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Chipset designer VIA Technologies formally announced its new lineup of chipsets supporting the latest Intel Pentium 4 processors, PCI Express interconnection technology as well as DDR2 memory. While the chips from the Taiwanese designer come late, they carry feature-set not presently offered by companies like Intel Corp. Add comment
The first ever picoBTX form-factor PC from Shuttle Computer, emerged for sale during the weekend in Tokyo, Japan. While this is not the first ever BTX form-factor personal computer in retail, this is the first BTX product oriented on do-it-yourself (DIY) market. Add comment
Fortron Source Group (FSP) is a power supply that should be at the top of any PC buyer's list. FSP launched the AX500-A Blue Storm PSU late in 2004 to meet the demands of the "bigger, better, faster". The "norm" is quickly becoming 500 watts and FSP puts in a good showing with the AX500-A. Add comment
Official OCZ support is now available at www.short-media.com forums. Add comment
A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows computers had essentially stopped spreading on Friday, after the systems infected with the program were cut off from the control of several central computers. Add comment
A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a security measure in Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update aimed at securing customers' PCs. Add comment
A Johns Hopkins University team plans to announce Saturday that it has cracked the security behind "immobilizer" systems from Texas Instruments. They are used in millions of Fords, Toyotas and Nissans. Add comment
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony that deals with consoles and digital entertainment, reportedly said its PlayStation 3 console would be functional by May, 2005, confirming earlier available information. Add comment
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and discovered that the molecules form ordered structures. Add comment
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it has made progress on refining the admittedly vague CAN-SPAM Act, which Congress passed last year in an attempt to spare citizens from the surge of unsolicited commercial e-mail. Add comment
It has been reported that VIA, who commands a whopping 2% of the microprocessor market, is planning to hit the 2GHz mark by the end of the year. Add comment
Computer, console software sales reach $7.3 billion in 2004; NPD says 248 million games sold during the calendar year. Add comment
Almost a year after the first Bagle worm started squirming through e-mail in-boxes, anti-virus vendors are reporting a new wave of attacks with new propagation techniques. Add comment
A teenager was sentenced Friday to 1½ years in prison for unleashing a variant of the "Blaster" Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003. Add comment
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Advanced Micro Devices has always been very reluctant to change mainboards infrastructure for its processors, but the things may change when the company introduces its next-generation Socket M2 next year, two years after it brought Socket 939 out, according to the slides over the Internet that resemble AMD’s roadmap. Add comment
Cryptography expert Phil Zimmermann says he believes a flaw recently discovered in Microsoft Office's Word and Excel encryption is serious and warrants immediate attention. Add comment
The Bagle worm is rearing its head again, back for another crack at the unprotected masses. Add comment
Looks like those of you who are waiting for the next incarnation of DICE's popular first person war shooter will have to wait a little longer than expected. It was announced during an Electronic Arts Investor Conference Call on January 25th that the release was going to be pushed back. Add comment
It's time for Mac users to pull out their one-button mice and get patching. Yesterday Apple announced a flurry of patches designed to fix a variety of flaws in its flagship OS X operating system and various applications bundled with Macintosh PCs. Add comment
Malicious hackers have launched a zero-day bot attack against default Windows installations of the MySQL database engine, infecting vulnerable systems at the rate of 100 per minute, security experts warned on Thursday. Add comment
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