“ AS HAPPENS in this business, companies are preparing first batch of sample cards for the press, the ones that are suppose to boost its card sales later. Consumers get the next batch. In this Continue reading “ATI’s X850, X800XL available in weeks”.
“ Give me a choice between chopping onions and installing Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, and I’ll be in the kitchen in a nanosecond–either way I’ll be crying. I finally managed the upgrade, but Continue reading “The XP Service Pack 2 Survival Guide”.
“If there were any lingering doubts that we are in the post-PC era, several big stories this year should have cleared them up. The sale of IBM’s PC business to China’s Lenovo Group and the Continue reading “The Top Tech Stories of 2004”.
“ Asustek Computer’s goal of shipping 10-12 million graphics cards in 2005, up about 33-62% from the 7.4-7.5 million units estimated for this year, will mean more competition for OEM and clone orders among Taiwan Continue reading “ASUS targets 10-12 million videocards for 2005”.
“ Days after Google acted to thwart the Santy worm, security firms warned that variants have begun to spread using both Google and other search engines. The Santy problem originally flared up a week ago Continue reading “Google worm targets AOL, Yahoo”.
“ IF YOU received a TiVo (www.tivo.com) DVR or a Linksys (www.linksys.com) router for Christmas, the open source people should sing praises to your name. Linux is appearing in households around the world in millions Continue reading “Linux found under the tree”.
“ THERE IS A MINOR, and I mean mino,r bug in Alviso that won’t be fixed before launch. The DDR subsystem doesn’t like to power down the way it should, so if you look at Continue reading “Intel rushes to fix Alviso bug”.
“ 2005 IN LAPTOPS WILL NOT be the steamroller of a year many predict for Intel, but it will be close. Intel has far and away the best laptop chip out there, the Pentium M. Continue reading “Intel to keep lead on notebook technology”.
“ SOURCES CLAIMED it’s not only Nvidia and ATI experimenting with the “turbo cache” idea. XGI is also experimenting with products using this technology, to improve the performance of lower end graphics cards. The graphics Continue reading “XGI makes dash for graphics cache”.
” One of the major events of the upcoming year 2005 in the CPU market should inevitably be the release of the dual-core processor architecture. To cut the long story short, the idea behind dual-core Continue reading “One Core Is Good. Two Cores Are Even Better!”.
“ WE MANAGED to talk to Abit and we have finally gotten its answer on earlier financial allegations. We read that, financially, the company is not doing so well. Abit denied all of those claims Continue reading “Abit is “financially fine””.
Malicious programs that can delete address books. Junk messages that flood a cell phone’s inbox. Stealthy code that uses Bluetooth wireless technology to sneak onto handsets. Scared yet? Security experts say plagues like these will Continue reading “Some Fear Virus Threat to Cell Phones”.
Consumers thinking about buying a new computer in 2005 might be better off putting off their purchase until 2006. With few major changes in PC hardware or software due over the next year, the PC Continue reading “What Will the PC of 2005 Look Like?”.
Experts agree: 2004 was the best of times and the worst of times for those concerned about security. It was a year with high-profile arrests of virus authors, and the explosion of online crimes, from Continue reading “2004: Good and Bad for Security”.
“ WHILE SOME of you are still “resting” from Yule parties, some others are still expecting their SLI boards. Our Japanese birdie told us that you can get some MSI boards and that Asus SLI Continue reading “Nforce 4 SLI has disappeared again”.