19:43 03.01.2006
D-Link and Skype are joining forces in Internet calling. The two companies have announced their cooperative effort in developing the DPH-50U USB adapter which allows consumers to plug any regular home phone into your computer to make free VoIP phone calls using Skype. Here are just a few of the features you can expect from the...
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Microsoft's Xbox 360 is in short supply. Microsoft is working to alleviate the supply issues, but some B&M and online retailers won't even get another shipment of consoles in until February or March of 2006. Bottom line, if you see an Xbox 360 sitting on a store shelve, BUY...
ComputerWorld has conducted an interview with Seagate's CEO, Bill Watkins, in regards to yesterday's acquistion of Maxtor. Watkins believes that Maxtor brings quality engineers and its manufacturing capabilities to the mix. Let's just hope that their high hard drive failure rate (you may need...
Not to be outdone by ATI's 5.13 driver release, NVIDIA has a fresh new driver of its own available for download. Release Highlights: WHQL Certified Application compatibility fixes. For a full list of fixed and known issues please view the Release Notes. Mixed vendor support for NVIDIA SLI. TV-Out/HD-out support...
ATI plans on extending the availibility of CrossFire all the way down to its X1000 series of GPUs according to DigiTimes. In other ATI news, the company reports that NVIDIA's acquisition of ULi will not affect their business: In response to rival Nvidia recently acquiring Taiwan-based ULi Electronics, the maker of southbridges that...
ATI has released the final version of their Catalyst 5.13 drivers: Catalyst® 5.13 software suite introduces H.264 hardware acceleration for the ATI Radeon® X1800, X1600, and X1300 product line. H.264 is advanced video coding that provides significant reduction in bit-rate compared to standards such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. The...
Paul Thurrott has posted his review of Microsoft's Windows Vista December 2005 CTP. The December CTP offers quite a few noticeable GUI changes/enhancements and added security features. You'll notice subtle improvements to the Windows Vista desktop as soon as it appears. The ugly Start button has been replaced by a prettier...
Manufacturers are working together to develop a new universal display standard for both PCs and HDTVs. The Unified Display Interface (UDI) will replace the VGA interface and we be compatible with both DVI and HDMI. UDI will be able to use High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) technology widely deployed in...
Lenovo's newest hire, William Amelio, comes into the fold with references from a few small computer firms. You know, those little guys like Dell and IBM ;) Amelio brings plenty of experience to the table as he was formerly in charge of Dell's Asian operations and was also a veteran executive of IBM. Amerlio will replace Steve Ward...
Guys like their big screens while women prefer more modest HDTVs. Not surprisingly, 70% of men were interested in purchasing an HDTV with a screen size of at least 37". Women on the other hand prefer HDTVs smaller than 37". I guess size does matter after all :) Historically, the decision on what kind of TV to buy...
According to Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, Intel has sped up the scheduled launch of Conroe and pushed back the launch of 965 chipset. With this scheduling change, the two are scheduled to launch together in June of next year: Intel declined to comment. According to Intel's original schedule, the 965-series chipset and the...
