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- May 2012: Build a PC on Any Budget
- Daily Deals: XFX Radeon 7970, 512GB Crucial SSD $330, and More
- Hacker Attack Results in Thousands of Player and Non-Player Character 'Deaths' in World of Warcraft
- Angry Birds Star Wars Reaches Our Galaxy on November 8
- GM Aims to Create 1,500 Information Technology Jobs in Michigan as Part of Insourcing Strategy
- Android Pioneer HTC Posts Lowest Profit in 6 Years
| May 2012: Build a PC on Any Budget Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:32 PM PDT
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| Daily Deals: XFX Radeon 7970, 512GB Crucial SSD $330, and More Posted: 08 Oct 2012 10:33 AM PDT
Top Deal: Today's top deal from LogicBuy is the XFX Radeon HD 7970 videocard for $370 after $30 mail-in rebate (normally $430). The deal is extra sweet because it comes with four great games: Dirt Showdown, Battlefield 3, Sonic Generations, and Shogun 2. The XFX Radeon HD 7970 has a core clock of 925MHz and 3GB of video RAM clocked at 5.5GHz. We really liked the Black Edition of the card for its performance, efficient power consumption, and low noise. We gave it a 9 Kick Ass in our review. Hardware & Peripherals: Crucial M4 512GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD (CT512M4SSD2) for $330 with free shipping after $20 mail-in rebate (normally $420). EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB GDDR5 videocard (02G-P3-1568-KR) for $190 with free shipping after $30 mail-in rebate (normally $280). Thermaltake Level 10 GT full-tower gaming case for $200 with free shipping (normally $290). Cisco Linksys RE1000 refurbished Wireless-N Wi-Fi range extender for $34 with free shipping (normally $90 - use coupon code: HSDISH5). |
| Hacker Attack Results in Thousands of Player and Non-Player Character 'Deaths' in World of Warcraft Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:54 AM PDT
Thousands of players simply dropped dead, including everyone in Orgrimmar and Stormwind, to name just two of the affected realms. Blizzard later acknowledged the exploit, which it promptly hotfixed, though not in time for those who met their maker unexpectedly. "Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities," Blizzard announced in a forum post. "This exploit has already been hotfixed, so it should not be repeatable. It's safe to continue playing and adventuring in major cities and elsewhere in Azeroth. "As with any exploit, we are taking this disruptive action very seriously and conducting a thorough investigation. If you have information relating to this incident, please email hacks@blizzard.com. We apologize for the inconvenience some of you experienced as a result of this and appreciate your understanding." A video on YouTube (embedded above) shows the carnage in hilarious detail (unless you're one of the affected, then you have our deepest sympathies. Honest.), as a character waltzes through Stormwind killing everything in his path. Throughout the video you hear sounds of characters letting out their last gasp of breath before crumpling to the ground. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook
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| Angry Birds Star Wars Reaches Our Galaxy on November 8 Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:21 AM PDT
"This is the best Angry Birds game we've ever done. It's the best parts of Angry Birds with all new cutting-edge gameplay set in in a galaxy far, far away," said Peter Vesterbacka, the Mighty Eagle and CMO of Rovio. "As a big Star Wars fan myself, I'm really excited about this new universe. The Force is definitely strong with this one." The collaboration doesn't end on the software side. If there's one thing Rovio and George Lucas have in common, it's a penchant for merchandise, and you can expect a lot of it from Angry Birds Star Wars. Everything from themed Halloween costumes to action figures and plush toys will be available at select retailers starting October 28, Rovio said. Angry Birds Star Wars will launch to iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, Mac, PC, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 on November 8, 2012. No word yet on price. |
| GM Aims to Create 1,500 Information Technology Jobs in Michigan as Part of Insourcing Strategy Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:05 AM PDT
GM on Monday announced plans to open an Information Technology Innovation Center in Warren, Michigan, which it expects will create 1,500 high-tech jobs over the next several years. It's one of four planned Innovation Centers in the U.S., the first of which was opened last month in Austin, Texas, where 500 news IT jobs will be created, GM said. "GM is executing an IT best practice by insourcing IT services and making them a strategic part of assuring GM remains a fast-moving leader," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif. "This is also one of the best opportunities for IT professionals to work in the automotive industry."
The in-sourced IT business services model is part of GM's overall IT Transformation strategy that entails recruiting recent college graduate and experienced professionals for the jobs being created. The effort is being led by Chief Information Officer Randy Mott, formerly an executive with HP. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook
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| Android Pioneer HTC Posts Lowest Profit in 6 Years Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:05 AM PDT
The once spunky handset maker reported that its third-quarter net profit was 3.9 billion New Taiwan dollars, a nice sounding number until you convert it to American currency, which works out to $133 million. Still a nice chunk of change, only profits are headed in the wrong direction. A year earlier, HTC's profits totaled NT$18.64 billion, or about US$636.28 million. HTC once ranked as the biggest Android smartphone player, but has since been shoved aside by Samsung, which jumped ahead of HTC in the U.S. in 2011. Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III device is one of the most popular smartphones in the world and a large reason why the company expects to post a record profit in the third quarter.
At the Mobile World Congress earlier this year, HTC revealed a new smartphone strategy. Rather than continue to take a shotgun approach to the Android ecosystem, HTC decided to focus its efforts on a single product line, the HTC One. HTC's intention was (and remains) to put all its efforts into building a handful of really good devices rather than bombard the market with dozens with mediocre handsets. It's too early to call that strategy a failure, and it will be interesting to see how the company's upcoming Windows Phone 8X and 8X devices fare when they debut in November. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook
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