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's that time of the month again for the boys from Canada. ATI has just released new Catalyst 5.12 drivers which you can grab here. As always, be sure to post back with your results. ...
With the rise of video-on-demand and movie downloads via the Internet, analysts say that DVD sales are close to reaching their sales peak: "The PC industry is champing at the bit to provide downloaded movies that might compete with DVD sales, and Pay-TV services want to add movies to their video-on-demand services, to their new...
What the heck? He's the CEO of Microsoft and didn't secure an Xbox 360 for his kids? Steve Ballmer had better head over to eBay and snap up an 360 or fear the wrath of his kids come Christmas time (I can just imagine them jumping around screaming "Developers" and throwing chairs across the house). Hopefully he won't get...
Microsoft has announced that their Windows XP Embedded operating system will be used globally in McDonald's point-of-sale platform. This POS platform is already in use among a few thousands machines in Europe and Asia: REDMOND, Wash. - Dec. 7, 2005 - Microsoft Corp. today announced that McDonald's Corp. has selected Microsoft®...
If you want to have a look at what AMD has in store for the next 3 years, head on over to AMD's website for an interactive look at their product roadmap. They have a 3-Year Product Outlook which details technologies due for their processor range including "more than 2 core" processors in 2007 and shared L3 cache. There's also a...
If you're not on Microsoft Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7.0 beta team, you can expect to be able to download a public beta of IE7 in early 2006: "We want to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to try a pre-release version of IE 7 and tell us how it works with their Web sites, their applications, their add-ons, and how they use the Web...
- Intel Announces Chip Technology Breakthrough Using New Materials - VIA Announces CN700 IGP Chipset for the VIA C7 Processor ...
It looks as though AMD's Opteron 165 is back in stock in at least one online retailer. Monarch Computers is showing that they have the hot processors in stock while everyone else has them on back-order. ...
CNET has posted a new editorial on their website which takes a look at the long and troubled history of Intel's Intanium processor. It all began with a joint announcement by Intel and Hewlett-Packard way back in 1994 (back then, I was sportin' an IBM Aptiva 310 with a whopping 33MHz 486 SX processor): Despite years of marketing and product...
A new virus is floating through the AIM network and actual carries on a conversation with its potential victim. The virus, IM.Myspace04.AIM, actually converses in a way similar to IM bots like MovieFone or ShoppingBuddy: "This sophisticated bot attack is programmed such that infected users cannot see the messages the worm is sending...
