Dell Studio XPS 9100 arrives with six cores, little fanfare

AMD had its turn in the high-end Dell desktop spotlight, but it’s time for another Intel beast, as the company’s quietly upgraded its tower lineup to support Intel’s consumer-grade champion chip, the 3.33GHz Core i7-980X . While the new Studio XPS 9100 looks just the same as its predecessor on the outside and sports the same basic options and ports, internally there’s a 525W power supply with enough juice for a Radeon HD 5970 2GB graphics card (a $580 option) and slots for up to 24GB of DDR3 memory. You won’t be getting any of this pixel-pushing goodness on the $950 base model, of course, which has only a (respectable) quad-core 2.66GHz Core i7-920 and an Nvidia GeForce G310 512MB, but the machine looks like it could hold its own with low-end Alienware cousins if you get into $2,000+ territory.

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Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon

LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip.

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Do Not Call List Tops 200 Million, Some Still Ignore It

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Engadget Podcast 207 – 07.31.2010

The Engadget Podcasters are chattin’ re: magic, black magic, crack, GHB, Kmart, and Ashton. Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Sadnes – Wicked Game 00:01:29 – New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model available August 27th in the US and UK 00:07:33 – Amazon sees e-book sales surpassing paper versions, has Mirasol technology in the Kindle labs 00:13:30 – RIM takes control of blackpad.com, laughter takes control of our minds 00:13:53 – RIM’s 9.7-inch Blackpad rumored for November launch — yes, Blackpad 00:14:22 – RIM and AT&T event next Tuesday — BlackBerry slider and OS 6 en route

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No Surprise – SaaS Causing Real Effects on the Supply Chain

According to the ARC Advisory Group , the supply chain management market grew 7% in the last five years. That growth would have been more if it had not been for the recession. In comparison, the SaaS market grew at a compound annual growth rate of 20% during those same five years

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‘The Shack’ downsizes, opens Bullseye Mobile kiosks in many Target stores

Radio Shack is at it again, expanding your perceptions of the place that once actually sold radio components.

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Week in Apple: new Macs, Magic Trackpad, and a possible Intel clash

How long have you been waiting for new iMacs or Mac Pros? What about the Cinema Display

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Garminfone Gets Another Price-Cut, Now Only $99.99

After reducing the original Garminfone pricing from $199.99 to $129.99 with a 2-year agreement, Magenta has decided to do yet another price cut on the handset, this time for existing customers only. Qualifying existing customers can now pick up a Garminfone for only $99.99 after rebate with a 2-year contract. Honestly, I think this is a more suitable price for the handset and will hopefully drive more sales.

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Digit-Eyes identfies everything for the blind without breaking the bank

Filed under: iPhone , App Review The Digit-Eyes Audio Scanner and Labeler (US$29.95) from Digital Miracles is a remarkable Assistive Technology (AT) app for the iPhone and iPod touch geared to the blind and visually impaired community. What it does is fairly straightforward once you get the big idea, but the implications of its uses are fairly mind-boggling.

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 31 July 2010

We’re always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here?

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Dell Zino HD 410 quietly leaks out with AMD quad-core potential

Once upon a time, Dell’s Zino HD promised desktop parts in a tiny box and didn’t quite deliver the goods, but it was still cute and powerful enough a mini-desktop to earn a spot on our holiday gift guide . This time round, it looks like Dell might actually fulfill that original pledge, as support documents leaked at the company’s website show the box sporting an AMD RS880M chipset capable of socketing Phenom II quad-core processors. While it only comes with onboard Radeon HD 4250 graphics by default, a Mobility Radeon 5450 GPU is listed as a potential option at launch, and the box can now hold up to 8GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory alongside 802.11n WiFi and Blu-ray drive options.

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Remote Control Mario Kart toys tested, don’t drift but do shoot (video)

To win at Mario Kart on a console you must master two things: drifting and power-ups. Half of that is replicated in these R/C Mario Kart toys, which we saw standing still last month but now can finally see in action motoring around what looks to be either Corporate Carpet Raceway or CDR Castle

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How To Stop Video Autoplay On Youtube

Have you ever opened multiple Youtube videos at the same time? The cacophony of sounds has probably been unbearable.

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Week in tech: jailbreaks ahoy, mechamice, comedians, and copyright

We’re approaching the dog days of summer in the northern hemisphere, and tech news shows no signs of cooling down.

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Lost’s Apple II up for auction

Filed under: Apple The Apple II computer from the hit show Lost was one of the things that unfortunately wasn’t really answered as the series ended. I get that the Dharma Initiative was trying to contain a leak from the source, probably because of Jughead going off, but what was up with that scene of Michael supposedly chatting with Walt? How did Walt get to a computer, and why didn’t a chat ever come up any other time

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WD TV Live Plus gets reviewed, lauded for value

After being announced in early June , Anandtech recently put the Western Digital WD TV Live Plus through its paces and discovered the Netflix enhancement works as advertised. Like many Netflix-enabled devices though, the TV Live comes up short compared to the full PC experience since access is limited to only the Instant Queue

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Install KDE on Fedora 13

If you downloaded and installed Fedora 13,  most likely you are using the GNOME desktop. If you’ve been reading me here on Ghacks long enough then you know I am fairly partial to the GNOME desktop. That doesn’t mean I feel KDE should get the cold shoulder.

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Google Ordered Lists Puts Numerals In Front Of Search Results

One aspect of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the monitoring of search results in popular search engines. This can be done manually with some preparation, or automatically with search engine tracking software. While SEO’s usually do not have a problem assessing the position of a site in a standard ten results search engine results page, they might have problems if the number of search results has been increased

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Week in gaming: gaming mice, the Move, StarCraft whining

This has been the week of StarCraft 2 , whether you’re playing the single-player game, trying to improve your online rank, or just complaining about the lack of LAN play in the forum, this is certainly the game that everyone is discussing. On the other hand we have a review of a gaming mouse that changes to fit your hand while sporting some very bold aesthetics, and we talk about Sony’s strategy of updating current games to support the Move while adding optional content in other big releases

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Weekly Wrap-up: Street Slide vs. Street View, StumbleUpon’s Success, Digital Natives Not So Savvy, And More…

Readers were in the mood for maps this week because they pushed this story about a must-see video of Microsoft’s Street Slide into the most-viewed category.

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