“THE OVERSUPPLY that made LCD-TFT panel manufacturers sweat in 2004 and which is causing them to already perspire heavily this year is bestowing boons on consumers who decided to wait and see. That’s according to Continue reading “Bargains continue to beckon for LCD TVs”.
“WE WENT to have a chingwag with the folks at MSI yesterday, and saw one of its new 2005 catalogues lying around the place which we idly flipped through. We know that it’s customary for Continue reading “MSI razzles, dazzles with new product lineup”.
Today’s Must Read Review: The crew over at Bytesector puts Mushkin’s newest memory through its paces, make sure to check out the article. “Today, I will be taking a look at Mushkin?s PC2-4200 (DDR2-533) memoryoffering. Continue reading “Mid week review roundup”.
““Hi, sexy. Welcome to Intimate Encounters.” Not exactly the kind of message you expect to hear in the middle of doing your taxes, but that’s just what some TurboTax customers are getting as they try Continue reading “Taxpayers get unexpected return–sex chat”.
“Microsoft on Monday replaced Yahoo’s search technology with its own homespun software and will kick off a huge advertising campaign to supplant Google in consumers’ hearts. As expected, MSN, a unit of the software giant, Continue reading “Microsoft kicks off search effort”.
“Microsoft will share information about security problems with government agencies as part of its efforts to slow the spread of open source software. Under the Security Cooperation Program, Microsoft will advise participating government agencies on Continue reading “Microsoft to relay security woes to governments”.
“Microsoft and copy-protection company Macrovision have struck a deal that will add a new layer of anticopying defenses to video content being swapped between home devices. The two companies said that Microsoft had licensed Macrovision’s Continue reading “Microsoft, Macrovision align on copy protection”.
“TWO BITS FROM OCZ today, one old and one new. The new is its PC2-5400 DDR2 Enhanced Bandwidth Platinum line, and like the rest of the enhanced bandwith parts, it promises lower latency. With Via Continue reading “OCZ gets DDR2-667 out of its box”.
“ TAIWANESE CHIP FIRM Via said it has introduced a desktop app which keeps gamers up to date on patches, drivers, maps and other info they’d have to search for online. Grease Monkey scans the Continue reading “Via presses grease monkey into gaming service”.
“ EVEN THOUGH Intel hasn’t yet released its Pentium 4 6XX series, nor the Exscream Edition running at 3.73GHz, cheeky French web site X86 Secrets has reviewed them. We revealed last year that the 6XX Continue reading “Pentium 4 630 slower, more expensive claim”.
“AFTER YESTERDAY announcing that he was a little slow in getting Firefox 1.1 out, lead engineer Ben Goodger has released a new roadmap for version 2 of the open source browser. Goodger, the lead engineer Continue reading “Firefox 2’s roadmap released”.
Today VIA allows us to talk openly about their new chipsets and what the offer for consumers. The new chipsets are the PT 880 Pro, PT 894 and PT 894 Pro chipsets for the Pentium Continue reading “New VIA PT Series Chipsets Launched!”.
Patch is available, but some experts advise against installing it. “Russian security company Positive Technologies has released a patch to a security hole it said it discovered in Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2 last Continue reading “Security company pokes hole in WinXP SP2”.
“THE SEMICONDUCTOR Industry Association (SIA) reported that global chip sales amounted to $213 billion, fuelled by high demand. But George Scalise, who is head of the trade association, said that high gas prices could damage Continue reading “Chip sales hit by high gas prices”.
“ HP HAS been trying to launch an “entertainment center” platform since 2000. Someone call Carly and tell her it’s time to shoot the dog. Its first attempt launched in 2001 was a Linux-based device Continue reading “Why Tivo will thrash HP, Microsoft”.