InformationWeek has some news regarding the possible sale of IBM’s PC business. The company is one of the larger machine builders in the U.S. and carries some of the more popular lines of notebooks in the business world. It would…
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PC World believes Intel is coming up with a Centrino-like name to brand its desktop products with. The Centrino label is limited to laptops which use their trio of CPU/chipset/wireless in combination. It’ll be interesting to see what combination of…
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eWeek has the details on Steve Wozniak’s latest project dubbed “Wheels of Zeus Location-Based Encryption” which mixes GPS coordinates and secure encryption for corporate data on laptops or, conceivably, desktop PCs, PDAs, and other storage devices. Intriguing product that’s bound…
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AnandTech has a look at the performance of a pair of Intel Xeon Dual CPU servers as well as four dual AMD Opteron setups and a quad Opteron CPU rig for fun. Tests were run in both 32-bit mode and…
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GamePC has a look at the MSI NX6800 PCI Express capable graphics card. No bridge chips to be found on this board, instead it’s populated with a native PCI-E implementation and decent clock rates for a mid-range board. All of…
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Another critical flaw has popped up in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer software spanning a number of 6.0 flavors across many of their operating systems going back to NT4. Needless to say it would be in your best interest to get to…
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HTPCNews has a look at the lastest version of Snapstream Media’s Beyond TV (3.5.1) software. The application allows you to record TV programming, with an appropriate TV tuner card of course, and manage your media files. The latest version of…
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DigiTimes has the details on a push by ATI and its partners, in Taiwan, for its new Radeon Xpress 200 system chipset. The larger board builders will be bundling in a copy of Microsoft’s Windows XP with their products, perhaps…
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AOL’s latest Netscape browser versions apparently sport a flaw in its PNG (portable network graphic) renderer which can lead to the always amusing arbitrary remote code execution. Halting usage of the browser is a good idea and finding an alternative…
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ATI has launched a load of new video cards, well five to be exact, and a slew of new names to confuse things a bit more. The new core is redesigned in order to give the company better yields when…
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TweakTown has a review of the NVIDIA GeForce 6200, the latest entry in the low-end video card market. The chip is based on the company’s well received 6800series with a few extra features disabled but the same great image quality…
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