Electronic Arts Inc. on Tuesday announced a new line of video games called “The Sims Stories” aimed at the laptop-toting youth market as it strives to deliver a bigger proportion of titles based on more Continue reading “Electronic Arts Announces New PC Game Series: ‘The Sims Stories’”.
Nvidia has placed urgent orders with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS series chips as demand for graphics cards supporting DirectX 10 is picking up, according to market sources, as Continue reading “Rumor: Nvidia places urgent orders with TSMC for GeForce 8 Series Card”.
With all the hype surrounding Apple’s new iPhone, the personal computer feels as musty as old wallpaper. But Intel, the world’s No.1 chipmaker, is hoping desktops and laptops still have some pizzazz. And when the Continue reading “Intel to Report Quarterly Earnings Today”.
Today Legit Reviews looks at the XFX 8800 GTX ‘XXX’ edition, which is an overclocked 8800 GTX that comes with clock frequencies of 630MHz on the GPU and 2.0GHz memory. The reference design provided by Nvidia runs on a 575 MHz GPU and 1.8 MHz memory clock. We compare the XFX 8800 GTX to 18 other PCIe video cards and see how it performs against our other test cards.
Gigabyte today launched the highly anticipated GIGABYTE GA-N680SLI-DQ6 high end gaming platform, featuring the advanced NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP chipset, support for the record-setting Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processors and delivering the Continue reading “GIGABYTE Launches Quad SLI-Ready GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboard”.
Swiftech today announced the release of the new Apogee GT water-block. While both water-blocks look exactly alike, the GT features an optimized Diamond Pin Matrix structure which the company claims will yield performance improvements ranging Continue reading “Swiftech introduces the Apogee GT water-block”.
January 15th News from Around the Web “These next generation movie formats bring six times the quality of that of regular DVD. How can this be achieved? It all comes down to the media used Continue reading “January 15th News from Around the Web”.
A Colorado private investigator on Friday pleaded guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges, the first conviction arising from the Hewlett-Packard boardroom leak scandal, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. Bryan Wagner pleaded Continue reading “First conviction in HP board’s leak scandal case”.
The next must-have computer accessory is here. The CoolIT USB Beverage Chiller is said to keep your beverage chilled thanks to a TEC cooler that is built inside. Just seconds after plugging the chiller into your computer’s USB port, the coldplate chills to 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the perfect temperature for keeping your beverage chilled. Legit Reviews puts the CoolIT USB Beverage Chiller to the test and makes sure it works.
NASA is forming an internal investigative board to look into why the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter stopped responding to commands in November, the agency announced Wednesday. The announcement came a day after one of the Continue reading “NASA – Bad software may have doomed Mars orbiter”.
China purchased a record amount of technology in 2006, with Europe accounting for almost 40 percent of total imports, China’s Ministry of Commerce said Thursday. The U.S. trailed both Europe and Japan as an exporter Continue reading “U.S. trails in tech exports to China”.
Canon said on Friday it will buy out Toshiba in their flat-panel display venture to resolve a patent dispute with Nano-Proprietary in the United States. Canon will now own the unit that was set up Continue reading “Canon to buy Toshiba’s stake in display unit”.
Gigabyte Technology will see its first-quarter motherboard shipments rebound 30% from a poor fourth quarter, as demand will pick up, according to a Goldman Sachs’ report, as cited by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) Continue reading “Gigabyte motherboard shipments to rebound 30% in 1Q”.
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices sank early Friday after warning of soft fourth-quarter sales. The company said late Thursday that fourth-quarter sales, excluding ATI-related segments, would rise 3% sequentially to roughly $1.37 billion. Analysts were looking Continue reading “AMD Shares Drop on Warning”.
The well known file sharing site “The Pirate Bay” have announced that thy plan on buying their own country! They hope to raise 100 Million through donations to buy a small ex gun platform called Continue reading “Pirate Bay launches bid to buy country”.
