CommsDesign has the story of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s formation of a wireless access task force which will look for ways to use the technology in bringing broadband to the more rural areas of the U.S. and bring wireless…
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AnandTech takes a look at the Sony DRU-700A which is capable of burning to dual layer DVD blanks. The dual layer write speeds aren’t very impressive, although there isn’t much to compare it to. Regardless manufacturers will be pushing the…
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Microsoft Watch seems to think Microsoft’s upcoming “Longhorn” operating system will dominate the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week. I wouldn’t bet against them, but they do have a questionable spec list that they believe Microsoft will recommend for the…
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Shacknews brings, well, news of Gearbox Software’s release of Halo Custom Edition for the PC version of Microsoft’s popular game. The unsupported “expansion” features game performance improvements as well as a new content creation tool which game modders will appreciate….
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OCWorkbench has a good old time with the EPoX 8KDA3+ motherboard powered by NVIDIA’s nForce3 250Gb chipset. The big green board features a whopping 6 SerialATA ports, Gigabit ethernet, and a large number of tweaking options in the BIOS which…
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Internet Week reports that it looks like Sasser hasn’t spread much from initial observations. The internet worm was feared to spread quickly due to the very short OS patch to exploit time frame but it hasn’t had the “teeth” other…
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SFF Tech has a look at one of the more innovative small form factor PCs available, the ASUS Terminator 2. The system has a more vertical design than other choices in the market but it gives you that much more…
Read more Terminator 2 (The SFF) Reviewed
Ars Technica has coverage of a research report that states AMD CPUs were in 52% of the desktop PCs sold at retail for the week ending April 24th. Is it a trend of broader AMD brand recognition or people just…
ATI has responded to NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 with its very own Radeon x800 line of video cards. While the NVIDIA boards were impressive ATI’s latest batch is doing quite a number on the new GeForce. Here are some of the…
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Hexus.net has an article that lists most of the major processor and assorted chip logic releases that should occur in the current quarter. While it’s somewhat late to go releasing an article like this most of the product launches are…
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HARDiNFO digs into what the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra is capable of in their review. There’s the astounding performance we’ve all come to expect from the card and the article goes into some of the details on what new features…
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