Thermaltake Announces First SLI-ready Gaming Chassis for GeForce GTX 480
Thermaltake, the world's leading brand in performance PC chassis, high-efficiency power supply and innovative computer peripherals for PC Do-It-Yourself market, is proud to announce its collaboration with NVIDIA to design and engineer the new Element V NVIDIA Edition chassis, which is certified for the next-generation of ultra-high performance graphics cards, including the just announced NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 480 and GTX 470 GPUs. "NVIDIA shares Thermaltake's commitment to ensure the enthusiast community receives the best possible products that solidify the PC as the best gaming platform, period," said Tom Petersen, technical director at NVIDIA. "Through collaboration with Thermaltake's leading engineers, we are excited that the Thermaltake Element V NVIDIA Edition is capable of providing an awesome gaming environment for our next generation of enthusiast graphic cards, including GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470, running in 2-way, 3-way, or even Quad SLI. Put simply, it rocks!" Comments
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PS3 Loses Linux Support
Sony's next PS3 update will remove the "install other OS" option. The company says they are removing this feature because of security concerns. SCEA's Senior Director Corporate Communications & Social Media, Patrick Seybold, says the move is "due to security concerns". He also says that disabling the feature "will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system." Comments
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Senate Hearing Focuses on Laptop Spying
Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is scheduled testify in front of Congress today, urging lawmakers to update wiretap laws to include secret video surveillance. Monday's field hearing is being led by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. It comes amid a lawsuit that accuses a Pennsylvania school district of spying on students through webcams on school-issued laptops. Lower Merion school officials say they were only trying to locate missing computers. Comments
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Why 3D TV is Just a Pointless Gimmick
While I may not agree with everything this guy says, you have to agree with his point that there is nothing news about 3D movies. I know the movie industry makes it sound like 3D is the latest "must-have" technology but the truth is, they've said that every timeÂ…since 1950. 3D is just another gimmick, right down there with Smell-O-Vision, electric shocks coming through the seat, vibrating cinema chairs and, of course, the last 17 times that the industry has tried to make 3D into the Next Big Thing. And we still don't need it. I've never, ever seen a 3D movie that so much as breathed softly on my socks, never mind blew them off. Comments
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Warner Bros. Recruits Students to Spy on Pirates
Warner Bros. is recruiting interns to spy on pirates. My question is this, what is stopping a flood of pirates from applying for the jobs to thwart the studios efforts? During the 12 month internship, duties will include: monitoring local Internet forums and IRC for pirated WB and NBCU content and in order to gather information on pirate sites, pirate groups and other pirate activities; finding new and maintaining existing accounts on private sites; scanning for links to hosted pirated WB and NBCU content and using tools to issue takedown requests; maintaining and developing bots for Internet link scanning system (training provided); preparing sending of infringement notices and logging feedback; performing trap purchases of pirated product and logging results; inputting pirate hard goods data and other intelligence into the forensics database; selecting local keywords and submitting local filenames for monitoring and countermeasure campaigns and periodically producing research documents on piracy related technological developments. Various training will be provided. Comments
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Chinese City is World's Hacker Hub
I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that most malicious e-mail comes from one town in China. It's just not like the Chinese to do such a thing. Researchers for Symantec found almost 30% of "malicious" emails were sent from China and that 21.3% came from the city of Shaoxing alone. They were able to identify key targets for the hackers as experts in Asian defense policy and human rights activists, strongly suggesting state involvement. Comments
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AMD Launches Opteron 6000 Series 8 - 12 Core Processors
AMD announces availability of a new server platform featuring the world's first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market. The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform addresses the unmistakable needs of server customers today - workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money.3 Leading OEMs including HP, Dell, Acer Group, Cray, and SGI are introducing new systems based on this highly scalable and reliable platform. Comments
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MSI Launches Next-Gen Top Gaming Graphic Card Series
Urged over and again until it appeared! In order to fulfill the demand for extreme 3D performance of hardcore gamers, internationally renowned motherboard and graphic card brand- manufacturer MSI launched today the long expecting premium graphic cards N480GTX-M2D15 and N470GTX-M2D12. Both models are built with the latest 40ìm GPU coded Fermi from NVIDIA. Along with the advanced GDDR5 graphic memory, military class components, and the MSI-exclusive Afterburner overclocking software for voltage adjustment to increase performance up to 15%, these graphic cards can absolutely bring gamers to experience the unprecedented extreme performance! Comments
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25 Years Old and Still Kickin'.
Can anyone tell me the original dot-com'er? Does "symbolics.com" ring a bell? Well on March 15th, 1985 they were the first. They plowed the way for all of this to happen. They took that step. Now we have some 1.7 billion people in our midst which amounts to about 25% of the world. In the Internet economy, consumers not only find the specific product or service they are looking for, but they can also shape and customize those same products and services. Remarkably, this is just the beginning. Comments?
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Where is Your SSN Residing?
A theft of a portable media device that contained personal information on some 3.3 million people with student loans has a non-profit and the Gov't jumping. Educational Credit Management Corp. is a contactor for the Dept. of Education. ECMC said it has arranged with credit protection agency Experian to provide affected borrowers with free credit monitoring and protection services. Borrowers will be receiving letters from ECMC soon on how to sign up, gain access to fraud resolution representatives, and be provided with identity theft insurance coverage. Comments?
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Self Checkout Means Walking out the Door?
Now how many people would quit complaining about the checkout aisles at your local WalMart if you could just walk out the door? That is becoming closer to reality with the invention of a new RFID tag made from ink laced with carbon nanotubes. "You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what's in the cart," says James M. Tour of Rice University, whose research group invented the ink. "No more lines, you just walk out with your stuff." Comments?
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Microsoft Getting Sued by a Doctor over the Zune.
That is right. Microsoft is now in a patent battle with a doctor from Rockford, Ill. It all stems around the "Buy from FM" option. Will Microsoft fight of flight on this one. "THIS IS ALL POSSIBLE AND PATENTED ... SO IPOD and Google CAN'T DO IT, but Microsoft can, if you take the time to talk to me," Yavitz's letter said, according to the filing Comments?
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