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Pop-Up Ad Makers look for creative new ways to annoy you

In the ongoing battle to send you advertising over the net, the ad distributors are gearing up for the next round. Add comment

RIAA wants your fingerprints

Not content with asking for an arm and a leg from consumers and artists, the music industry now wants your fingerprints, too. The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing. Add comment

Korgo Virus next up to bat

Slashdot has brought a new virus to light called Korgo. Korgo is a variant of the sasser worm - it uses the same Windows vulnerability. This particular little rogue comes equipped with a nasty keylogger and can infiltrate a system directly via the Internet or LAN without the user even knowing it. Add comment

Microsoft’s anti-spam plan ‘hijacked by zombies’

Security experts have said that Microsoft's plan to reduce spam by forcing an email sender's machine to solve a puzzle may be defeated by the Internet's army of zombie PCs. Add comment

FireFox 0.9 expected next week

Ben Goodger today announced on the MozillaZine forums that FireFox 0.9 is to be released next week. Add comment

NEW mIRC 6.15 Released

A new version of the popular IRC client mIRC has been released. Add comment

Microsoft bars Windows pirates

As recently [url=http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14761]discussed in our forums[/url], it has been reported that Microsoft has decided that the forthcoming update to Windows XP, SP2, will not work with the most widely pirated versions of its operating system. Add comment

Web Porn 3x more popular than search engines

CNN on the ball again today to tell us something else we already knew: Net surfers prefer porn to search engines. Add comment

CNN reports on “the computer heat problem”

Leave it to the major media to be on top of things in the tech world.... Add comment

Review Roundup

[url=http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=102&pgno=0]Toshiba Portégé M200 Tablet PC Review @ RojakPot[/url] [url=http://www.modthebox.com/review328_1.shtml]Arctic Cooling Products Showcase Review @ MODTHEBOX[/url] [url=http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review1625.html]Designtechnica Reviews the Actiontec Wireless Digital Media Player[/url] [url=http://www.ipkonfig.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=29]StarTech StarView SV231USB KVM Switch @ IPKonfig[/url] [url=http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/9200se/]Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9200SE Videocard Review @ Tweaknews[/url] [url=http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=467]AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ TrustedReviews[/url] [url=http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=466]Silverstone Temjin SST-TJ02 Case Review @ Bjorn3D[/url] [url=http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews/northpole/]Microcool NorthPole Chipset Cooler and ChipSinks Review at BigBruin[/url] [url=http://www.hardware-pacers.com/pages.php?pid=283&catType=t]Powercom 575S UPS @ Hardware Pacers[/url] [url=http://www.bytesector.com/data/bs-article.asp?ID=287]Panasonic PT-AE500 HDTV Home Cinema Projector @ Bytesector[/url] Add comment

Review Roundup

[url=http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews3/ycable.html]Thermaltake's UV LED Y Cable @ TechTastic[/url] [url=http://www.thecrucible.ca/reviews/polo12/]Thermaltake Polo12 410w ATX PSU & Accessories @ TheCrucible[/url] [url=http://www.hard-h2o.com/readreview/watercooling/xice-e900amd.html]XICE ExternalCool E900 @ hard-h2o[/url] [url=http://www.thinkcomputers.org/beta/home.php?x=reviews&id=138&page=1]Logisys Fan Mouse @ ThinkComputers[/url] [url=http://www.extremereviews.net/data.php?recordID=157&page=1&type=review]eXtreme Reviews - Cable-Safe Cable Manager[/url] [url=http://www.themodfathers.jolt.co.uk/?page=&action=show&id=9680]Asetek Antarctica WaterChill CPU watercooling kit @ The Modfathers[/url] [url=http://www.thecrucible.ca/reviews/5700p/]Albatron 5700P Turbo @ The Crucible[/url] [url=http://legitreviews.com/reviews/775hsf/]Attack of the Heat Sinks! @ Computex 2004[/url] [url=http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/case_cool/other/water/innovatek/hspc/]Innovatek XXS Water Cooling Kit @ Viper Lair[/url] [url=http://www.atruereview.com/alienspeakers/index.php]Logisys Alien Computer Speakers @ A True Review[/url] Add comment

Review Roundup

[url=http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/004/flash/flash-1.html]Ars Technica review: USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drives[/url] [url=http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review1616.html]Designtechnica Reviews the Ahanix iMON Remote Control[/url] [url=http://www.a1-electronics.net/AMD_Section/Mobos/K8T800/Giga_GA-K8VNXP_June04.shtml]Gigabyte GA-K8VNXP AMD Athlon 64 motherboard @ A1[/url] [url=http://www.hardwarezoom.com/viewcontent.jsp?ArticleID=168]Computex Taipeh 2004 (Day1) Coverage @ HardwareZoom[/url] [url=http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=631]Antec Aria MATX Cube Case Review @ Bjorn3D[/url] [url=http://www.hardwarezoom.com/viewcontent.jsp?ArticleID=169]A visit to ABIT Test labs, Taiwan @ HardwareZoom[/url] [url=http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=466]Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP & more Computex @ TrustedReviews[/url] [url=http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-217-1.htm]The Making of a Motherboard - Gigabyte Factory Tour @ HardcoreWare[/url] [url=http://www.epiacenter.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43]Skyhawkgroup SMC7261 / SMC7260 Review @ Epiacenter[/url] [url=http://www.explosivelabs.com/reviews/sff_roundup/]3-Way SFF PC Comparo: Biostar, Epox, FIC @ ExplosiveLabs[/url] Add comment

Chinese Supercomputer Headed To Top Ranks

A Chinese supercomputer, the Dawning 4000A, is expected to rank high on an upcoming list of the fastest machines, underscoring geopolitical effects of a new approach to high-performance computing. Add comment

Ohio Rolls Out Power Line Broadband

High-speed Internet access may one day come from your electric company, thanks to broadband-over-power-line technology. BPL got off the ground recently when Current Communications and Ohio-based utility Cinergy partnered to begin offering the service. Add comment

AOL Settles Billing Lawsuits

America Online has agreed to settle a pair of class action lawsuits brought on behalf of subscribers to the online services of AOL and its CompuServe unit. They allege AOL and CompuServe continued to bill them after the plaintiffs asked for their subscriptions to be cancelled. Add comment

Intel Preps New Pentium 4 Processors

Intel is planning to introduce over the coming months eight new Pentium 4 processors utilizing a new packaging technique. Among the new chips will be the company's first workstation processors with 64-bit extensions technology, according to a document posted on Intel's Web site. Add comment

Adware maker WhenU ‘exploring’ options

It has been reported that Adware developer WhenU has hired an investment bank to explore strategic partnerships and investment options. Add comment

Harry Potter and the worm of doom

A leading antivirus company warned Thursday that the Netsky worm was making a comeback on the coattails of fictional wizard Harry Potter. Add comment

Is the dust on your computer toxic?

According to new research into chemical residue found in the dust collecting on computers and other electronics devices, the PC that you're using to read this story could pose a long-term threat to your health. Add comment

NEW Opera 7.51 Released

It has been reported that a new version of the popular web browser Opera has been released. Add comment

ATI admits to same “tricks” as Nvidia

Graphics company ATI, long time critic of competitor Nvidia's video card driver optimizations, concedes to using undocumented optimizations of its own. Add comment