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Netgear Rolls Out Another 802.11ac Wi-Fi Router

Posted 04/08/2013 at 11:57am | by Paul Lilly

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Netgear's latest router is for those who value 802.11ac over 802.11n performance.

The new R6520 Smart Wi-Fi router from Netgear is the company's newest product to support the 802.11ac wireless standard, and it's designed specifically for people who care more about the draft specification than with having the fastest 802.11n Wi-Fi performance in the 2.4GHz band. It's armed with a dual-core 800MHz engine to enable combined Wi-Fi connections at speeds up to 1600Mbps.

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Snarky Microsoft Director Tweets Support for Always-On Consoles

Posted 04/05/2013 at 12:27pm | by Paul Lilly

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Uh Redmond, you have a problem, and his name is Adam Orth...

Microsoft has some damage control to take care of, and if any of the decision makers in Redmond have an ounce of sense, they'll issue an official statement, and perhaps an apology, STAT. For what, you ask? Well, it's never good when your games director takes to Twitter to argue with fans over sensitive subjects like always-on digital rights management (DRM), and it's even worse when he cops a condescending attitude the way Adam Orth did. Here's what happened.

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GPUBoss Adds Commenting Feature, Launches to the Public

Posted 03/19/2013 at 7:19am | by Paul Lilly

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GPU comparison website helps nail down the exact graphics card you're looking for.

Last week we gave you heads up about GPUBoss.com, a new website that offers to do for graphics cards what CPUBoss.com does for processors, which is make it easy to sort through the available options and compare different models from a number of criteria. You can actually choose from over 40 criteria to find the video card that best fits your needs, and can sort by price, brand, gaming performance, noise, power, and performance per dollar. It's a pretty handy website and it's now open to the public.

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Google Reader is a Dead RSS Walking

Posted 03/14/2013 at 9:44am | by Paul Lilly

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Will anybody miss Google Reader once it's gone?

Google is doing a bit of spring cleaning and one of the services it's kicking to the curb is Google Reader, the sultan of search announced in a blog post. It's been an eight-year run for Google Reader, which launched in 2005 but has recently been declining in usage. So, on July 1, 2013, Google is throwing its RSS a forced retirement party, giving users a good three months to export their data and subscriptions with Google Takeout.

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E.U. Slaps Microsoft with $731 Million Fine Over Botched Browser Ballot

Posted 03/06/2013 at 7:42am | by Paul Lilly

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A "technical error" related to a Windows Service Pack ends up costing Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

It was rumored the European Union wanted to close its investigation into Microsoft's "browser ballot" screw-up and levy a fine before Easter break, a mission it's now achieved with weeks to spare. E.U. regulators decided to punish Microsoft to the tune of €561 million, or a little more than $731 million in U.S. currency, for failing to comply with an agreement to provide users with a browser choice screen (the so-called browser ballot) upon firing up Windows for the first time.

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Time Warner Cable: Consumers Don't Want Gigabit Internet

Posted 03/01/2013 at 9:58am | by Paul Lilly

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Ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, meet your new spokesperson, Time Warner Cable.

Google's trying to pave the high-speed cyber highway with its Google Fiber Internet service, which is currently only available to the lucky residents of Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Time Warner Cable could follow suit if it wanted to -- after all, it's already serving incredibly high-speed Internet service to businesses -- but the reason it isn't pursuing 1Gbps Internet service to consumers at this time is because, well, they don't want it.

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Pandora Imposes 40 Hour Monthly Limit for Mobile Freeloaders

Posted 02/28/2013 at 12:31pm | by Paul Lilly

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Don't like the 40-hour limit? Blame greedy publishers who keep hiking royalty rates.

Pandora this week put the word out that it's introducing a 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening, though the streaming service doesn't expect much of a backlash. According to Pandora, the artificial limit will affect less than 4 percent of its total monthly active listeners. The average freeloader listener spends around half that time (20 hours) listening to Panodra across all devices in any given month, Pandora says.

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Internet Explorer 10 Now Available for Windows 7

Posted 02/26/2013 at 8:47am | by Paul Lilly

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Internet Explorer 10 delivers a 20 percent increase in real-world site performance versus IE9, Microsoft says.

Microsoft may have taken its sweet time porting Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) over to Windows 7, but it's finally finished and ready for mass consumption. IE10 is available to download worldwide in 95 languages, with Microsoft planning to auto-update Windows 7 customers to its latest browser in the coming weeks, starting today with customers running the IE10 Release Preview.

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Twitter Owned Blogging Site Posterous Goes Dark April 30, 2013

Posted 02/18/2013 at 6:33am | by Paul Lilly

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Posterous founder Sachin Agarwal thanks its members for the pie and waves goodbye.

You could almost see this one coming from an Internet mile away, which won't come as much consolation to those invested in the service, but Twitter is pulling the plug on Posterous on April 30, 2013. First launched in 2008, the Posterous blogging service was acquired by Twitter in March of last year, and at the time, users were told it would stay up and running. And it did, for a little while, anyway.

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Chip Crazy: Intel Does the Harlem Shake

Posted 02/15/2013 at 11:38am | by Paul Lilly

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Even the engineers at Intel aren't immune to the latest Internet trends.

Oh Internet, are there no bounds to your silliness? It sure doesn't appear that way, with the newest fad sweeping through cyberspace being the Harlem Shake. Variations of the meme are racking up millions of hits on YouTube, and everyone seems to be doing it, possibly even your grandmother. Intel uploaded its own version of the Harlem Shake featuring an engineer in full costume and a dude with a horse head who comically strolls casually by as if it's just another day in Santa Clara.

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Netgear's latest router is for those who value 802.11ac over 802.11n performance.

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