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CoolnQuiet writes:
GIGABYTE's new DDR2/DDR3 combo board offers upgraders four DDR2 slots and two DDR3 slots — takes a risk out of upgrading. http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid= 6&id=2326">click here.
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x-guru writes:
According to this CNN-Money article, excessive X-Box hardware failures are to blame for Microsoft taking a charge in the amount of $1 Billion. They say they have "investigated the sources of hardware failures indicated by three red flashing lights on the console and had identified 'a number of factors' that can cause such failures". Microsoft will extend the X-Box warranty to three years and they will reimburse customers who already paid for repairs.
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whoever57 writes:
The demonstration of Steorn's perpetual motion machine ("Orba")
appears to have hit "technical difficulties". Most people might call this "difficulty" the law of conservation of energy, but the Irish company claims that the problem may be related to the heat from the camera lighting on the display.
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sodul writes:
DailyTech has contacted several retailers to get the actual percentage of XBox failures. While Microsoft is claiming a 'normal' 3% rate, the retailers claim that one third of the XBox are breaking. This is the highest failure rate ever witnessed by the retailers while the other consoles like the PS3 have a less than 1% failure
rate.
This could explain The Man Who Went Through 11 Xbox 360s.
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gkhan1 writes:
Google's acquisition of DoubleClick has been hotly debated, and now Google has put up a blog post explaining their decision
If you're an expert, please bear with me, as some of what follows will seem elementary to those already familiar with the online advertising world. If you're not, I hope this gives you a better understanding of how advertisers, publishers, ad serving companies, agencies and other companies such as Google all fit into this exciting new mix.