As much as we love testing and talking about the latest innovations in PC graphics, it's only a fraction of the gamers market that can truly enjoy these high-end products as soon as they come out of the oven because of its high prices.

 It's not a surprise then that the bulk of Nvidia and ATI sales for videocard upgrades are in the segment between $100 and $200, this is also what we call the mainstream market. For this article we have narrowed down such segment to cards below the $150 mark, where the obvious contenders, Nvidia and ATI have laid down two products that go head to head: the long dominant GeForce 7600GS, and the recently launched Radeon X1650 Pro.

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Google Inc.'s $1.65 billion acquisition of Internet video site YouTube Inc. has turned up the pressure on rivals to keep pace in a rapidly changing online environment.

Only a handful of Internet start-ups come close to matching the San Bruno, Calif., firm's audience. But many smaller Web firms--often referred to as Web 2.0 companies because they were founded after the dot-com boom--offer growing communities of users and popular Web sites that Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and News Corp. may choose to nurture.

"I think, in general, there are large technology and media companies that will buy their way in" to some of these upstart companies, said Alex Welch, chief executive of photo-sharing site Photobucket Inc. of Denver.

Source: Chicago Tribune 

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Enhanced capabilities plus seamless integration with URGE make for all-new digital entertainment experiences.

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 30, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today released to the public Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 11 for Windows® XP, a significant milestone for music fans and the digital entertainment experience on Windows. This latest version of Windows Media Player offers consumers a test-drive of the breakthrough capabilities in Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista™, including enhanced search and media management technologies, a visually driven user interface, and optimized support for portable music players.

Source: Microsoft 

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Bugfix Release

• Fixed the gallery links in "My Controls" on the board. Invision Gallery has now replaced coppermine. All your old images are still available at http://www.geeknewz.com/imagedb however you can no longer login to update these. This is part of our move to get rid of integration dependancies.
  
• Re-organized Forum Sections to try and get rid of dead sections.
• Added Live Bookmark functionality and RSS Feed for main site available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/geeknewz
• Removed the forum wrapper where if you use your panel to access the forum the site wraps around it. This is due to spacing issues which need to be resolved. Forum now always full screens.
  
• Fixed login bug where users with uploaded avatars (not off site) were often unable to login.
• Minor style changes

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For those of you looking at upgrading, you may have yourself in a knot deciding when and what to purchase. There are now extremely fast and viciously-priced dual-core processors on the market -- this is, ordinarily, a damn good thing. However, you seemingly can't ignore the quad-core CPUs on the horizon coming from both AMD and Intel. Surely these upcoming beasts will make roadkill of the existing line?

My unconcealed answer is no. There's an elephant disguised as a lampshade in this room and it stinks.

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One of the big new features in the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro is the new 3GB RAM maximum that it supports. But 3GB is a funny number for a machine with 2 RAM slots. Why not max that puppy out with two 2GB sticks - for a total of 4GB?

MacFixIt has learned that it's not a physical space limitation and that both of the new MBP's RAM slots are large enough to accommodate the bigger 2GB modules.

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Predicting the Future

It’s very easy to make accurate predictions about the future of technology. Stuff will get smaller, faster, and cheaper. This has been true for centuries and is unlikely to change—at least until we start running out of oil. Making interesting and accurate predictions is somewhat more difficult.

One trick employed by many futurists is to predict as many things as possible, and then remind people of the correct predictions when they happen, while brushing the less accurate predictions under the carpet. This approach works, to an extent, but isn’t much fun.

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The just released Mozilla Firefox 2 may be better than Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7, but you'll probably want to use both

By now you may have heard that the makers of the two leading web browsers launched their latest totally free editions, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 2, within a week of each other. Feature-wise, most news reports have already declared a winner: the long-awaited IE7 may be a vast improvement over its predecessors, but the new Firefox leaves it in the dust. While that's mainly true, here's what you need to know about each one, and why you should have them both on your Windows PC. (Firefox 2 is available for Mac users, although Internet Explorer is not.)

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Grant T. Stanley, 23, was also given five months of home detention, three years of supervised probation and a $3,000 fine for his role in the Elite Torrents service, which used a sharing technology known as BitTorrent. Stanley, who had pleaded guilty to copyright-related charges, was sentenced Oct. 17.

Stanley is one of three people convicted through Operation D-Elite, a federal crackdown on suppliers of pirated works to Elite Torrents, which agents shut down in May 2005. At one time, the Elite Torrents network had more than 133,000 members and allegedly facilitated the illegal distribution of more than 2 million copies of movies, software, music and games. Federal officials said "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" was available through Elite Torrents six hours before it even debuted in theaters. "We hope this case sends the message that cyberspace will not provide a shield of anonymity for those who choose to break our copyright laws," U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said in a statement. 

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The P903i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie-ticket stub. The card works as a security key by connecting wirelessly with the cell phone.

If an owner keeps the card in a bag or pocket, the phone recognizes when the card moves too far away and locks automatically to prevent someone from making a call. The user can choose to have the phone lock when it is 26 feet, 66 feet or 130 feet away.

 Source: Yahoo News

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