When I was in college, everyone I knew downloaded music and movies off of the internet and shared them on the network. Even when new laws about these downloads came out, and the school started Continue reading “Monday News Around the Web”.
Asustek hopes to lower production costs and raise its competitiveness worldwide by outsourcing 20% of their branded motherboards to Flextronics International. Usually when companies out source a product quality becomes an issue, but with Asustek Continue reading “Asustek to outsource motherboard production to Flextronics”.
Can a sophisticated audio processing architecture without native Windows Vista support withstand the integrated audio juggernaut? Extreme Tech takes a look at the new sound cards from Creative and has some interesting thoughts on the Continue reading “Creative Labs X-Fi: The Last PCI Sound Card?”.
Cell phone viruses? Really? To be honest, that thought never crossed my mind until today when I saw BonaFideReviews address this issue in their article, “The Future of Cell Phone Viruses.” Look for it, and Continue reading “Friday News Around the Web”.
Imagine watching a football match on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goalscorer on the Continue reading “The Goal: Make 3D television by 2020”.
Nvidia is flying high these days and I am sure that they are loving the chipset shortage over at Intel. It seems that people are buying motherboards without graphics and adding in an Nvidia or Continue reading “Intel’s IGP Chipset Shortage Helps Nvidia Sales Numbers”.
The Well was one of the first bulletin boardsrun on the internet and started before pretty much anyone knew what the internet was. There was speculation that remaining members of The Well would set up Continue reading “The Well: First Major Online Community Up For Sale”.
Microsoft typically updates the free utility once a month?on Patch Tuesday?but with at least a dozen “Zotob” variants squirming through unpatched Windows 2000 systems, the company added detections for 10 mutants to help with the Continue reading “Microsoft Ships Zotob Worm Removal Tool”.
Worldwide IT spending is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 5.9% through 2009, a market research firm says. It is not known if they figured in the price of gas and Continue reading “Steady Growth rate of 5.9% is Expected In Global IT Spending”.
A virus war has broken out between the proud parents of the most recent Windows 2000 viruses that exploit a recently discovered loophole in the Plug-and-Play component. Some of the variants seek out and delete Continue reading “Windows 2000 bug starts virus war”.
Intel has been working hard on the LPIA project in the hopes of creating a mobile processor that consumes less than 5 watts of power. The research is being conducted by Intel’s Systems Technology Labs Continue reading “Intel Admits to a Low Power Intel Architecture (LPIA) Project”.
Leading effectively tested (eTT) DRAM supplier Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has dropped its eTT DDR prices US$0.10, according to sources at memory module houses. The 256Mbit eTT DDR spot prices have gone from $2.60 to Continue reading “Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. (PSC) is dropping eTT DDR prices”.
Thats great….lets screw consumers, ask them to pay for a stopgap product, just so we can beat AMD to the punch. This article really irritates me, and will definitely make me think twice before ever Continue reading “First Dual-Core Pentium 4 a Rush Job, Intel Says”.
VIA Technologies today announced the VIA VN800, the company?s first chipset solution for the VIA C7-M processor that supports DDR2 memory and hardware-based MPEG-2 decoding for DVD playback. I was able to meet with VIA Continue reading “VIA launches VN800 mobile integrated (IGP) chipset”.
Most people wouldn’t stand in line and pay $50 for a four year old notebook, but fans of Apple’s iBook do. Nearly 5,500 people turned out to buy one of the 1,000 notebooks a local Continue reading “$50 Apple iBook laptop sale sets off violent stampede”.
