January 4th, 2006 – Spinner
Google has denied rumors of a low-cost PC that have been circulating since an LA Times article quoted sources saying the search giant was close to a deal with Wal-Mart and other retailers to sell a budget PC with the Google name.
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January 4th, 2006 – Spinner
D-Link and Skype have introduced a USB adapter which allows users to communicate over the popular VOIP service using their standard corded and cordless telephones.
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January 4th, 2006 – Spinner
[url=http://www.storagereview.com]Storage Review[/url] has posted one of the first online reviews of Western Digital's new 150GB Raptor hard drive.
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January 3rd, 2006 – GHoosdum
Security experts recommend that firms use an unofficial patch to fix a serious vulnerability in Windows Metafile.
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December 31st, 2005 – primesuspect
Happy New Year from the staff of Short-Media!
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December 30th, 2005 – GHoosdum
According to reports, the website for the National Security Agency has been placing banned tracking cookies on visitors' machines.
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December 29th, 2005 – GHoosdum
A fourteen year old Hawaii boy opened the box on his iPod on Christmas morning, only to discover a mystery meat inside rather than an iPod.
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December 29th, 2005 – GHoosdum
The battle for next-generation video storage has moved to the PC world: on Tuesday, Pioneer revealed a Blu-ray drive designed to work in a PC.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
To all our members and readers, Short-Media would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
[url=http://www.hardwaresecrets.com]Hardware Secrets[/url] have posted a short article looking at High Definition Audio and what it can offer us.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
[url=http://www.tweaktown.com/]TweakTown[/url] has posted an article looking at a all of the ATI Catalyst driver releases for 2005.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
A new set of Catalyst drivers for ATI's Radeon line of graphics cards has been released.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
[url=http://www.madshrimps.be]Madshrimps[/url] have posted their final heatsink roundup of 2005. Featuring the latest offerings from Arctic, Scythe, Silverstone, Sharkoon and newcomer Noctua. They compare them to the best out there in 3 different test setups.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
For those of you running with a 64-bit capable AMD processor, along with the Windows 64-bit operating system, Half-Life 2 and Lost Coast are now available in native 64-bit versions. Steam will automatically detect your OS and run the appropriate version the next time you run these games.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
Security researcher Alex Wheeler has released an advisory that could potentially affect a large portion of Symantec's antivirus products including gateway, server, and client versions on most platforms.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
Microsoft developers have disclosed technical details of the internationalized domain names (IDNs) support in the coming beta version of Internet Explorer.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
Mozilla, maker of the open-source Firefox browser, launched on Thursday the second phase of its fan-powered marketing campaign, calling on professional or amateur filmmakers to compete for the best broadcast-quality 30-second commercial for Firefox.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
A U.S. attorney general said on Wednesday that he's added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding "spyware" on its compact discs.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
Two anonymous system builders have reportedly said that AMD has sent a letter to some of its partners stating that several of its desktop processor models were in high demand and would continue to be difficult to obtain.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have warned.
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December 24th, 2005 – Spinner
Google and Microsoft said on Thursday they agreed to settle pending litigation that had barred a former Microsoft executive from heading up the Web search firm's research efforts in China.
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