By Scott M. [......]
Archive for May, 2010
A little over a week ago, Turkish website Donanimhaber leaked almost everything you cared to know about Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 465 videocard. [......]
Android smartphone owners can finally do something iPhone and BlackBerry users have already been able to do: listen to Sirius XM radio on the go from their mobile phone. You won't find the app in the Android Market, and will instead need to navigate here to grab the apk file[......]
Probably one of the biggest hurdles in pushing 3D into the living room is requiring movie watchers to slap on a pair of custom spectacles to see the 3D effect. Well, come 2015 you might not have to, according a Taiwanese research group [......]
Stanford's Folding@home team has released a beta client for Nvidia GTX 400 series GPUs. It's the first F@h GPU client to achieve more than 1 microsecond per day performance, Nvidia says, who added that it worked closely with Stanford on this latest release. [......]
Listen up kids, if you want to convince your parents that buying a Nintendo Wii is essential to your well being, be sure to point out that even the Navy is looking towards videogames to help whip recruits into shape. [......]
Despite some earlier rumors to the contrary, it doesn't appear as though Apple's iPhone is coming to Verizon, at least not before 2012. That doesn't mean demand doesn't exist, however, and on the contrary it appears the iPhone would be a huge hit on Verizon's network, suggests a new study by Morgan Stanley. "According to our [Alphawise U.S. [......]
Application whitelisting company Bit9 is saying something IT admins already know: corporate and government PC users need to do a better job of protecting their computers from malware. [......]
In a new reported titled "A Landscape View of Online Software Purchasing 2010," the NPD group says that nearly two-thirds of all online software purchases in 2010 where digital downloads, up slightly from 2009. Digital downloads accounted for 23 percent of online purchases, compared to 22 percent one year ago[......]
Intel’s Got Unlocked Procs Too; and Cheap AMD isn’t the only company with modestly priced unlocked chips now. Intel on Thursday released two new “K†series chips which feature unlocked multipliers with extremely attractive pricing.   The 2.93GHz Core i7-875K clocks is essentially an unlocked version of the company’s top LGA1156 chip; the 2.95GHz Core i7-870. The new 875K has 8MB of L2 cache, Turbo Boosts up to 3.6GHz and has a 95 Watt TDP rating. [......]
Going to the dentist sucks. It’s like mouth hell, with tongues of flame replaced by regular tongues, drills, needles, and toothpaste so awful-tasting that it makes us want to wait 30 hours before eating instead of 30 minutes. But until the day we invent super-powered ray guns that blast our teeth clean in the blink of an eye, the dentist is – sadly enough -- our only option. [......]
Big size, big performance, big price In September 2009, we saw AVADirect push the boundaries of portable computing with its honkin’ Core i7-975 Extreme Edition–equipped D900F desktop replacement . That behemoth was both a back breaker (at 15 pounds) and a benchmark buster (at least in our applications tests)[......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Yesterday, the Chairman of the European multi-national group of ministers overseeing online privacy policy enforcement, Jacob Kohnstamm of the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), sent letters to the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, urging them to alter their personal data retention policies in keeping with new EU standards. Kohnstamm wants their search engines to destroy personal data after six months' retention rather than nine, as is Google's current policy; and he simultaneously urged European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding for help getting that message across. [......]
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization announced that it is working with Marvell to develop a series of low-cost handheld tablets based on the Marvell Moby reference design. "While devices like eReaders and current tablets are terrific literary, media and entertainment platforms, they don't meet the needs of an educational model based on making things, versus just consuming them[......]
Cooler Master appears to have kicked things up a notch with its new HAF X, the latest iteration of the original HAF chassis we awarded a 9/Kick Ass verdict back in late 2008. Targeted at the performance oriented crowd, the HAF X receives a slightly modern makeover with a pair of USB 3.0 ports on the front I/O panel, an air duct to cool your graphics cards, and nine slots to support up to three videocards. [......]
