Forbes has the details on a joint venture by both Sony and Samsung which will create the newest generation of LCD displays for both companies. Their production plant was recently completed and they hope to begin production on new panels…
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Tweakfactor has compiled a few great tips and tweaks to make your copy of Firefox load pages a bit quicker and make the program look a little more polished. The tweaks are helpful especially the pipelining one which gives a…
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The three largest Instant Messaging players are working together to get their services integrated into Microsoft’s upcoming Live Communications Server 2005 software. Interesting matchup with some great possibilities when and if they tie in the seperate IM networks and collaborative…
Read more MS, AOL, Yahoo Collaborate on Messaging
CNET News has info on a new variant of the newest Pentium M design that Intel has launched without much fan faire. The new chip, based on the Banias core, matches the 1.5GHz clock rate of the previous lowest end…
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Blue’s News has the latest .plan from Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software, which indicates that DOOM 3 has been sent off to the presses and should be in gamer hands in a few short weeks. Most id titles (Quake…
Read more DOOM 3 Gone Gold
PC World has the skinny on the latest scheme by movie companies in order to either get more of a profit out of consumer devices or make themselves look like the good guys. AACS technology will allow you to copy…
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Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, took some time out and spoke with CNET News about a variety of topics. Some big talk out of Steve, when it comes to console competition, which they will have to work really hard at…
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Reuters covers some recent comments from the fine folks at Micron Technology Inc. who said that memory prices have yet to peak with back-to-school and holiday season purchase sprees on the horizon they may just be right. Thankfully most other…
Read more Memory Prices to Move Up?
InformationWeek has some info on IBM’s latest line of servers based on their recently released Power5 processor. The machines start off in dual processor configurations with steps in between all the way to 16-way CPU stations which will be able…
Read more IBM Launches New Server Line
Reuters brings some rather cryptic news of Toshiba’s planned notebook line which will boast advanced audio and video features. There aren’t very many details on what advanced features these would be but I’m sure it has to do with high…
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EuroGamer has some of the minimum hardware specs Half Life 2 will require in order to run “acceptably”. The numbers aren’t surprising given the highly detailed environments the game attempts to portray. Hopefully it will run well on todays hardware…
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