Jan 28

EVGA’s W555 motherboard gets a once over, can hold seven GPUs

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Think CrossFireX is nifty? We’re betting you’re a big fan of SLI, huh? For those who grew up bragging about their “dual Voodoo” setup, there’s nothing in the world that can stop you from lusting over this bad boy. Quietly introduced at CES, the EVGA W555 is just now being shown to the world in proper (prototype) form, and aside from being crafted to hold two overclocked processors and a dozen DDR3 DIMM slots, there’s also space for seven PCI expansion slots. In other words, you could theoretically run seven GPUs in this thing. Of course, you’d need some serious software hacking skills to drive all that horsepower into a single display, but we get the feeling you like challenges, anyway. Hit the source link for more of the madness, but don’t expect any units to hit retail until later in the year.

EVGA’s W555 motherboard gets a once over, can hold seven GPUs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

LaCie serves up Enterprise Class versions of Quadra external drives

Posted in: enterprise, external hard drive, ExternalHardDrive, hard drive, HardDrive, storage, Today's Chili

LaCie dabbled in the CES extravaganza with a few minor offerings, but it decided to wait a few weeks for things to calm down before busting out a new range of wares. Today, the outfit is slinging out a trio of products in the freshly created Enterprise Class: the d2 Quadra Enterprise Class, 2big Quadra Enterprise Class and the 4big Quadra Enterprise Class. Obviously engineered for the more hardcore among us, these units pack enterprise-class SATA drives, a five-year warranty, 128-bit AES hardware encryption and hardware RAID with hot-swappable disks. Each HDD within spins at 7200RPM and boasts 32MB of cache, and 700MB/sec are promised when using a RAID 50 array with four 4big Quadra Enterprise Class units. The whole slate of Neil Poulton-designed drives offer up quad interfaces (FireWire 400 / 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA), and prices get going at just $299.

LaCie serves up Enterprise Class versions of Quadra external drives originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

World’s oldest, priciest camera hits auction block

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A daguerreotype camera from 1839 signed by its namesake, Jacques Mande Daguerre, is up for auction and could go for as much as $985,000.

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Jan 28

Sarotech updates book-like Hardbox to version 3.0, embraces SuperSpeed USB

Posted in: external hard drive, ExternalHardDrive, hard drive, HardDrive, Today's Chili, usb 3.0, Usb3.0

We’ll just come at you straight — the world needs a more varied selection of external hard drives. Aside from the occasional LaCie / Lego-inspired alternative, there’s really a stark lack of style when perusing the storage shelves at Best Buy. Sarotech’s been one to blaze its own trail before, but we’ve yet to see a serious update to the impossible-to-hate Wizplatz W-31… until today, of course. The Hardbox 3.0 is, for all intents and purposes, a refreshed version of the aforementioned unit, and this HDD enclosure sports a sleek, all-black exterior along with a full complement of updated hardware that supports USB 3.0. It’s apparently available with 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB or 3TB within, though it sounds as if you’ll have to wait until at least February to find one available for shipping. It’ll be worth it, though.

Sarotech updates book-like Hardbox to version 3.0, embraces SuperSpeed USB originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Nintendo said Ninten-no to Project Natal in 2007?

Posted in: console, Games, gaming, Microsoft, nintendo, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, Today's Chili, wii, xbox, xbox 360, Xbox360

Great balls of console wars fire! A top-level Nintendo insider has revealed that the motion-controlled gaming setup we now know as Project Natal was offered to the Japanese company way back in 2007 and promptly turned down because it was considered too expensive. We’re told this decision came from supremo Satoru Iwata himself, who was worried about latency and the purported inability to sell it at “mass-market prices.” This implies, of course, that 3DV Systems was fully responsible for Natal — which Microsoft staunchly denies — but CVG seems to consider its informant’s words to be beyond suspicion. All we know for sure is that the stuff’s coming, and awkwardness at house parties is about to reach a whole new level.

Nintendo said Ninten-no to Project Natal in 2007? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Nokia grows profits and smartphone share in Q4

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Pretty good news for Nokia today as it announces its Q4 results. Net income jumped 65% to €948 million (on €12 billion in sales) or 26 eurocents per share, from €576 million euros, or 15 eurocents a share, earned in Q4 2008. That handily beat the consensus forecast of 19 eurocents per share. Importantly, Nokia grew its smartphone (or “converged devices” in Nokia parlance) marketshare to a healthy 40%, up from 35% just last quarter. Looking forward, Nokia cautioned that it expects its adjusted operating margin in Devices & Services in Q1 2010 will be at the low end of its 12% to 14% target. At the time of this posting, Nokia stock has jumped about 9% in recognition of these good times.

Nokia grows profits and smartphone share in Q4 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Warning: My sweater is spying on you

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What looks like a frumpy old cardigan might be hiding cutting-edge consumer spy tech. Thanko’s button cam lets you record sound, images, and video on the sly.

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Jan 28

Dell ‘Mini 5’ tablet prototype shows up as M01M in Shenzhen black market

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Who’s got some love for prototype gadgets, eh? Apparently someone does in Shenzhen (surprise of the day?). PC Online managed to cuddle up with a black Dell Streak / Mini 5 prototype, which has “Model M01M” marked under the battery cover — something not seen in the earlier teardown, and is probably the most official name to date. Spec-wise the M01M sums up what’s been speculated all along — 5-inch 800×480 touchscreen, Android 1.6, 1GHz CPU (presumably Snapdragon, as revealed by the teardown), WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G of some sort, 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, front-facing camera, and the same 1530mAh battery as the one in the teardown. The price? ¥7,500, which converts to a whopping $1,098 in US cash, but bear in mind that this doesn’t reflect the M01M’s actual retail price for whenever it might launch.

[Thanks, Shaun Wu]

Gallery: Dell M01M shows up in Shenzhen black market

Dell ‘Mini 5’ tablet prototype shows up as M01M in Shenzhen black market originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 28

Kobo E-Reader First on iPad

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The iPad might have iBooks, but if Apple’s built-in iPhone apps are anything to go by, then it will likely be gorgeous but limited (the Mail app, anyone?). We think that it’ll be the third party e-book readers that turn the Moses Tablet into the Kindle Killer people so obviously want it to be.

Ironically, the Kindle application will be among those that will run just fine on the iPad as it is, and Amazon is likely to update it. But the first third-party e-book announcement is from Kobo, the maker of the fine iPhone app of the same name. Kobo will run on the iPad as is, but the team is already working on a larger version.

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In the screenshots, you can see that the bookshelf metaphor is there, as we presume it has to be with all future e-book applications, but it has been joined by a navigation list at the side, like the new Apple Mail application for the iPad. It’s fine, but little more than an amalgamation of two existing screens in the iPhone version.

What we really like is the reading screen. Instead of lamely aping the pages of a paper book like Apple’s iBook, the entire screen is available for text. A page-curl animation made it in, but you can switch that off, and the progress bar along the bottom is genuinely useful, like that on the Kindle only easier to read.

The one thing these reader applications will need is in-app purchasing. Not because Apple will necessarily demand it – Kindle for iPhone uses content bought at Amazon – but because the consumer will want it. Faced with a separate login, adding credit card details and having to navigate to a separate web site, most users will just use the simple, quick, built-in iTunes book store.

The iPad Is Finally Here And Kobo Is Ready!) [Kobo. Thanks, Nick!]


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Jan 28

YouTube To Pay Users A Share Of Ad Revenue?

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on October 12, 2006 by CyberNet.

YouTube Advertising Money Apparently Google’s acquisition of YouTube may have done more good than we thought? I guess there are now talks about sharing advertisement revenue with users who upload videos. You would supposedly get a portion of the advertising money that is generated only from the videos that you upload.

I started to think about how much money they would offer users and if YouTube gave you a penny ($0.01) for every view that your video got you could go on to make $10,000 for each 1,000,000 views! That is probably a little high but even if you got $0.001 for each view that would still be $1,000…all for sharing a video that you probably would have anyway!

In the top 100 videos on YouTube 95 of them have over 2 million views. The number one video has nearly 34 million views and shows us the evolution of dance. This is a must see :D :

Despite that video being 6-minutes long once I started watching it I felt compelled to finish it. It is a little bit off the technology news topic but amazingly I worked it into the story. :)

I think it would be really cool if YouTube started share a portion of the advertising revenues with the users, but I can’t imagine it would be that much money. Maybe Google has some sort of advertising campaign planned that will really bring in the big bucks?

News Source: Daily Mail

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