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Numerous Bugs Reported In Intel Prescott Pentium 4

A day after Intel released five LGA 775 chips, the firm reported a list of bugs in its Pentium 4 Prescott produced at 90 nanometres. Add comment

HP Says As Many As 900,000 Notebooks Buggy

Hewlett-Packard has discovered a memory flaw that could be in as many as 900,000 of its notebook computers and is offering customers free memory modules as a remedy. Add comment

Phone Company Blocks Calls to Certain Countries to Prevent Modem Hijacks

Western Canada's largest telephone company is planning to block long distance calls to four countries in an effort to combat "modem hijacking." Add comment

Wireless Devices Raise Questions About Crimefighting, ID

USA Today discusses the pros and cons of the wealth of information available to police agencies in today's unwired world. Add comment

802.11i Security Specification Finalized

The IEEE ratified the 802.11i security standard for wireless LANs yesterday in a standards committee meeting in Piscataway, N.J. Add comment

Attack on IIS Web Sites Infects Browsers With Malicious Code

Security analysts say that the malicious code that has been infecting some Windows machines since Thursday morning was planted via an IIS (Internet Information Services) vulnerability on the Web servers that host some high-traffic sites. Add comment

Intel Recalls PC Chips From Manufacturers

Intel Corp. (INTC) is recalling an unspecified number of chips it had shipped to computer and motherboard makers after finding a manufacturing flaw that could lead a computer to malfunction, the world's largest chip maker said on Friday. Add comment

Seagate Sues Cornice Over Mini Hard drive technology

Seagate Technology has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against storage vendor Cornice, alleging that Cornice's one-inch Storage Element mini hard drives violate six of Seagate's patents. Add comment

Intel Readies First 64-Bit Chip

Intel plans to unveil its first processor with 64-bit extensions technology next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. Add comment

Win XP SP2 to Include DirectX 9.0C??

According to [url=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16812]The Inquirer[/url] the latest version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 has DirectX 9.0c inside. Add comment

Xbox Successor Specs Leaked?

Specs rumoured for the XBOX'S successor, codenamed Xenon, have allegedly been leaked to the Xbox-fanatic website xbox-scene.com. Add comment

Search Engines Rethink Paid Inclusion

Search engines are rethinking a controversial practice of allowing marketers to buy their way into free Web search listings, or programs known as paid inclusion. Add comment

Yahoo Blocks Trillian

Yahoo on Wednesday began blocking Cerulean Studios' Trillian software from communicating with its instant messaging service in its latest step to fence its popular client from third-party integrators. Add comment

Toshiba Claims Smallest Fuel Cell Yet

Toshiba has made further progress developing a direct methanol fuel cell for use in portable electronic devices, it says. Add comment

Ask Jeeves Boosts Excite E-Mail Storage

Ask Jeeves will follow the trend among providers of free Web-based e-mail service of boosting in-box capacity. The company will increase storage to 125MB for the e-mail services it offers from its My Way, Excite, and iWon Web portals, the company is announcing this week. Add comment

Microsoft covers up slashed XP

Microsoft has been having a hard time trying to figure out what to call the new smaller "Anorexic" version of Windows XP, only priced at $38 American Dollars. Add comment

Pair Nailed In AOL Spam Scheme

An AOL software engineer has been arrested for stealing the company's entire subscriber list, totalling 92 million screen names and selling it to a 21-year-old Las Vegas spammer. Add comment

Half-Life 2 Release Date?

PC-IGN reports that in an interview posted on Homelan Fed late Friday, Valve's Gabe Newell provided a delicious hint at the status of Half-Life 2. When asked how the title is coming along, he replied, "Good. It's in great shape. We anticipate delivering it to Vivendi in August. Add comment

NEW ForceWare 61.45 Beta

Some new Nvidia Beta ForceWare drivers have made it onto the web. Add comment

Logitech MX 310, 510 and 900 Review

Gamers Depot have posted their latest review of Logitech's revamped lineup of MX Mice. Add comment

Battlefield 2 Movie

There is a apparently a new movie trailer available showcasing the upcoming Battlefield 2 game. This clip sports half a minute of action-packed footage. Add comment