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EU Launches Antitrust Probe Against Blu-ray And HD DVD

The European Commission believes that the companies that are backing each format may have licensing terms that breach European competition rules. Add comment

Vista To Ship With Shadow Copy Feature

Microsoft has incorporated into Vista, the shadow copy feature provided in Windows Server 2003. Add comment

Kernel Patch Protection Questioned

Who benefits the most? Add comment

’90s Newton Beats New Windows UMPC

Back to the old drawing pad? Add comment

The CPU Price War is out of Control!

As Intel & AMD slash prices on there current offerings, some site such as buy.com, newegg.com and many others have been selling more CPU's than they have instock. Which is good for both companies. But Some online retailers are taking things a bit to far. I am sure this is a typo over at Buy.com, but $43,000 for a 4800+ X2 is far from any type of great deal. Add comment

AVG Installer Flaw In Vista Beta 2 Fixed

Microsoft has fixed the flaw that prevented the installation of Grisoft software. Add comment

Makers of Kazaa software settle global piracy lawsuits

WASHINGTON (AP) — The company that distributed software called "Kazaa," which made it simple for millions of computer users to download music and movies over the Internet, has settled global lawsuits brought by the entertainment industry, the industry said Thursday. Add comment

MSIE 7 Will Arrive As “High Priority” Update

[url=http://news.com.com/Microsoft+tags+IE+7+high+priority+update/2100-7350_3-6098500.html?tag=nefd.lede]CNET reports[/url] that Microsoft will be delivering Internet Explorer 7 as a high priority update through Windows Update. Add comment

Bargain Performance with 2MB Cache Core 2s

AnandTech benchmarks and overclocks Intel's E6300 and E6400 chips against their 4MB cache bretheren and the best AMD has to offer. Add comment

Nigeria Orders One Million OLPC Laptops

Nigeria has placed an order for one million of the "One Laptop Per Child" project's $100 laptops, which currently cost about $140 each. Add comment

Conroe vs. AM2: Memory & Performance

Anandtech takes a look at the memory performance of Conroe vs Athlon 64 using DDR2 memory. Add comment

Zeta Disconnect: Fetch (chapter 6)

The continuing time-travel adventure of Agent Z-4Q in London. Add comment

Nvidia Say “Things Are Good With AMD”

With the huge news of AMD buying ATI, the semiconductor market has been a bit hectic the last few days. As rumors still are flying around I decided to e-mail a friend of mine deep within the Nvidia fortress to see if a AMD relationship was still in place, and according to him AMD is still the same with Nvidia as it was yesterday. Add comment

AMD Has to Buy ATI to Survive….

The Inquirer gives it's thoughts on the much rumored and newly announced AMD-ATI merger Add comment

AMD Buys ATI

Dailytech reports that in a few hours AMD will officially announce their purchase of ATI. Add comment

ATI’s RD600 Chipset to be better Overclocker than Intel’s i975

According to the Inq, ATI IS readying its RD600 core logic The chipset and the boards should be ready a month or two. ATI is confident that these boards will demonstrate better overclocking performance than i975 ones. Add comment

AMD To Demonstrate Native Quad-Core This Year

AMD reveals that it plans to demonstrate a next-gen Quad-Core (K8L Core) CPU before the end of 2006. Add comment

AMD Board Approves 5.6B Takeover bid for ATI

DailyTech.com reports that ATI's board of directors has approved a planned 5.6 billion takeover bid for ATI Technologies. Add comment

MySpace Ad Infects Million+ With Spyware

It seems that not every MySpace user is web-savvy. Add comment

AMD & ATI Merger Rumors

Should it come to pass, this would be a stunning turn of events. Add comment

Microsoft Announces Zune

In an exclusive interview with Billboard magazine that appeared only in print today, MSN entertainment marketing vice president Chris Stephenson officially stated Microsoft is indeed working on an MP3 player device to compete with Apple's Ipod. Add comment