Digital Trends

Hands on

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Items on the Digital Trends site

- Rob Enderle's article on the birth of optimized PCs

- Players Only videos

Follow-ups from last week

- Universal goes Blu-Ray - last domino to fall

- Flickr's Day of the Donut

- Crytek bashes Intel's idea about real time ray tracing

- Vista SP1 killing some USB devices?

- ISO takes control of OOXML - cross standards a big issue

- Politicians are mad at Google's 700MHz auction gaming. Go figure.

Hardware and gadgets

- NAB announcements by RED and Panasonic

- Psystar and the Mac Clone Wars

- First review of the Optimus Maximus keyboard

- First laptop to sport a 128GB SSD

- First UMPC with Intel's Atom Centrino

- Monster cable steps on the wrong toes

Software and netware

- First VOIP app for iPhone released (gotta be jailbroken)

- XP SP3 this month

- Comcast wants a P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

- UAC piss you off? That's the intention!

- Targeted ads are annoying. Duh.

- Verizon offers an unlimited data plan for smartphones. Finally.

Entertainment and gaming

- Wii Fit price and launch date

- A breakdown of what all the ABCDEFGXGA video standards mean. Also one for wireless standards.

- Nvidia and Ageia engine almost ready

- Blockbuster tried to buy Circuit City.

- Senator proposes monitoring all P2P traffic for copywritten material

- Lawmakers want to tax net purchases

- Europe says no to banning pirates.

- Phishers go after CEOs

- In Mother Russia, Wi-Fi points register YOU!

- Hackers could take down the US power grid in a day. Easily.

Miscellaneous bag

- Computer emulates Neanderthal speech

- New E-ink will be write-on-able

- Tetris arm wrestling

- Never ending floor for virtual worlds

- The Avatar Machine - a MUST see

- And buy 5lbs of Silly Putty for $80. Why? Why not?