From the BBC:

Regulators in the US are being urged to investigate any potential online advertising and search partnership between Google and Yahoo.

The call by a coalition of 16 American civil rights and rural advocacy bodies comes despite the fact no firm deal has actually been announced.

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From Legion Hardware:

Today we are taking a peak at a new motherboard from ASUS featuring an upcoming Intel chipset. Codename 'Eaglelake' this new chipset will be soon better known simply as P45, and as you have probably already guessed, this will be the successor of the popular Intel P35 chipset. This new chipset supports a range of new features thanks to the inclusion of the ICH10 south bridge chip...

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From Bit-Tech:

Activision has confirmed that the next installment in the Call of Duty series will be set in an entirely new military theatre and that Treyarch is currently working on a new James Bond game.

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From ArsTechnica:

During Nokia's annual shareholder meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo seemed to change the direction of the entire company. "Our goal is to act less like a traditional manufacturer, and more like an internet company," Kallasvuo told his shareholders. "Companies such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft are not our traditional competitors, but they are major forces that must be reckoned with. Make no mistake: We are taking on these challenges seriously and aggressively."

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From Reg Hardware:

Fed up of waiting for Asus' desktop Eee PC? Rival Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has stepped in with a mini machine of its own, which it's punting at just £235.

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Hello again!

Back in 22 June 2007 I wrote:

“3dMark07

Well seeing new GPU's and CPU's on the shelfs I am wondering when is Futuremark going to release a DX10 bench? What do you guys think? If anyone had jumped from their chair after reading the title I appologise!“

Almost a year later and finally 3dMark07 is here, it’s name however is:

3DMark Vantage!

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Ubuntu have just released their latest version of their extremely popular Ubuntu Linux Operating System, version 8.04 codename: Hardy Herron.  Ubuntu is a GNOME based linux distribution that has gained popularity by being both a powerful and reliable OS, thanks to its debian heritage, and also one of the most user friendly Linux distributions available.  If you're sick of Windows, or just willing to try something new, we highly recommend giving the simple Live-CD a go and seeing what this whole Ubuntu thing is all about!

Click Here To Download Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron 32 Bit Edition

Click Here To Download Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron 64 Bit Edition 

If you need any help or have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask in the forums! 

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From DailyTech:

AMD and Intel have filed in the area of 150 million pages in the legal battle so far

AMD filed a suit against Intel way back in 2005 alleging among other things that Intel had conspired with major PC OEMs to keep AMD out of the marketplace. The case is set to go to trial in 2009 and some new documents filed this month shed more light on AMD’s accusations against Intel.

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Yahoo is introducing new technology to its search engine which will warn users if they are about to click on a website that hosts viruses, spyware and spam.

SearchScan uses security firm McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to warn users about "potentially risky sites".

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By Hiroki Yomogida, Nikkei Electronics:

Sony Corp prototyped a fuel-cell system small enough to fit in one hand. The size of the system is about 50 × 30mm, which was realized by combining a fuel cell, Li-polymer secondary battery, control circuit and so forth.

This is the first time that Sony revealed the prototype of a practical fuel-cell system including, for example, a secondary battery and control circuit. The company exhibited the evaluation results of the system at Small Fuel Cells 2008, which takes place from April 30 to May 2, 2008, in Atlanta, Ga.

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From Bit-tech.net:

It’s fair to say that PC Power & Cooling is one of the industry's premier PSU manufacturers, however that's not to say the rest of the industry hasn't upped its game in recent years.

With the company’s acquisition by OCZ Technology last year, and the increasing number of competent power supply manufacturers establishing themselves in the industry, we felt it was a good time to find out what’s happening inside PC Power. We talked to Doug Dobson, Chief Technology Officer at PC Power & Cooling, to discuss his views on the industry and find out how the company has changed following the acquisition.

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Smoke 'em if you've got 'em

From the BBC:

The first legalised home computers have gone on sale in Cuba, but a ban remains on internet access.

This is the latest in a series of restrictions on daily life which President Raul Castro has lifted in recent weeks.

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Who's robbing who here? 

It would appear that many GTA IV gamers are blighted with random freezing and game loading faliures, myself included.  I had been happily playing this latest installment of Grand Theft Auto for many hours without problems.

However, when I tried to play again today things soon went pear-shaped.  The first sign of trouble was that the game started loading an earlier saved position, one which I had already completed, rather than my most recent saved progress.  But, it failed to load that or any other saved positions, forcing me to restarted my PS3 console. 

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From Motherboards.org: 

Elite Computer Systems has been around making motherboards and video cards among other computer related components for years. Mostly known as a value motherboard maker in recent years, ECS today has tried to change all of that with using high quality components and designs for their motherboards. Virtually every Intel board and AMD chipset has a wide lineup for any enthusiast on the market for a new board.

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