We’re only a week away from their grand unveiling, but already we’ve got word of the specs for NVIDIA’s high end GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards . Priced at $499, the 480 will offer 480 shader processors, a 384-bit interface to 1.5GB of onboard GDDR5 RAM, and clock speeds of 700MHz, 1,401MHz, and 1,848MHz for the core, shaders and memory, respectively. The 470 makes do with 446 SPs, slower clocks, and a 320-bit memory interface, but it’s also priced at a more sensible $349.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and 470 specs and pricing emerge
When you pull a gas mask over your head in Metro 2033 , you adjust a dial on your watch to let you know how many minutes of breathable air you have left before you asphyxiate. Your flashlight has a charger that you have to manually pump to make sure you can see where you’re going.

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Metro 2033 review on PC: inching towards sunlight
Amazon’s Kindle software for Mac has finally arrived, a hair over six months after its Windows counterpart.

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Hands-on: Kindle books finally come to the Mac desktop
The PlayStation Move was just announced, but Sony is wasting no time before going on the attack. The newest—not to mention first—advertisement for the peripheral makes fun of the Nintendo Wii, attacks Microsoft’s Project Natal, and basically buries the entire message under a thick layer of smarm with a side order of smug
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PlayStation Move ad mocks Natal, attacks Nintendo Wii
Google is continuing its quiet war on Microsoft Office by making it easier for users to switch from Exchange to Google Apps for e-mail.
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Google intros Exchange migration tool for small businesses
Should the Google/China spat over censorship start a trade war that puts an end to Chinese-made computers? One international trade lawyer argues that it should: “If China shuts out our Internet companies, we need to shut out their hardware that the Internet runs on.” The sentiment comes from Gil Kaplan, a former Commerce Department official who is now in private practice

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After Google dustup, should the US ban Chinese computers?
Filed under: Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , Other Events , Apple , Developer Last month at Macworld, Telltale Games announced that they’ll be releasing their games day-and-date on both Mac and PC at the same time.

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GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
Filed under: Surveys and Polls , iPhone If a recent survey from market research firm Crowd Science is anything to go by, there’s dark times ahead for RIM , maker of the Blackberry smartphone. 40% of survey respondents said they plan to ditch their Blackberry handset for an iPhone when it’s time to upgrade

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Blackberry users ready to abandon ship for the iPhone, Nexus One