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by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft has hit the 1 million member mark for its Xbox Live online gaming service. That’s a whole lot of people that have had access to their service but their PR doesn’t go into much detail on what constitues members…

Read more Xbox Live Tops Million Subscribers

by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD has plans to launch a dual-core variant of its Athlon 64 next year. The dual-core CPU idea is not a new concept, a few other chip makers have created and manufactured them in the past but this will be…

Read more Dual Cored in '05

by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

HardwareZone goes into exhaustive detail on how to build your very own AMD Socket 939 processor based system. The guide is basically only platform specific up to step 2.5, the rest of the guide could be applied to just about…

Read more How To: Put Together a Socket-939 System

by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Big Bruin has a look at the “wide-screen” Lilliput LCD display with touch screen. While not practical for desktop usage it is useful for a whole host of projects namely vehicle PCs and face it nothing is cooler than being…

Read more Mini Touch Screen LCD Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

HotHardware pit two new Socket T boards, from top tier manufacturers, against each other. The Abit AA8 DuraMAX and the ASUS P5AD2 Premium both sport the Intel 925X chipset and a huge number of on board features with the ASUS…

Read more Pair of 925X Boards Tested

by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews lays out the assembly stage of putting together your very own, somewhat custom, notebook computer. The ASUS whitebox notebook route might be tempting to many but warranty concerns could keep it from becoming a popular route to follow….

Read more Build Your Own Notebook: Part 2

by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Shacknews has an updated .plan file from the CEO of id software, Todd Hollenshead which covers a few more details surrounding his company’s upcoming DOOM3. Most of it has to do with Linux and OSX support as well as demo…

Read more More DOOM3 Info

by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Samsung and Sony Work Together on LCDs

by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Firefox Tweaking

by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2004 · 0 comments

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

by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2004 · 0 comments

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…

Read more Low-end Pentium M Quietly Launched