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Gran Turismo 4 Pulls Into Stores

After multiple delays, Gran Turismo 4 has finally driven into retail stores for the PlayStation 2. Add comment

New Sober Worm Spreading Quickly

A new version of the Sober worm wriggled out of its hole early on Monday and set about quickly attacking computers in Europe and the U.S., a security services company says. The worm is a mass-mailer, meaning it spreads itself via e-mail using contacts listed in the address books of computers it infects. Add comment

Cabir Worm Wriggles Into U.S. Mobile Phones

Several months after its first sighting in the Philippines, the Cabir worm that infects mobile phones running Symbian OS with the Series 60 user interface has surfaced in the United States. Add comment

IBM Unveils New X3 Architecture, ‘Hurricane’ Chip Set For xSeries Servers

When IBM introduced the first Enterprise X-Architecture to its line of Intel Corp.-based systems in 2001, it soon came to dominate the eight-way space of the market, according to company officials. IBM aims to do the same in the four-way space with the introduction Tuesday of the next generation of the architecture, X3, and a new chip set designed for its xSeries line of Intel servers. Add comment

Apple Computer targeted by resellers

Apple Computer is the target of another class-action lawsuit claming the computer hardware and software manufacturer put the interests of it's own 'Apple Store' Retail outlets ahead of resellers. They are also accusing Apple of using trade secrets and pricing under-cuts to damage sales and drive Apple resellers out of business. Add comment

AMD Quietly Sells New Entry-Level 90nm AMD Sempron

Advanced Micro Devices has begun to sell its AMD Sempron processors produced using 90nm process technology with model numbers 2600+, 2800+ and 3000+ for Socket 754 infrastructure across the world: the chips can be acquired in Australia, Japan, Sweden and some other countries. Add comment

ATI Technologies Preps Chipset For AMD Turion 64

ATI Technologies announced last week its latest core-logic for mobile computers based on AMD’s processors, the RADEON XPRESS 200M. Add comment

Yahoo IM Flaw A Big Headache For Sysadmins

Yahoo Messenger users are vulnerable to two security holes, the more serious of which could lead to the execution of malicious code on a user's system, Yahoo has warned. Add comment

New Virus Attack Technique Bypasses Filters

Virus writers have once again gotten the drop on anti-virus vendors and IT administrators with a new technique that's finding early and considerable success. Add comment

Tiny Superconductors Withstand Stronger Magnetic Fields

Ultrathin superconducting wires can withstand stronger magnetic fields than larger wires made from the same material, researchers now report. Add comment

Laser Set To Carve A Nano Niche In 3D

US researchers have developed a laser capable of carving materials in 3D on a nanometre scale never achieved before. Add comment

Longhorn’s name revealed?

'Longhorn', the codename for the next version of Windows, may be called 'Microsoft Windows e-XPedition' if current rumours turn out to be true. Add comment

NEW Nero Burning Rom 6.6.0.8

A new version of the popular CD/DVD burning application 'Nero' has been made available for download. Add comment

PRIMESUSPECT Becomes Third Member Of Elite Million Point Club

Everyone give primesuspect a big round of congratulations for his milestone achievement. He becomes only the third member in short-media history to make the million point mark. Hats off to you sir and your tremendous milestone! Add comment

Study Finds Windows more secure than Linux

Researchers at an RSA Security conference set out to settle a debate between an avid Linux user and one who swears by Microsoft products. The results were not as expected and some may be skeptical. Add comment

Techreport reviews the new 600 series Pentium 4 2MB cache CPU

Techreport compares the new Series 600 Pentium 4 CPUs to the previous P4 Series 500 and Extreme Editions along the AMD top performing Athlon 64 processors. Add comment

XbitLabs: The Fastest Graphics Cards of 2004

Xbitlabs takes the fastest 27 GPUs of 2004/2005 (PCIe & AGP) and compares them all in a 50 page mega review! Add comment

NEW nForce RAID Driver 5.06 WHQL

ASUS have released a new nForce RAID driver for Windows 2000 and XP. Add comment

A conversation with ATI’s Paul Ayscough

[url=http://www.firingsquad.com]FiringSquad[/url] have posted an interview with ATI's Paul Ayscough (Director of Corporate Marketing) discussing topics ranging from Nvidia SLI, ATI's recent lack of new AGP products and ATI's OEM strategy. Add comment

Microsoft Seeks to Bottle Up Open Source Wine

Microsoft's tactics with the Windows Genuine Advantage program is causing a stir within the Wine community. Add comment

Intel Speeds Data Movement

Intel Corp., as part of its push to focus more on platforms than components, is introducing a technology designed to speed up the movement of data from the network to the application. Add comment