If geeks love it, we’re on it

Tinfoil Hats Attract Mind-Control Signals

The government conspiracy to force radio signals into people's heads for the purposes of mind control is even worse than people had originally thought. Add comment

Amazon Patents Online Reviews

Amazon.com has managed to get patent protection for its system of collecting online reviews from customers. How will this affect the practice of other online retailers doing the same? Add comment

Virus Writers use the tools Sony gave them.

Verifiable evidence of the existence of viruses that utilize Sony's rootkit copy-protection software has emerged. Add comment

Microsoft’s freebies: Visual Studio and SQL Server

Microsoft is allowing free downloads of Visual Studio.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 for personal use. Add comment

Amd tops Intel in retail sales

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. surpassed Intel Corp. in supplying CPUs for computers sold in retail stores for the month of October. Add comment

Yahoo! and Google both release wireless services.

Both Yahoo! and Google are releasing new wireless services that take advantage of the capabilities of new cell phone networks and telephones. Add comment

Dell’s ‘best days behind it’

Financial analysis paper Barron's has postulated that Dell may have passed its prime. Add comment

Microsoft releases software to challenege Oracle

Microsoft is releasing a new version of SQL Server, in an effort to present a serious challenege to Oracle's market. Add comment

Survey: One in Five Teens Have Own Blogs

Almost 20% of teens now have their own blogs, according to Yahoo News. Add comment

Nintendo To Create 7,500 Hotspots for Its Own DS in the UK

Nintendo has plans to open 7,500 Wi-Fi Hotspots across the United Kingdom to use with the gaming network which will launch on November 25th. Add comment

Dell Selling AMD CPUs?

Several highend AMD processors are available for purchase from Dell.com Add comment

AMD Socket M2 Roadmap

[url=http://www.anandtech.com/]Anandtech[/url] has available a Socket M2 roadmap, a DDR2 940-pin socket not compatible with the current 940 socket. Add comment

Socket 939 Opteron Are Now Available

The Opteron 165, a dual core solution, is now available for socket 939. Add comment

WoW Hackers Using Sony DRM Rootkit to Cheat

[url=http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/34]Security Focus[/url] is reporting that hackers are using the [url=http://short-media.com/extendednews.php?n=4128]Sony DRM rootkit[/url] to cheat in the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. Add comment

AMD Bumps Up Third-Quarter Market Share

The processor manufacturer AMD gained 1.6 points of market share during the last quarter, a report by Mercury Research shows. Add comment

Firefox Blazes New Browser

A test version of a new Firefox browser is now available. New features include improved pop-up advertisement blocking and faster back and forward Web navigation features, and added support for Mac OS X. Add comment

Firefox Achieves 10 Percent Market Share

[url=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39235378,00.htm]ZDnet[/url] reports that according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, the open source web browser Firefox has achieved over 10 percent of the web browser market share. Add comment

Microsoft Shifting to On-Demand “Live” Software

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4399018.stm]BBC News[/url] is reporting that Software giant Microsoft has announced a major push into online software services, in what is seen as a move to counter rivals like Google and Yahoo. Add comment

Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

[url=http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html]Sysinternals[/url] has an article up with details on Sony's DRM software and a rootkit that gets installed with it. Add comment

October Breaks Malware Production Records

October saw the biggest increase in virus numbers since anti-virus firm Sophos began tracking outbreaks in 1988. The security vendor now identifies and protects against a total of 112,142 viruses, an increase of 1,685 on September. Add comment

HP Runs Linux on Blade Server

Hewlett-Packard is expected on Tuesday to unveil its first blade server based on an Intel Itanium 2 processor, allowing customers to run HP-UX on one of the company's blade servers for the first time. Add comment