At the conclusion of their NVISION 08 visual computing conference, NVIDIA pulled together a few members of the press the reveal some very interesting news regarding SLI and Intel’s upcoming X58 chipset platform for future Nehalem microarchitecture-based processors, aka Core i7.Up until this announcement, NVIDIA had only planned to support SLI on the X58 with motherboards that also featured their NF200 chip, much as they did with Skulltrail. But as of now, NVIDIA will be supporting SLI natively on the X58 chipset

HotHardware attended NVIDIA’s very first NVISION 08 visual computing conference that took place August 25 – 27 in San Jose, California and captured some of the sights and sounds from the event. This video is a compilation of the featured speakers and artists that participated in the keynotes. Featured speakers include Jen-Hsun Huang (NVIDIA CEO), Peter Stevenson (3D Modeling), Taehoon Kim (Nurien CEO), Marv White (CTO SportVision), Jeff Han (Multi-Touch Demo), Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Eileen Collins

It’s an obvious statement that mobile messaging is growing, but some recently released numbers from VeriSign indicate just how fast mobile messaging is growing and how it is generating staggering revenue for mobile service providers. You might be familiar with VeriSign as the company behind secure networking solutions for SSL, identity authentication, and domain name services. Perhaps less known is that VeriSign also manages mobile messaging networks that serve “more than 600 carriers and reach over 2.4 billion

RAZER™ ANNOUNCES THE LIMITED EDITION PAX 08 RAZER DEATHADDER™Only 400 units of the customized multi-award winning Razer DeathAdder will be available for sale at PAX 08  Seattle, WA – August 28, 2008 – Razer™, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-end precision gaming peripherals, has announced that an exclusive and limited edition Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) 08 Razer DeathAdder will be available for purchase at PAX, set to begin on August 29, 2008. The PAX 08 Razer DeathAdder’s sleek new

Benchmark Reviews has an article posted on the Belkin N1 Vision Wireless N Router F5D8232-4. Find this and other reviews from around the web by visiting our forums!

If you're in the market for a new router, you will find you have a lot of choices to pick from. There are literally dozens of manufacturers producing and selling them, and they nearly all look alike too. So when shopping for a new router how does one company go about differentiating their router from a sea of others that all look alike? Well, first of all, they stand it upright, give it a sleek black glossy finish and add an LCD screen on it. Had I not seen the word “router” next to the picture of the Belkin N1 Vision (and maybe the antennas) when I first saw it, I probably would not have known what it was. It was certainly intriguing as it instantly captured my attention. Here at Benchmark Reviews we have on hand the Belkin N1 Vision wireless N router for review.

If you had read a Bloomberg story that floated across the wires at 4:27 PM yesterday, your heart might have stopped, and you might have rushed to sell your Apple stock.  But no, it was all a mistake, and quickly retracted.  The retraction was rather terse, though, saying only “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m. New York time today. The item was never meant for publication and has been retracted.”The lengthy file contains not only a

INTERNET EXPLORER 8 Beta 2, The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.

Companies that sell advertisements online – including Microsoft – can electronically gather tidbits about Web surfers' habits, and then use that information to help decide what kinds of ads to show. However, in the newest “beta” test version of Microsoft's forthcoming Internet Explorer 8, which was made available Wednesday, a mode called InPrivateBrowsing lets users surf without having a list of sites they visit get stored on their computers.

The program also covers other footprints, including temporary Internet files and cookies, the small data files that Web sites put on visitors' computers to track their activities.

Both Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's current browser, and Mozilla's recently released Firefox 3, already allow users to block cookies. The top two browsers also let users delete private information such as temporary files and browsing history after the fact. But they can't turn off that collection entirely.

The beta also introduces an additional InPrivateBlocking mode, which can block third-party content from appearing on Web sites. For example, a news site might carry stock quotes from one company and weather information from another. Companies that provide such content may also be collecting and sharing information about what people do online. But users who turn on InPrivateBlocking won't see that content or be exposed to such data collection without their consent.

InPrivateBlocking can also keep some types of ads from appearing – including those served up by Microsoft's own advertising platform, whose success is considered critical to the software maker's future. /

NVIDIA has always had the strong arm when it comes to graphics performance and a sign of this dominance was them forcing companies to only enable SLI on their chipsets. For years if you have wanted to run SLI you had to run on an NVIDIA platform, but seems to be coming to an end very soon. NVIDIA just announced a new licensing program to enable SLI on Intel X58 Express chipsets!

With the release of EA/Maxis’s Spore (one of the most hotly anticipated games of 2008) only a mere 10 days away, more details about the $49.99 game have come out as well as another sneak-peek video of what gamers can expect come September 7. In the meantime, players have been busy creating creatures for Spore, with the $9.99 Spore Creature Creator, which has been available since June 17. And the many varied user-created creators have been quickly populating the Sporepedia for users to admire and even download

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