I guess this is one way to get people to notice your booth. German customs police raided Hyundai IT Corp.’s booth at IFA and took away some flat-screen TVs. Papers please?
"Hyundai had the chance today to show us that it had paid for the licenses -- then we would have gone. But that was not the case. They could not prove they had paid so we took the devices away," said [Berlin customs investigation office] spokesman Norbert Scheidhauer.
I wonder if this is a trend or an aberration. Microsoft decided to fight piracy in Kenya not with lawyers and injunctions, but instead with discounts and education. Time will tell if this will work.
Microsoft East Africa announced a 40 percent reduction in cost of its home and student office suite amid complaints of rampant software piracy in the Kenya. "This special offer for Africa will enable more tools that will help them work more productively and accomplish more in developing presentations," said Ian Joule, Microsoft channel manager for East and Central Africa.
The U.S. Army opened the Army Experience Center (AEC), a state-of-the-art educational facility where visitors can virtually experience many aspects of Army life. Located inside Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia, the 14,500-square-foot facility is the centerpiece of the Army Experience Pilot Program to test and evaluate new marketing strategies.
I told you about this place back in June and it looks like the 1st one is finally open. If you get a chance to check it out, let us know in the comments below.
BFG Technologies®, Inc. announced the BFG NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GT, 9800 GT OC™, and the GeForce 9500 GT graphics cards. All three new BFG graphics cards offer best-in-class price versus performance, and are backed by free 24/7/365 world-class tech support and the best lifetime warranty in the industry.
There is an interesting editorial posted by C|Net’s Brooke Crothers that examines NVIDIA’a recent about-face when it comes to native SLI support for Intel’s X58 chipset. After months of non-stop Intel bashing and all those “Cans O' Whoop Ass” that have remained unopened, we think most people were caught off guard by NVIDIA’s announcement.
Representative of the shock expressed after the announcement, a headline at AnandTech said: "Hell Freezes Over: Nvidia Announces Native SLI Support for the Intel X58 Chipset." Translation: Nvidia must use Intel supporting silicon to get its technology into future gaming systems--not its own.
PCStats takes you on a tour of Gigabyte’s factory in Taiwan and shows you how motherboards are made. It is funny how little has changed in the last decade. Looking back to 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2006 it is easy to see that even though the components and chipsets may change, the process is still the pretty much the same.
It's surprising to learn the amount of work and machinery involved in manufacturing a single motherboard. We'd vaguely imagined some sort of stamping process where all components are slapped onto the bare board in one step and soldered, before being boxed in a big room full of bored workers.
Cases & Modding
Antec Twelve Hundred Gaming Case @ Legit Reviews
ETC.
nMedia HTPCKB Media Center Wireless Keyboard @ BmR
Motherboards
Gigabyte GA-EG43-S2H Motherboard @ CPU3D
Video
Gigabyte GeForce 9800GT @ Overclockers Club
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 @ TechwareLabs
Is this the beginning of the end for bloatware? We can only hope so. We have been outspoken critics of bloatware for years and companies like Dell went to great lengths to remove unwanted software from its line of PCs a few years back but it seems the rest of the industry is just now catching up.
But Best Buy, the nation’s largest electronics retailer, tells computer buyers that the preinstalled software, also known as bloatware, can clutter their machines and slow them down. You’d be surprised how often consumers tell us to get rid of it,” said Robert Stephens, the head of Geek Squad, the technical support division of Best Buy that removes the software. He declined to say how many people were paying for the service, but said that “it’s going to increase in popularity.”
Talk about a conversation starter (or date killer if you are a single guy), a four foot long SNES controller that actually works.
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5 New FallOut 3 Gameplay Moviews FileShack
Dead Space Pushed...Forward? @ Kotaku
Gigantic Gears of War 2 Giganto Screenshots VE3D
Halo Wars: Box Art Revealed @ Gamerscore Blog
Left 4 Dead DLC Will Include More Levels @ Shacknews
BFG’s CEO has been making it a point to get AFK lately and in doing that he has just won his first “CEO Challenge” Ironman competition. Our congrats go out to Scott. In the 10:56:45 that it took him to finish the 141 miles of the Swimming, Biking, and Running, I drank 4 liters of Mountain Dew, ate 12 Kit Kat bars, and played 28 rounds of Team Fortress 2. Who’s the man now Scott? ;)