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Blekko Search Engine Aims to Rid Web of Spam
Search engines seem to be a dime a dozen, but more often than not, as soon as one is announced, it seems to disappear right off the map. The reason is obvious… to come out and give people a compelling reason to use yoursearch engine over something like Google or Bing is one of the biggest challenges I can think of. So to…
Borderlands – What a Co-Op Game Should Be
As I’ve mentioned on the site many times before, I tend to have a strange problem where if a game doesn’t immediately look interesting to me, I’ll never look too deep into it, despite how popular it might be. The truth is, though, that it’s rare when I play a game and still hold the same first opinion. There was Civilization V, for example.
Intel to Get into the Contract Business?
For as long as Intel has been in business, it has created a plethora of chip types to sell to consumers, from processors to chipsets and beyond. In all that time, it has never created chips for other companies, but as it appears, that’s beginning to change. The company has entered into an agreement to create chips…
Kinect-enabled Xbox Live Dashboard Update Released
After months of speculation and beta-testing, Microsoft updated the Xbox Live Dashboard earlier today, so the next time you hop onto the service, you’ll be prompted to install it. The major feature of this update is to enableKinect support, but there are a couple of other notable introductions as well, such as ESPN content…
Adobe to Release Flash to HTML5 Converter
According to most Web developers, HTML5 is something worth being excited about, because it’s designed to take the Web to the next level. While many websites today rely on things like Adobe Flash to run robust content, HTML5 is able to replace them when done right. This is especially true where video is concerned, although in the year/s…
Special Mario Edition Nintendo Wii to be Released Next Month
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about a special Japan-only Nintendo Wii bundle that was being released to help celebrate Mario’s 25th anniversary, and well, if you were disappointed at the exclusivity there, this news might cheer you up. Either Nintendo had a change of heart, of the demand was just too high, but sure enough, we’ll be seeing a…
China’s Tianhe-1A Becomes the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
As far as technology goes, there’s little that’s quite as interesting as a supercomputer. They’re powerful beyond comprehension, and there are many of them scattered around the earth. It’s not too often though, that a new supercomputer gets announced that sets the bar much higher than before, but this past week, China managed to…
What Happens When an MMO Dies?
Long before Techgage came to be, a hobby (or perhaps addiction) of mine was discovering and playing MMORPG games. My first real foray into an MMO was with Asheron’s Call in early 2002, and that’s a game I still play today. Another game I sunk a countless number of hours into was Lineage II, another I still play on…
OCZ Announces RevoDrive X2 PCI Express SSD
OCZ must of thought the original RevoDrive was too slow, because just a few months later it’s announced theRevoDrive X2! The original PCIe based SSD came about as a result of hitting limitations with the SATA II interface. SSD technology was developing faster than the interface could keep up, so by removing SATA and…
Is Apple Looking to Forego Swappable SIM Cards?
As has been proven many times over the years, Apple is a company that wants to be the best at what it does. One of its major focuses is integration, and because of such keen attention to that, we’ve seen some of the smallest digital products on the market come straight out of Cupterino. Take the latest MacBook Air, for example, which is so thin…
LimeWire Loses Court Battle to RIAA and Shuts Down
If you were using the Internet about 10 years ago, you understand well what the landscape was like at the time. The hot topic was file sharing, and while consumers were thriving on it, the music industry, among others, were not having any of it at all. In 1999, the trend-setting Napster came out, and though it still exists today, it’s in a far more…
Seagate Believes in a Hybrid HDD Future, not an SSD One
By the sheer number of SSD-related news posts that get put up in a given day, it’s easy to imagine that almost everyone, and every company, are confidently standing behind the technology. But, that’s not entirely the case, especially where mechanical hard drive vendors are concerned. Though Western Digital began releasing…
Razer Anansi – MMO Gaming Keyboard
Razer announced a new keyboard to the gaming peripheral market, the Anansi. Taking inspiration from its Naga mouse, the Anansi includes 7 thumb modifier keys just below the space bar to expand the functionality of the other keys. Macro’s galore, over 100 fully programmable keys, 5 additional gaming keys and…
Are Games Getting Easier?
It seems like a simple question, but I’m willing to bet that it’s one that could be answered a billion different ways. Age might have a lot to do with it as well, since if you’ve been playing games since the earliest days of the PC and game consoles, you probably know what a truly difficult game is. But what’s the true answer here? Are games…
Apple’s MacBook Air is Thin, So What Competes on the PC Side?
Last week, Apple released its latest iteration of the Macbook Air, and in more than one way, it’s a rather explosive product. While the original MacBook Air proved to be the thinnest notebook around, the latest version takes things to an entirely new level. It’s so thin, that it barely looks thicker than a pen. It might be that it’s not!
NVIDIA’s Quadro Cards are not Discounted, After All
We’ll have to file this one under, “Whoops, we bet NVIDIA wished that didn’t happen!”. That’s a file that’s starting to get a bit fat, and this recent “issue”, if you can call it that, didn’t help things. On Monday, we linked to a storythat claimed that NVIDIA had dropped the pricing of its entire Quadro Fermi line-up by 50%, and it now looks like that…
Amazon to Allow Book-Lending with its Kindle
With music services such as iTunes selling an unbelievable number of digital music tracks, and Amazon’s Kindle platform resulting in a ton of eBooks being sold, one thing’s clear: people love digital content. While I’m still pro audio CD, I can understand the allure of digital music, and other digital products. There’s nothing to hog space in…
Are We More Lenient of Bugs in Large Games?
When Fallout: New Vegas came out last Tuesday, it was met with great reception. The average rating for the PC version at Game Rankings is 85%, which as far as I am concerned, almost puts it in the “must buy” category. You could say that the game lived up to the hype, as its predecessor, Fallout 3, set the bar quite high, with its string of…
Canonical to Replace GNOME with Unity in Ubuntu 11.04
It’s argued that “desktop Linux” just isn’t going to happen, but a fair amount of credit has to go to Ubuntu for pushing that prospect quite a bit ahead. Other consumer-oriented distros have existed for quite a while, such as SuSE, but Ubuntu has a couple of things going for it. It’s had a good financial backing, a clear direction, and…
Building a Super-Quiet and Storage-Packed Server PC
In some of our recent HTPC-esque content, one thing I keep harping on about is that it’s easier to build a kick-ass HTPC or home server than ever – one that’s replete with lots of storage, runs quiet, and can handle any type of media you toss at it. But even so, no PC should be built in haste, because the number of options available for each…
Microsoft: Windows 8 is Two Years Away
Compared to the ultra-long release period between Windows XP and Windows Vista, the launch of Windows 7 – which came out a mere 2.5 years after Vista – took many by surprise. It also left many of us wondering when Windows 8 would see the light of day, and if Microsoft’s release cycle was going to become more accelerated. As…
NVIDIA Cuts Fermi Quadro Pricing by 50%
Being as hyped as it was, AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 series launch last week didn’t need to be made moreexciting, but NVIDIA decided to make it so anyway by dropping the prices of its hugely popular GeForce GTX 460 and GTX 470 graphics cards. It appears now that things didn’t quite end there, as multiple sources are reporting that the…
Microsoft Announces Games for Windows Marketplace
Microsoft announced today the upcoming service called Games for Windows Marketplace. This is basically a Steam-like extension to the Games for Windows platform. It will be going live on November 15 (just in time for Christmas it seems), and will provide much of the same service as Steam, such as integrated purchasing and…
With AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 Launch, What’s on NVIDIA’s Agenda?
In case it isn’t too obvious, we posted our in-depth look at AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 series today, and we highly recommend you read through if you want to see where things stand with today’s graphics cards. With this launch, many people are wondering how NVIDIA is going to counter-act, but in all honesty, both sides seem to be in a good…
In the TG Lab: Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I340 Network Card
It’s been a little while since we last did an “In the TG Lab”, so let’s fix that, alright? In most of these posts, we talk about products we just received and plan to take an in-depth look at, but this one is a little different, since it’s one we won’t be reviewing. Rather, it’s a hardware addition to our lab that we hope will make testing NAS boxes and…