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• Second Hand Smoke: PC Magazine's Sad Decline
  Monday 7 August 2006 – 05:40
  PC Magazine is one of those great publications that made millions of people comfortable with computers. The magazine introduced people to what once was a geeky topic for a few and eventually became a mass market phenomenon in a short period of time.
• Second Hand Smoke: The Demise of Objective Benchmarking
  Friday 28 July 2006 – 01:27
  The most interesting fallout from the recent AMD/ATI acquisition is going to be the impact it has on reviewers. Although I doubt that there will be any immediate impact on traditional benchmarking scenarios, I don't doubt that objective comparisons through performance testing will cease to have much relevance to the greater population in the near future.
• Second Hand Smoke: Asus/Gigabyte Merger Squeezes Enthusiasm
  Tuesday 8 August 2006 – 08:45
  It sounds like a joint-venture, but in the highly incestuous world of Taiwanese business affairs it is more of a merger. Asus is going to supply mobos and graphics cards under the Gigabyte brand, and will more than likely spin-off its own branded products in this category, as well.
• Second Hand Smoke: Protecting The Twitch Generation
  Wednesday 26 October 2005 – 11:58
  Omid Rahmat, has added another post to this blog - covering what is at core of our daily job at TG Publishing - the company that houses publications such as Tom's Hardware Guide, Tom's Networking Guide, Mobility Guru and TG Daily.