EE Times writes of a research project, at the University of Rhode Island, that has produced highly efficient antennas. The “distributed load monopole” design allows for shortened antenna lengths while maintaining the same signal strength, a boon to cell towers…
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Reuters has word that there have been arrests in a few countries in relation to the hacking/theft of the Half Life 2 source code last year which supposedly delayed the game’s release. So far there’s no mention of who or…
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Motherboards.org has a review of the ASUS A8V Deluxe WiFi, one of the first Socket 939 boards in the market designed for AMD’s latest batch of 64-bit chips. They’ve managed to include a large number of features in the board…
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Reuters reports that broadband growth rate in the U.S. was at 42% last year, according to the FCC, with more than 8 million new subscribers to various services over 2002. That’s a blistering pace for any service, with cable companies…
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GamePC, builders of fine PCs and quality review writers, has a look at the Sony DRU-700A, a dual-layer capable DVD +- burner. The quality of this Sony drive is impressive, able to keep up with Plextor’s comparable model all in…
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X-bit labs has the word on just what AMD’s Sempron processor line is. It looks like the Sempron tag will go on all future “low-end” 32-bit general purpose CPUs AMD plans to release, replacing the Athlon name in Socket-A land…
Read more AMD Sempron Details
eWeek has details on two reports that state spam emails are costing big businesses money with the loss of employee productivity averaging almost $2,000USD a year. The number seems somewhat high since it’s pretty easy to spot and delete emails…
Read more Spam A Large Productivity Killer?
Hexus.net had the pleasure of abusing a SavRow Razor laptop which featured all sorts of goodies in its extremely thin casing. The notebook has a 1.7GHz Intel Centrino processor, 1GB of RAM, and an ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 all in…
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Virtual Zone Hardware has got themselves a retail packaged ATI Radeon X800 Pro barn-burner of a video card. Retail boards are the better indicator of performance, usually, since you don’t have handpicked graphics boards, by the company, making their way…
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ComputerWorld has news of a pair of flaws, which the latest MS patches have not plugged, that can enable someone to take over a XP/2K/Server 2003 PC (I assume), using IE, with a single click of a link. Nasty stuff,…
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Apple has the info on their very own new dual processor powerhouse of a PC, the renovated Power Mac G5 line. The systems boast processor speeds up to 2.5GHz using a new liquid cooling system that’s plain baffling. It’s surely…
Read more New Power Mac G5 Launched
