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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
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Microsoft Corp. is again renewing it's efforts to purchase Yahoo! following the recent Google and DoubleClick deal.
"With the shadow of Google looming over both companies, the New York Post says the software giant wants Yahoo to consider a buyout."
More information available here .
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
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With the addition of SLI technology, OCZ have produced their SLI-Certified memory and we have a sample to strap to our test bench and put through it's paces. With a variety of tests, we'll see how the OCZ SLI Certified memory stacks up against it's leading competitor! Did we mention it looks real pretty too? |
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
The NYTimes has a boilerplate article about Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google going after the cellphone. This line is interesting, though: Google has gone so far as to build a prototype phone with its own software inside, according to one person who has seen it. More information available here.
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
 Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla's layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 4 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Gran Paradiso Alpha 4. Click here to visit Mozilla and view the release notes. |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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With power requirements ever increasing, manufacturs are attempting to provide power that is clean, stable and plentiful. While not an easy task, OCZ have come up with their solution, the ProXStream 1000W Power Supply. We strap it into our test system and put it through a battery of tests. |
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 |
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It's that time of the year again! We will soon be announcing our Canadian Dream Machine, Spring 2007. With help from various hardware manufacturers we have almost made our final decisions about the hardware that's going into what will be the most powerful gaming machine available at this time. Check back soon for more information.
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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That's right! New for 2007, Overclockers Canada is going to be bringing professional video reviews for some of your favourite products. Stay tuned for more details over the next week! |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
The next-generation AMD quad-core Opteron, codenamed Barcelona and fabricated by 65nm manufacturing technology, is natively designed with 4 functioning cores, each of them owns 512KB L2 Cache and share the same 2MB L3 Cache. Barcelona supports for 128Bit FPU and provides a capability of up to 4 FLOPS/clock. The interface remains in Socket F (1207), and therefore it’s compatible to the existing Socket F platforms.
It's estimated these processors will arrive to consumers in June, 2007. |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5 billion to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute over MP3 audio technology used in Windows. In its verdict, the jury assessed damages based on each Windows PC sold since May 2003. The case could have broader implications, should Alcatel-Lucent pursue claims against other companies that use the widespread MP3 technology.
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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ATI Catalyst 7.2 driver suite is now available for Windows XP, 2000 and Windows Vista. Visit ATI's homepage and grab them now! |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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In a world where video cards are requiring more and more power, it's important to supply them with efficient and clean power to keep everything running smoothly. |
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
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We bring Coolermasters media center case, the CM Media 260 into our lab today and check out some its features. Our brief overview and review of the CM Media 260 explains some of the benefits of Coolermasters offering over it's competitors. |
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
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Today we strap Arctic Coolings Accelero X2 video card cooler to our test bench to see if it can keep our trusty X1900XT cool enough without sounding like a jet engine! |
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Monday, 05 June 2006 |
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What's that you say? Another CPU cooler? Yes, indeed - however this one sports a few things not often seen in todays "performance" coolers. Something that's often accepted as a consequence of high cooling performance. Noise! |
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Monday, 05 June 2006 |
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We got a hold of the Motorola DSR505 High Definition receiver and documented the new features and benefits it brings over the traditional legacy Starchoice Satellite Receiver. |
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With the introduction of SLI video cards, OCZ bounced back with fully nvidia certified SLI dual channel DDR2 performance memory. Coming in both 1GB and 2GB kits, 2x512 and 2x1GB respectively. We throw a pair of 1GB sticks into our test bench and see just how well this memory performs against some of it's rivals. 
bar a number. To launch each one hold down the Windows logo key and the number of position of the application. So if you have Firefox then Word then Windows Media player then Windows key and 1 will launch Firefox. Windows key and 2 will launch Word and so on. 
