The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) in Europe, is attempting to create an emulator that aims to be able to open all electronic file formats since the 70’s. The project is called KEEP, Continue reading “Obsolete File Formats to be Saved by Emulation”.
CNET has a nice article on how Panasonic can save Plasma TVs. Vizio and Pioneer have already stopped selling Plasmas. CNET Editor David Carnoy feels it is important that consumers continue to have more than Continue reading “What is the Fate of Plasma TVs? Can Panasonic Save Plasma?”.
Nokia will be selling phones with a Skype client that is more integrated into the phone’s address book than the typical client that can be downloaded to your mobile phone. Skype has been averaging about Continue reading “Nokia to sell phones with Skype software”.
The Kentech Labs PS-Mi is a personal/portable audio device that utilizes Point Source Audio technology with Universal Dock for iPod. The PS-Mi has one satellite speaker enclosure section that contains 3 drivers (left, center, and right) in the top section, and a side-firing subwoofer.The Ps Mi also works on all iPod models including the iPod touch and any iPod featuring a click wheel, including all nano, mini, photo, video and classic models.
Some IC distributors are aggressively setting up their own R&D teams to provide reference designs to notebook designers and manufacturers targeting China’s white-box notebook market, which they believe will grow fast, according to industry sources. Continue reading “IC distributors developing white-box notebook reference designs”.
A Reuters Blogger has dug into the story that the social networking and micro-blogging site, Twitter, has received somewhere around US$35 million in venture capital from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. The exact amount Continue reading “Twitter To Get Bigger With Venture Capital Funding”.
In Taiwan’s effort to consolidate the DRAM industry, the Taiwanese government plans to invest around US$2 billion in a new DRAM company that will include DRAM chip maker Elpida! Micron will not be part of Continue reading “Japanese Elpida DRAM companies to receive Taiwanese Aid”.
The Conficker/Downadup worm has been spreading like wildfire across the internet with over an estimated 10million computers infected by it. It’s been deemed such a nuisance that a group of companies (Headed by Microsoft) are Continue reading “$250,000 Bounty for Creators of Conficker Worm”.
Today LR has taken the latest DDR3 HyperX Triple Channel kits from Kingston and run them through their paces. We have visited Kingston’s DDR3 Triple Channel kits before, but now we have kits with Kingston’s new HTX T1 heatspreaders for the optimal cooling. Read on to find out which kit, the 3GB or 6GB, offers the best performance, overclock, and bang for the buck!
AMD has done a great job at getting the word out that Phenom II is a new and improved processor, but how do these new Phenom II processors overclock with extreme cooling? AMD showed us that the temperature bug is long gone by running a AMD Phenom II X4 processor at 1.95V and at below -190C, but what can we pull off on our own test bench? This weekend we purchased ten pounds of dry ice along with some Acetone to see what we could get a pair of Phenom II socket AM3 processors could do on the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard.
Federal regulators tweaked recommendations for how websites should collect, save and share information about users, extending them to Internet service providers and mobile users. The Federal Trade Commission issued new guidance on Thursday for the Continue reading “U.S. tweaks Internet privacy guidelines”.
Midway Games has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A recent “change in ownership triggered accelerated repurchase obligations relating to two classes of Midway debt, which Midway anticipated it would be unable to satisfy,” the company Continue reading “Midway Games presses reset with bankruptcy”.
Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) are both planning to lay off around 10% of their workforce. Asustek its focusing cuts on its handset, optical drive and monitor departments, with an estimated 460 staff likely Continue reading “Asustek and MSI to cut workforce”.
Cooler Master Storm Sniper ATX Case Review @ Hardware Canucks and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! To put it plainly, the Sniper is not your average mid-tower Continue reading “February 13 News from Around the Web”.
We showed you a preview of the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe socket AM3 motherboard last month and today we will show you how it benchmarks against a socket AM2+ motherboard. Read on to find out if DDR3 memory helps boost performance over a board running DDR2 memory and if 8GB of DDR3 memory is stable on the board. If that isn’t enough we also overclock the CPU over 1.2GHz!
