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You may recall the case of Sebastien Boucher?  He was stopped in 2006 while crossing the U.S. – Canadian border and charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the border.  Unfortunately for the prosecutors, the data on the laptop is encrypted, and he now refuses to enter the necessary password to allow access to the files.  Additionally, a judge ruled late last year that he could not be compelled to reveal the password.Based on this ruling, and the recent policies enacted

I just got sent over some pictures of the Kingston booth at Quakecon 2008. It looks like Kingston was showing off their HyperX mobile and desktop memory to the gamers who traveled to Dallas, Texas for the gaming event that ends today. We have one more picture of the booth in the forums if you want to take a peak.

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. is the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products. Kingston designs, manufactures and distributes memory products for desktops, laptops, servers, printers, and Flash memory products for PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. Through its global network of subsidiaries and affiliates, Kingston has manufacturing facilities in California, Malaysia, Taiwan, China and sales representatives in the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Taiwan, China, and Latin America.

Since very few people on the visible side of the pornography industry are wearing any clothes, it seems like it would be a very casual business. But it’s about as organized and avaricious as any business on the Internet, and it’s getting angry. Many pornographers have banded together and formed the PAK Group, a sort of naked RIAA or MPAA, and they’re preparing an onslaught of litigation on anybody they can find that’s pirating their intellectual property and making a buck on it. …styled after the ever-so-popular

Just in case you have missed some of the reason additions to HotHardware.com, we wanted to draw your attention to a couple of new sections on the site that are sure to be of interest to many of you. You’ll notice on the home page, a couple of tabs have been added to main content area labeled Recent Blogs and Recent Videos. There are also couple of new buttons in the main navigation bar under the logo at the top of every page of the site. As their names imply, those tabs and buttons with take you to recent blog

The new NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT is touted as the perfect and best performing mainstream graphics board solution on the market today. The GeForce 9500 GT can be found for just $69.99, needs no external power connector and has a maximum board power rating of just 50 Watts. Very impressive for a board that supports PhysX techology, CUDA applications like F@H and can still run intense 3D games!

IBM Invests Nearly $400 Million on Cloud Computing Centers in U.S. and Japan TOKYO and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – 01 Aug 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a massive expansion of its cloud computing capabilities, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create two ultra-sophisticated delivery centers that will power the cloud-like computing model that the next era of computing will demand.Revolutionary Data Center in North Carolina IBM will spend $360 million to build its most sophisticated, state-of-the-art

Could the HTC Touch Diamond debut on the Sprint wireless network later this month?  Yes, according to an online article in The China Post online.  The article, dated August 2, 2008, ends by stating that the Touch Diamond, which is already available for purchase in Asia, will be sold “through Sprint Nextel Corp. in August.”  This availability timeframe isn’t stated as a prediction, but as an unremarkable fact, but it’s the first time we’ve seen indication that the Diamond would become available so soon in the U.S.

The Touch Diamond is similar in design to the upcoming Touch Pro, but lacks a sliding keyboard and has 4GB of internal flash memory, the first Windows Mobile handset to include such storage.  A GSM version of the Touch Diamond is available for purchase on eBay.

NVIDIA has responded to the DIGITIMES news post by sending out this statement directly to media sources through e-mail. The e-mail was hsort and to the point. It basically says that NVIDIA is staying in the chipset business and has no plans on leaving as they are gaining market share.

1. The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.

2. In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:

a. Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.

b. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.

c. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. In fact, a recent article on Toms Hardware recently came to the same conclusion: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/NVIDIA-790i-SLI,1977-29.html

3. We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms.

Digitimes is reporting that Nvidia has decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business, sources close to the situation at one of Taiwan's top motherboard makers have revealed. As the story is told, Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners to gauge support for it continuing to develop chipsets in the future. We don't agree with this one bit and have contacted NVIDIA to get a response this Friday afternoon.

The loss of its chipset business would have a significant impact on Nvidia's GPU business in the short-term. Reception to the nForce 200 chip (BR04) which will enable SLI technology on Intel X58 motherboards has been lukewarm at best, with many makers saying they will not bother adding the chip on their boards. This means Nvidia needs to find a way of licensing and enabling multi-GPU support on motherboards using Intel and/or AMD chipsets fast. Otherwise it will have to cede the top-end of the graphics card market to AMD, which now has the benefit of Crossfire.