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Bad news for the XP diehards out there, hard drive manufacturers are tired of supporting you, and the next generation of controller technology is not going to work properly with DOS and Windows XP users. Of course it won’t be a major issue until 2011, and maybe not even then. It’s been coming for a while now, hard drives are constantly evolving and becoming more efficient, and drive manufacturers want to be freed from the 512 byte sector size

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Hard drive design leaving XP behind

It has been suggested that the album is dead. That’s a bit hasty, I think; such an established musical tool can only be detonated when both the patron and the artist turn the key. What people are seeing is that the patrons (i.e.

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In a world of tracks, Pink Floyd fights for the album

Just so you know, I’m not making light of warfare — it’s just that virtual training like this, while valuable, does remind one simultaneously of Modern Warfare and Ender’s Game . Of course, as this article notes , the current generation of potential soldiers has grown up in a digital age and expects a little Xbox with their ammo box.

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360-degree virtual combat room is like Iraq: The Arcade Game

I’ll leave the comparisons between the Ezy Tablet PC and a certain device to be launched in a little under a month up to you. Actually, aside from the casing and the 10.2-inch multitouch LCD, there’s not a whole lot else in the way of commonality. The Ezy Tablet PC features the following: 10.2-inch multitouch display with 1024

Get it? Fast car, fast Internet connection? I’m trying, folks, believe me.

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What would you even do with a 100 mbps Internet connection?

In an age when standard USB 2.0 cables can be purchased for next to nothing, the $40 price tag on Belkin’s 4-foot USB 3.0 cable ought to be enough to keep most of us out of the early adopter demographic for a while.

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Belkin launches pricey USB 3.0 products

What is it with publishers fascination with second-hand sales? Yes, for every used video game you buy on eBay, the publisher sees zero dollars and zero cents, but are they operating at such razor-thin margins that teens auctioning off their old PSP games is worth their attention? You don’t see Ford or GM or Toyota or Honda or anything complaining about used cars sales, do you

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Maybe used game sales are actually good for the industry?

Vacuum tubes are usually used in tube or valve amplifiers (electronic amplifiers) to boost the power of a signal. The technology has been around for decades, and vacuum tubes seem to be pretty enough for Hanwa Japan to announce [JP] the X-Tube today, a USB dongle that looks like one of those tubes and allows you to upgrade your computer with DTS sound. Also dubbed AS301DTS, the dongle glows in blue when in use (see above).

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X-Tube: Hanwa’s USB dongle makes PCs DTS-compatible

USB 3.0 is just around the corner, with us having reported about more and more compatible devices in the last few months. And today, Tokyo-based Greenhouse , usually a reliable maker of crap gadgets , announced [JP] a USB 3.0-compatible PCI Express interface card. Greenhouse says the maximum data transfer rate stands at 5Gbps (see the chart below), but take that with a grain of salt

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USB 3.0-compatible PCI Express interface card

Microsoft has devised a way to induce people to upgrade from old versions of Windows (XP, Vista, and the like) to the shiny, new Windows 7. And what would that be? Oh, you know, 50 percent off the cost of a license for small-to-mid-size businesses

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Are you a small business? Do you want Windows 7 for 50 percent off? You can have that!