Zeta Disconnect: Fetch (chapter 3)
The continuing time-travel adventure of Agent Z-4Q in London. Add comment
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An Interesting Conundrum.
[url=http://www.techspot.com/news/22003-senator-proposes-fines-for-nonrelevant-search-results.html]A senator[/url] from South Carolina has proposed that search engines returning links based on advertising partners rather than content relevance, (pay-to-play deals) have severe penalties applied to them such as sanctions and jail time for the company executives. Add comment
AMD Partners Prepare 4×4 Motherboards
AMD have recently been in talks with their motherboard partners and if all goes well the boards and the dual Athlon FX CPUs will be ready for the christmas season. Add comment
AMD Socket AM2 Has A Secret Weapon
Conroe is scheduled to launch on July 23rd with NDA for reviews scheduled to expire around July 28th. However, AMD has a counter-attack weapon hidden in its Socket AM2 infrastructure. Add comment
Valve Posts Half-Life 2 Stats
Valve Software has published some interesting stats collected via Steam for Half-Life 2: Episode One. These include number of sessions played, average session times, completion times and percentage of games completed. Add comment
PS3 Will Help Sony’s Recovery
Sony boss Howard Stringer has assured shareholders that he's turning the company's fortunes around with PS3 a major factor in the growth. Add comment
Nvidia Promises 35% Performance Increase
Nvidia claims that software developers using its new "NVPerfHUD 4" performance analysis tool will be able to speed up the graphics performance of their applications by about 35% on average. The new debugging heads-up display (HUD) program for Direct3D applications (DirectX 9.0c) is part of Nvidia's "NVPerfKit 2" suite of performance tools for software and game development and allows developers to debug and profile applications by using data from the application, driver, API, and GPU, Nvidia said. Add comment
ATI R600 Taped Out
ATI has managed to tape out its next big chip dubbed R600, We know that the chip is the first DirectX 10 offering from ATI and it will ship toward the end of Q4 2006, hopefully... Add comment
Dell Laptop Explodes
An Inquirer reader attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a Dell laptop that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident. Add comment
Samsung Confirms Plans For Blu-ray, HD-DVD Combo
Samsung has confirmed they will be releasing a Blu-ray HD-DVD player later this year. Add comment
Intel Quad Core CPU Previewed
Xtremesystems has a preview of Intel's next generation CPU, the four-in-one Kensfield processor, with 8MB cache, running on the MSI 975X motherboard. Add comment
Electronic Arts Buying Developers Again
Electronic Arts (EA) today announced that it will acquire Mythic Entertainment, game developer known Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) such as Dark Age of Camelot and the upcoming Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Add comment
Opera 9 Available For Download
Opera Software has released Opera 9, its latest Web browser for PCs. It is available in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms. Add comment
XBox Portable
Over the past year rumours of an Xbox handheld, in a similar fashion to Sony's PSP, have popped up in various forms, with tenuous links and alleged false rumours. One of the latest rumours has emerged in a significantly more reliable source, that source being Dean Takahashi. Add comment
GeForce 7600 AGP
Nvidia has revised its product roadmap, due to continued strong demand for AGP-based systems and Intel's ongoing shipments of 865 chipsets, sources at Taiwan motherboard makers indicated. The graphics chip vendor plans to launch the AGP version of its GeForce 7600GS/ GT graphics processing units (GPUs) in the third quarter of 2006, according to the sources. Add comment
University Offers Degree In Computer Hacking
The [url=http://www.abertay.ac.uk/index.cfm?Key=000]University of Abertay[/url] in Dundee UK, is offering the first 3 year course in computer hacking. Add comment
Zeta Disconnect: Fetch (chapter 2)
Agent Z-4Q finds himself at the bridgehead of a new mission in London; the year is 2327. Add comment
AMD To Simplify Product Line
AMD has confirmed that it will simplify its product lineup over the next few months. According to a report on [url=http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MTk1MzgsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=]HardOCP[/url] products which include the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, X2 4400+ and X2 4000+ [which all come with 1MB L2 cache per core] will be discontinued. Add comment
PayPal Vulnerability Open To Fraud
PayPal users are cautioned that there is [url=http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/16/paypal_security_flaw_allows_identity_theft.html] another security vulnerability[/url] that has been discovered with the PayPal system. Add comment
Louisiana Governor Approves Anti-Violent Game Bill
Louisiana's governor has signed into law an anti-violent game bill drafted by anti-game attorney Jack Thompson. The ESA, EMA have since confirmed they will fight the law. Add comment
“Vista Premium” Certification Requirements Revealed
[url=http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060614-7060.html]Ars Technica[/url] is running a story on the requirements that Microsoft has released to OEMs in order for hardware to be "Vista Premium" certified. Add comment
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