tuesday, Michael Hegg, one of the jurors from the case, reported that two jurors had tried to sway the other jurors to adopt the maximum fine per violation, $150,000 per piece of copyrighted material.As Thomas was found guilty of 24 such violations, this would have resulted in a $3.6 million fine.Another juror, according to Hegg, was insistent on making the fine as low as possible. The m...
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Windows XP SP3 Specifics Revealed
2007-10-13 17:50:00
NeoSmart goes over SP3's new features News on Microsoft's aging Windows XP operating system has surprisingly been coming in at a steady pace over the past few weeks. Although Windows Vista is Microsoft's current bread-and-butter consumer operating system, there is still much love to go around for Windows XP. In late September, DailyTech reported that Microsoft is providing XP downgrades for unhappy Vista customers. Microsoft followed up on that news a few days later with the announcement that Windows XP sales would be extended to June 30, 2008. The company followed up with a new build of Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows XP that doesn't require product activation and released a Service Pack 3 (SP3) beta for a select group of testers. The latest SP3 beta is labeled as build 3205 and is a rather small 334.92 MB download. The bloggers over at NeoSmart have gotten a hold of the new SP3 release and have detailed many of the new features and bugfixes with the softwar...
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Samsung SPH-P9200 UMPC Details Surface
2007-10-11 14:55:00
Samsung SPH-P9200 details surface boasting great connectivity options Information on Samsung?s latest Ultra Mobile PC is surfacing today: the SPH-P9200. This device uses a folding keyboard that gives the device what appears to be a nearly full-size QWERTY keyboard. Specifications for the SPH-P9200 reported by SlashGear show that it will feature a VIA C7-M processor, 512MB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive. The operating system is Windows XP Home, the standard battery is a 20Whr battery good for up to 2.5 hours of runtime and the extended battery will provide up to 5 hours of work time. A 1.3-megapixel camera is built-in as well. Perhaps the best feature of the device is the multiple connectivity options that include WiFi, WiBro and HSDPA. Samsung also included a SIM card slot, a 15-pin accessory port assumed by SlashGear to be for accessories like headsets or dongles and a port replicator. The screen is a 5-inch 800x480 display that reportedly can do higher resolution...
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Intel Finally Hits Launch Date for X38 Express Chipset
2007-10-11 14:52:00
Intel launches X38 Express chipset with ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte mainboards ready Intel today launched its X38 Express chipset, which DailyTech has been covering for a while now. The chipset was previously known by its codename, Bearlake, and first surfaced last year.In October 2006 DailyTech broke the news that Intel would release six versions of its Bearlake chipset and that one of those six versions, the Bearlake-X, would be the X38 Express.The story behind the Intel X38 Express has been one of numerous missed launch dates. At first, it seemed that X38 would launch in time for Computex Taipei in June. Intel then set an official launch date of September 23 for the chipset. That launch date, however, was pushed back yet again. Engineers at the time cited problems with vendor microcode support as major contributors to Intel's decision to slide the date back even further. The launch date for the X38 Express chipset was then changed to October 10th, and today Intel was fi...
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HDTVs and Laptops Most Desired Tech Gifts for Holiday 2007
2007-10-11 14:48:00
Men and women want high-definition televisions for their holiday gift Tech gadgets are increasingly becoming hot coveted items, as found by a Solutions Research Group. More than three-quarters of the 1,200 American men and women surveyed had at least one digital lifestyle products on their holiday season wish lists.By far the most popular item on everyone?s tech list is a flat-screen high-definition television, making up 35 percent of mentions in the subgroup. Interestingly enough, those very same that put HDTVs on their lists may not use the technology to its full potential. Only 6 percent listed Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD players and only 2 percent intended to get HD boxes from their cable or satellite company.Some of those HDTVs, however, maybe used for high-definition gaming. For men?s top 10 lists, the PlayStation 3 led all consoles at sixth spot, with both Xbox 360 and Wii taking ninth and tenth, respectively. When considering women?s wishlists, the Wii was the only gam...
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MSI Announces First AMD RD790 Board
2007-10-10 10:35:00
MSI announces its first RD790-based board MSI today announced its K9A2 Platinum Motherboard based on AMD?s RD790 chipset, officially dubbed the 790FX. The 790FX serves as AMD?s primary single and dual-processor platform and replaces AMD?s antiquated 580X chipset. The new MSI board comes with support for a host of new features, including support for AMD quad-core processors and Crossfire X.The K9A2 Platinum supports all AM2+ processors, which means it will work with AMD?s upcoming Phenom quad-core, tri-core and dual-core desktop processors. Existing AM2 processors are also supported by the newest board BIOS.The 790FX also brings 41 PCIe 2.0 lanes to AMD?s AM2+ platform, allowing manufacturers flexibility in the number of PCIe slots integrated on the board. The K9A2 comes with four PCIe 2.0 x16 slots and supports AMD?s Triple-Play Technology. In addition, MSI goes a step further by offering Quad Crossfire capability on the mainboard.As of right now, AMD has not officially launc...
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Clash of the Sub-titans: AMD and NVIDIA's Next GPU Offerings
2007-10-10 10:32:00
Next-generation GPUs are the fastest things on the planet -- if they were released a year ago Traditionally the Fall graphics refresh has been the battle of the titans -- ATI and NVIDIA both would debut behemoth video cards in an attempt to snag the headlines from one another.Much of that changed when AMD acquired ATI last year. Not only did ATI miss the Radeon HD 2900 launch window by almost six months, but NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 8800 became the undisputed ultra-high-end GPU as well.This Fall, we will not get an ultra-high-end replacement from AMD or NVIDIA. Instead, November will be a clash of the sub-titans. NVIDIA's mid-range G92 will go head-to-head with ATI's RV670.ATI's RV670 has been called many things in the past. It was originally a 65 nanometer die-shrink of the R600 class GPU; then a 55 nanometer shrink. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Asia's largest core-logic foundry, confirmed AMD would go with a 55nm R600 shrink in a memo forwarded to Dai...
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Apple Acknowledges iMac Freeze Issue
2007-10-10 10:30:00
Apple admits a problem is causing some iMac computers to freeze and require hard reboot Apple launched updated iMac computers in August to lots of praise and fanfare. Recently some iMac owners tell Apple that their iMacs are freezing and require a hard reboot to resume normal operation. AppleInsider reports that its iMac review unit from Apple operated as expected until the 1.1 update, and then began to experience the lockup issues reported by forum users. The problem appears to be related to the ATI Radeon HD graphics card and its required driver. Apple has made no official statement on the cause of the freeze issue and has only stated that a repair for the issue is coming. AppleInsider also reports that some users of the new iMac have been able to fix the freeze issue by simply uninstalling the graphics drivers and reinstalling drivers of a previous version. The report states that fix did not work as expected, and many users on Apple's offi...
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Ceramic White PlayStation 3 With DualShock 3 Set For Japan
2007-10-10 10:28:00
PlayStation 3 dreaming of a Ceramic White Christmas Sony Computer Entertainment Europe ended weeks of speculation with its announcement of the 40GB PlayStation 3, landing in the region starting October 10. While the new model has yet to be confirmed for North America, Japan will receive the 40GB PlayStation 3 on November 11 with what appears to be an exclusive color. The Japanese market will see the new 40GB PlayStation 3 in both ?Clear Black? and ?Ceramic White? colors next month for 39,980 yen ($341). The white PlayStation 3 marks the first official color variation of the console, though professionally painted have appeared in the custom market in white, silver and red. In another bit of good news for Japan, the new 40GB PS3 units will come packaged with a matching DualShock 3 controller instead of the SIXAXIS. The European 40GB PS3 will ship with the SIXAXIS controller, as the DualShock 3 isn?t expected outside of Japan until spring 2008. Confirming another piece...
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Microsoft Confirms Free Games for Xbox 360 "Holiday" Consoles
2007-10-10 10:21:00
Microsoft to include Forza Motorsport 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance with the Xbox 360 Premium, Elite Microsoft today confirmed what has been rumored on the Internet for a few weeks with regards to its Xbox 360 console. The Redmond giant will include Forza Motorsport 2 and Marvel Ultimate Alliance with its Xbox 360 Premium and Xbox 360 Elite consoles. News of the two bundled games first leaked to the web via Best Buy's online website -- the store later took the product pages down (likely after being contacted by Microsoft). Bundled games are nothing new and retailers often bundle free games with new consoles during special promotions. When the Xbox 360 price cuts went into effect over the summer, Circuit City offered Rockstar Table Tennis for free with the Xbox 360 Premium. This move, however, marks the first time that Microsoft itself has officially included two high profile games with its console. The holiday season should prove to be quite fulfilling for poten...
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Verizon Hopes to "Kill the iPhone" With Voyager
2007-10-09 15:24:00
Verizon's murderous thoughts toward the iPhone are manifest in its shiny, faster Voyager phone Verizon's new LG made Voyager, unveiled on Wednesday, is just in time for the holiday season. The new phone is going up against Apple?s popular iPhone and carries with plenty of ammunition for a full-on assault of Cupertino?s best.This "iPhone killer" features a strikingly similar design to the iPhone, but it has something that the iPhone doesn't: a faster network. The LG Voyager also hinges open to feature a full keypad and a smaller screen, for users who dislike the iPhone's tactile keypad. Other features include full Internet browsing, V CAST Video and Music access, 2MP digital camera and support for .mp3, .wma and unprotected .aac files."We think it'll be the best phone ... this year. It will kill the iPhone," Verizon Wireless Chief Marketing Officer Mike Lanman said in an interview.Analyst Avi Greengart thinks this homicidal claim is a bit outlandish. He thinks ...
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Update: Microsoft Releases New Reliability Update for Windows Vista, XP SP3
2007-10-09 15:16:00
Microsoft releases KB941649 hotfix which "improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista " When people talk about Windows Vista these days, two things often come to mind: the perceived inferiority to the six-year-old Windows XP operating system (which also just happened to get a new lease on life) and what Service Pack 1 (SP1) will bring to the table as far as improvements are concerned. In the mean time, Microsoft is proceeding with continual improvements to Windows Vista ahead of the official release of SP1. Microsoft yesterday released a new hotfix, KB941649, which "improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista." KB941649 address the following issues: It extends the battery life for mobile devices.It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.It impr...
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