ABT News 8/19/12
News
Steam to debut Big Picture beta soon, make couch potatoes of PC gamers
Engadget.com
The e-book lending wars: When authors attack
Drought in FarmVille: Zynga’s destructive downturn
Article: Watch The New ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Trailer’ – Also, Zombies!
Path Has Hired A Key Apple Software Engineer With A Fascinating Academic Background
MadCatz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 keyboard is as gratuitous as they come
Hunger Games Trilogy Beats Harry Potter Series To Become All-Time Bestselling Book Series
OnLive’s alternative to bankruptcy: just what is an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors?
ASUS Releases the GeForce GTX 660 Ti DirectCU II Lineup
Verizon faces final regulatory hurdle in cable deal
Judge rejects Facebook settlement of ‘Sponsored Stories’ lawsuit
As Facebook stock sinks, how secure is Zuckerberg’s job?
‘Star Wars’ Force Glove Lets You Move Objects Without Touching
YouTube Anti-Spam Move Might Spur More Spam
U.S. State Department pulls plug on big Kindle contract
ASRock Z77 OC Formula OC-Oriented Mainboard Released
Benchmarkreviews.com
Get Platinum power for about $100
Ni no Kuni gamescom trailer teases the evil Witch and her minion
So much for your Linux powered Retina system
Futronic FS28 FIPS201/PIV Bluetooth Fingerprint Scanner Debuts
3 million Surface tablets built in 2012? Sure, but that’s not the statistic that matters
EA Command & Conquer Free-to-Play Interactive Game Announced
Dell PowerVault MD3 Storage Array Announced
Canada’s Gov’t is Ready to Lay Out Rules if RIM is Forced to Sell Itself
LEGO: The Lord of the Rings will include 85 playable characters
Check out Fable: The Journey before release, demo coming in September
Kids Share – Web is Rich with Info to Help Tweens, But it isn’t Kidproof
Kingston Technology Expands HyperX Memory Family
Valve’s Dota 2 documentary follows four professional eSports players, even the trailer is sobering
Mobile
How To Find Your Stolen Mobile Device
RumorTT: Black Samsung Galaxy S III to launch in October with 64GB of storage
Samsung witnesses accuse Apple of overstating damages
engadget.com
XBMC for Android available in nightly builds for that risky media fix
We can’t protect you from fake SMS messages, just use iMessage
Google experimenting with Nexus-like AOSP support for Sony Xperia S
Apple vs. Samsung, How Will It Go? Use This Infographic (Or Rock-Paper-Scissors)
SwipeType: A Shortcut-Powered Notes App, No Jailbreak Required
Here’s Some Really Good News For Android Fans
Businessinsider.com
ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 gets Jelly Bean update, TF700 looks at watch impatiently
Spy Shots Of iPhone 5 Parts Show Some Big Changes Are Coming
Photos emerge of alleged new iPhone and iPad Mini dock connectors
Video + Tablets: The Mobile Catalyst for E-Commerce (Watch out Amazon!)
The Empire Strike Back! Google’s Motorola Files Patent Suit To Block Apple’s U.S. Imports
iPad Mini, iTV Now In Production, Analyst Reports
CM10 nightly builds now rolling out to select devices
Reviews
ASUS GeForce GTX 660Ti DirectCU-II TOP (Benchmarkreviews.com)
Benchmarkreviews
The EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked edition arrives (ABT)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB Kepler Graphics Card Review (PcPerspective)
EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked 2Gb (Lanoc.org)
Cooler Master HAF XM Mid-Tower Enclosure Review
MSI GTX 670 Power Edition: When Reference is Not Reference
Out of the Casino and Lepa through the Vortex to … get to tha Choppa!
Xigmatek Gigas uATX Computer Enclosure
MSI GTX 660-Ti Power Edition Video Card
HIS 7970 X Turbo 3GB IceQ X2 Graphics Card
Razer BlackShark Gaming Headset
Other
Data Loss Prevention Is Better — And Cheaper — Than The Cure
Alt-week 8.18.12: Graphene sponges, zero-g athletics and tweets in space
A Dispatch From The Year 2017: Farewell, Smartphones, R.I.P
Use Chrome? Meet ‘Currently,’ an extension that turns your new tabs into weather-displaying clocks
How To Break into Your Own House
Digital Bracelet Detects If Medical Staff Need to Wash Their Hands
The Army Has Issued Anti-Suicide Nasal Spray To Keep Troops From Taking The ‘Easy Out’
Podcast #214 – 2 GTX 670 Cards, AMD’s HD 7950 with Boost, Microsoft Surface rumors and more!
Telegraph.co.uk
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