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...
I'm sure that many of you are tired of the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD wars and just wish that one of them would just roll over and die so that we can get on with our lives. In recent months, however, it looks as though Blu-ray has be edging ahead in the battle garnering support from seven movie studios and the bulk...
2006 will be a big year for Intel with Yonah and Viiv leading the way in the first quarter. As you may already know, Yonah will be all the rage in low-power notebook systems while Viiv will tackle the home entertainment market: The processor/chipset/Wi-Fi chip bundle in Yonah-based notebooks is expected to consume only 3...
The guys over at PC Stats have posted a preview of Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 7.0. IE7 is the first major overhaul of Microsoft's browser in years, so is it worth the wait? Internet Explorer (despite what the average Linux devotee will tell you) is not inherently insecure. It's as secure as Microsoft can possibly make it, and...
Our friends over at [H]ard|OCP had the opportunity to meet with Valve and discuss features that the company plans on implementing in their next generation gaming engines. The goal is to bring a more cinematic experience to the gamer given the massive processing power available with graphics cards now and in the near...
The hatred for Best Buy runs rampant on our forums. I've even had my few run ins with the company and recently one of our members had the cops called on him. Well, I'm sure that the haters will find some solace that Best Buy missed Wall Street profit targets by a wide margin for the third quarter: Best Buy Co. Inc., the top...
Researchers at Intel are looking at new ways to stomp out rootkits. With Sony's recent firestorm regarding their DRM protection and rootkits, the issue has been further brought to the forefront: By watching a computer's main memory, the System Integrity Services can detect when an attacker takes control of the system - such attacks...
I guess this was to be expected. BusinessWeek reports that Japanese customers bought less than half of the available Xbox 360 units available during the consoles debut. Considering that Japan is home to Nintendo and Sony, Microsoft still has an uphill battle with the 360: Microsoft, which started...
DigiTimes has posted Part Two of their interview with AMD's Dr. Raghuram Tupuri. Here's a piece on x86-64 processors and the lack of 64-bit applications to take advantage of the hardware. Q: We often hear the comment that there is no point in investing in 64-bit processor configurations before more applications become...
There was a swirl of controversy surrounding Wikipedia last week in regards to a entry on the Kennedy assassination. As it turns out, the whole thing was a joke by Brian Chase to trick a co-worker; well, ex co-worker considering that Mr. Chase has now resigned from his job: The biography he posted, which has since been replaced,...
Microsoft is doing all it can to ensure that the next version of Internet Explorer is a secure as possible out of the box. The company is making some changes to its security zones to ensure that a user's computer is protected from attacks: The current version, IE 6, has four classifications for Web sites -- Internet, local intranet, trusted...
