Xbox Live 12 Month Gold Card Only $34.99 On Sale On Sears

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Sears has a great early Black Friday deal for Xbox 360 gamers available online. The Xbox 360 Live 12 Month Gold Card is selling for only $34.99 instead of $49.99.
The discount is seen at final checkout. The Xbox live Sears offer ends November 21st.

On Amazon the 12-month Xbox 360 Live Subscription Gold Card is on sale to but it is still priced higher at $39.96.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Maingear SHIFT Supercomputer uses Radeon HD 5970 Video Card

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Maingear launched its Shift personal supercomputer a while back. The company has announced that with the official introduction today of the ATI HD 5970 video card it is adding the world's most powerful graphics card to the Shift.

Buyers wanting the best machine they can get can order a pair of the new 5970 video cards inside the Shift giving the machine a whopping 10 teraflops of processing power. I can only imagine the cost of this rig with the two cards. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:50:44 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Hot Early Amazon Black Friday Wii Bundle Deal With $50 Gift Card

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Amazon beats the latest Walmart Holiday Value Bundle deal on a Wii and the Wii Fit Board.
When you buy the Nintendo Wii console along with a Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board you get a free $50 Gift Card. Currently the Wii sells for 199.99 and the Wii Fit Plus with Balance board sells for only $89.99. The overall cost is $289.98. If you subtract the $50 gift card value you get this Wii bundle for $239.98 on Amazon.
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Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:26:28 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Early Black Friday Walmart BlackBerry $100 Gift Card Deal Is Much Better Online

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Walmart is now offering their new early Black Friday deal on BlackBerry phones not only in stores, but also online. So you do not have to step out into the cold or miss an Amazon Gold Box deal and still can get a $100 Walmart Gift Card with the purchase of a new BlackBerry smartphone with 2-year contract.
The important thing here is that the online BlackBerry deals are different and actually much better than in stores. If you really want to make a deal on a BlackBerry buy it on Walmart online.
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Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Deal Of The Day Apple iPod Touch With $20 Gift Card

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Best Buy published their new Deal Of The Day for Saturday, November 14th on their online shop. Today's Deal is featuring the new Apple iPod touch 8GB bundled with a $20 Gift Card.
The only little problem is that Best Buy lists as Reg. Price $219.99 for the 8GB iPod touch. Best Buy itself lists the iPod touch 8GB on another product page on sale for $189.99 and Reg. Price of $199.99.

So something a bit wrong, but you save still $10 with this deal.
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Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:01:04 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Early Walmart Black Friday Features BlackBerry Phones With $100 Gift Card

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Walmart just announced their next round of early Black Friday deals starting this Saturday November 14th.
This time you can get a free $100 Walmart Gift card when you buy any BlackBerry phone Walmart offers with a new two-year contract.
Walmart sells BlackBerry phones from all four major carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:37:54 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blockbuster To Rent Movies Via SD Card

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An old, lumbering giant takes a shaking step forward into the future today. Blockbuster, king of the VHS and DVD era, is trying to move into the digital age by creating a series of kiosks capable of loading movies onto SD cards. Customers will be able to 'rent' DRM-loaded movies with a set expiration date, claims Fast Company. These kiosks will be marketed for smartphone and laptop viewing, so expect to see a lot of them in airports soon.

So, will this latest move help Blockbuster to compete with the growing success of streaming movies (like Netflix's Watch Instantly option) and services like iTunes? I doubt it. Blockbuster will be charging a lot, in the neighbourhood of $4 a film. That doesn't come close to being a competitive price, yet another sign of Blockbuster's inability to get with the times. They're going to have to get used to lowered profit margins; the business has changed.

Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:49:41 CST | by Robert Evans

Ralink Offers 802.11n/Bluetooth 3.0 combo Card for Mobile Computers

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Ralink Technology has announced the availability of its RT3090BC4 802.11n and Bluetooth 3.0 combination card for mobile PCs. The single solution allows the user of mobile computers to get 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity on a single compact card for netbooks, notebooks, and other consumer PC platforms.

The company says that in addition to allowing both WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity using the latest specifications for each on mobile computers, the combination card is also cheaper for OEMs to use and saves on building costs. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Asus UL50AG-A2 And UL80Vt-A1 Notebooks With $100 Gift Card Offered On Amazon

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Gift card bundle deals seem to be a hot trend again this holiday shopping season. Walmart is offering the Xbox 360 Arcade with a $100 gift card tomorrow and Amazon just launched a gift card deal on three Asus notebooks from their UL series.
You get a free $100 Amazon gift card with the purchase of the Asus UL50AG-A2 or Asus UL80Vt-A1. If you buy the Asus UL20A-A1 you get a $75 Amazon gift card.
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Posted on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Pics of ATI 5970 Dual-GPU video card leak

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Some information and pics of an upcoming video card from ATI have been leaked, it's called the 5970 with dual GPUs on one card. The card in the leaked images has an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector to give it enough juice.

The card is a whopping 13.5-inches long, which means that many cases won’t be able to fit the card inside thanks to its length. Apparently, AMD already forced the site to remove the performance specs listed. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

$20 eGift Card With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Available On Walmart

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launches on November 10th. Walmart has a great deal offering a $20 eGift card with the purchase of Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2.
Which basically means you pay only $39.82 instead of the $59.82 price for the highly anticipated game for the Xbox 360 and the Sony PS3.
The eGift card can only be used online. More details about the Walmart Bonus eGift card Video game deals are available on Walmart. Read more

Posted on Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series Graphics Cards Get Official

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We already know all there is to know about AMDs new Radeon 5700 series video cards including the 5770 and the 5750. The details and even pictures were leaked last week ahead of the official announcement today.

AMD has gone official with the cards that both fully support DirectX 11 and Eyefinity multi-monitors from ATI. The video cards deliver over one teraflops of computing power. The GPUs are built on 40nm technology and have up to 800 stream processors. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung Premium Plus Memory Cards Launched

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Samsung today announced that this month in Taiwan, it is introducing premium Samsung memory cards for sale. In previous years, Samsung manufactured 'white-label' digital memory cards for a variety of leading electronics companies and memory card companies.

Samsung's new premium Plus memory cards, which comply with the Secure Digital class 6 ratings for performance, are available in SD, microSD and Compact Flash (CF) formats with densities of 4-gigabytes (GBs) and 8GBs, with a 16GB density for an SD Plus card. Read more

Posted on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:47:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SanDisk Ships First 4BPC Memory Cards

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Not every step forward for technology is announced with fanfare, huge product roll-outs, and a gigantic media blitz. Some advances are very quiet, like the shipment of the very first line of memory cards based around the new X4 technology. SanDisk (via Electronista) just started sending out their new line of standard SDHC and Memory Stick Pro Duo cards, which use 4 BPC storage as opposed to the standard 2 or 3 BPC.

BPC stands for "bits per cell". The increase to 4 BPC should allow for smaller 8 GB and 16 GB chips, and will scale to allow for 64 GB and larger capacity SDHC chips in the near future. The coming of 4 BPC technology will also have reprecussions in the world of solid state drives, as SSDs also use multi-level cell storage.

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:54:08 CDT | by Robert Evans

XFX Unveils GeForce GT 220 and 210 Video Cards

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XFX has launched a couple new low-end NVIDIA video cards called the GeForce 210 and GT 220. The lower-end GeForce 210 is a budget offering that is clocked at 589 MHz on the core and has a 64-bit memory bus. The card has 512MB of DDR2 RAM that runs at 800 Mhz. Outputs include VGA, DVI-D, and HDMI.

The GT 220 is available in two versions. The GT-220X-ZNFC has a GPU clock of 625MHz and a memory bus that is 128-bit. The 1GB of RAM is clocked at 800MHz and the card has VGA, HDMI, and DVI-D outputs. Read more

Posted on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:33:40 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Dymo Unveils CardScan Mobile

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Dymo has unveiled a cool new app for Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones that is now available on the Windows marketplace for Mobile called Dymo CardScan Mobile. The app allows business users to scan a card into their contacts by simply taking a picture of it with their camera phone.

The app was offered alongside the launch of the new Marketplace for Mobile and promises to instantly transfer contact information from a business card to the correct fields in a contact list of a windows smartphone. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

SanDisk Unveils Line of Memory Cards for Gamers

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SanDisk has unveiled a line of memory cards that it is marketing towards gamers. The products are aimed at users planning to purchase a PSP go or already owning a PSP-2000, PSP-3000, or Nintendo DSi. The cards are really just plain memory cards with higher capacities with labels so gamers know they work with their portable game systems.

The new products include a 16GB M2 card for the PSP go selling for $142.99. SanDisk is also offering a 32GB Memory Stick Pro Duo and Pro-HG Duo memory card for the PSP-2000 and 3000 user. An 8GB SDHC card is also being offered for the Nintendo DSi system as well. Read more

Posted on Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Wii On Sale for $199.99 And Free $25 Gift Card Now On Amazon

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The announced Wii price-cut is effective today, Sunday 27th in the United States. You can buy now the Nintendo Wii console on Amazon for the new low price of $199.99.
Amazon throws in a $25 Gift Card with a Wii Purchase, making this even a more tempting offer. The free gift card with Wii purchase is only available for a limited time.
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Posted on Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:07:12 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

USB 3.0 ExpressCard From Fresco Logic

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USB 3.0 gets a lot of attention the Intel Developer conference IDF this week. You almost get the feeling USB 3.0 is finally here for the masses, but in reality it is just starting.
To benefit from upcoming USB 3.0 enabled gear you could upgrade your notebook with the USB 3.0 ExpressCard from Fresco Logic that The Register (via ExpressCard-Info) spotted at the IDF. Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:23:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/sec 8GB SDHC Card Review

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Today I am checking out the new SanDisk Extreme III SDHC card. The SDHC card can be had in 4GB to 32GB capacities and the unit I am testing is 8GB. The card promises write and read speeds of 30MB/sec.

The memory card offers lots of speed, but the downside is the cost of the memory card, which is far from cheap. SanDisk offers the card that I tested for $119.99. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:35:35 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

SanDisk CompactFlash Cards: Extreme Speed, Unholy Price

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Looking for a high-quality, high-capacity, ultra-fast SD card for your DSLR? If so, the SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash card is pretty much the king of the market. With a 90 MB/s write speed, these new cards won't slow your high-end camera down. Their models are sized in 16, 32, and 64 GB models.

The catch to these cool new cards is the price. For the 16 GB model, you're looking to pay $304 . If that seems a little expensive to you, don't even bother checking out the 32 GB ($507) and 64 GB models ($811), you might end up with an aneurysm. Yes, SanDisk's new cards are the top of the line. With prices that ridiculous, they have to be.

Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:03:15 CDT | by Robert Evans