Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking
A New Jersey principle is asking parents to join a voluntary ban on social networks for school age children. The guy seems pretty serious about the whole thing, check out this quote: Let me repeat that - there is absolutely, positively no reason for any middle school student to be a part of a social networking site! None. Comments
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Dirty Dozen Spam-Relaying Countries Revealed
Sophos has posted a list of the biggest spam-relaying countries in the world. The U.S. tops the list (go USA!), three countries tied for 9th place and China has dropped completely off the list. IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the first quarter of 2010. The United States of America continues its unpopular reign as the king of spam, relaying more than 13 percent of global spam, accounting for hundreds of millions of junk messages every day. Comments
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Corsair Components Power NVIDIA Demo PCs in Europe
Corsair, a worldwide supplier of high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced that Corsair components have been selected to power NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 demonstration PCs throughout Europe. The components for this Dream PC include Corsair Obsidian Series™ 800D chassis, HX1000W power supplies, Dominator® GT DDR3 memory, Nova Series solid-state drives, and Hydro Series H50 CPU cooling solutions. Comments
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Bungie Partners With Activision
Bungie has signed an exclusive ten-year contract with Activision for worldwide publishing and distribution rights for all future Bungie games. "We chose to partner with Activision on our next IP because of their global reach, multi-platform experience and marketing expertise," said Bungie president Harold Ryan, who oversaw Bungie's split from Microsoft in 2007, in the announcement. "From working together over the past nine months on this agreement, it is clear that Activision supports our commitment to giving our fans the best possible gaming experiences." Comments
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U.S. Broadband Access is Even Worse Than You Think
Guess what? The Slate says that, despite recent claims made by major telecom executives , the U.S. broadband adoption rate (and penetration) is actually far worse than you think. In the same way that it's useful to know the processor speed, screen size, amount of RAM, and hard drive space of a computer before you buy it, broadband measures such as latency, jitter, and uptime are key pieces of information needed to know whether you can run a growing number of online applications, even if they sound complicated at first. For example, if you use Skype, stream NetFlix movies, play World of Warcraft, or use any other of the countless real-time applications, metrics like latency and jitter affect your quality of service. Comments
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HP Acquires Palm for $1.2 Billion
According to the Associated Press, Hewlett-Packard plopped down a huge chunk o' change yesterday to buy Palm. Thanks to [H] forum members BillR and Badcaps for the heads up. Neither RIM nor Lenovo will be putting Palm in its pocket. Rather, it's computing giant Hewlett-Packard, which is snapping up the company in an all-cash transaction valued at about $1.2 billion — $5.70 for each outstanding share of Palm stock. That's a healthy premium over the $4.63 the stock closed at Wednesday, valuing the company considerably higher than the $781 million it was worth at the end of the Wall Street trading day. Comments
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AMD Sets the New Standard for Price, Performance and Power
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. 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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Intel Engineers win Design Award
The team that designed the current Intel® Core™ family of processors has been awarded the EETimes ACE award for best design team. First available in November 2008, this industry leading microarchitecture represents a big step forward in faster, multi-core technology that intelligently maximizes performance to match software workloads. Designed to take advantage of advances in 45nm hafnium-based hi-k metal gate transistors, Nehalem-based products unleash energy-efficient parallel processing performance. Comments
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Japan Has World's Largest Curved Plasma Display
I'd like to flip this 200" curved plasma display on its side and use it to play games on. Currently the Kansai Airport uses it for tourist information but you know the janitors probably watch porn on it at night. Comments
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The World's Greatest GameÂ…Ever
I have found the world's greatest game ever createdÂ…Super Mario Crossover. Essentially you play Super Mario as other famous game characters (Link, Samus, Mega-Man) using their powers. I warn you now, clicking this link could result in the severe loss of productivity at home / work / school. Comments
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MSI Announces GE600, Its Lightest 16" Gaming Notebook
MSI Computer Corp., a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is proud to announce the availability of the stylish new GE600 gaming notebook. Weighing in at just 5.9 lbs, the GE600 is MSI's lightest 16-inch gaming notebook to date, but still packs quite a punch with Intel's powerful new Core i5 processor and ATI Radeon 5730 graphics card -- all for under $900. The GE600's new ATI Radeon HD5730 GPU supports DirectX 11 graphics, making the notebook compatible with the rapidly approaching next generation of games and 3D graphics. Its new Core i5 processor improves battery life by as much a 15% and Intel's new Turbo Boost technology can increase overall performance by 30%. Comments
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Facebook Privacy Hole Lets You See Personal Info
Apparently another "serious privacy hole" has been discovered in Facebook that allows anyone to see the list of events you plan on attending. Is this the same as the old exploit or something new? Yee demonstrated the flaw by showing how the API – which plugs directly into Facebook's databases – can show you a list of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's planned public events. Comments
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ATI Catalyst 10.4 Drivers Are Now Available
AMD has just posted the new ATI Catalyst 10.4 drivers for all you Radeon owners out there. The new Catalyst 10.4 drivers support Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Linux. In addition to various performance improvements, the new drivers include new features and address a number of issues. Hit the link for more information.
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Art Lebedev Does Coffee Mugs
It would seem that tech-designer Art Lebedev has taken a little time away from making billion dollar keyboards long enough to make this cool coffee cup. Comments
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