CNET News has info on a new Dell initiative to inform its customers on the various threats, such as spyware, viruses, and the like, that can bring their PC down hard. A great idea which may save them a bit…
Read more Dell Schooling its Customers
July 2004
X-bit labs has yet another huge comparative review of 160GB hard drives to go along with their previous 80GB and 120GB round-ups. They threw a whole bunch of software benchmarks against the drives with some clear winners and losers emerging…
Read more 160GB Drive Round-Up
ByteSector has an early look at a new line of hard drives Maxtor will be launching soon. The MaXLine drives feature come with either Serial-ATA or the old stand-by PATA interface and pack a whopping 16MB of data cache on…
Read more Maxtor MaXLine III Previewed
Google’s recent acquisition of Picasa, makers of photo management software, has put them in a generous mood with their offer of free downloads of their application. A nice gesture from the company, that almost everyone likes, which competitors may look…
Read more Free Photo Software Courtesy of Google?
The Houston Chronicle has an article covering id Software’s upcoming DOOM3 where they spell out what the minimum requirements for the game are and their PC guru’s takes educated guesses on what the best “bang for the buck” hardware choices…
Read more DOOM3 Minimum Requirements
The Register has the details on a trio of low voltage Intel Centrino CPUs. They come in speeds of 1.4GHz, 1.1GHz, and 1GHz and sport 2MB of cache just like the new Dothan core mobile CPUs from Intel but they…
Read more New Low-Voltage Centrinos
ExtremeTech has some details on work Verizon is doing in a few areas across the U.S. which could see homes wired up with fiber optic cable for all sorts of high speed data services. It will be impressive if they…
Read more Verizon Rolling Out Fiber
Microsoft has paid off Lindows, the linux-based operating system people, to give up the legal fight for their name and to pass on all domains and associated trademarks to the software giant. Finally a settlement over the silly name fight….
Read more Lindows Battle Over
The Mercury News has a nice write-up on Intel’s latest line of desktop chips which breaks down what they have to offer. The article is written in plain enough language so those with a basic knowledge of computers can get…
Read more Intel's New Chips, In Layman's Terms
InfoWorld has the details on a pair of new mobile processors AMD has just announced. The Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ supports both 32bit and 64bit operations and is currently the company’s top-end mobile chip while the new Athlon XP-M 2200+…
Read more Two New AMD Mobile Chips
BBC News writes of some new technologies that telcos are working on, as well as equipment manufacturers, in the hopes of eeking out every ounce of performance from ye’ olde telephone cable. They make note of ADSL2+ which promises to…
Read more Telcos Work on Speeding Up DSL
