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Skype Does Video [News, PCWorld]
Skype 2 software gives popular Internet telephony service video call capability. Mon, 13 Feb, 2006 | 0 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Abit merges with USI [News, tbreak]
Taipei, Taiwan, January 25, 2005 – ABIT Computer Corporation, maker of high-performance
motherboards and PC peripherals, today announced a definitive agreement to enter a long-term
strategic partnership with Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd. (USI), leading global
company in the DMS industry. USI is recognized as the strategic DMS partner for global brands
in the 4C (Computing, Communications, Consumer Electronics and Car Electronics) industries.
Integrating its core technologies of Computing, Wireless Communication and Video/Audio
Processing, USI offers high quality, value-added and cost-competitive products covering 4C
application fields. This merger enables USI to effectively penetrate the retail motherboard
channel with the world’s 4th largest branded motherboard maker, and allows ABIT to leverage a
world-class manufacturing and service network. Fri, 27 Jan, 2006 | 0 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Microsoft Shifts to Services [Article, PCWorld]
The Windows operating system may have defined Microsoft since its inception, but it will be services, not software that give the world's largest software company its claim to fame in the future, according to analysts. Microsoft, which celebrated its 30-year anniversary with a party at SafeCo Field in Seattle Friday, fundamentally changed the computer industry with an operating system that now runs more than 90 percent of PCs in the market. Wed, 28 Sep, 2005 | 2 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Gateway Ships Easy-Care PCs [News, PCWorld]
Gateway's latest PCs are designed for small and medium-size businesses, generally thought of as companies with anywhere from ten to a few hundred employees. After IT departments at large corporations began to exercise IT spending discipline following the dot-com collapse in the early part of the decade, PC and server companies--including Gateway--have sought to gain a foothold among these so-called SMB customers. Fri, 02 Sep, 2005 | 3 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Intel VIIV - The Solution - 64 bits [News, Hexus]
Whilst details are sketchy, the concept surrounds Intels branding
for their home systems. The concept is that they have all moved to a
64bit Solution. The Sticker will only be on systems which have an
Intel CPU, an Intel Chipset (Northbridge and Southbridge) and an
Intel software stack. Sun, 28 Aug, 2005 | 2 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
F-Secure claims discovery of first Windows Vista virus [News, TomsHardware]
Chicago (IL) - Antivirus specialist F-Secure today published a note that it has sighted the first virus models that aim at Microsoft's next generation operating system "Vista", formerly code-named Longhorn.
At this time, the publication is a proof-of-concept and aims at the Microsoft Command Shell (MSH), a Unix-like command line component and scripting language that is expected to replace shells such as cmd.exe or command.com in Microsoft's server applications and possibly Windows Vista. "Second Part to Hell", an Austrian member of the hacker group ready rangers liberation front (RRLF) published five simple scripts for MSH in the group's magazine. Thu, 04 Aug, 2005 | 5 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Dell slides in with NVIDIA [News, Hexus]
Ever since the launch of
SLi we have known that Dell has wanted to get 'in' on the action -
but it was clear why they hadn't, NVIDIA only did AMD chipsets.
However, since then we have seen the introduction of Intel P4 support
on nForce4. All of the building blocks are now in place. We suspect we will see the launch of a SLi based nForce4 chipset
orientated solution from Dell with Dual 7800GTX's, finally their XPS
Desktop range looks a lot more appealing. Mon, 18 Jul, 2005 | 8 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
E3 2005 Report [Article, gamingillustrated]
Gaming Illustrated reports in from the largest gaming expo that takes place once a year in Los Angeles. This year's show was very noteworthy with our report and pictures of the new PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 console systems. We also got some looks into some great new titles, and even had time to play poker with superstar Annie Duke. Sun, 26 Jun, 2005 | 2 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
The Eidos take over saga [Article, Hexus]
For anyone who might read the more high-brow broadsheet
newspapers, there’s been an interesting wrangle going on that
concerns us gamers. Eidos, that UK publishing house that brought us
Lara Croft’s undisputed assets to delight our joysticks as well as
big games such as the Thief series, Championship Manager and the soon
to be released Lego: Star Wars, have been in a take over battle for
the last two weeks following their announcement earlier this year of
an operating loss of Ł29.2 million up to the end of 2004. Wed, 04 May, 2005 | 3 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
XBOX 2 Launch Date and Major CPU News [News, Hexus]
The term ‘a multicore processor architecture’ is very
significantly a very clear distinction from the term ‘dual-core’… So
whilst we’re eagerly awaiting the results of all of our AMD and Intel
dual-core desktop processor testing, we can confirm info which we
understand was probably first posted at GameSpy: “CPU: Xenon's
central processing unit (CPU) has three 3.0 GHz PowerPC cores. Each
is capable of at least two instructions per cycle and has an L1 cache
with 32 KB for data and 32 KB for instructions. The three cores share
1 MB of L2 cache. Alpha 2 developer kits currently have two cores
instead of three.” Wed, 27 Apr, 2005 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
ASUS - Full ATi MVP Breakdown and more [Article, Hexus]
MVP supports split frame rendering using supertiling, where the screen is split up into tiled areas with each tile processed on a GPU, using any GPUs that support supertiling. That's anything from R300 up, but it's likely to be limited to R4xx GPUs. You can use X700 and X800, X800 XL and X850 XT PE, or any other mix that you can think of. There's the potential to increase anti-aliasing IQ using supertiling (multipassing the tiles through a GPU) and MVP. Wed, 30 Mar, 2005 | 10 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Quad Desktop Anyone? [News, Hexus]
MSI DBS (Dual Bridge System) Technology supports dual PCI Express
graphics card with PCI Express x16 and PCI Express x2 interface onboard. The
PCI Express X2 slot onboard is an open-ended slot for ordinary PCI Express X1,
X2 add-on card or PCI Express X16 graphics card population. Sun, 13 Feb, 2005 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Corsair Announces $20 DOOM 3™ Rebate [News, Corsair]
Fremont, CA, August 9, 2004: Corsair Memory, Inc., a global leader in ultra-
performance DDR memory modules for PC gamers and enthusiasts, today announced a
$20 rebate on selected memory modules when purchased with the DOOM 3 game. Thu, 19 Aug, 2004 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Corsair Announces the Fastest 1 GByte modules available [News, Corsair]
Fremont, CA, August 9, 2004: Corsair Memory, Inc., a global leader in ultra-
performance DDR memory modules for PC gamers and enthusiasts, today announced
new XMS 3200 speed 1 GByte modules supporting CAS-2 latencies. Following the
success of the company's 1 GByte PC3200 CAS-3 modules, these new products offer
the same speed and density but support lower latencies and improved
performance. These memory modules offer incredibly fast 400MHz speeds at
aggressive 2-3-3-6 latencies. Thu, 19 Aug, 2004 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Corsair Announces Value Select DDR2 Memory Modules [News, Corsair]
Fremont, CA, June 17, 2004: Corsair Memory, Inc., a global leader in ultra-
performance DDR memory modules for PC gamers and enthusiasts, today announced
new DDR2 Value Select memory modules. These products are ideal for the budget
conscious consumer who would like to take advantage of the new features and
bandwidth that DDR2 has to offer. Sun, 20 Jun, 2004 | 9 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Removing the MHz Myth, Again [News, AnandTech]
News broke earlier today that Intel will most likely change its current "Megahertz" strategy in favor of a more subdued "Model Name" approach. This does not necessarily mean Intel will change its processors to a PR rating, like "3000+". Rather, the new model system sounds very familiar to AMD's Opteron approach, with three or four digit numbers replacing the product name. Mon, 15 Mar, 2004 | 3 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
True Surround Sound USB Headphones are Here! [News, SunnyTech]
Sunnytech, Inc. announces the introduction of the new Mentor Brand 3D 5.1 Surround Sound Headphones. The Mentor product is the only true
5.1 surround sound product of it’s kind. It was designed with a patented 6 chamber speaker system that is unmatched by any other technology. The Mentor 5.1 Surround sound headphones have unique patent pending technology designed to reduce high bass levels that can irritate the listener’s ears. Mentor is offered in two USB Models and two AC 97 USB Powered Models as well as one AC 3 for Non PC devices like DVD Players and Gaming devices. Wed, 19 Nov, 2003 | 115 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Asus Radeon cards & Digimatrix PC [Article, UKGamer]
The world was officially informed this time last week that Asus, one of the largest computer component manufacturers in the world would be joining the ranks of Gigabyte, Sapphire and Hercules to name but a few as ATI board partners we finally see the actual product today. The Radeon 9800 XT represents the current pinnacle of graphics performance and today Asus were launching a whole raft of ATI related products. Mon, 13 Oct, 2003 | 513 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
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