There's always that one guy, and in this case that one guy was a 23-year old man from South Carolina. Apparently he thought real-life Frogger would work.
Today Mozilla sent out an e-mail to registered users of addons.mozilla.org alerting them that they accidentally posted a file to a publicly-available server that contained data from their database of users that includes first and last names…
People in the Russian government have tried to switch over to freeware in the past, but now President Vladimir Putin has signed a document outlining a transition to GNU/Linux freeware between 2011 and 2015.
Arctic Cooling, who makes more than just heatsinks, has recently launched 5 new input devices. First among them is a presentation remote with a built-in red laser pointer.
Although the basic net neutrality rules were made known since the voting, the FCC has officially posted a 194-page document detailing the actual rules.
Finally, news from the FCC that doesn't (totally) have to do with net neutrality. The FCC is said to ok the Comcast-NBC merger, provided they follow a list of rules to follow various laws dealing with large companies.
Firefox 4 Beta 8 was released yesterday. They fixed a whole slew of bugs, but there are only a few new features, listed below. Check out the release notes here, and the bug fix list here (there are too many for me to list).
So yesterday the FCC voted on Net Neutrality rules, and here are the results: three democratic commissioners for, two republican commissioners against. Not even all of the three commissioners who voted for were totally for it, though.
If you're one of the many users of Skype, most likely you're experiencing a connection problem. Don't worry, you aren't alone. This problem is affecting millions of Skype users.
If you didn't know, Portal 2 should be coming out in April of 2011. So with this, EA and Valve have announced a retail distribution agreement for Portal 2.
If you haven't heard, the FCC is going to be voting on the Net Neutrality rules today. These new rules, while not as bad as they could be, are not what is good for the consumer.
Lian Li, a famous maker of many PC chassis, has come out with their newest case, namely the "Huge" PC-A04 Mini-Tower Chassis. It's a feature-rich, versatile case in a mini-tower form factor.
3DMark 11, which came out a couple weeks ago, has come out with its first update. At 1.01, it fixes quite a few problems among the various versions released.
So Arctic Cooling has released an.. interesting product series. Called the "Land Riders," they're four remote-control vehicles. Yeah, I was shocked, too.
Dropbox, the massively popular file-syncing-between-computers program, has gotten up to 1.0, bringing along with it selective syncing as well as 50% lower memory usage.
CES is coming up, which means Intel will be debuting their new "Sandy Bridge" processors. At a recent event, Intel people claimed that the first generation of these new processors will be quad-core, with dual-cores coming out later.
Dr. Christopher Ferguson of Texas A&M International University conducted a study of youth studying what circumstances cause violence in youth, and he found that violent videogames did not cause youth to be more violent.
According to a recent study, Americans are now using the Internet more than they are watching TV. This is probably largely due to services like Hulu, iTunes TV rentals, and Netflix.
The Radeon HD6900 series has been released, and early reviews are saying that the higher model HD6970 bests Nvidia's GTX 580 (which is the higher model of the GTX's 500 series), while at a price point comparable to the GTX 570.
IBM has been contracted by German's Bavarian Science Academy to build a supercomputer able to compute at 3 petaflops. For reference, the current fastest supercomputer computes at 2.66 petaflops.
A recent study by the FCC found that 68% of the United States' internet connections that are advertised as broadband do not meet the requirements for an internet service to be called Broadband.
Crucial, trusted manufacturer of RAM and other computer components, has come out with their newest model of the Ballistix RAM series, the Ballistix DDR3-1866 and DDR3-2133 with Thermal Sensor.
In an effort to phase out VGA and other legacy video interfaces in favor of more power-efficient and better-looking display interfaces, leading PC companies such as Dell, AMD, Intel, Lenovo, Samsung LCD and LG Display announced yesterday th…
Today, NVIDIA released it's new GTX 570, which is meant to be the successor to the GTX 470. NVIDIA claims that the GTX 570 is "built from the DNA of the GTX 580" (the GTX 580 is the first 500 series card and is the more powerful model).
Futuremark, makers of the popular benchmarking program 3Dmark. has come out with its newest version of 3DMark: 3DMark 11. It includesfor DirectX 11 benchmarking, as well six new benchmarking tests.
According to a recent Politico article, Victoria Espinel, who is the Intellectual Property "Czar" under the Obama Administration, said that the President's administration will begin to crack down harder on copyright infringement, and that w…
So says a Bloomberg article. They say that "two men with knowledge of the matter" said that Seagate turned down an offer to be taken over by Western Digital.
Spire has come out with a new gaming chassis, the Sentor 6004. It's designed to have a very good cooling efficiency, and can have up to 9 120mm fans mounted. The side panel is mesh, which allows for greater air flow.
Matthew Crippen, a 28 year old hotel car-parking manager, was (unknowingly) video-recorded modding Xbox optical drives to allow them to be able to circumvent the normal security to play copies of games, pirated games, or homebrew software.
Net Neutrality is no doubt an important issue. Internet providers, such as Comcast, and wireless providers, such as Verizon, who offer data plans want to be able to legally control the data that we can access.
Sony, Nikon, and Sandisk are teaming up to produce a compact flash card that, theoretically, could hold beyond 2TB of information and have transfer speeds of 500 megabytes per second.
