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Windows Vista Ultimate becoming less Ultimate by the day

14 November 2007, 20:23

Users of Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate have been asking the same question repeatedly since the operating system launched early this year; whatever happened to those Ultimate Extras?

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Phenom box revealed, purple looking

13 November 2007, 12:40

The hardcore AMD enthusiasts among us get an early look at what'll be arriving at their doorsteps in the near future.

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Overclockers rejoice, Foxconn MARS provides 0.5 increment capability

13 November 2007, 11:09

If you're wanting to squeeze every last bit of juice from your Penryn processor, the Foxconn MARS has you covered.

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Tyan Launches 45nm Based Intel Platforms

13 November 2007, 10:48

Tyan launch its Tempest S5375 motherboard and GT20 B5375 barebones, supporting latest Intel Xeon Processor.

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ASUS planning to bring Eee PC to the desktop

9 November 2007, 09:45

Following the early success of the portable Eee PC, ASUS plan to provide a desktop incarnation in 2008.

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Intel Penryn based PCs begin to surface

8 November 2007, 15:49

HP announce first Penryn-based desktop workstations, Lenovo and Apple looking set to follow suit.

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Intel investigates Rambus XDR memory

8 November 2007, 13:45

Intel is once again exploring Rambus memory technology, this time the memory developer's XDR offering, currently used in Sony's PlayStation 3 games console.

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Register your @live.xx e-mail address now

7 November 2007, 09:34

Did you fail to get yourname@hotmail.co.uk or yourname@gmail.com? Better act fast as Microsoft have now opened up registration for live.co.uk e-mail addresses.

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Android aims to revolutionise smartphone market: Google’s 'gPhone' to take on iPhone?

6 November 2007, 12:24

Google unveils open-source mobile platform and creates the Open Handset Alliance: a sign of imminent global handset domination?

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You just can't keep Phenom boards down, another partner jumps the gun

6 November 2007, 10:48

ASUS were first to jump the gun with their Phenom motherboards yesterday and hot on their heels today, Biostar follow suit.

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Windows Live Wave 2 finally available, x64 support at last!

6 November 2007, 08:58

Seems like we've been using beta versions of Microsoft's Live Suite since as far back as we can remember. Until now that is.

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ASUS jumps the gun by unveiling Phenom-ready motherboards

5 November 2007, 14:22

Although the rumour-mill says that AMD's next-generation quad-core Phenom CPUs aren't due for release for a couple of weeks, ASUS has jumped the gun by showing on the web some ...

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The world keeps on folding, HEXUS enters top 500

3 November 2007, 17:21

Stanford's Folding@Home distributed computing operation has been in the news this week for hitting over 1 petaflop and entering the record books. In the same week, the HEXUS.community's team of ...

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Seagate pays the price for quoting misleading hard-drive capacities.

2 November 2007, 08:58

Seagate is the first big hard-drive manufacturer to offer refunds for stealing your GBs, apparently, but it's not as clear cut as that.

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ASUS' sub-1kg Classmate PC will retail for £199 - the perfect Christmas present?

1 November 2007, 08:16

ASUS will be releasing its Eee PC, a derviation of Intel's Classmate PC. £199 buys you a sub-1kg notebook with integrated WiFi, a solid-state drive, and a 7in TFT. Sounds ...

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The Government decides to ignore e-crime

30 October 2007, 17:41

A press release from the House Of Lords Science and Technology Committee has highlighted the Government's stance on e-crime... which is, apparently, to do bugger all about it.

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Hundreds for chop as Tiscali launches Pipex jobs purge

30 October 2007, 13:21

Tiscali will slash hundreds of customer care jobs at recent acquisition Pipex broadband and voice, staff were told yesterday afternoon.

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WHOIS faces the axe

30 October 2007, 11:55

A growing group of net privacy advocates is presurring Internet overseer ICANN into scrapping WHOIS, the web's domain-name 'phone book'.

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Samsung launch the world's fastest dual-layer DVD burner

30 October 2007, 09:13

Samsung have launched the SH-S203N Super-WriteMaster DVD Writer which, they say, is the worlds fastest dual layer DVD burner...

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Jon Peddie Research reports that overall GPU market was up an astounding 20% – desktop displaced mobile

29 October 2007, 10:11

Q3 2007 has been a bumper quarter for graphics shipments. Jon Peddie Research tells you who's winning, who's keeping level, and who's barely afloat in this cut-throat industry - it ...

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Major Mac OS X Leopard SMB bug solved!

26 October 2007, 22:07

Soon after deploying OS X Leopard on a series of iMacs, we noticed some worrying behaviour when trying to connect securely to SMB shares. Happily, though, HEXUS discovered a workaround ...

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PC processor shipments at record high

25 October 2007, 09:59

3Q07 is a record quarter for shipments of PC processors, according to market research firm IDC, with mobile chips continuing to do most of the market boosting legwork.

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What is the state of play with Ageia's PhysX - 18 months after launch?

17 October 2007, 09:46

HEXUS first examined Ageia's PhysX proposition in April 2006. With WARMONGER and UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3 itching to go, Ageia asked HEXUS.tv to create a promo-feature that brings their complete story ...

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Apple now taking pre-orders for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

16 October 2007, 14:07

Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is shipping on October 26th and promises over 300 new features. Pre-orders start today....

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Sony-Ericsson W910 and K850 pictured

13 October 2007, 12:02

The shake it to shuffle it music playing W910 and the K850 with it's 5 megapixel camera are finally pictured. Nad boy, do they look sexy... wonder if I can ...

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Roll back your iPhone to factory settings

12 October 2007, 11:46

Hacked your iPhone to use any sim card? Possibly bricked it in the process? Well this new bit of jiggery pokery let's you reverse the unlocking and possibly even rescue ...

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Apple and AT&T in the dock

11 October 2007, 16:07

Two lawsuits have been filed against Apple and AT&T. The charge? anti-competitive behaviour, at the very least.

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Build your own performance laptop - courtesy of SCAN

11 October 2007, 15:28

Bored of mass-produced laptops that aren't easy to upgrade? SCAN reckons it may have the answer with some tasty-looking barebone units.

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Telefónica and Nokia open the door to Mobile Internet

10 October 2007, 10:06

Telefónica and Nokia have announced they are working together to accelerate the adoption of new Internet services on mobile devices by providing Telefónica customers with easy access to both Telefónica ...

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Voyager & Survivor Vs Pump Action Shotgun!

8 October 2007, 07:55

Corsair's Hardcore Storage Tag Team of VOYAGER and SURVIVOR pit their outer-shells against an absolute onslaught of Pump Action Shotgun rounds, but - once the heavy metal riffs die down ...

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Thecus brings RAID 5 home

4 October 2007, 15:02

Unless you're a true RAID monkey and have a room that closely resembles a datacenter, chances are you've not got a RAID-5 NAS device in your house. Thecus has set ...

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A favour for a favour: share your Wi-Fi broadband with BT and FON

4 October 2007, 10:40

BT has finally tied up with FON and offers you the opportunity of using members' Wi-Fi for free!

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Corsair Voyager/Survivor Vs Armoured Personnel Carrier!

4 October 2007, 08:23

OK, the Voyager survived being wheel-spun by a performance motor, but can it's rubberized casing fair as well against a British-Built 15 Ton Animal of an APC ? PLUS, will ...

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