AMD recently released their Catalyst 11.9 drivers. There are a bunch of updates, but since it's two days old the hotfix for Battlefield 3 will still need to be applied. You can read the release notes here and download the drivers here.
There have recently been research reports that both show Chrome will soon take the #2 browser spot from Firefox. When both Firefox and Internet Explorer lose market share, it appears that its losing that market share to Chrome.
Forget about getting left out of early access to Battlefield 3's expansions, PC gamers are now being left out of "an online competition you'll be telling your grandkids about." Virgin Gaming is teaming up with EA DICE to bring a massive Bat…
According to the most recent iSuppli Computer Systems research, Intel has gained microprocessor market share over second point, up 1.1% from 80.7% market share they had in Q2 2010. AMD, consequently, lost 1.1%.
Yesterday NVIDIA released a Battlefield 3-optimized driver beta. Well, Battlefield 3 must have some crazy problems with past drivers because AMD released their own optimized driver.
FoxConn, a computer-part manufacturer who is famous for making iPhones, iPods, and iPads but not very well known for also working for Dell and other tech companies, owns quite a few plants over in China.
AMD announced today their newest entry level discrete graphics processor: the Radeon E6460. This new processor brings support for up to 4 monitors as well as almost double the 3D processing power of the E2400 GPU.
If you haven't heard, the Battlefield 3 beta is opening up to pre-orderers tomorrow. In light of this, NVIDIA has released an optimized beta driver just for this.
Diablo III has been, very sadly, postponed until early 2012. Their original release deadline has been thrown out, most likely from problems experienced with the recently-opened closed beta.
I've hoped by now that you've at least tried to try out Spotify. It's a fantastic program that offers ad-supported music streaming as well as paid services. The ads can get annoying, but it's balanced with how nice the service is.
Although EA has assured us that Battlefield 3 has been developed with a PC focus, Tommy Ryding of DICE announced today that PS3 Battlefield 3 players will receive one-week early access to every and all Battlefield 3 expansion, starting with…
Whether or not you like their recent decisions concerning their PC division or not, HP is undoubtedly an important player in the industry. That's why it will be interesting to see what their new CEO does with her new position.
A recently-released graphics driver for Intel's second-generation Sandy Bridge processors brings some surprisingly good performance increases, especially for a driver update.
Remember OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid? Basically, it puts an HDD on a PCI SSD to increase both size and performance by using the SSD as a cache for the HDD using software called DataPlex.
Comcast started its $9.99 Internet plan for low-income families called "Internet Essentials." Basically its very low-tier Internet service for cheap. The advertised speeds are 1.5Mbps down and 384Kbps up.
We've known for a while how amazing Battlefield 3 looks. But of course, all of the videos you see are most likely from a computer with the highest-end parts inside.
Ever wish your entire desk was a multitouch interface? Or maybe your screen? Well, there's been this film around for a while that can turn just about any non-conductive surface (wood, glass, plastic, etc) into a touch interface.
Valve's amazingly popular Portal videogame is now free to own, but only for a short time. Grab it by Tuesday for Mac or for PC before it goes back to costing money.
Ok, this isn't about computers per se, but I have no doubt this will be modded over to work on computers. Razer opened a product-testing beta at the Tokyo Game Show to test and improve an Xbox 360 arcade stick.
The website of the popular torrenting application uTorrent got "hacked" recently. The application download was replaced with malware, meaning when you downloaded uTorrent and installed it you actually installed malware.
IBM's famous "Watson" supercomputer was recently hired by WellPoint Inc. WellPoint plans on using the computer to help doctors diagnose patients as well as suggest treatment options.
A new bill proposed by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), if passed, would impose regulations on companies who have the personal information of over 10,000 people stored on their servers on how that data is to be stored and kept secure.
Google recently came out with a blog post regarding the Google Docs outage that occurred on Wednesday. For those of you who don't know, Google Docs was inaccessible on Wednesday for about an hour. "So what happened?
Boot time has recently become a big issue, especially with laptops. Windows 7 made some remarkable steps in faster boot, but most computers still take over a minute to start up. That's not fast enough, according to Windows 8.
A relatively-unknown company called Invensas has found a way to stack DRAM chips on top of each other. You might be asking why this is news worth reading about.
The Obama administration has recently come out with a proposal that would put "cybercrimes" such as hacking into computers in the same boat as organized crime.
AMD has recently been running a promotion where people who buy their video card get a free copy of Dirt 3 via AMD4u and Steam. Basically, there was a large database of Steam codes for the game, and hackers got ahold of it and released it.
Gamers who were excited for the launch of Dead Island got a surprise when they downloaded the game from Steam the other day: they downloaded the developer version.
Those of you fond of GPU-Z as well as AMD's APUs will be happy to know that the former now supports the latter in the latest version. Revision notes follow, and you can download it here.
Windows 8's new explorer will have all new features in its UI, but probably the most interesting thing about Windows 8 is that Windows Explorer will only be an app, and the code will literally not be loaded unless you open the app.
In Germany there are more strict rules in regard to media, including videogames. Quite a few popular games in the US are restricted in Germany and put in the same category that pornography is in.
Back in July, Netflix announced a new plan system, which means new pricing. For current subscribers, the new, mandatory plans go into effect today. Instead of having combined streaming and DVD plans, they're separate now.
Google announced recently that Google Docs and Gmail will now have offline functionality again. "Google Calendar and Google Docs let you seamlessly transition between on- and offline modes.
Ever wish you could have speed and storage capacity when it comes to your hard drive? Well, with the RevoDrive Hybrid, you can have those two in sweet, sweet combination. OCZ announced the drive back in June, but it's finally released.
