Everyone has been getting excited about the January 9 release of the AMD Radeon HD 7970, and many people were hoping that the HD 7950 would come out at the same time so they could save some money.
Recently a team of material scientists have made two types of transistors out of common yarn. The first is a field-effect transistor (FET), which is similar to the one found inside of a CPU.
Today was an odd day for Microsoft, because they released an out-of-band security update. The new update fixes four big security holes, but only one of them is public.
Not only do companies such as Sony, Fox, Universal, and the RIAA pirate using torrents, it appears that even the House of Representatives was caught doing the deed.
News that Intel will be bringing Thunderbolt to PCs was recently told by Intel to top-tier PC makers. It's expected to launch in April 2012. Thunderbolt, like Firewire, was taken up by Apple but now will be joining the PC market.
LG had previously announced that they will debut a 55" OLED HDTV at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, but details other than that were skimpy. Well, more information (including a couple pictures) has been released.
Recently there's been an outlash against Go Daddy for their vocal support of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and many have threatened and started to move their domains to other providers.
Earlier this week news came out about Mozilla and Google reaching an agreement for Google to be the main search engine for Mozilla's Firefox web browser.
Last week, AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7970 specifications were leaked, and now benchmarks have been released. Although it has a $549 price tag, the card is looking pretty amazing numbers-wise.
Razer's upcoming release of the Blade gaming laptop has been delayed, sadly. Its initial launch date was set for Q4 2011, but Razer was unable to meet that.
Recently news came out that IP addresses assigned to the RIAA were caught by TorrentFreak and YouHaveDownloaded using torrents to pirate music, TV shows, and applications.
If you didn't know, Mozilla makes a lot of money from Google based off of their Google search default home page. The agreement the two companies had is just about over, but luckily for both sides a new agreement has been reached.
Oh hypocrisy, will you never end? IP addresses from the RIAA, one of the most staunch anti-piracy firms around, have been caught doing the same thing they're trying to stop: pirating.
Specifications about AMD's recently announced Radeon 7970 have been leaked, thanks to OBR-Hardware.com. The specs card, taken from the previous link, follows:
EA has recently announced an interesting title (read on for the interesting part), namely Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances. The interesting part? It's a free-to-play in-browser MMO strategy game, and it doesn't look half bad.
Back in October, Hitachi and LG's joint venture Hitachi-LG Data Storage admitted to fixing prices and rigging bids of optical disk drives, giving Dell, HP, and Microsoft a hard time in that market.
Because ads are very important to the internet (heck, they support most websites like this one), Adblock Plus will start allowing a "whitelist" of ads that aren't obtrusive to Adblock Plus 2.0, which means pretty much just text ads will be…
A new supercomputer named "Gordon" has been revealed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). It will be one of the first to use massive amounts of flash memory to get over the bottleneck of disk-based-storage.
Hitachi has broken the current limit of hard disk drive capacity with their recently-released-in-Japan 4TB hard drive. If you didn't know, the previous limit was 3TB.
Budget notebooks. We all know the type: cheap plastic that's hardly holding together. Nothing against Acer, but they've put out their fair share of horrid-quality laptops.
A while ago NVIDIA's Rage graphics tweaking guide was all the rage (admit it, you laughed). The minor changes to the files produced some good results in graphics and performance for many.
If you've been reading around various tech sites lately, you should have noticed an increase in the amount of people talking about Internet Service Providers (ISPs) switching to tiered data services for home broadband.
When talking about their release of the official Microsoft App Store for Windows 8, one of the vice presidents at Microsoft (there are many) said that a feature-complete beta of Windows 8 will be coming out in late February of 2012.
Intel and its partner Micron have announced that their joint company, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), has developed technology that can fit a terabit of information in a chip that will fit on your finger tip.
When most of us were kids, we loved to play with LEGOs. Many of us still build with them (why not?). If you're an avid internet user you've no doubt heard of Minecraft, which is sort of like building with LEGOs in a virtual world.
Back when all of the news of AMD's Bullzdozer line was coming out, AMD PR released the information that the flagship processor had 2 billion transistors. Well.. apparently that number was wrong.
The juicy details we've all been waiting for: specifications for Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs has been leaked, as well as a release time-frame. Core i5's and i7's will be released in Q2 2012, but sans Core i3's until later in the quarter.
It's been a while since news about the major flooding in Thailand came out, but Western Digital recently released some information that should give us a little relief.
AMD has recently released yet another incremental driver update, this being the third. Catalyst 11.11c does the usual: bug fixes and performance increases. Read the full release notes and download the drivers from here.
If you've payed attention to the limitations of access to the internet by ISPs and Mobile Carriers recently, you've no doubt heard of the "bandwidth hog." Companies use these "people" as reason to limit the amount of data you can use per mo…
President of Acer Jim Wong expects ultrabook prices to drop to $499 in 2013, according to a recent article by Digitimes. Acer hopes to ship 250,000 to 300,000 ultrabooks by the end of 2011. As of now, they've shipped 100,000 per month.
Yesterday Spotify announced that it is launching an "app" functionality to its music streaming program. In the press release, it said that the "Apps" category will appear in the left pane.
In the past, Dell used to rent out the The Palms Casino and Resort's Hardwood Suite, deck it out in all of the latest Dell technology, and open it to the various CES-goers.
There's no doubt that Spotify, even with its extremely annoying commercials if you're using the free version, is a great service. Unlimited, free, high-quality music? What's not to like (aside from advertisements)?
