April 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs keeps on coming up with more rumors with an image of the supposed architecture of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox 2 gaming console. The three CPUs appear to be three cores in one package and with 1MB of cache thrown…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has a peek at the APC Biometric Password Manager, a device that allows you to secure files on your PC or keeps track of your passwords for you with just a scan of your fingerprint. Looks like a nice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek goes about comparing Microsoft’s ubiquitous office suite, Office 2003, with OpenOffice, an open source alternative. OpenOffice is of course free which could lead to many people and businesses switching over but Microsoft’s product has years of market dominance and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Reuters has the story of the newly launched CNET Download.com Music section which allows people to download free music that artists have uploaded to their website. It has been done before but when one of the larger web outfits does…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

CNN Money makes note of a not so uncommon situation in the game producing industry where the former head of a game studio leaves to form another game studio once their old studio is purchased. Some move on to bigger…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

AMDReview is all over Lian Li’s latest PC chassis, the V1000. It has a vague resemblance to Apple’s G5 case but the comparisons stop there (ok they won’t) as it sports great cooling potential with its pair of 120mm fans…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP took the time to question some of NVIDIA’s recent PR and get down to what Shader Model 3 really offers when Shader Model 2 has been capable of creating comparable imagery for quite a while now. Slightly sneaky marketing…

Read more Shader Model 3 not so Impressive?

by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report had a bit of a chat with NVIDIA’s Tony Tamasi, their VP of Technical Marketing. They start off the interview with some of the easier questions such as when cards featuring their new NV40 chip will start…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net played around with the Rio Karma 20GB which is, of course, a portable digital audio player with MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis (open source compression standard), and FLAC (lossless audio compression) support. The player also encorporates an ethernet port into…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has its hands on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard which just so happens to feature the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board is solely for Athlon 64 CPUs which leaves the high end Opteron and FX-5* chips out…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Spyware has been getting quite a bit of attention recently with States and U.S. Senators finally taking notice of the serious nature of such tiny programs. Information Week covers some of the larger developments on the front including a new…

Read more It Does all of These Things and More…