Nuclear Subs Now Run on Windows
Microsoft Windows is powering the Royal Navy's nuclear-armed submarine fleet; giving all new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death Read More ...
Apple Calls it Quits on MacWorld Expo
Apple today announced that its 2009 MacWorld Expo will be it's final appearance MacWorld expo. The company said that it, like many other companies during this time, is scaling back its spending.
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Phantom Returns With Online Store
It seems like eons ago when Infinium Labs announced the now-defunct Phantom console project. However the company -re-named as Phantom Entertainment- has launched an online games store. Read More ...
No DRM for Prince of Persia PC
A post over on the Ubisoft forums states that the PC version of Prince of Persia 2008 shipped without DRM protection.
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Force Feedback Helmet Lets You Feel Headshots
Immersion in gaming is something developers have sought to accomplish since the advent of 3-D graphics and advanced polygons. Tactile feedback is important for humans to identify with activities and situations. Read More ...
FCC: School Dropouts are due to WoW
World of Warcraft is causing too many students to drop out of college, says the FCC.
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New Fallout 3 Content Editor, DLC Info
This afternoon Bethesda announced that a mission editor for Fallout 3 is now available to download. But that's not all... Read More ...
BioWare to Use HeroEngine for Old Republic
This morning developer BioWare announced that it has officially chosen Simutronics' HeroEngine to power the upcoming MMOG, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Read More ...
Savage 2 is Free, but Why?
Yesterday S2 Games announced that Savage 2: A Tortured Soul for the PC is now freeware. We ask: what gives? Read More ...
Fill Obama's Shoes in Commander in Chief
Think you can do better than Obama come January? See if you have what it takes in the upcoming PC game, Commander in Chief. Read More ...
$5000 EFiX Photoshop Contest
Art Studios Entertainment, the company behind the EFiX device that we covered a while back, just launched a competition to design the interface for the EFiX USB device. The company also says that the winner of the best UI design will receive $5000 USD in Read More ...
Broadcom Creates Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM Chip
Broadcom recently introduced a chip that combines 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM technologies Read More ...
Scientists Discover New Method to Uncover Bootleg CDs
A new technique is proposed to identify whether a CD has been recorded using a method different to the process used in the industrial production of CDs and thus, differentiate between the the real thing and bootleg Read More ...
Trine Fantasy Game Announced for PC, PSN
Friday Nobilis and Frozenbyte announced Trine, a fantasy action game coming to the PC and PlayStation Network Read More ...
Overclocking Competition: Germany Edges Past USA 8-2
German teams edge past U.S. overclockers by just a few clock cycles more. Read More ...
Falcon Northwest Claims Fastest PC
Got deep pockets and the compulsory need for speed, and something custom that nobody else has without having to do it yourself? I think you need to check out Falcon Northwest.
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Netgear's New LAN Powerline Adapters
Look ma! No wires! Well, sort of. NETGEAR introduces their Powerline Adapters for HD and Multimedia Streaming without the hassle of degraded wireless performance and most of all, wires. Read More ...
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Take Tom’s Hardware Readers Survey and be automatically entered for a chance to Win one out of five $50 Amazon.com Gift Certificates!آ Having a frustrating time looking for information that helps you make your tech and hardware buying decisions?
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Report: 3GB vs 6GB RAM on Core i7 Benched
Planning to build your brand spanking new Intel i7 based gaming system with that fancy new Intel X58 Express board? Just make sure you toss 6GB of memory into the mix for the best possible experience, according to Corsair’s recent study. Read More ...
Stealth Announces In-Vehicle MiniPC
Stealth Computer has announced a new mini-PC designed for in-vehicle, mobile and embedded applications Read More ...
Microsoft's New Tools for Robot Builders
Microsoft took the wraps off its new Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 today at the RoboDevelopment Conference in Expo in Santa Clara, California. Read More ...
Asus Xonar STX: Audiophile Sound
Asus this week unveiled its Xonar Essence STX, which is a sound card the company claims is squarely for high-end audiophiles. The new card will be available on store shelves roughly a month from today and come in the form of a PCI-express 1X slot. Some o Read More ...
World's Spam Drops by 75-percent
This week, an ISP in northern California named McColo was shutdown after an investigation on its services rendered the company as a prime host for most of the world’s spam. The shutdown occurred on Tuesday the 11th, and security firms everywhere saw an i
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Silicon Mountain Unveils Allio All-In-One HTPC TV
Talk about uber-coolness: yesterday Silicon Mountain unveiled Allio, a 42-inch HDTV with integrated PC and Blu-Ray player. Yeah baby. Read More ...
Bionic Hand Makes Time's Top 50 Innovations
Forget using a can opener. Who cares about Vader's silly little Death Grip. Why settle with primitive tools when you can crush bones with a bionic hand? Read More ...
World’s Smallest USB EVDO Modem
Looking for a â€کsmall’ EVDO solution for your notebook or netbook? Novatel delivers with its MC760 USB Modem. Effectively being the smallest currently available USB EVDO solution. Read More ...
Tom's OC Competition: Update 2!
It’s about 6:12PM PST now and the four teams are crunching away with benchmark scores. The competition overall is pacing along really nicely, and the teams are getting riled up. We saw a few competitors shaking hands with each other but deep down their c Read More ...
Fire Dept. Crashes Our OC Event
Things arrived smoothly the day before. Equipment, liquid nitrogen tanks — all eight of them — and the contestants. Everyone was definitely gearing up and getting prepared for the event that would occur today. Read More ...
Tom's Overclocking Competition Begins!
This weekend commences the start of Tom’s Hardware’s Overdrive competition, in which teams of enthusiasts compete for the position of reigning world champion. Bestofmedia Group announced the first Overdrive Overclocking Championship by Tom’s Hardware sev Read More ...
Microsoft: Yahoo!? No Thanks
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said the company is no longer considering purchasing search competitor, Yahoo!. The news emerges following comment from Yahoo! boss, Jerry Yang who said the company would be wide open to a takeover big from the Redmond...
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MMORPGs Get Festive Holiday Themes
The holidays are upon us, and while gamers are rattling gifts or "spicing" up the eggnog, Sony, NCSoft and a few other companies are decorating their virtual worlds.
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NVIDIA Announces the Ion Platform
Nvidia today announced its new Ion platform, which combines Geforce 9400M graphics with the Intel Atom processor. The new platform will give future netbooks and nettops the much needed boost they need to handle HD video and modern operating systems. Read More ...
Sanely-Priced Mini DisplayPort to HDMI Coming Soon
With the introduction of the new unibody Macbook and Macbook Pro this past October, Apple also made standard its Mini DisplayPort display connector across all of their updated systems. While technologically cool, this leaves the consumer somewhat bugged Read More ...
Team Fortress 2 Updates Incoming
While they won't be on the same scale as other major update rollouts, Valve is will soon tweak two classes in its smash hit Team Fortress 2.
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MacBook Firmware Released, RAM Flaw Still Present
A new firmware update hits MacBooks, but issues still remain. Read More ...
Psystar Ditches Antitrust in Favor of Copyright Abuse
It seems Psystar is taking another approach to the whole “taking Apple on in court†thing it’s been trying to do for a while now. The whole thing started when Apple tried to sue the Mac clone manufacturer for breaching the Leopard EULA and Psystar filed..
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Novatel Unveils Personal Mobile Hotspot
Novatel announces a new device that enables users to create a personal mobile Wi-Fi hotspot using their cell-phone service.
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EA's Games to Get Really Physical
Nvidia today announced what some of the gaming tech savvy have known for some time now, that is, Electronic Arts has licensed Nvidia’s PhysX technology. Read More ...
GTA IV Performance Problems on the PC
On December 2, Rockstar Games released the much anticipated PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV to both retail and digital distribution outlets. Since then, there have been numerous reports of poor performance on current systems and other problems. Read More ...
Apple Killing Psystar, OpeniMac Arrives
A new Argentinian company called OpeniMac is jumping into the Mac-clones foray with the introduction of two new Mac-clone systems, going for $990 and $1710. Safe to buy from? Chances are, no. If interested though, check out the Google translated page her
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Windows 7 Beta 1 Hitting January 13
Windows 7 appears to be advancing at a noticeable pace, with the first beta release hitting developer hands in just little over a month. Read More ...
Microsoft to Do Ads in Blizzard Games
Video game advertising company Massive, owned by Microsoft, just struck a deal of name appropriate proportions with Blizzard Entertainment. Read More ...
Microsoft Launches PC Live Stand-Alone Client
Today Microsoft released a downloadable, stand-alone client for Games for Windows - Live. Read More ...
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 Pro Goodness
Nvidia has launched the Quadro FX 4800 professional graphics card, featuring 192 processor cores and 1.5 GB of memory Read More ...
Microsoft Expands Testing of Vista SP2
This afternoon Microsoft's Mike Nash announced that the company is opening up the Windows Vista SP2 beta to a broader audience. Read More ...
Intel's Q8300; May be Last Quad Core
Following suit with our Intel road map back in September of this year, Intel has has launched the last Quad-Core that consumers may see for the next while, if more are to come at all – The Q8300.
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MacBooks Run Slow Without Battery
Do MacBooks intentionally throttle back on performance when missing a battery? We find out. Read More ...
Windows 7: Play Crysis Without a GPU
Microsoft says Windows 7 will run all your 3D games, including Crysis, whether you have a video card or not! Read More ...
Tweak UI Utility Hits Vista, Sorta
Tweak UI, one of the best OS tweaking tools around, is finally coming to Vista Read More ...
Reboot Your Computer, Don't Get Paid
There are pros and cons to going with an hourly wage versus salary. One of the good things about an hourly wage is that you’re eligible for overtime. But if you work in a big corporate environment and you work with computers everyday, you may be in for a Read More ...
MSI and Asus Prepare to Launch All-In-One Nettops
The nettop market is heating up as MSI and Asus get ready to launch new all-in-one nettops with touchscreen displays Read More ...
SGI Makes Molecule Supercomputer From Intel Atoms
Silicon Graphics (SGI) is showing off a concept supercomputer that could pack as many as 10,000 Intel Atom processors into a single rack. The name SGI gave the concept computer was fittingly cute as well, calling it the Molecule. Read More ...
Ditch Your Commodore 64 for a Commodore Core i7
Commodore Gaming has announced new high-end gaming desktops that feature Intel Core i7 processors, a customizable painted chassis and a preloaded C64 emulator for retro compatibility Read More ...
Nvidia Launches Tesla Personal Supercomputer
Desktop supercomputers became a reality today as Nvidia announced the release of its new GPU-based Tesla personal supercomputer Read More ...
PC-Gaming Hardware Worth $20 Billion
If PC gaming is dying, as many have claimed, why are gaming-oriented PCs selling so well? Market analyst Jon Peddie estimates that the market for PC gaming hardware stands at $20 billion today—and predicts it will expand to $34 billion by 2012. Read More ...
IBM Roadrunner Beats Cray's Jaguar
According to the recently released list of the world's Top500 supercomputers, the title of world's fastest supercomputer goes to IBM's Roadrunner, located at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Read More ...
Blu-ray Discs That Play in DVD Player Revealed
Japanese developer Pony/Canon has successfully created a Blu-ray hybid disc that will work in standard definition DVD players. Read More ...
Boosting SSD Performance With The Right OS
Which version of Windows will help push your SSDs to maximum speeds? Nothing you’d be able to find in the stores right now! Read More ...
Toshiba Launches First 512 GB SSD
Toshiba announces the industry's first 2.5-inch 512 GB SSD Read More ...
New Fast OCZ, SuperTalent SSD Drives
OCZ and Super Talent have released new high-performance solid state drives Read More ...
Pioneer's 400 GB Blu-Ray Disc Coming
According to Pioneer, Blu-ray technology will be in for a huge upgrade. The firm claims that it has developed a new disc manufacturing technology that will allow up to 400 GB of data to be packed onto a single disc. Sounds too good to be true? Here’s the
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IM Flash Starts Production on 34nm Flash Chips
IM Flash Technologies, a joint subsidiary of Intel and Micron, has starting production on 34nm, 32 gigabit multi-level cell flash chips. Read More ...
Plextor Announces New Optical Drive Lineup
A name that used to crop up when talking about elite optical products years ago has made a comeback! Plextor has come out of the woodwork, announcing a new lineup of optical drives after lying low for a while. Read More ...
Kingston Unveils 64 GB USB Sticks
Kingston updates USB flash drive line to 64 GB
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Samsung's Fast 256GB SSD Goes Into Production
Samsung has announced that its ultra-fast 256 GB SSD has finally entered mass-production Read More ...
Toshiba Intros 500GB Green 2.5" HDD
Toshiba has announced a new series of 2.5-inch hard disk drives that offer capacities up to 500 GB, increased durability, reduced noise and a lower power consumption Read More ...
SuperSpeed USB More Like HalfSpeed
This week marks a major milestone for the universal serial bus (USB) standard, which has just received its official 3.0 stamp of approval. The new standard is expected to be available in early 2010, and bring along a substantial speed boost. According to Read More ...
Fujitsu Launches New Enterprise Class Hard Drives
Fujitsu has announced two new enterprise class hard disk drives that offer a blend of performance and low-power consumption Read More ...
Seagate Announces 2 TB NAS
Seagate has announced the Maxtor Central Axis Business Edition dual-drive network storage server Read More ...
Fujitsu Launches 500 GB Notebook Hard Drives – Full Drive Encryption
With the ever increasing demand for more storage by users that are always on-the-go, Fujitsu launches a set of hard drives at half of a terabyte. Read More ...
Seagate Intros Self-encrypting HDDs
A notebook computer is stolen every 52 seconds, according to statistics compiled by the FBI; 97 percent of them are never recovered. How much sensitive personal information is stored on your machine? Is it encrypted? Probably not. Read More ...
Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs
Last week Toms had covered a bit about the freezing problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 1.5TB drives. We would like to update readers with the response that Toms has gotten directly from Seagate. Read More ...
USB Drives Target for Virus Infections
Thumb drives are pretty popular with almost every computer user out there. They offer a compact storage solution for carting around work projects, personal documents, and IT staff use them to cart around useful tools on the job. Read More ...
Seagate 1.5TB Drives Randomly Freezing
Ranging from home consumers, enthusiasts, system builders, and small to medium businesses, everyone can always make use of more space – but what if that space isn’t performing so well? Read More ...
SanDisk Makes SSD up to 100x Faster
SanDisk explained its new file system technology for SSDs, which it calls the ExtremeFFS, that it could boost random write speeds by up to 100 times over existing systems. Read More ...
OCZ Introduces New Value SSDs
OCZ has silently launched its new Solid Series of solid state drives, offering value-conscious consumers a quality upgrade choice for their modern notebooks Read More ...
Could a Mac Mini Refresh be Coming Soon?
While the Mac Mini may have been left out of recent Apple announcements, the small, book-sized computer will see a refresh sometime in the very near future, according to AppleInsider sources. Read More ...
RAID 5 May Be Doomed in 2009
A story appearing online is forecasting the doom of RAID 5 in 2009 Read More ...
Seagate Moving to Solid-State Enterprise Drives in 2009
Have you made the jump to solid-state yet? Probably not, due to pricing – but they are out there, and not cheap. Read More ...
Super Talent Launches SSDs for Asus Eee PCs
California based SuperTalent Tuesday announced the launch of a new line of mini PCI-Express SSDs that were designed explicitly for the Asus Eee PC.
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Sanyo Develops 100GB, 12X Blu-ray Laser
Sanyo this week announced that it has developed a new laser diode that emits a 450 mw (milliwatts) blue laser beam that can read information off of Blu-ray discs at 12X speeds. Best of all, it can also burn to Blu-ray writable discs at the same data rate Read More ...
Western Digital Caviar Goes Green – Faster, More Efficient
HTPC and Quiet PC users are always fighting the battle towards the Ultimate Quiet and the Lower Power consumption system. Read More ...
Fujitsu Selling out to Western Digital?
Is the I.T industry following suit along with the economy? The Wall-Street blues, Corporate entities closing up shop and the big banks buying out other big and small banks – could this be happening in the I.T world too? Read More ...
New 256 GB SSD From Toshiba
Toshiba announced on Friday a new 256 GB MLC solid-state drive and a new series of small-sized flash modules designed for netbooks and other ultra-mobile devices Read More ...
Toshiba Announces 240GB, 1.8-inch Hard Drive
Toshiba’s Storage Device Division today announced two new 1.8-inch hard drives: A single-platter drive offering 120 GB of storage and a two-platter model boasting 240 GB of capacity. The devices are targeted at the digital media player, mobile gadget, di Read More ...
PNY and Sony To Release Movies On USB Flash Drives
PNY and Sony have announced they are releasing Ghostbusters the movie on USB flash drive and expect other movies to follow Read More ...
OCZ Intros New FLEX EX Memory
In need of some memory for your newly planned system build? Be it air or liquid cooled, OCZ delivers its new line of Flex EX Performance memory – claiming the world’s fastest Air or Liquid cooled DDR2 4GB Kit currently available.
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We Overclock Phenom II to 4.9GHz
Competitors at our Overdrive finals tweaked Intel's Core i7 through the weekend and achieved great results. But there was a dark horse in the race as well -- AMD's Phenom II. Read More ...
Overdrive: U.S. Team IRONMODS Wins!
Our Overdrive Overclocking Championship just finished, and we have a winner: The US team IronMods dominated, but Italy was close behind, followed by Germany. Read More ...
Overdrive Finals: Intermediate Results, Day 2
We concluded day 1 at 8 pm, after a long 10-hour session. All teams reached at least one category win, and most of them decided to put more emphasis on the graphics benchmarks on day 2. The US team is getting strong now, but there are still three hours le
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Overdrive: A Little Detour with Intel's Turbo Mode
Switching on the Turbo mode is required to sail around Intel's TDC and TDP safety limiters, but it also introduced some issues for the overclockers.
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Overdrive Finals: Results After 8 Hours of Overclocking
All teams have spent considerable time finding ways on improving CPU and GPU performance. The Core i7's Turbo Mode has been an issue for some of the teams, as it would reduce the multiplier from the pre-set x28 to only x26 when all four core (or even eigh
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Overdrive Finals: First Results Posted
The Taiwanese team CBB, which stands for Fang Bing Lo (Coolaler), Hsien Tung Hsiao and Cheng-Tung Sun, was the first to post results. While these were not spectacular, this is an important step to secure a score in case something doesn't work they way it
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Overdrive Finals Preparation: Status After Two Hours
They all overclock, but they all have a different approach. We talked to the teams and looked at how they start working. Just installing the operating system and getting started is not sufficient.
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Overdrive: Overclocking Finals Kick Off
Tom's Hardware is hosting the world's best overclockers at our new Paris HQ today and tomorrow. Five teams try their luck in getting Core i7 Extreme systems to expected 5+ GHz clock speed. Read More ...
EFiX Not Making Mac Clones
Several reports emerged this morning indicating that the guys behind the EFiX USB module had jumped into the Mac clones business. We spoke directly with Davide Rutigliano, CEO of Art Studios Entertainment, and he confirmed to us that it is untrue. Read More ...
EFiX Reaches New Milestone Revision
We have been following the development of the EFiX device from Art Studios Entertainment for some time now. This week, the EFiX module was updated to version 3.4.5 via a major milestone firmware release. The new features include the following: -آ New
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Nvidia Releases X58/SLI ForceWare
Did you hear that? Nvidia has just released its ForceWare 180.48 drivers, aka â€کBig Bang II’. The new ForceWare set is required to enable SLI on â€کsome’ new and upcoming Intel X58 Express based boards. We covered a bit regarding the â€کBig Bang II’ release, Read More ...
Mushkin's New Triple-Chan DDR3 Kits
With all the buzz surrounding the Intel Core i7 debut, memory manufacturers are delivering the goods. Mushkin is now offering up its triple channel kits to the mix, with some pretty impressive timings. Read More ...
Kingston Shipping HyperX T1 Series Memory
Kingston Technology brings us another line of enthusiast based memory with its new T1 heat spreaders and HTX technology. HTX technology is a new innovation design by Kingston’s engineering team dedicated to building enthusiast memory. Read More ...
Palit Claims Most Powerful Video Card
Need some heavy-duty graphics power for that insane system you are thinking of building? Palit is aiming to deliver the goods with its new Revolution 700 Deluxe Read More ...
Alienware m17 Does ATI Crossfire
After years of exclusively using Nvidia SLI graphics technology in its laptops, Alienware has revealed a new 17-inch powerhouse with ATI Crossfire graphics at its core. Read More ...
Nvidia Big Bang II ForceWare Beta Release
It's soon time to upgrade the drivers again! The ForceWare 180 – AKA â€کBig Bang II’ details are coming out now – here is what we've got. Read More ...
AMD: We Turn Bad PCs into Super PCs!
The first bit of “Fusion†that AMD is releasing today is an in-house designed software utility that was described to us as being able to “turn a mainstream PC into a lean, mean gaming machine.†Read More ...
EFiX Dongle Turns (Some) PCs into Macs
Back in June, a European company called EFiX announced its EFi-X USB dongle for desktop PCs. The dongle promised the ability to not only install legitimate copies of OS X on any PC, but to utilize the Software Update feature, something Hackintoshes and P
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Control All Aspects of Your Home Wirelessly
Want to automate things in your home like fans and lights using your PC? Two widely backed specifications are quietly battling for supremacy in the wireless home-control market: Z-Wave, a proprietary technology developed by the Norwegian firm Zensys, and Read More ...
Guy Makes a PC Out of Nintendo Wii
Modding your computer to look cooler is one thing, and overclocking it your processor and memory is pretty cool too. But someone has managed to stuff a fully operational desktop PC into Nintendo’s minuscule Wii. Of course, the internals of the Wii were g Read More ...
New Mac Clones From Offshore
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Gigabyte Goes Extreme Cold Overclocking
Gigabyte launches its first State-side overclocking competition and plans for more in the coming months. Read More ...
Helping Your Mac Pro Run A Little Faster
Chicago (IL) - Overclocking Macs is not really a topic you read very often about and at least to our knowledge, there is no tool to increase the clock speed of a Mac in a simple way. Read More ...
Logitech Ships its One Billionth Mouse
Can’t you just hear Dr. Evil reading this statement: “Logitech announced today that it has manufactured one billion mice since it first started producing the digital rodents for retail in 1985.†Read More ...
Samsung Claiming Thinnest LCD Screen at 7.9mm
Need another 1/10th of a millimeter of space on your desk? Probably not, but Samsung is claiming the thinnest LCD in the world at 7.9mm over the 8.0mm Phillips had on show back in August. Read More ...
Wired Keyboards Remotely Hacked From 20 Meters Away
LASEC, the Security and Cryptography Laboratory, claimed to have found four different ways of remotely capturing keystrokes from wired keyboards from a distance of up to 20 meters away Read More ...
Logitech DiNovo Edge Now Available in Mac Edition
A lot of people can vouch that they have at least once thought of the Logitech diNovo Edge keyboard. It’s slim, sleek, has a bunch of features – but it also costs a big chunk of money at around $200. Read More ...
Nanovision 7-inch Mimo Monitors Make Multitasking Fun
Need more Windows desktop space? Do you run a multi-monitor configuration and only use the second monitor for applications that don’t need much room, like IRC clients or IM clients? Read More ...
Stereoscopic Glasses from Nvidia
Some of you might remember way back in the day when you could get the 3D VR glasses. Read More ...
Microsoft to Also Rock September 9 With New Gadgets
Apple and Microsoft could go head-to-head during launch events on September 9 Read More ...
Samsung: Blu-ray Has Five Years Left, OLED the Next Big Thing
Since the launch of the format, Samsung has been one of the pioneers of Blu-ray Disc player hardware. But oddly enough, the company believes that Blu-ray Disc will have a much shorter life span than DVD Read More ...
Microsoft Patents Page Up & Down Keys
Microsoft recently applied for and received Patent #7,415,666. Microsoft has just patented two keys that are on every keyboard that is manufactured on this planet – Page Up & Page Down. Seriously. This patent was originally filed in March 4, 2005 and wa Read More ...
IOGEAR Announces Wireless USB-to-VGA kit
IOGEAR's upcoming wireless USB-to-VGA kit brings in-room wireless video streaming to the masses Read More ...
OCZ Dominatrix: Your New Gaming Mouse Master
It isn't often you see bondage terms used for computer gaming peripherals, but the new OCZ Dominatrix Laser Gaming Mouse might just be worthy enough to tie you up. Read More ...
Logitech Introduces New Wireless Keyboard/Mouse Combo
Logitech continues its line of solid keyboard offerings today with the unveiling of the Cordless Desktop Wave Pro Read More ...
HP Kicks Off SIGGRAPH 2008 With Lots Of New Gear
Hewlett Packard unveiled at SIGGRAPH 2008 new products for its "DreamColor" technology portfolio. These include "mobile workstations" (notebooks), a calibration kit for an existing display and two other displays. Read More ...
Weakening LCD Panel Industry Spreads To Backend
As most upstream LCD panel and LCD driver IC vendors are guiding for a conservative second half of 2008, major LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses’ expect to feel the effect. Chipbond Technology observed that bookings declined in July on a month Read More ...
LCD Panel Revenues Drop 11% In June, Samsung Remains Number One, Says DisplaySearch
LCD panel revenues dropped 11% sequentially in June, with Samsung Electronics remaining the worldwide number-one supplier in terms revenues, followed by LG Display (LGD) and AU Optronics (AUO), according to DisplaySearch. Read More ...
LCD Monitor Industry Players Believe Demand May Recover In Q4
Regardless of the disappointing performance of the LCD monitor industry in the first half of the year, industry players are optimistic that the traditional peak season will boost the shipments in the fourth quarter, according to market sources.
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Look, Mom: No Letters On The Keys!
Austin (TX) - This could be an incredibly dumb or an ingenious idea: You type all day, taking a peek now and then to make sure you are hitting the right lettered keys.
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LCD Panel Makers Cutting Small- To Medium-size Output Amid Weakening Demand
LCD panel makers, including Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), are reducing their output for the small- to medium-size segment as demand continues weakening, according to industry sources. Read More ...
Philips To Transfer PC Monitor Brand To TPV
Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it has reached an agreement with TPV Technology on key terms and conditions of a brand licensing agreement under which Philips will transfer its PC monitors business, IT Displays, to TPV. Read More ...
Lackluster Small- To Medium-size Panel Demand Affects June Revenues For Makers
Demand for small- to medium-size LCD panels dropped rapidly in the second quarter and the drop was reflected in revenues for small- to medium-size panel makers in June, according to market sources.
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LED Penetration To Reach 8% Of LCD TV Market By 2011, Says Displaybank
Displaybank has forecast that LCD TVs equipped with LED BLUs (backlight units) instead of CCFLs (cold cathode fluorescent lamps) will reach 8% of the total market by 2011.
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Atom Shortage May Affect Low-cost Notebook Panel Shipments In July
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Transition To 16:9 Aspect Ratio Unstoppable, Says DisplaySearch
The LCD panel industry's transition toward the 16:9 aspect is unstoppable, according to DisplaySearch who predicts that the widescreen format will have a 90% penetration of the notebook panel market and 67% of the monitor panel market by 2010.
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Blue LEDs With Red And Green Phosphors May Become Mainstream For TV-use BLUs In 2009
With costs for LED backlights using a mix of red, green and blue LEDs remaining high, LED industry players are considering using a combination of blue LEDs with red and green phosphors for TV-use backlights.
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BLU Makers To Feel Pressure To Reduce Prices In Q3
BLU makers are expected to face increasing pressure to reduce prices in the third quarter, according to industry sources. Read More ...
Worldwide TV Chip Market Expected To Be US$1.33 Billion In 2008, Says DisplaySearch
The worldwide market for flat panel TV ICs is expected to be $1. Read More ...
Some Panel Makers Remain Optimistic That Year-end Holiday Shopping Will Boost Digital Photo Frame S
Some LCD panel makers are still hoping that shipments to the digital photo frame segment will be boosted by the shopping season in the gift market in the second half of the year although major panel makers have already lowered their forecasts for the segment for 2008, according to industry sources. Read More ...
Prices For LCD Monitor Panels To Fall By 30-45% Soon, Says DisplaySearch
As in past Crystal Cycles, surging investment in new fab capacity is providing LCD panel buyers with the ability to drive prices down as panel suppliers become eager to sell their output. Read More ...
Panel Makers Expect Rush Orders For PC Applications In August
LCD panel makers expect that PC applications are likely to continue to see price pressure in July as brand-name vendors and system makers have yet to clear their inventory, but rush orders will appear in August when clients prepare for back-to-school demand, according to industry sources. Read More ...
Nvidia Hosts Mobile Drivers Directly
We all know the procedure, right? You need to update your mobile graphics driver, but when you get to the downloads section of the notebook manufacturers site, the driver is 3, 4, 5 or more revisions behind. D’oh! Read More ...
AMD 40nm RV740 with GDDR5 Coming
AMD could have a monster midrange card on the horizon. According to VR-Zone, RV740 may be a 40nm process shrink of RV770LE - the HD4830. Read More ...
Abit Says Farewell to Motherboards
Once again the rumor mill is churning with reports about enthusiast motherboard manufacturer Universal Abit. Reports have circulated that the company will be closing its doors for the last time on December 31st.As many in the enthusiast community will Read More ...
Corsair Launches 850W TX series PSU
Corsair launches its new 850-watt TX power supply Read More ...
XFX and AMD Cuddle Up, NVIDIA Frowns
XFX, the long-time manufacturer of Nvidia-based graphics cards and motherboards, has announced that it is now an official AMD technology partner. Read More ...
XFX Announces 3-Way SLI X58 Mobo
XFX has announced its new X58i Motherboard, featuring 3-way Nvidia SLI and ATI CrossFireX support. Read More ...
Intel May Deliver Optical Chips Soon
Intel has developed a high-speed silicon-based avalanche photodetector that can be manufactured cheaply, which could one day lead to optically-connected Intel processors Read More ...
NVIDIA Beta Driver for GTA IV
There has been alot of negativity surrounding the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Most notable is the incredibly poor performance on many PCs as Tom's Hardware reported on earlier this week. NVIDIA have quietly released a beta driver, ForceWare 180.84 Read More ...
Intel "Medfield" Atom Processors Expected In 2010
According to information revealed in a UBS report entitled 'Intel Atom : Netbook, Opportunity or Threat?', "Medfield" will be the successor of "Lincroft", part of the "Moorestown" platform, with a release date set for 2H 2010 Read More ...
Kingston's DDR3 for Gaming Notebooks
Kingston has announced new low-latency HyperX DDR3 memory modules for performance notebooks Read More ...
Zotac Releases Tiny WiFi Motherboard
For times when even micro-ATX motherboards are just too big, Zotac's newly released mini-ITX motherboard could come in handy, featuring Nvidia's Geforce 8200 mGPU and built-in WiFi Read More ...
AMD Updates Fourth-Quarter Guidance
AMD’s success in the mid-range GPU market isn’t going to be enough to compensate for the pummeling it’s gotten in the CPU market. AMD is warning Wall Street that its fourth-quarter 2008 prospects are even dimmer than previously thought. Read More ...
G.Skill Unveils 2,000 MHz Tri-Channel DDR3 Kits
G.Skill has announced new enthusiast DDR3 triple-channel memory kits rated at speeds of up to 2,000 MHz Read More ...
Via to Release Dual Core Nano in 2010
According to Via's processor roadmap, dual-core Nano processors are planned to go into mass production starting June 2010 Read More ...
Xbox 360 GPU Hits 65nm With "Jasper"
A new Xbox 360 motherboard configuration was found this past week by a reader on the Xbox-Scene forums. This new motherboard, code named "Jasper" contains the fabled 65nm GPU among other improvements. Read More ...
Lexar Releases Inexpensive Crucial DDR3 Memory Kits
Lexar has announced the availability of its new Crucial DDR3 triple-channel memory kits for the Intel Core i7 platform Read More ...
USB 3.0 Spec Finished: It's SuperSpeed USB
With USB 2.0 ports becoming a common as dirt—you’ll find them in everything from mobile phones to DVD players these days—you know the time has come to move on to a new version. And that’s just what the USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced today. Read More ...
Hynix Announces World's Fastest, First 1 Gb GDDR5 Memory
Hynix Semiconductor has announced the world's first 1 Gigabit GDDR5 graphics DRAM. The chips are also the fastest yet, which should help to enable a new generation of high performance graphics cards Read More ...
S3 Gets a Leg Up on ATI and Nvidia
S3 Graphics is the Rodney Dangerfield of the graphics industry. The company’s Chrome GPUs just don’t get much respect. But the latest model, the Chrome 530 GT, has a feature that neither ATI nor Nvidia can currently match. Read More ...
"Larrabee" Still Expected in 2009 or 2010
Intel's "Larrabee" still is on track for 2009 or 2010, with pressure looming Read More ...
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