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Sony Responds to
Sony has responded to an earlier report that claimed the company was on the “brink of upheaval.” A spokesman for the company said that Sony has no plans to announce any additional restructuring beyond the 16,000 layoffs announced in December. Thanks to Shacknews for the report and headline of the day.
The statement comes in response to a recent report by Times Online, which said Sony was "on brink of upheaval" and that employees were preparing for a "a series of 'sacred cow-slaying' measures" that would see major divisions and factories closed.
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Blu-ray Dominates Christmas Sales in UK
Blu-ray sales in the UK are up 400% this holiday season compared to the previous year. Now, before you go giving all the credit to record sales of The Dark Knight, it seems people are also buying non-special effects driven movies on Blu-ray too. Sales figures for the U.S have not been released yet.
Across the whole holiday season 3.7 million Blu-ray units were sold in Britain, and that doesn't include sales of Sony's Playstation 3 console, which also plays Blu-ray movies. A large contributing factor to the rise in Blu-ray sales was the release of the movies The Dark Knight and Mama Mia on Blu-ray. The Dark Knight sold almost 300,000 copies in its first few weeks, becoming the fastest selling Blu-ray title to date. Mama Mia was no slouch either selling 5.1 million copies by year-end.
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[H]ard|OCP [H]otDeals
Welcome to the Monday edition of [H]ard|OCP [H]otDeals! Let’s see what we have in the way of [H]otDeals for you guys today, shall we? There is a pair of GTX 280 deals going today, one for the BFG GeForce GTX 280 and one for the EVGA GeForce GTX 280 both have a price tag of only $294.99 with discounts and rebates. Those of you on a budget will go for one of these XFX GeForce 9800GT that are $109.99 with free shipping. Speaking of budget, you can still get one of those quad-core AMD Phenom 2.3GHz processors for $104.99 with free shipping but you better hurry, deal ends today. Those of you looking for storage space should check out this Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA HDD, is still just $129.99. Oh yeah, show your [H] pride and pick up a RatPadz GS or RatPadz XT while they are still $5 off with free shipping (in North America).
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Ask an Intel SSD Engineer
We are going to be doing an interview type discussion that will be run by our readers. Mr. Schmidt, an engineer with Intel's Solid State Drive division has graciously offered to answer any questions we might all have about Intel's SSDs.
So please post your Intel SSD questions here...in the form of a question. Those questions lacking proper spelling and grammar will be fed to the lions.
Here is our original video review coverage from September for those of you wondering just what an Intel SSD is.
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MSI Announces CES 2009 Product Lineup
MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is excited to announce it CES 2009 Product Lineup. MSI will be displaying its newest additions to the Wind Netbook U-Series, the MSI “NetOn” All-in-One line, new G-Series Gaming Notebooks, and the latest versions of E-Series Entertainment Notebooks. Read the full press release here.
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EVGA X58 3X SLI Motherboard
I feel it is my duty to warn you ahead of time that reading our evaluation of the EVGA X58 3X SLI motherboard will give you an uncontrollable urge to take the 3x SLI plunge. This has been a public service announcement from the staff at [H]ard|OCP. Consider yourself warned.
EVGA has built a very good X58 motherboard that most computer hardware enthusiasts are going to be very happy with. Performance and stability are solid. It should easily get any Intel Core i7 920 to 3.6GHz or better which is going to push your gaming into being GPU limited very quickly. EVGA continues to bring its customers the best support and service in the motherboard business which to some is worth more than the cost of the board.
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ACE Hardware Discriminates Against Adapters
Do not ask for double ended male adapters at ACE Hardware, they are a fire hazard, illegal, dangerous and immoral. Yes, I said “immoral.” Wait a second, maybe ACE Hardware isn’t against same sex adapters, they probably meant “immortal.” Yeah, that’s it.
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Twitter Phishing Scam Snares CNN Anchor
I know I shouldn’t laugh, I really shouldn’t…but I can’t help myself.
In a "tweet" that has since been deleted, Sanchez's account displayed the message "i am high on crack right now might not be coming into work today"--and we're pretty sure that did not come from Sanchez himself. He has now posted a response tweet explaining that his account was hacked.
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