Oct
26
AMD Loses Market Share as Mobile CPU Sales Outsell Desktop for the First Time
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By Justin Kerr
Last week we looked at the financial results for AMD which reported a fairly positive financial outlook. Even though the company was still losing money, they had managed to bring loses under control and investors were most likely hoping Q4 2008, [...]
Oct
25
Oprah Plugs the Kindle and Offers up a $50 Discount
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By Justin Kerr
Though I’m willing to bet the Maximum PC core demographic differs somewhat from that of the Oprah Winfrey show, oddly she has done something worth mentioning. The TV celebrity took the opportunity on Friday to do some heavy plugging of the [...]
Oct
25
RAID5 May Soon Be Obsolete
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By Justin Kerr
RAID 5 users anxiously awaiting the debut of 2 TB drives to help build massive storage array’s may want to think twice before taking the plunge. An in-depth look into the underlying problems with massive storage RAID5 configurations suggests that s [...]
Oct
19
The Google Cloud Hiccups, do we have the Right to Complain?
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By Justin Kerr
A Google Apps malfunction was reported on Thursday leaving education edition users without access to various services, including Gmail. It turns out the loss of access was tied to an unannounced change in the layouts of start pages which redirected [...]
Oct
18
AMD Stops the Hemorrhaging, but is Still Bleeding Cash
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By Justin Kerr
AMD posted better-than-expected earnings on Thursday and proved to its chief rival Intel that they may be down, but not out. The company which has been losing money for some time now managed to make a respectable 13 cents per share [...]
Oct
18
SLI / Multi Monitor Support Shown In Leaked Forceware Drivers
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By Justin Kerr
Nvidia owners with an SLI setup who have dreamed of running multiple monitors have been left in the cold for quite some time now. Stretching your real estate out onto a second monitor forced GeForce owners to disable SLI and reconfigure [...]
Oct
12
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By Justin Kerr
Linus Tovalds the proverbial godfather of Linux announced the official release of a new kernel on Friday bringing it up to version 2.6.27. The new version adds both ath9k wireless drivers from Atheros, and a new gspca driver which will drastically [...]
Oct
12
Wal-Mart Decides To Maintain DRM Servers
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By Justin Kerr
Intense customer backlash has forced the online music arm of Wal-Mart to reverse its position on its controversial plan to deactivate all DRM authentication servers on October 9th. The move would have left countless customers with music files that could never [...]
Oct
11
MP3tunes Founder is off the Hook, but the Battle for the Cloud Continues
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By Justin Kerr
It’s hard to read a music industry headline these days without finding the words “lawyer” and “lawsuit” somewhere in the body. This time however, the legal cannon of EMI was pointed not just at MP3tunes.com but also its founder Michael Robertson [...]
Oct
5
Google Comments on Why Everything is Always in Beta
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By Justin Kerr
PC World’s Paul McNamara contacted Google last week to see if the cloud computing titan would clarify its use of the word “beta”. Sadly from those who read the response, they clearly intend to continue bending the term to their own [...]