2GB kit (1GBx2) Upgrade for a Apple iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo (17-inch) System (DDR2 PC2-5300, NON-ECC, )

Review of 2GB kit (1GBx2) Upgrade for a Apple iMac 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo (17-inch) System (DDR2 PC2-5300, NON-ECC, ) # Best Cheap SaleBad memory can cause anything from annoying error messages to complete system failures. Why risk it with cheap "mystery"...

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Kit Guru take Bulldozer to 4.8GHz on air using GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7

Earlier today, or perhaps late yesterday if like us you live in Taiwan, AMD launched their latest and highly anticipated FX series series processors. Codenamed ‘Bulldozer’ these new 6 and 8-core CPUs have dominated the PC hardware news and review...

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AMD’s Bulldozer Fails To Meet Expectations

The Intel-AMD war has been going on a long time, and I hope it will be going on longer. The last few years have been hard on the underdog, however, with huge growth by Intel in both the low-power and high-performance sectors. The Core 2 Duos excelled,...

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TeleSocial Opens API, Allows You To Add Voice Chat To Almost Anything

Smack talk, that mainstay of online gaming since the invention of... well... the online game, is a fine art. To know when to call someone's mother something nasty or to question your opponents sexual prowess is of paramount importance in almost any...

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Eric Schmidt Finally Appears On Google+

For a company that is supposed to eat its own dog food, Google has been criticized for how few of its senior executives are visible on Google+. You can find +Larry and +Sergey there, and now so too is executive chairman +Eric Schmidt. Of course, Schmidt...

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Diaspora Passing The Hat Again

It's been over a year since Diaspora raised over $200,000 towards the creation of an alternative, decentralized social network. It was less than three months later that the first screenshots of their project hit the web, but since then — well, it would...

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Ebyline Raises $5 Million From E.W. Scripps To Help News Organizations Fight Off Content Farms

Last September, a group of former L.A. Times veterans launched Ebyline as a better way for news organizations to manage their freelance talent and syndicate their own content. The goal was to give the Web's shady content farms a run for their monies...

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Pinkdingo Raises $1.4 Million To Make Charity Easier By Killing The Checkout Page

Pinkdingo, a young startup looking to breathe new life into the charity space, is announcing today that it has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from a host of angels, including John Paul DeJoria, the Founder of Patrón Spirits and Paul Mitchell Systems...

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Somfy’s TaHomA Lets You Control The House From Your iPad

I'm not a homeowner myself, but something tells me that when I do buy a house, I'm going to want something like the TaHomA home automation system to ensure that I can be as lazy as possible. Developed by a company called Somfy, the TaHomA allows you...

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Facebook And eBay Team Up To Breathe New Life Into Social Commerce

"We're at an inflection point", eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay's brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco. "We'll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we've...

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Japanese Telco KDDI Buys Content Delivery Network CDNetworks For $167 Million

Quite big news from Asia's web world today: Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI (US$40 billion revenue) announced [JP] it will buy an 85.5% stake in CDNetworks, the Korea-based content delivery network, for US$167 million.KDDI says the plan is to...

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Web “Start-Ups” Hit Cash Crunch. Or Don’t, Depending On Whom You Ask

WSJ reports that in contrast to the exuberance of most of this year, "for the past couple of weeks" startups are having a harder time raising early stage and Series A funding. "The start-up financing market is getting weaker by the week, no question,"...

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Daily Crunch: Mechanism

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Hublot Rebuilds The Famed Antikythera Mechanism RIM: Global BlackBerry Outages Due To European Backup Failure DNA 11 Labs Diversifies Its DNA-Based Art Offerings, Adds Crowdsourcing For New...

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Key Russian Social Network Adds Facial Recognition To Photos

Odnoklassniki, is the second largest social network in Russia, behind Vkontakte, and is part of the recently floated Mail.Ru Group. Facebook's market share in Russia has never passed 5%, according to ComScore (or 5 million people a month). Odnoklassniki...

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Siri For Venture Capitalists

Related: iPhone 4S purchase = unlimited Siri joke-potential.]]&...

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BizPad: Panasonic Announces Android Tablets Targeted At Businesses

Panasonic Japan has announced [JP] two Android tablets for the domestic market yesterday, the so-called BizPad JT-580VT (with a 7-inch LCD screen) and the JT-581VT (with a 10.1-inch LCD). Both devices run on Android 3.2 and are specifically targeted...

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Point, Click, Search: eBay To Add Image Recognition To Mobile Apps

Today, at eBay's new developer conference, Innovate, CEO John Donahoe told reporters that the company plans to roll out image-recognition technology for its mobile offerings by the end of the year. Yes, that's right. Images, get ready to be recognized.The...

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CNN: Blackberry Outage Impacting Users On Almost Every Planet

There's no escape. The Blackberry service outage is now impacting users on almost every planet, CNN reports. Tatooine and Coruscant appear to not have been affected yet, but users all over Geonosis, Naboo and Yavin were reportedly hit hard. Our thoughts...

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Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70

After a long illness, Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70. Ritchie, also known as "dmr", is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development...

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Founders Fund Leads $33 Million D Round In Learning Startup Knewton

In what is certainly one of the largest funding rounds of an education startup in recent years, Knewton closed a $33 million D round led by Founders Fund. (Another education startup also based in New York city, 2Tor, raised a $32.5 million series C...

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Backed By $10M In Funding, Lemon.com Lets You Store, Organize Your Receipts In The Cloud

Today sees the formal launch of Lemon, a free cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker for Android and iOS devices (Blackberry and Windows Phone versions 'coming soon'). The service lets users store and organize email and paper receipts in...

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Citrix Acquires ShareFile, The “Dropbox For Enterprises”

Citrix Systems has acquired ShareFile, a cloud storage, file sharing and collaboration solutions provider, the companies announced this morning. ShareFile enables businesses to securely store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside...

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iCloud, iOS 5, iTunes 10.5, and OS X 10.7.2 Released

In accordance with last week's keynote, Apple users have some downloading to do: iOS 5, iTunes 10.5, and Mac OS X 10.7.2 have all been released. These updates collectively enable Apple's new iCloud service, which will eventually replace the older MobileMe...

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AirPort Utility for iOS Launches

When we reviewed the 5th generation Airport Extreme and 4th generation Time Capsule, several people pointed out that the iOS 5 beta included an Airport configuration mode inside settings. This mode allowed for initial setup whenever the iDevice was...

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BenQ EW2420 Monitor Review

The EW2420 from BenQ is designed for use as a multi-purpose display. While it has the standard DVI and HDMI port you would expect on a current monitor, it also has an additional HDMI port for another video source like a video game system or Blu-ray...

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Apple iMac ALL-IN-ONE Desktop - 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GBb RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA 9400M, 8x SuperDrive, Wi-Fi, 21.5-inch, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

Review of Apple iMac ALL-IN-ONE Desktop - 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GBb RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA 9400M, 8x SuperDrive, Wi-Fi, 21.5-inch, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard # Best Cheap SaleAPPLE IMAC ALL-IN-ONE DESKTOP - 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 Gb ddr3 sdram,...

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hicookie hits 8GHz on LN2 with AMD Bulldozer

Hicookie jumped on facebook today and showed off an 8GHz Bulldozer LN2 OC with GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7. Here is what he said: 8GHz on 990FXA-UD7, not hard to reach without cherry pick CPU, LN2 Cooled -192°C http://valid.canardpc.com/show​_oc.php?id=2040266...

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Hi Tech Legion give GIGABYTE A55M-DS2 Gold Award

Designed as an affordable alternative to the AMD A75 chipset boards, motherboards based the AMD A55 chipset offer a great value proposition for mainstream DIYers who want to take advantage of AMD Llano APUs and their ability to offer surprisingly...