Windows 8 to Have 3 R's: Recovery, Reset, Restore

From Tom's Hardware: We all know about "Windows rot," where the operating system slowly degenerates to a slow, sluggish state after numerous installs, uninstalls, and other things that a system accumulates over time.

Those of us who perform good housekeeping practices on our...

Corsair Dominates with 2.625GHz Memory Modules for Benchmarkers

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory on Thursday revealed memory modules that can be formally claimed to be the fastest in the industry. Thanks to hand-picked memory chips, advanced cooling and advanced cooling system, the Dominator GT GTX6 memory modules can achieve whopping 2.625GHz...

Dell to buy Scalent in virtualization play

From InfoWorld: Dell announced Thursday that it is purchasing Scalent, a provider of server-virtualization management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Dell plans to roll Scalent's infrastructure management software into its own AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Manager)...

Apple Emphatically Denies iPhone 4 E-mail Exchange Claim

From PC World: Apple says a recent e-mail exchange between CEO Steve Jobs and an irate customer discussing the iPhone 4 antenna issue is a fake. The e-mail thread, first published by Boy Genius Report, appears to show Jobs telling the customer to "calm down" and not get worked up...

T-Mobile to halt Sidekick sales

From CNET News.com: Well, it looks like the Kin's kin is also getting the ax.

T-Mobile confirmed to CNET on Thursday that it plans to stop selling the two existing Sidekick models.

"As T-Mobile looks to further innovate and raise the bar for the next generation of the T-Mobile...

Apple's first iAds hit the iPhone

From CNET News.com: The first day of July brings the first real-world glimpse of Apple's foray into mobile advertising.

As planned, iAds debuted on iOS 4-based devices on Thursday, with the first examples of Apple's program enabling advertisers to present interactive ads directly...

So Long HDMI: New Standard for A/V Uses Ethernet Cables

From DailyTech: LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Valens Semiconductor have been secretly conspiring to kill HDMI. And today they set their plans into motion, introducing a brand new audiovisual standard, HDBaseT. While that name may sound...

Amazon Acquires Woot, Deals Keep Flowing

From DailyTech: Amazon acquired the snarky deal-of-the-day website Woot yesterday, The Dallas News reports, for a price tag of $110 million in cold, hard cash. And according to an e-mail sent out to all Woot employees by CEO Matt Rutledge, some free downloads were thrown in for good...

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