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Search on Bing, Get Some Free Wi-Fi

Michael Santo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:26:03 +0000

By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Microsoft has resorted to Bing bribery before, but now it’s using free wi-fi minutes instead of cashback on shopping. The program, which actually began in September, relies on users liking Bing after trying it once, and returning to use it. Bing and JiWire announced the program on Monday. Consumers gain free [...]

Astone 1080p Media Player with PVR & HDTV Tuner

Martin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:40 +0000

By Martin Regtien Contributing Writer, RealTechNews Interesting new follow-up on a device we reviewed earlier. Have a look at this 1080p Media Player with PVR & HDTV Tuner from Astone. Coming up: here.

Survey: iPhone Users Are Dogs

Michael Santo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:09:04 +0000

By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Retrevo, a website that calls itself the “ultimate electronics marketplace,” took a look at iPhone owners. It tried to determine an iPhone user’s personality profile. One thing’s clear: in terms of dating, iPhone users are dogs. Why is that? Well, One in three iPhone owners has texted or emailed [...]

Review: Vantage Vue Weather Station

Martin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:43:24 +0000

By Martin Regtien Contributing Writer, RealTechNews The Vantage Vue was sent to us courtesy of www.davisnet.com in USA and through their Australian distributor Ecowatch at www.davisinstruments.com.au in Australia. With the product being their latest 2010 model hot off the assembly line it required some last minute radio frequency alterations to conform with Australian legal requirements. Have Davis set [...]

Axus FiT RAID Chassis - a review

Martin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:34:29 +0000

By Martin Regtien Contributing Writer, RealTechNews Kevin Cheng reports: From time to time DigitalReviews is approached to review products because of our reputation for unbiased, no holds barred reviews. I have to admit that I never heard of Axus in my travels, but they have kindly provided two of their FiT RAID Series chassis for our reviewing [...]

Kingston, Paramount Team Up on Movie Delivery Via Flash Memory

Michael Santo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:19:26 +0000

By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Remember the slotMusic format? That is a different way of deliveriing music, using microSD cards instead of CDs. With flash memory prices continuing to drop, it was only a matter of time until movies and DVDs would start being delivered the same way. On Monday, Kingston and Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) announced [...]

NVIDIA Fermi (GT300) Ray Tracing Demo

Martin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:39:13 +0000

By Martin Regtien Contributing Writer, RealTechNews Code-named “Fermi” next-generation CUDA architecture is the history of the world’s most advanced GPU computing architecture. Fermi has more than 30 million transistors, with a maximum of 512 CUDA core, enabling supercomputing performance, features and terror. With only the CPU-based compared to traditional servers, while its cost is only one-tenth, and [...]

Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD)

Michael Santo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:23:57 +0000

By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews As promised, Intel has released firmware for its second-generation 34nm solid-state drives (SSDs). TRIM is a feature of Windows 7 (and of course, that OS just launched) that will (hopefully) prevent SSDs from seeing performance degradation over time. At the same time, the new firmware (02HA) gives Intel 160 GB SSDs a [...]

Want to Win Windows 7 Ultimate?

Martin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:48:27 +0000

By Martin Regtien Contributing Writer, RealTechNews Have a look at the GiveAway competition here. It’s ridiculously simple to enter for a shot at either the Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit version or the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. Can you guess what this picture is??

Windows 7 Rises, From Vista’s Ashes

Michael Santo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:30:38 +0000

By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews While Windows XP seemingly keeps going, and going, and going, Windows Vista has had a tumultuous less-than three years. The fact that Microsoft has released a new OS, Windows 7, less than three years after Windows Vista shows how big a failure Vista was. Windows Vista was much hyped as it was [...]

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