A recent study done by Avast! shows that 49% of their users still use Windows XP, and those installations are responsible for 74% of rootkit infections. Avast!
Thirty years ago on July 27, 1981, QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) was sold from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) to Microsoft for $25,000, and an era was started.
If you haven't heard, the US. Supreme Court struck down legislation that would inhibit stores from selling violent videogames to minors in the case Brown vs. Entertainment Software Association.
Those who purchased Medal of Honor: Limited Edition have probably received by now an e-mail about the upcoming Battlefield 3 Demo. I'll post a copy of the e-mail after the jump.
With all of the talk about how discs will no longer be needed because it's all "in the cloud," it's interesting to learn about the new disc developments.
Sony's insurance company, Zurich American Insurance, is going to court against Sony over the PSN Outage losses because they believe that, under the terms of their contract, Sony is soley at fault for not securing their own company.
Ever want to run an OS in a browser? Well, now you can. Thanks to Java and some cool people, a website lets you run Windows XP inside of a Java emulation. As well, you can also run Ubuntu Linux.
As Apple was hoping for, OS X Lion was released. For an easy $30 you can upgrade straight from Snow Leopard. It's a 4GB download you can get straight from Apple's App Store.
Sadly, Google is closing down Google Labs to "prioritize product efforts." Google Labs is where Google basically pre-beta-tested all of their features. Read on for the whole blog post, or read it on Google's blog.
Co-founder of reddit.com (co-founder is disputed) Aaron Swartz was indicted today for allegedly stealing over four million files from MIT. The files were either files from MIT or from JTOR, which is a collection of scientific journals.
The same website who reported AMD Bulldozer delays is reporting information on Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors. There are quite a few new processors.
According to a Turkish website called Donanimhaber, which is known for its pre-release information, and Google's translate feature, AMD's Bulldozer CPUs will be delayed from June to sometime between August and September.
Apple's Mac computers (just the computers, iPads were not included in this data) have increased in market share. At 10.7%, it's higher than it has been since 1991 where it was at 11.2%.
OCZ has recently launched their newest in the line of RevoDrives: the RevoDrive 3 and the RevoDrive 3 X2. For those of you who don't know, a RevoDrive is a super-speedy SSD that plugs into a PCI slot instead of a SATA port.
If you read other news sits you've probably read rumors of EA buying PopCap games. Well, the rumors have been confirmed by EA. The deal will go through in August for $650 million and $100 million in common EA stock.
Back in the last presidential election, President Obama (partly) campaigned on expanding broadband access to rural areas. Thanks to the stimulus package, he was able to accomplish some of that.
For you mobile-gaming enthusiasts (mobile as in laptop, not as in phone), prepare to be happy. AMD today launched the fastest mobile GPU on the market: the AMD Radeon HD 6990M.
According to one of Mary-Jo-Foley-of-ZDNet's source, it's very likely that the Windows 8 RTM (release to manufacturer) would be released in April of 2012. Keep in mind, this is only from one source and is unconfirmed by Microsoft.
For months now we've all been excited for Battlefield 3's amazing graphics, but the question that's been on a lot of people's minds is, "What parts it take to run this?" Well, thanks to Gamestop, we now have a better idea.
Because efforts to prevent piracy have been so slow to come about, the RIAA and other such associations have teamed with AT&T, Comcast, Cablevision Systems, and Time Warner Cable (and probably other various ISPs) to stop piracy.
A few days ago, AMD released a hotfix for their Catalyst 11.6 drivers to add support for their new Llano APUs. Well, yesterday AMD released a hotfix that actually fixes something.
A big deal going on online now is privacy on the Internet. A lot of people are concerned that there isn't enough. Google, on the other hand, thinks there's too much, apparently.
The United States' Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) is claiming that they have jurisdiction over all .com and .net Internet addresses, meaning that they can extradite anyone from any country who owns a website doing illegal…
We all know Windows 7 is a great OS, but there are many things most people don't know about the UI. Well, luckily for us, the guys over at Maximum PC put together a handy little guide to a few keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7.
Google seems to be becoming too good to be true. Thanks to Google+, Picasa Online users will have unlimited storage for videos and pictures under the 2048x2048. Under the Picasa FAQ, Picasa has 1GB of storage for videos for free.
If you're one of the many, many users of GPU-Z, or you want to start using it, it's time to update. If you haven't used it before, GPU-Z is an informational program, like CPU-Z, that gives you detailed information about your GPU.
If you haven't heard, IBM has been working extensively with PCM, or phase-change memory. It uses a compound called chalcogenide, which is also used in rewritable discs.
