There was a time when AOL was a major player in all things related to the internet; snagging itself a merger with Time Warner, one of the largest media companies around, in the process. Then its users grew up.The clout…
Read more AOL To Be Spun Off?
Microsoft strives to make things easy on its less than savvy OS users. Case in point is their (rather annoying) AutoPlay feature which, when tied to AutoRun, automatically launches applications on all manner of plug-in devices and discs. Unfortunately…
Read more Microsoft Ditches AutoRun In Windows 7…For The Most Part
Adobe has announced that all currently shipping and supported versions (Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, and 7.1.1 and earlier versions) of its Adobe Reader and Acrobat PDF browsing applications are vulnerable to an exploit which may allow for malicious…
Read more Adobe PDF Reader Vulnerable, Wants You To Disable JavaScript
The old gaming notebook trend was to slap as many colors on to the product in order to attract attention to it, those models also tended to be desktop replacements instead of a portable gaming option. Here comes the new…
The USB flash key has taken the place of the floppy drive as a ubiquitous storage medium that quickly gets outclassed by newer storage options…but at least it’s by other USB keys right? Real World Labs has a look at…
Read more USB Flash Drive Roundup, 'Cause You Can Never Have Enough
It can be said of most business notebooks–from any computer maker not just HP–that they generally lack style. HP wants to change that with the new HP ProBook S series of affordable notebooks. The sleek, buttoned-down look with a “Merlot”…
Broadband internet service in the US is not what you’d call “effective”, in fact if you asked most customers they’d use all manner of colorful language to describe what they get from their service providers. One cable company seeks to…
Read more Cablevision Announces 101/15 Cable Internet Service, Jaws Drop
Nothing gets the heart going like a brand new processor launch, of course it’s not as impressive when it’s a dual-core chip but we’ll take any excitement we can get. It’s AMD’s turn at trying to rile up enthusiasts…
Read more AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Launched, Reviewed
There’s a distinct lack of enthusiasm when it comes to physics technology in games. It doesn’t grab an enthusiast’s attention like impressive graphics or immersive audio does but without it you’d be in for some horribly unrealistic carnage, destruction, and…
Read more NVIDIA's PhysX Push Going On Now
Cramming all of your information and easily accessing it over your network can be quite troublesome. You could go the dedicated computer server route but that would mean a large case, an operating system to support, and a RAID card…
Read more Thecus N7700 NAS, For Your Networked Storage Needs
While the latest in notebook designs have been picking up the slack, trimming corners and tightening up their looks, there’s been quite a few sloppy and downright bland laptops released as of late.Samsung’s R522 has a simple design yet still…
Read more Samsung R522, A Sleeker Notebook
