Dual-Core Chips Bring Dual Caches
The dual-core chips that Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. Add comment
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Digital Attacks On Winamp Use ‘Skins’ For Camouflage
A group of security researchers discovered that spyware makers are using a flaw in the way the multimedia software loads graphical themes, or skins, to infect PCs with their wares. Add comment
Newisys Paves Way For 16-, 32-Chip Opteron Servers
Newisys has developed a chip that will allow the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices to compete in the upper reaches of the server market. Add comment
Video Game Gals Take It Off For Playboy
Silicon will meet silicone in the October issue of the men's magazine. Add comment
Concerns Mount Over Major Web Strike
A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week, security experts said. One security researcher in Moscow warned that Thursday would be the day in question. Add comment
MS Releases XP SP2 App Testing Guide
Enterprise developers looking for a guide to test applications against the new Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) are getting some help from Microsoft. Add comment
Microsoft Tests Broadband TV
Microsoft has turned to a Swiss telecommunication operator for the first commercial trial of its system that delivers television signals to consumers over a broadband telecommunications network, it announced this week. Add comment
Intel Axes Pentium 4, Itanium Prices
Intel slashed prices across its Pentium 4 and Itanium product lines this week as it prepares for its biannual developer conference in San Francisco at the beginning of September. Add comment
Sony Pushes Memory Stick Pro to 2GB
Sony Electronics has expanded its line of Memory Stick storage media, including adding a 2GB Memory Stick Pro card that will ship later this year. Add comment
Another Format War: DVD -R9 v. +R9
The dual layer dvd format is the latest battleground of the DVD format wars. Add comment
JibJab Is Free for You and Me
Ludlow Music dropped its demands that JibJab, a small web animation site, stop using Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" in a satirical Flash cartoon. It turns out Ludlow may not actually own the rights to the song as it claims, a lawyer representing JibJab said on Tuesday. Add comment
Japan Designers Shoot For Supercomputer On A chip
RIKEN, an anglicized acronym for Japan's Research Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, described on Tuesday the MDGrape 3, a processor it thinks will become the cornerstone of a computer capable of operating at a petaflop, or a quadrillion operations per second--far faster than the 36 trillion ops supercomputers of today. Add comment
IBM Lays Claim To Extension Of Server Reign
IBM said Tuesday that new market research shows that it remains top dog in server computers. Add comment
AMD Desktop Chips Edge Ahead Of Intel
Advanced Micro Devices' top-end desktop processors are faster than Intel's for most applications, according to benchmarks from ZDNet Germany's labs. Add comment
Windows XP SP2 to be released via Windows Update tomorrow
08.25.2004 - IT Admin Nightmare Day Add comment
Broadband Over Power Lines Gains Steam
In Manassas, Virginia, residents and businesses have a third option for broadband Internet access, and it comes at a lower price and without the installation fee and long-term commitment of DSL and cable. What's more, it's delivered over electrical wires, meaning everyone soon will have access to high-speed Internet without availability limitations that plague other technologies. Add comment
Medical Records May Go Online
Health industry, tech firms, government agencies might collaborate to build a secure database of patient records. Add comment
Scientists Breed A Tougher Mouse
"Marathon mice," genetically engineered by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers, can run twice as far as their unaltered buddies. Previously, the only known way to increase endurance was through training. Add comment
Macromedia Rolls New Flex Builder Tool
Macromedia took the wraps off its first developer tool for its Flex platform that it says will encourage more people to build rich media and Web-facing applications. Add comment
FCC Chairman Calls For New Telecom Laws
The head of the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that the nation's telecommunications laws, written before the rise of the Internet, are "broken" and need to be fixed by Congress. Add comment
Virus Targets 64-bit Windows
Virus writers have unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus firm Symantec said Monday. Add comment
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