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MSI Introduces N480GTX Twin Frozr II Graphics Card

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Looking for a new GPU, and don't much mind how much noise it makes? Look no further than MSI's newest card, the N480GTX Twin Frozr II graphics card. Despite having two huge fans onboard, MSI claims that their specialized cooling system effectively reduces temperature by 14 degrees C and noise by 4dB. Impressive claims for sure. The card is built on the 40nm manufacturing process, and it's equipped with 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory. Furthermore, there are two 8cm PWM fans and five heat-pipes, and the integrated afterburner

01 Oct, 2010

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Nintendo Delays 3DS Launch Until Next Year For All Markets

Here's what you don't want to do if you're running a major video game company that's publicly owned: delay a major console. Back in June, Nintendo revealed that the 3D version of their DS handheld was real, and while it would not ship in the U.S. until early 2011, Japanese gamers would be able to enjoy it this year. Now, that's being pushed back. The company has come forward with an official product delay, meaning that the 3DS will not be on sale in any market, Japan or otherwise, for the huge holiday season.

01 Oct, 2010

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Left 4 Dead "The Sacrifice" DLC Trailer and Screenshots

Valve just sent over a trailer and screenshots for "The Sacrifice" DLC, which is in development for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. As fans of the franchise will know, "The Sacrifice" is going to explain why Bill, one of the original four survivors from the first game, is dead in "The Passing" map, which was released for L4D2 a few months back. "The Sacrifice" downloadable content is due for release on October 5, 2010. It is the prequel to "The Passing," and takes place from the L4D Survivors'

30 Sep, 2010

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HP Names A New CEO: Léo Apotheker

And just like that, another CEO rolls into an HP corner office. Not even two months after HP's Mark Hurd resigned as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a replacement has been found. It's not immediately clear why the temporary CEO wasn't positioned as full-time, nor is perfectly clear why HP went outside of the company. We always have to wonder what kind of impact is has on employee morale when a company seeks a CEO from outside of the company (was no one in the company good enough? was the company in need of a culture

30 Sep, 2010

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Asus Matrix 5870 2GB Video Card Review

Today on HotHardware we look at one of the most highly customized Radeon HD 5870 cards on the market, the Asus Matrix 5870. This card offers identical clock speeds to AMD's reference design, with an 850 MHz core clock and 1200 MHz memory speed, but that's where the similarities end. This particular graphics card features 2GB of GDDR5 memory, a custom ROG shroud, an LED load indicator, voltage read points, a video BIOS recovery button, dual 8-pin PCI-E power connectors, and a Super Hybrid Engine chip which provides

30 Sep, 2010

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Gateway Puts WiMAX In Latest NV59C66u Notebook

Gateway announced the latest model in its Gateway NV Series line of notebooks with the new Gateway NV59C66u. This new notebook features integrated WiMAX capabilities thanks to an Intel 6250 wireless card which supports both WiMAX and Wi-Fi networks. Key specs within the NV Series line include Intel Core i3 and Core i5 as well as AMD Athlon and AMD Turion processors, up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, and 320GB to 500GB hard drives. The line also features an integrated High Definition webcam as well as 15.6-inch and 17.1-inch

30 Sep, 2010

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ASUS Announces New Eee PC Netbooks with USB 3.0

ASUS has rolled out the latest additions to its Eee PC netbook lineup, the 1018P and 1016P; the 1018P is the first netbook to feature USB 3.0.

info@technologyguide.com 30 Sep, 2010

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Hardware Roundup

Video: PNY GeForce GTS 450 1GB XLR8 Review @ Hardware Canucks Sparkle Geforce GTX480 Video Card @ TechwareLabs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI versus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CrossFire @ Legit Reviews NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 - The Super-Affordable Fermi @ Techgage.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS & Gigabyte X58 Motherboard Roundup @ Neoseeker Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3: Full-Featured Mini-ITX Mainboard for LGA1156 Platform @ XBitLabs GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 Tested in Three-Way SLI w/ GTX 470 Super Overclock @ Tweaktown Processors:

30 Sep, 2010

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Gmail Becomes Less Conversational, If You Want

Some people love Gmail's conversation view, and some people hate it. Some just have gotten used to it. Now, however, if you don't like it, you can turn it off. In Gmail's conversation view, an email thread is linked together in one "cluster" in your inbox. It means, in effect, sorting by Subject to see a thread is no longer necessary. Still, not all like it. Toggling of Conversation View has been a requested feature for some time, and although many (like us) feel conversation view simplifies things, it can be

30 Sep, 2010

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Nokia Starts Shipping N8 Smartphone in Europe

Nokia can go ahead and check off "Phase One" on its grand plan of storming the smartphone market and propelling itself into relevance. The company's highly anticipated N8 -- the smartphone that could make or break Nokia's chances of being taken seriously in the high-end phone segment -- has starting shipping. "With the N8, and the new Symbian software, we are bringing a familiar, faster and more intuitive user experience to the world's most popular smartphone platform. The Nokia N8 has received the highest amount

30 Sep, 2010

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You Will Soon Own a Home Robot, Researchers Say

The "personal robots" market will explode in the next few years, and we don't mean all over your kitchen. ABI Research expects robots aimed at consumers to create a $19 billion market by 2017. Who wouldn't want one of the two new "personal presence" bots introduced this month by start-ups? Or Panasonic's new hair-washing robot? Vacuum robots have had the most success with consumers so far, but its these types of personal presence robots that ABI thinks will soon take off. "While a truly 'killer app' has yet

30 Sep, 2010

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New Kobo Ereader Adds Faster CPU, Enhanced Display, And Wi-Fi

Day by day, Amazon's Kindle is having to fight harder and harder to maintain its dominance in the eReader universe. The Barnes & Noble NOOK is giving it a run for its money, and now the latest Kobo is as well. It's easy to disregard eReader devices that lack any sort of wireless option; hardly anyone wants to plug an eReader into a PC just to sideload a book. But the newest Kobo has a lot going for it. It adds Wi-Fi, a faster processor and even a few color options. All for a price that's more than reasonable.

30 Sep, 2010

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Study: Texting While Driving Bans are Ineffective

So you're driving along minding the rules of the road when all of a sudden some moron in the other lane weaves in front of you. Is he drunk? Did he suffer a stroke? Nope, he's just firing off a text message. You could flip him off, but unless you have an appropriate emoticon for that, and his cell phone number, he'll never see it. Because of situations like this -- and worse -- most states have had the good sense to ban texting while driving. It'd be naive to think a law prohibiting an activity would stop it

30 Sep, 2010

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McAfee Total Protection 2010 Review

We have reviewed several antivirus suites -- now it is time to take protection to the next level by looking at full Internet security suites. Our first contender is McAfee Total Protection 2010 -- read on to see what makes it different.

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Gateway Adds To Line of All-in-One PCs

Gateway expanded its line of all-in-one desktop PCs by adding new models to its existing ZX One Series. The new Gateway One ZX4951 Series and One ZX6951 Series feature 21.5- or 23-inch full high definition displays, Intel Pentium or Core i3 processors, and Blu-ray drives. Other specs include 4GB of RAM (upgradeable to 16GB via 4 slots), 500 or 640GB SATA hard drives, high-definition audio with 5.1 channel support, integrated wireless capabilities, and an integrated webcam. Additionally, the ZX6951 includes a

30 Sep, 2010

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Toshiba Reveals Canvio Hard Drives With USB 3.0

Toshiba added the Canvio 3.0 portable hard disk drive with a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface to its lineup. These new drives offer transfers at up to 10 times the speed of USB 2.0 drives. The Canvio 3.0 drives will come in storage capacities of 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB. Each of the new drives will be preloaded with Windows-based NTI BackupNow EZ software. For security, the drives offer up to 256-bit data encryption and password protection. Prices for the drives start at $119.99. Toshiba Unveils Canvio™ 3.0 Portable

30 Sep, 2010

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The Daily Feed Issue #38: What we've discovered using AB testing

Welcome to Issue #38 of The Daily Feed. If this email was forwarded to you by a friend, you can subscribe on this page. You can read previous editions of The Daily Feed on our blog but note that posts to our blog are delayed 24 hours or more.

Yesterday I introduced you to what AB testing is with a very basic example. We are constantly AB testing on Feedjit. Some days we'll be testing two versions of a headline, other days we'll vary the body text of a particular page. In all cases we are measuring wether it causes more people to take the action we want them to take. That might be to sign up for a free product, to buy a paid product or to take some other action like clicking a button. Today I'm going to share a few of the things we've learned.

Firstly, the word "Free" is incredibly seductive for most people. It instantly grabs their attention. We discovered this about 2 years ago when we launched a paid product but had a link with the word "free" on one of our menus. People would land on the paid product page and instantly click the thing that said "Free". That was a negative side-effect of using the word.

A positive effect of using the word "Free" is to include it in the pitch for a paid product. For example, "Free 10 day trial" is very effective as a headline. Notice that I've put the word at the front of the sentence. If you can incorporate a free offering in your product or service, I recommend you do it and include it in the headline of your pitch.

Another thing we learned is that big buttons with a large surface area will lead to many more people clicking through to the next page and taking the desired action. Most people scan web pages, absorb small chunks of information and then rapidly scan for the next action they're going to take. If your buttons aren't huge, people don't notice them.

Think about when you move your mouse to click a button. As your mouse approaches the button you need to decelerate and stop exactly on that button or link. If the link is small, it takes a lot more effort to move your mouse to that link, position it exactly and click it. People are inherently lazy when they're online. If they see a tiny link they may not even start to move their mouse because it will take too much effort to position and click. Large buttons take very little effort so they encourage people to move, position and click on them.

The text on the button that takes your users further down your sales funnel matters a lot. It needs to be non-threatening. "Buy this now" makes the user hesitate because they think you're going to drop them straight into a secure checkout page and before clicking the button they decide whether they're ready to buy. "See plans and pricing" makes it sound like it's safe to browse through to the next page. It's non-threatening and will get more clicks.

Putting text under a button that gives an extra reason to click is a strategy that has worked well for us. You could reinforce a message like "10 day free trial" or let them know about an amazing feature that will ensure they buy.

Tomorrow I'm going to tell you about a few pearls of wisdom I learned from a very old book that is now out of print.

ps: We're still running our special that gives you an additional 2 Million free impressions with any Feedjit Rush Global Ad.

Regards,

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

Toshiba Debuts A665-3D 15.6" 3D Gaming Notebook

Haven't you heard? Companies are making 3D laptops now! We know that's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the rash of 3D notebooks is becoming somewhat overwhelming. At first, NVIDIA's 3D Vision was almost exclusively reserved for the desktop. Now, it seems like a new 3D capable notebook is arriving every other week or so. Toshiba is keeping the roll going with their new Satellite A665-3D, which utilizes 3D Vision technology and software that can convert 2D material into 3D content for viewing. Toshiba ships this machine

30 Sep, 2010

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Bose Introduces 46" HDTV In VideoWave Bundle

Bose. It's a name that has been associated with high-end speaker setups, home cinemas and headphones for years. Some people aren't much on the company's tactics (like reserving the specifications from the box), but some swear by the brand. One thing that Bose hasn't really done over the years is branch out; they've done audio, audio and more audio. But now, they're doing something a little different. Years after the HDTV explosion swept over America, Bose is just now deciding to produce their very own television.

30 Sep, 2010

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QNAP Unveils NMP-1000P Network Media Player

In need of a new media streamer? You have a lot of options these days, and now you have one more courtesy of a company that traditionally sticks with NAS devices. The new NMP-1000P Networked Media Player looks the part well, and unlike some of the competition, it fully supports BitTorrent background transfers, 1080/24p output and lots of esoteric file formats. It's designed to be used via Ethernet, but a Wi-Fi adapter is an optional accessory for those who can't run the cable. There's no HDD within, but there's

30 Sep, 2010

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Steam Hardware Survey Reveals The Rise Of DX11, Decline Of XP

The Steam Hardware Survey for August 2010 has been out for a bit, but it's always interesting to see what trends are influencing PC gamers over a period of months. There's a great deal of data available; we'll break down some of the more pertinent and interesting categories. Video Cards:DX11 Ramping Well The first thing of note in this category is the rate at which DX11 adoption is growing. Not only has the API's total market share grown by 82 percent in the past six months, the rate of growth from month to

29 Sep, 2010

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Kingston Announces Compact Flash Ultimate 600x Card

Kingston released its Compact Flash (CF) Ultimate 600x memory card. This new card is Kingston's fastest card with support for UDMA mode 6 and read and write speeds of up to 90MB/sec. The 600x card will join Kingston's Compact Flash family of 266x Ultimate and 133x Elite Pro cards. The CF Ultimate 600x comes in 16GB and 32GB capacities and comes with free downloadable data recovery software from MediaRECOVER. Kingston Announces CompactFlash Ultimate 600x Card High Speed, Large Capacity Supports UDMA Mode 6; Complements

29 Sep, 2010

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Panasonic Announces World’s Lightest 12.1-inch Laptop With DVD Drive

>With the announcement of the Toughbook S9, Panasonic is taking claim to offering the world's lightest 12.1-inch laptop with an integrated DVD drive. The new Toughbook S9 is powered by an Intel Core i5-520M vPro processor. It weighs 3 pounds and touts a battery life of up to 11 hours. Like other Toughbooks, the Toughbook S9 is made to endure drops, bumps and spills. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, and optional Gobi2000 mobile broadband technology from Qualcomm. The Toughbook

29 Sep, 2010

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Corsair Launches New Line of Power Supplies for Mainstream Builders

Not everyone needs a Lexus to get from Point A to Point B, nor do you need a decked out power supply with all the bells and whistles (and matching price tag) to power a modest setup. That's the general mindset behind Corsair's new "Build Series" power supplies, which Corsair promises will provide "worry-free compatibility" with your system without putting a major dent in your Paypal account. "Corsair has earned a reputation for engineering the best PSUs on the market, and with the new Build Series, we now have

29 Sep, 2010

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AMD's HD 6000 Series Reportedly Delayed

The Internet has been buzzing with unoficial information regarding the specs and performance of AMD's upcoming Radeon 6000 cards, but we may have to wait a little longer According to the ever reliable rumor bill, AMD has pushed to launch back a month or so. There's been no mention of why Sunnyvale would delay the launch, particularly given the way NVIDIA's GTS 460 and GTS 450 are hammering the price/performance ratio of the Radeon 5500 and 5700 cards. We're going to guess that AMD has delayed its launch for

29 Sep, 2010

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Gateway Intros NV Series Notebook with WiMAX

Gateway has rolled out the latest addition to its NV series lineup, the NV59C66u featuring integrated WiMAX wireless capabilities.

info@technologyguide.com 29 Sep, 2010

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HP Exec: Don't Compare Us to Apple

During a fireside chat at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) Todd Bradley, who some consider the front-runner to replace Mark Hurd as CEO, said HP has no intentions of licensing out Palm's webOS platform. Just don't take that to mean HP has any intention of following in Apple's footsteps. Straight and to the point, "We are not trying to emulate Apple. Emulating Apple is not part of our strategy," Bradley said. His comment came in response to whether or not HP's acquisition

29 Sep, 2010

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Lenovo Introduces 11" ThinkPad Edge Ultraportable

Some analysts have suggested that the popularity of tablets will eat away at the ultraportable sector. That may end up being true in the long-term, but as of today, there is yet another ultraportable to choose from. The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11 is a new 11" laptop, and it's the smallest and lightest member of the Edge family. It still shares the same general ThinkPad look, but in a much smaller frame. The machine weighs less than 3lbs., has an HDMI port, includes a webcam and ships in three color choices: Midnight

29 Sep, 2010

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Seagate Ships 12TB Four-Bay NAS

Seagate this week announced what it claims are the industry's highest-capacity, 4-bay and 2-bay NAS boxes (BlackArmor NAS 440 and 220) capable of scaling up to 12TB. Naturally these are aimed at small businesses, but hey, cost considerations aside, there's nothing from stopping you, Joe Consumer, from tucking one of these bad boys in the back of the closet and storing every music file, dirty video, and all the rest of your digital bits in one central location. Both the BlackArmor NAS 440 and 220 come with a

29 Sep, 2010

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Maingear Offers Super Stock Options For SHIFT Personal Supercomputer

Need a new machine? Not content with the stock options out there? As any real modder and hacker would advise, you should probably consider an overclocking rampage. But not without some help, of course. Maingear is a long-standing player in the custom PC business, and in order to gain a leg-up over the mass-market competition, they're announcing new Super Stock options that will boost the performance of everyday parts while still providing a warranty to end-users. The Super Stock options on the SHIFT "personal

29 Sep, 2010

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New Whitepaper Claims GPUs Threaten Malware Security

For the past 3.5 years or so, NVIDIA has ardently advocated the GPU as a computational platform capable of solving almost any problem. One topic the company hasn't targeted, however, is the tremendous performance advantage the GPU could offer malware authors. The idea that a graphics card could double as a security hole isn't something we've heard before, but according to a paper by Giorgos Vasiliadis, Michalis Polychronakis and Sotiris Ionnidis, it's an attack vector whose popularity could boom in coming years.

29 Sep, 2010

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Eurocom Launches RAID 10 Notebooks With Vertex 2 SSD

Eurocom. You know the name. They're one of the most prominent gaming notebook makers on the planet, and their machines are generally larger and faster than anything else out. The company has just announced yet another innovation, with the launch of RAID 10 notebooks that utilize the quick 480GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, a drive powered by the SandForce 1200 controller. That Vertex 2 drive will soon be available in all Eurocom Mobile Workstations and Mobile Servers, offering up to 250MB/sec on the read side and 240MB/sec

29 Sep, 2010

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Toshiba Sells E-books While Amazon Puts Kindle In A Browser

Don't get too excited when you hear the term "Kindle for the Web." It's true that Amazon is making its Kindle book store visible through your browser but it's only letting you see previews, the first chapter of any given title. Meanwhile, Toshiba is also joining the ranks of e-book publisher with the launch of its store and free e-reader for Windows. With Kindle for the Web, bloggers and website owners can embed a book preview into their sites (a function Google Books has offered for a year). They'll

29 Sep, 2010

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Antec Debuts LanBoy Air Open-Air Gaming Chassis

The custom gaming PC business is still booming, and people are still looking for ways to get creative and make their own builds unique. Antec has been a long-time case and power supply maker, and the company's newest chassis is definitely one of the more interesting ones that have been introduced in recent years. It's called the LanBoy Air, and it's an open-air chassis that is designed quite differently from most. The case uses top-to-bottom mesh construction, which provides for tons of airflow. There are also

29 Sep, 2010

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The Daily Feed Issue #37: AB testing and why it will make you more money

Welcome to Issue #37 of The Daily Feed. If this email was forwarded to you by a friend, you can subscribe on this page. You can read previous editions of The Daily Feed on our blog but note that posts to our blog are delayed 24 hours or more.

One of the factors that have been critical to our success at Feedjit is AB testing. So what is AB testing and why will it make you more money?

I'm going to start with a very basic example. Lets say you're selling antique coke bottles. You have a page that displays your inventory. A customer clicks a coke bottle and gets taken to a checkout page. On that page they enter their credit card number and hit submit. The order is placed and you get paid.

Imaging the two pages I've described above as a funnel. 1000 people a day land on the first page with the coke bottles. A certain percentage click through to the checkout page. And a percentage of those enter their credit card and buy from you. Here's what it looks like:

1000 people arrive on product page ---10% click through--->100 people on checkout page ----10% buy---> 10 people bought.

In the above illustration, if your browser hasn't mangled it, you have a 10% click-through rate at each step in your two page funnel. That results in 10 purchases.

If you can increase your clickthrough rate from the product page to the checkout page by 5% that means you get 15 purchases at the end of your funnel.

AB testing lets you put up two unique versions of a page in your funnel and then test which of those pages causes more people to click through to the next step in the process and ultimately buy.

Our site has several products and we carefully monitor what kinds of things cause people to click through to the next step in the funnel and what kinds of things cause them to buy. We've made some interesting discoveries that I'll share with you as the week progresses.

Regards,

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

Free Phone Fridays to Hit Best Buy in October

Free phones on Fridays? That's what Best Buy announced on Tuesday at its Holiday Preview event in New York. Free Phone Fridays will run every Friday in October, and starts Oct. 1st. It's not just about lame devices either: one of the devices in the first group: the Samsung Fascinate on the Verizon network. Each Free Phone Friday will include a device from each of the big 4 U.S. carrier (T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T and Verizon). This week's selections: Samsung Fascinate (Verizon) BlackBerry Curve (Sprint) HTC

29 Sep, 2010

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Acer's New Aspire Predator Gaming Rigs Get Sleek, More Powerful

When you think of major gaming PCs, you generally think of Alienware or Falcon Northwest. But Acer has been making a new for themselves with their Predator line of gaming PCs. These are huge, towering machines that have rather wild designs that are impossible to mistake. They also have impressive internals to go with 'em, and the company's new Aspire Predator AG5900-U3092 might be the slickest yet. It's equipped with a Core i7 CPU, up to 1.5TB of hard drive space, 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM, ATI Radeon HD 5850 graphics

29 Sep, 2010

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OCZ IBIS HSDL Solid State Drive Preview

As we've noted more than once here before, as NAND Flash technologies evolve, SATA will go the way of the dino. It's not going to happen over night but like its old, spinning hard drive counterpart, the writing is on the wall. The market needs new higher speed interfaces with lower overhead and more direct attachment to native system interfaces. OCZ has been trying its hand at developing PCI Express-based SSDs in an effort to address this requirement. They've been rolling out all new products like their Revo

29 Sep, 2010

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GameCrush Goes Live; Pay to 'Interact' with PlayDates

GameCrush, which has been in private beta testing since March of this year, has gone live. It's an obvious idea since most gamers are men: get them to pay to hook up online with attractive women and use their joysticks, er, play video games with them. To be clear, the PlayDates, as they are called, can be men or women. They can make as much as $20 an hour, according to the site's press release. Meanwhile, gamers, seeking to play (ahem) with these PlayDates pay $0.60 a minute. Additionally, developers of games

28 Sep, 2010

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Roku Players And TiVo Premiere Gaining Hulu Plus Access

The Apple TV just started shipping to consumers this week, and there's no way to battle that like adding support for Hulu Plus. That's what has happened with the Roku line of media streamers today, as the company has landed a deal that will make Hulu Plus available on all Roku players. The Hulu Plus channel will be available via subscription to all Roku customers later this fall. This means that Roku now gives access to Hulu Plus, Amazon Video on Demand, MLB.tv, and many more. And yes, Netflix is included too.

28 Sep, 2010

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The Daily Feed - Supplemental

Just a quick note. My apologies if you just re-received issue #23 and #35 of The Daily Feed. Our email server just encountered an error that caused it to misbehave. We've fixed the issue and it won't happen again.

Regards,

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO.

The Daily Feed Issue #35: Feedjit Prime launches Geo-targeted ads

Welcome to Issue #35 of The Daily Feed. If this email was forwarded to you by a friend, you can subscribe on this page. You can read previous editions of The Daily Feed on our blog but note that posts to our blog are delayed 24 hours or more.

This morning we have a big announcement. A few minutes ago we launched Feedjit Prime, a geo-targeted ad network that lets you run targeted ads on our global network of blogs.

I am extremely excited about Prime because it lets many of our customers narrowly target to their exact demographic. For example, last week one of our customers was a Spanish social networking site. With Feedjit Prime you can now select the top 22 Spanish speaking countries with a single click and show your ad in only those countries.

We have included a powerful feature that lets you select pre-defined lists of countries and then manually edit your list. For example, you could select the G20 countries and then add and subtract countries manually. You could also select all countries with over 50% Internet penetration or all countries with Portuguese as a first language.

We launched a test version of Prime on Sunday morning and a few of our advertisers discovered the geo-targeting feature and placed ads. One of our bloggers has placed a narrowly targeted ad in India, Kuwait, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The blog entry discusses a Hindi action film and he's seeing an excellent click-through rate from the relevant target market.

Give Feedjit Prime a spin and let me know what you think. As always you can email me at my personal email address mark@feedjit.com. I'd love to hear your impressions and feedback.

Regards,

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

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Kno Expands Offerings With Single-Screen Tablet

Kno announced a single screen version of its tablet textbook. Kno combines a touchscreen tablet with digital textbooks, course materials, web access, digital media, and note taking capabilities. With the single screen version, Kno is hoping to reach students that may not be interested in or able to purchase the dual screen model. The company plans to ship both the single and two-screen tablet textbooks by the end of this year. Kno Breaks New Ground with the World's First Single Screen Tablet Textbook Kno

28 Sep, 2010

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Acer Packs Entertainment Features Into Updated Aspire Notebooks

Acer has really been on a roll lately. First, we learned about the new TimelineX notebooks, then we heard about the Aspire AS8943G notebook which targets gamers. If neither of those options entices you, perhaps the company's updated Aspire AS5742G, AS5745 and Aspire AS7745 notebooks will. These notebooks target users who desire multimedia and mobility with options that include NVIDIA 3D Vision technology, Intel Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors, Blu-ray drives, and NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M graphics. Acer

28 Sep, 2010

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Intel Releases New Mobile Core i5, i7, Celeron Processors

Intel has released several new additions to its Core i5 and i7 line of dual-core mobile processors.

info@technologyguide.com 28 Sep, 2010

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Panasonic Announces ToughBook S9 12" Ultraportable

Panasonic today announced what they claim to be the world's lightest 12.1" notebook with an optical drive, the ToughBook S9.

info@technologyguide.com 28 Sep, 2010

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Zotac Blu-ray HD-ID34 Nettop / HTPC Review

Zotac recently launched a couple of revamped ZBox nettops, that feature a new, sleeker design and integrated Blu-Ray drive, the ZBox HD-ID33 and HD-ID34. The only difference between the two models is the included / not included RAM and hard drive; the ID33 is better suited to DIYers who may already have a spare 2.5" HDD and SO-DIMM laying around, while the ID34 ships with a 250GB 5400RPM drive and 2GB of RAM. There's also NVIDIA's next generation Ion (Ion 2) inside, which means that 1080p playback and some light-duty

28 Sep, 2010

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LG Debuts Xnote A510 3D Notebook

3D, 3D, 3D. You can't look around the consumer electronics world for 10 whole seconds without something popping out at you that requires 3D glasses, and now LG is joining the fun. We have still yet to see if 3D will take off the way marketing companies hope it will, particularly in the PC space. But LG is hoping that 3D gaming and 3D movie watching take off in the notebook arena, and that their new Xnote A510 will see lots of attention. The machine has a 15.6" 3D LED LCD display, a Core i7 processor, NVIDIA

28 Sep, 2010

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Verizon Wireless Now Offers Lost Phone Tracking, Remote Kill

Worried that you'll lose your phone? Worried that you have no way to trace it or wipe it if it were to vanish before your very eyes? Apple has a solution for that called "Find my iPhone." It comes with each new iPhone so long as you activate a $99/year MobileMe service, and it lets users track their phone via GPS and remotely disable it if a thief were to swipe it. But no other phone nor carrier offers an exact alternative to that. Until this service became live. Verizon Wireless has just announced a new facet

28 Sep, 2010

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iSuppli: iPod Nano Materials Cost $43.73

The good folks over at market research firm iSuppli picked apart Apple's latest iPod Nano, going through the parts piece by piece to come up with a true cost of materials. The final tally? Just $43.73, which only applies to the parts, and not the cost of labor, the so-called Apple Tax, and everything else that jacks up the price more than three-fold in the retail sector. "Instead of piling on features, as so many brands do with their latest products, Apple with the sixth-generation iPod has maintained or even

28 Sep, 2010

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Sharp Launching Two E-Readers And A Bookstore This December

The e-reader market is continuing to explode, despite the fact that tablets have taken over as the major hype machine in the consumer electronics business. Kindle sales have been hotter than ever, and companies are still thinking up ways to rival both it and the iPad. Look at Sharp for example, which has just revealed two new e-reader tablets in very different sizes, both of which are likely to rival the iPad and Kindle in different ways. In conjunction with an e-Bookstore announcement, Sharp has unveiled a

28 Sep, 2010

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Acer Takes Aim at Gamers with New Aspire AS8943G Notebooks

Travel back in time a few years ago and there's no way you're picking up a respectable gaming notebook for $1,500. Today? A $1,500 investment nets you a potent machine that's more powerful than some desktops, as is the case with Acer's new Aspire AS8943G notebooks. Available in two configurations, Acer's latest gaming laptops pack an Intel Core i7 740QM quad-core processor inside flanked by 4GB or 8GB or RAM (which you can upgrade to 16GB) and an ATI Mobility Radeon 5850 graphics chip with 2GB of dedicated video

28 Sep, 2010

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Target Officially Selling Apple iPad Starting October 3

Another rumor confirmed. The Apple iPad, which has been flying off of Apple's own shelves for months now, finally has enough extra stock to find itself on other shelves. As was rumored weeks ago, the mega-retailer Target will begin to sell the tablet starting on October 3. It will be a nationwide rollout, and Target customers will be able to select from all of the possible models, including the Wi-Fi + 3G models that will require activation with AT&T from home. Mark Schindele, senior vice president, merchandising,

28 Sep, 2010

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