Oh great, even more reasons for law suits. And I love the name for it… “Wiiitis” A doctor in Spain diagnosed a new malady caused by a Nintendo Wii videogame. Dr. Julio Bonis of Barcelonas Continue reading “Medical Journal Recognizes Wii-Related Injury”. …more
By jason •
Jun. 7, 2007 at 9:17am
You may notice that the entire mobo is dwarfed by a dollar bill, it is actually marginally smaller than my business card. Interestingly, the big chip in the center is not the CPU, that is Continue reading “Via mobo is smaller than a business card”. …more
By dicecca112 •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 9:22pm
When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a Continue reading “If it’s not tennis elbow, it may be ‘Wiiitis’”. …more
By dicecca112 •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 5:06pm
A number of highly critical security flaws have been found in the latest version of Yahoo Messenger, which could allow attackers to gain remote access to users systems, according to a security advisory issued by Continue reading “Yahoo IM hit with critical security flaws”. …more
By dicecca112 •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 5:03pm
While we thought this Computex is the most uninteresting year for graphics cards where there are no very interesting stuffs being showcased but luckily Lasso save the day. Lasso is a codename for AMD external Continue reading “AMD Lasso, External 2900XT Crossfire Pictured”. …more
By dicecca112 •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 5:02pm
Canada has started to offer customers to pre-order yet-to-be-announced ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card with 1GB of memory. Even though the product is not officially launched, its earlier availability may mean that it Continue reading “Online Store Pre-Sells Unannounced ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB Graphics Card”. …more
By dicecca112 •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 5:00pm
Asustek Computer, the worlds largest maker of computer mainboards, and Intel Corp., the No. 1 producer of x86 microprocessors, have teamed up to create notebooks that are aimed at third world countries and cost from Continue reading “Asus, Intel Announce Notebooks for Developing Countries”. …more
By dicecca112 •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 4:59pm
Low power chips always make the enthusiast drool all over himself! It will be interesting to see where these chips go! AMD today said that it has finalized the DTX motherboard specification for compact PC Continue reading “AMD introduces low-power Athlon X2 processors, DTX spec”. …more
By jason •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 7:23am
Like we did not already know this? My kids figure things out 10x faster than their mother! Research firm NPD found that the average age of children using electronic gadgets lowered to 6.7 years of Continue reading “Report: Children Tech Savvy at Younger Ages”. …more
By jason •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 7:17am
Need a little more space for all those, eh hmm… legally downloaded files? Western Digital has the answer for you in their 750GB drive! Western Digital said that is now shipping in volume the 750 Continue reading “WD Now Shipping 750 GB Caviar Desktop Hard Drives”. …more
By jason •
Jun. 6, 2007 at 7:14am
CoolIT Systems announces the first product in the new Reference Series liquid cooling systems to quietly and effectively cool a Crossfire configuration of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.s new high performance graphic card, the ATI Radeon Continue reading “CoolIT Systems Annunces ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Liquid Cooler”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 5, 2007 at 2:51pm
More holes in your browser. Better go patch those boxes… oh wait, there is no patch yet! Security researcher Michal Zalewski has published four new vulnerabilities to the Full Disclosure mailing list for Microsoft Internet Continue reading “New vulnerabilities hit Firefox and Internet Explorer”. …more
By jason •
Jun. 5, 2007 at 9:55am
Great news for all you Apple/Mac lovers out there. The long awaited update has arrived, and with DX10 graphics to boot. Now only if I had waited a couple more months! The company announced that Continue reading “Apple Updates The MacBook Pro”. …more
By jason •
Jun. 5, 2007 at 9:52am
Elpida is citing troubles moving to 70nm process, increased demand, increased sales, increased average PC memory capacity and more to predict a strong DRAM shortage later this year. The COO also mentioned the increase DRAM Continue reading “Elpida COO predicts DRAM shortage in 2H 2007”. …more
By jw •
Jun. 5, 2007 at 8:21am
Further advancing the availability of energy-efficient platforms, at Computex today AMD announced the finalization of the DTX specification, an open standard initiated by AMD to enable the development of small form factor PCs. AMD also Continue reading “AMD Announces DTX and New Energy-Efficient Processors”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 5, 2007 at 4:42am