eWeek goes about comparing Microsoft’s ubiquitous office suite, Office 2003, with OpenOffice, an open source alternative. OpenOffice is of course free which could lead to many people and businesses switching over but Microsoft’s product has years of market dominance and…
Read more OpenOffice and Office 2003 Head-to-Head
Reuters has the story of the newly launched CNET Download.com Music section which allows people to download free music that artists have uploaded to their website. It has been done before but when one of the larger web outfits does…
CNN Money makes note of a not so uncommon situation in the game producing industry where the former head of a game studio leaves to form another game studio once their old studio is purchased. Some move on to bigger…
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AMDReview is all over Lian Li’s latest PC chassis, the V1000. It has a vague resemblance to Apple’s G5 case but the comparisons stop there (ok they won’t) as it sports great cooling potential with its pair of 120mm fans…
Read more Lian Li V1000 Reviewed
HardOCP took the time to question some of NVIDIA’s recent PR and get down to what Shader Model 3 really offers when Shader Model 2 has been capable of creating comparable imagery for quite a while now. Slightly sneaky marketing…
Read more Shader Model 3 not so Impressive?
The Tech Report had a bit of a chat with NVIDIA’s Tony Tamasi, their VP of Technical Marketing. They start off the interview with some of the easier questions such as when cards featuring their new NV40 chip will start…
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Hexus.net played around with the Rio Karma 20GB which is, of course, a portable digital audio player with MP3, WMA, OGG Vorbis (open source compression standard), and FLAC (lossless audio compression) support. The player also encorporates an ethernet port into…
Read more Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed
AnandTech has its hands on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum motherboard which just so happens to feature the NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb chipset. The board is solely for Athlon 64 CPUs which leaves the high end Opteron and FX-5* chips out…
Read more MSI K8N Neo Reviewed
Spyware has been getting quite a bit of attention recently with States and U.S. Senators finally taking notice of the serious nature of such tiny programs. Information Week covers some of the larger developments on the front including a new…
Read more It Does all of These Things and More…
U.S. President George W. Bush is hoping Congress won’t pass any bills that would see taxes tacked onto broadband internet services like those found on cable and telephone bills according to Yahoo News. Taxes could put a damper on his…
Read more President Wants Ban on Broadband Tax
X-bit labs has news of work by a VIA Technologies partner in creating a totally lead free mainboard based on the EDEN platform. This is some fine work by the engineers and although the EDEN idea isn’t all that popular…
Read more VIA and Friend Make Greener PCs
