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ICANN Gives Preliminary OK To 2 Domains

The Internet's key oversight agency gave a preliminary nod Monday to new domain names targeting mobile services and the jobs market. Add comment

NEW ATI Catalyst 4.12 Driver Released

ATI has released a new set of Catalyst drivers for their Radeon line of graphics cards. These babies are an official release so get downloading folks. Add comment

NEW Nvidia ForceWare 71.20 Driver

A new set of Nvidia ForceWare drivers for Windows 2000 and XP have been made available on the web. Add comment

Total Geek Media releases Episode 2 of “The Show”

Sign up to their forums, and for the love of all that is good, PLEASE rename their show Add comment

‘Playboy’ Virus Dropping Dangerous Backdoor

Anti-virus vendors have raised the alarm for a new mass-mailing worm with a dangerous backdoor component. Add comment

Firefox Surpasses 10 Million Download Mark

Firefox, the open-source challenger to market heavyweight Internet Explorer, has surpassed 10 million downloads in a little more than a month since the browser was released in November. Add comment

Louisiana Town Awaits Telephone Age

It's no secret what the 15 householders in this tiny settlement want for Christmas: the same thing they have always wanted year round--telephones. Add comment

Researchers Invent Energy-Saving Computer Chip

University of Alberta researchers have designed a computer chip that uses about 100 times less energy than current state-of-the-art digital chips. Add comment

Microsoft Readies Five Windows Fixes

As part of its new advance warning policy, Microsoft on Thursday said next week's regularly-scheduled patch day will feature five fixes for Windows, none of them more severe than "Important." Add comment

ATI’s R520 To Have Eight Shader Units

The next generation ATI graphic chip codenamed "Fudo" will increase the number of Shader units from previous generation. When it comes to Shaders, R520 will have quite some fuel to pump those little programs. Add comment

AMD Semprons To Migrate To 754 Pins Only

Rumor has it that AMD plans to move Semprons to Socket 754 only by the end of 2005. Add comment

Samsung Ships 512 Mbit GDDR3 Memory

Samsung announced that it doubled the density of graphics DDR3 memory and has begun shipping samples to graphics card and game console manufacturers. Add comment

AMD Releases Details Of 90 NM Opterons, Multicore Chips

AMD quietly published first specs of the first 90 nm Opteron processors and talked about Opterons with up to eight cores during a conference with analysts. Add comment

MD5 Flaw Threatens File Integrity

According to a report from security researcher Dan Kaminsky, the MD5 cryptographic algorithm may be at risk. This means that files, applications and programs supposedly authenticated and verified by MD5 could potentially be compromised. Add comment

U.S. Officials Raid Stores, Arrest 2 In Xbox Modding Ring

Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday. Add comment

Iwill To Release Dual-Opteron Workstation In Small Form Factor

Iwill is soon to release the ZMAXdp, a dual-processor workstation box neatly packaged in a small form factor. Add comment

MSN Launches Web Messenger

Web-based access for MSN Messenger has moved out of test mode. Add comment

AOL Locks Out IM Users

America Online Inc. has confirmed that it mistakenly deactivated a number of AOL Instant Messenger accounts this week as part of its regular cycle of opening unused screen names to new users. Add comment

Symantec LiveUpdate 2.6.13 Released

Symantec has released a new version of its LiveUpdate engine. Add comment

Nvidia to create another SoundStorm

It has been reported that Nvidia will in fact produce a SoundStorm 2. However, the question of how it will manifest itself is still anyone's guess. Add comment

Half Life 2 Map Pack Vol. 1 Released

The crew at ShackNews is hosting Half Life 2 Map Pack #1 for your downloading pleasure. The WinRAR file contains 50 death match maps and weighs in at just over 43MB. Add comment