Viper Lair spent a day at ATI and talked graphics and more with representatives from multimedia, desktop, integrated and mobile.
The Tech Zone has posted an article on Wardriving and how to prevent it.
TechFreaks.org has posted a new editorial today on the SilverStone LC-02's Cooling Problem.
The Tech Zone has posted an editorial about the coming storm over RFID chips.
Plextor Corp. has announced a new dual-layer, dual-format DVD burner that takes burn speeds up to 16X.
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I4U send words that Samsung introduces the new small MP3 Player YP-T6 as follow-up to the Samsung Yepp ST5
Group to push development of HD DVD hardware and content, plus try to drive commercial adoption.
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IceTeks has posted an article about alternative browsers
HEXUS.net is taking a look at what's in store from VIA in the coming months, more specifically PCI-Express on VIA chipsets in AMD systems.
A domain-name registration, a patent application and several recent hires are among the tantalizing bits of info.
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HotHardware.com has posted a news story on the new VIA K8T890 chipset
Digital Silence has posted a news story on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc
Dan's Data has posted another issue of their letters column
Committee vote sends Spy Block Act, which limits spyware, to the Senate for consideration.
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AMDBoard has posted the specifications of the Acer Ferrari 3400 notebook with Athlon 64 3000+
SAN FRANCISCO - Further pitting itself against Intel Corp.'s Pentium-M offerings, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) on Monday expanded its lineup of mobile Athlon 64-bit processors.
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Via Technologies Inc.'s next generation of desktop microprocessors, based on the Esther processor core, will be called C7, the company said Thursday. Mobile versions of the chip will be called C7-M.
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Company says buy will improve consulting contacts and provide products to help recover lost passwords and improve site security.
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Dan's Data has posted issue 37 of their I/O letters
CoolTechZone has posted an editorial: "Debugging the Megahertz Myth"
MBReview finished off work on the latest revision of their article detailing the motherboard design process.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) announced the availability of 2.5-inch hard drives with capacities up to 100GB for notebook computers by the end of 2004, the company said on Tuesday.
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The site lets people navigate, annotate and store Web pages they've visited, and will recommend sites based on users' past preferences.
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Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted an ASUS PEG Link & NVIDIA article
ASUS was initially very tight-lipped about the mysterious PEG Link Mode. But recently, they have been forced to announce and even hype it up! In fact, they now promote it as "a new graphics enhancement technology" for their i915P- and i925X-based motherboards.Read more
Today, we will take a look at the ASUS PEG Link Mode and see what it's all about. We will also run a few tests to see what it does for NVIDIA cards! Come and check out the results!
Uniblue Systems Ltd. has launched a new site that provides detailed information about every common process.
Everything USB has posted a news story on the World's First DivX Certified USB PVR
AMDBoard has posted the spec of the Abit KW7 KT880 Motherboard
Dan's Data has posted issue 125 of their letters column
D-Silence sends words that Maxtor announced that it is shipping its new Maxtor SATA Ultra16 Hard Drive Kits with 16MB buffers.
PyroPort take a trip down memory lane and attempt to uncover why Descent 3 was not as successful as the recently released Doom 3 is proving to be.
HEXUS.net has posted some information on new chipsets from ATi for the AMD Socket 939 platform.
Short Media has posted an article on Dual Core Processing
HEXUS.net has posted two news articles from the IDF
Intel's Day 2 Keynote
Intel's Day 2 Keynote
Dan's Data has posted issue 124 of their letters column
Hexus.net has posted more coverage of IDF
Keynote: Mobility
Keynote: Mobility
In a rare admission, an Intel executive says the Itanium chip family still isn't living up to expectations.
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About 39,400 laser printers made by Lexmark International Inc. and sold by Lexmark, IBM Corp. and Dell Inc. can pose an electrical shock hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warned Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. and the PC industry are about to go through a major change in the way client computers are designed, built and marketed, said Intel President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini during his introductory address Tuesday at the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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HEXUS.net has posted the first four articles of their IDF Fall 2004 coverage
Introduction
Introduction
HEXUS.net send words that ATI have launched an All-In-Wonder card based upon the X800 XT GPU.
Everything USB reports that the first customer of DiskOnKey T5 - the fastest flash drive yet - is Verbatim.
Hexus.net's Senior Reviewer, Ryszard, has visit the ECTS for the first time.
Accelenation has posted a coverage from the European Games Network and Game Stars Live events held in the ExCeL Exhibition centre.
Sudhian Media has posted a new editorial: How the "Dell Model" Cripples Computing--And Drives the Industry.
DomainSite.com is giving away 25 free .INFO domains to each customer
HEXUS.net has posted a few ECTS features
ATi's New Graphics Control Panel
ECTS 2004: No More DirectX Graphics?
Interview with Fatal1ty, the world's number one gamer
The Filtering War Will Be No More?
ATI On Track With Shader Model 3.0
ATi's New Graphics Control Panel
Weighing in currently at a lardy 60MB, the new control panel is built in .NET using DirectX Graphics to allow realtime preview of applied card settings, so you can see immediately what effect your new settings have on the image quality in your games.Read more
ECTS 2004: No More DirectX Graphics?
Speaking with ATI and NVIDIA at ECTS allowed us to confirm that after DX9.0, DirectX Graphics is no more. In name only. Microsoft's next set of core presentation and 3D APIs are now under the umbrella of Windows Graphics Foundation and Avalon.Read more
Interview with Fatal1ty, the world's number one gamer
Aged 23, Fatal1ty has been a pro-gamer for the last five years, having cut his teeth on the likes of Wolfenstein 3D on a 286 nearly 10 years ago. Between then and now he's played everything there has been and worked his way up local and state rankings, eventually through to national and then international finals.Read more
The Filtering War Will Be No More?
Windows Graphics Foundation clearly defines, with literally no wiggle room, what the hardware and driver should do with regards to basic texture filtering, anisotropic filtering and texture and geometry antialiasing.Read more
The result, after discussion with ATI and NVIDIA yesterday? Turn on trilinear anisotropic filtering at 16X and apply multi-sample anti-aliasing and both ATI and NVIDIA's hardware and driver will, via WGF's strict notions of what comprises correct filtering, render identical images, with only the smallest of mathematical differences tolerated.
ATI On Track With Shader Model 3.0
ATI, while not wishing to say anything completely on the record, strongly hinted to me yesterday that they're on track to release a set of Shader Model 3.0 parts in the coming year. Somewhat acknowledging that they're a little behind the feature curve compared to their major rival...Read more
Accelenation has posted a report from the ECTS 2004
Junk e-mail now accounts for 38 percent of the 31 billion e-mails sent each day in North America, according to IDC.
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Logitech's new mouse is as comfortable on opaque glass as it is four-wheeling over rough desk surfaces.
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AMDBoard has posted the Opteron High Performance Tatung Blade Server TUD 4010 Specs