A report by the nonprofit Connected Nation explores what might happen if the US were to adopt a national policy aimed at promoting broadband use. Their findings suggest that it may be a good form of economic stimulus, resulting in the creation of 2.4 million jobs and $134 billion in economic growth.Read More...
Read more »We take a first look at Western Digital's latest drive that will have you scrambling for part number WD3200AAKS-00B3A0.
Read more »We've reviewed many PSUs rated at extreme wattages; now it's time to look at more reasonable offerings in the 650W range.
Read more »AMD gave us the opportunity to preview its long awaited CrossFireX technology. We liked the Radeon HD 3870 X2 when it launched, but how well will two fare?
Read more »NVIDIA hasn't released a card at this price point that offered a compelling reason to upgrade since the 7600 GT. Performance on this part significantly outpaces its predecessor and keeps up with the competition.
Read more »Apple adds free cell phone recycling—from any manufacturer—to its recycling efforts. Greenpeace, watch out!Read More...
Read more »A new report by Entertainment Media Research says that consumers overwhelmingly prefer ad-supported on-demand services if those ads were to make it free. At the same time, those same consumers skip ads in recorded TV, and openly admit that they actively try to avoid ads. Read More...
Read more »The United States has traditionally defended itself as a neutral guardian of Internet governance, but that's not always true. The Department of the Treasury recently ordered a European man's travel business offline on the basis that he offered trips to Cuba, despite the fact that neither the man, his company, or the servers in question reside on US soil.Read More...
Read more »According to Steve Jobs, WiFi-based VOIP applications will be allowed on the iPhone.Read More...
Read more »Jerry Yang would rather pick a partner himself, before Microsoft imposes its will on his company. If MySpace won't come to Yahoo's rescue, maybe AOL will.Read More...
Read more »Believe it or not, some officials in China are elected by way of text message votes, much as you would vote for your favorite contestant on American Idol. At least one official says that system is being abused, though, and has called for a ban on the practice.Read More...
Read more »What could be more fun that spending and hour on the elliptical machine down at the gym? Data logging all that hard work on your iPod nano!Read More...
Read more »The cyberattack that penetrated the Pentagon in June, 2007 did more damage than immediately reported. According to one Department of Defense official, the organization lost huge amounts of data through an already-known Windows exploit.Read More...
Read more »Some called it a battle. Others a war. But the blue laser thing was more like a tussle…a two year tussle.
HD DVD had Toshiba, the DVD Forum (that sure helped DVD-RAM?) and a few studios that were kinda, maybe, sorta on their side. Oh yeah…and Microsoft.BD had Sony and its string of content owners, Panasonic, the CE industry and a lot of financially grateful production houses.On one side a technology leader who wanted to have a consumer presence.
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Wal-Mart has decided that Linux-based PCs aren't working for them in brick-and-mortar stores, but that online sales still make sense.Read More...
Read more »A team of engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have created a hardware-based combination lock that would prevent CPUs from working unless "approved" by its designers. It's meant to stop black market piracy in Asia, and is an intriguing use of public-key cryptography.Read More...
Read more »Europe should force cell phone subscribers to pay for incoming calls, says one research group, and require both parties to share the cost of the call. It may not sound like a good deal to European cellular subscribers, but the researchers say it would reduce costs all around and allow for further development of next-generation networks.Read More...
Read more »The Mega-D botnet has shrunk significantly since its peak in early February, but there's a new botnet rising to take its place. Srzibi already accounts for 39 percent of the global spam market and unlike Mega-D, may not be stopping anytime soon.Read More...
Read more »Everyone's waiting for the new 1600 MHz FSB to become mainstream. Thanks to the lack of a P2P interconnect, the performance of Core 2 processors are now limited by the front side bus speed.
With that, we bring you the latest updates on the Intel 1600 MHz platform. Will 1600 MHz become mainstream soon? Check it out!
Read more »According to data from research firm StatCounter, the market share of the iPhone's mobile Safari browser has increased by 64 percent since December.Read More...
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