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Zotac unveils first graphics card with DisplayPort

Zotac unveils first graphics card with DisplayPort

18th Dec 2007 Zotac has today announced the first graphics card to sport DisplayPort - the new display interface standard that's set for widespread adoption during 2008. [12]

IVY to visualise external data

IVY to visualise external data

18th Dec 2007 We've seen "usage monitors" on external drives before, but a student has come up with a novel way to show exactly what type of files are being stored, in colour, using an OLED screen. [21]

Intel releases ultra-tiny SSD

Intel releases ultra-tiny SSD

18th Dec 2007 The size of a fingernail and the weight of a paper clip - Intel makes some teeny tiny SSD chips. [3]

Transistor celebrates its 60th birthday

Transistor celebrates its 60th birthday

17th Dec 2007 Yesterday saw the transistor celebrate its 60th birthday. It's regarded as one of those inventions that truly revolutionised the world and things have come a long way since its inception. [9]

Intel débuts three-in-one radio chip

Intel débuts three-in-one radio chip

14th Dec 2007 Intel has rolled WiMAX, WiFi and DVB-H into a single chip. WiMAX? Is this just Intel pushing more of its own unused technology? [7]

KDE 4 to use much less RAM

KDE 4 to use much less RAM

14th Dec 2007 KDE 4 will use far less memory and will run its "Aero" equivalent on older hardware than you'd expect. Another excuse to switch to away from Microsoft? [29]

HP laptops have remote vulnerability

HP laptops have remote vulnerability

13th Dec 2007 HP's "helpful" Info Centre can turn nasty thanks to its ActiveX security flaw, that can allow malicious code to overtake your system. [6]

Ubuntu now available for Eee PCs

Ubuntu now available for Eee PCs

13th Dec 2007 Got yourself a spangly new Eee PC? Well there's already an alternative OS out there if you want to be a little different to everyone else. [6]

Nintendo and Greenpeace continue fighting

Nintendo and Greenpeace continue fighting

13th Dec 2007 Nintendo and Greenpeace have continued to duke it out publicly about recycling policies and use of toxic chemicals in the Wii. [18]

Sega developing mind-controlled robots

Sega developing mind-controlled robots

13th Dec 2007 Sega has teamed with Neurosky to develop a range of mind-controlled robot toys. World domination and human extinction must be good for sales margins. [13]

Ask.com introduces anonymous-ish searching

Ask.com introduces anonymous-ish searching

12th Dec 2007 Ask.com now offers an Eraser option that nukes the logs of your search. Great, but you have to use Ask.. [9]

Get Vista free, sacrifice privacy

Get Vista free, sacrifice privacy

12th Dec 2007 Microsoft is offering Vista Ultimate, Office 2007 and Encarta 2008 for free, so long as you let it nose around your PC for three months. Is that incentive enough for you? [24]

Xbox 360 to get 32nm chips next year?

Xbox 360 to get 32nm chips next year?

12th Dec 2007 IBM has just revealed that 32nm chips will be available to its partners late next year, including Microsoft. That means that the 360 could skip 45nm altogether! [15]

Rogers forces own content onto users

Rogers forces own content onto users

11th Dec 2007 A Canadian ISP is trialling a new invasive service that currently lets users know about their current bandwidth use, however the possibilities this service could provide are a little more sinister. [25]

IBM says light will drive future PCs

IBM says light will drive future PCs

11th Dec 2007 IBM is developing a technology that will use light to replace some of the electrical circuits in CPUs. [17]

WD MyBook locks your media files

WD MyBook locks your media files

10th Dec 2007 Western Digital 1TB MyBook NAS adds overly restrictive DRM to deny access to the video and music you legally own, when you try and play it from outside your home network. [33]

Eee PC warranty still intact

Eee PC warranty still intact

10th Dec 2007 It seems everyone can't get enough of Asus' cheap little sub-laptop, and things have just got better as Asus will now honour warranty claims for home upgrades. [15]

AMD now worth less than it paid for ATI

AMD now worth less than it paid for ATI

10th Dec 2007 AMD reached its lowest share price for more than four years last week and, as a result, its market value dropped to US$5 billion - that's less than it paid for ATI. [27]

PlusNet sympathetic to file sharers

PlusNet sympathetic to file sharers

7th Dec 2007 As an ISP, Plus.net finds itself as the middleman in arguments between law enforcement and accused file sharers. In an unusually down to earth blog post, a Plus.net employee lays it straight. [13]

3D CPUs to speed computing

3D CPUs to speed computing

7th Dec 2007 The Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore and flash memory maker, Fujio Masouka, are claiming huge increases in processing power by making processors in 3D. [18]

Microsoft goes Service Pack crazy

Microsoft goes Service Pack crazy

7th Dec 2007 We're heading for service pack city as Vista, XP and Office 2007 all get a tune up and a bit of spit 'n' polish. [13]

AMD’s Phenom TLB errata benchmarked

AMD’s Phenom TLB errata benchmarked

7th Dec 2007 AMD's Phenom isn't getting much love at the moment and things have just got a bit worse because AMD's claimed 10 percent performance loss with the TLB fix was a low estimate... [7]

Intel to launch G43 and G45 in Q208

Intel to launch G43 and G45 in Q208

6th Dec 2007 The Intel G35 is barely out the door and already the details of the successors, due in just six months, have leaked onto the net. [6]

We know what you typed last summer

We know what you typed last summer

6th Dec 2007 Wireless key-logging could be one of the next big threats according to a new white-paper on how to intercept signals from wireless keyboards using 27Mhz frequencies.  [14]

Latest Flash Player streams HD video

Latest Flash Player streams HD video

6th Dec 2007 The latest update of Adobe's Flash player introduces H.264 1080p HD support but More importantly it also reduces CPU usage for all flash! [16]

K8 will not die: more to come in 2008

K8 will not die: more to come in 2008

5th Dec 2007 Leaked AMD roadmaps suggest that AMD hasn't finished with the K8 architecture yet. There's another eleven processors coming in the first half of next year. [12]





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