If your current SIM card is weighing you down, fear not - help is on the way. 30% smaller than even the microSIM card, the nanoSIM arrives next year to lighten the load of your heavy mobile device. More...

A Sony service is the latest victim of another attack, although this one involves a Sony subsidiary that is a Japanese Internet service provider. Officials at So-net Entertainment Corporation reported a breach by an online... More...

The British government has spent 6.6 billion dollars for a new identity card program that is based around biometrics. Like any new ID card program it is designed to help enhance security for everyone... More...

Visa is introducing a revolutionary new credit card allowing users to use their PIN for online card transactions. Aimed at savvy internet users, the Visa PIN card features an alpha-numeric display and a 12-button keypad... More...

Kingston Technology Company is adding a 32GB SDHC Flash card to the Elite Pro line of products. "With the growing popularity of digital video and the HD format, consumers continue to look for... More...

Clothing company Cotton Traders has been found to have had 38,000 customer credit card numbers taken from its website in an attack earlier this year. The firm has not directly confirmed the size of this... More...

If you receive an email that claims to be a greeting card sent by Hallmark be very wary of opening it. Security experts are warning of a scam in which a surfer receives an email... More...

Creative Labs is in the process of designing a new high-end sound card based on an X-FI design, but this time it plans to launch a high-end card. It will launch something similar to the... More...

With GeForce 8800 GT availability issues, other manufacturers are selling this popular video card with different clock speeds and prices. To save a buck or two, and possibly squeeze out some extra performance, ExtremeTech has... More...

Today at the Cartes Trade Show in Paris, Infineon Technologies announced a strategic technology collaboration for the development of optimized chip solutions for high-density (HD) SIM cards with Intel Corporation. Under the terms of the... More...

The good news is Advanced Micro Devices has a hot product on its hands with the recently released Opteron quad-core processors. The less encouraging news is that some system builder partners say they've had trouble... More...

Asustek Computer has introduced the PCI Express interface Xonar D2X and the USB interface Xonar U1 audio devices. The Asustek Xonar family of audio cards utilizes an Asustek exclusive technology – the new DS3D GX... More...

Nokia said today it is collaborating with several of its rivals to create a common flash memory card format. First virtual machines, now flash, what is the world coming to? The proposed specification is being... More...

Toshiba revealed Aug. 22 that it will soon add three new high-density flash memory cards to its product lineup—including one it touts as the world's first 32GB flash card. The Tokyo-based company, which partners with... More...

Thanks to information provided by the Secret Service, on June 12 French National Police arrested four on online fraud charges in relation to an international ID theft ring. The arrests were part of an undercover... More...

A Taiwanese research institute has produced a new global memory card standard, called the miCard (Multiple Interface Card), designed to work in smaller consumer gadgets such as digital cameras, mobile phones and any device with... More...

A leading provider of digital-security services wants to make disposable passwords easier for consumers to accept by squeezing the technology into the corner of a regular credit or ATM card. Fran Rosch, vice president for... More...

Looks like its time to cancel another card...Valve is still not responding to this as of yet, how wonderful. Valve's Steam content distribution system has apparently been hacked. The culprit allegedly got deep enough into... More...

The worldwide PC TV tuner market will grow from about 15 million units 2006 to 41 million units in 2011, according to ABI Research. Although this represents a solid growth curve, the TV tuner card... More...

Last week at CeBIT, ASUS demonstrated its upcoming Xonar-series sound cards, available in two variants: the D2 and D2K in PCI and PCIe x1 interfaces. Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect multi-channel audio encoding technologies... More...

Taiwanese hardware maker Asustek Computer Incorporated has unveiled a water-cooled graphics card: the AquaTank EN8800GTX graphics board, based on a Nvidia GeForce 8800GTX with 768MB DDR3 memory. According to an Asustek executive manning the company's... More...

Partners of Nvidia Corp., the world's largest supplier of standalone graphics processors, have unveiled a 320MB flavour of the GeForce 8800 GTS (the other flavour has 640MB memory onboard). The graphics card sports the fully-fledged... More...

At next week's RSA Conference in San Francisco smart card vendor Gemalto will introduce new technology designed to give online shoppers an easy way to log on to their accounts using a smart card device... More...

The credit and debit card data of a large number of shoppers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, and possibly in the U.K and Ireland, may have been compromised as the result of a... More...

Creative Technology, a maker of digital media players and various multimedia devices, showcased its first audio card for modern PCI Express bus at the Consumer Electronics Show 2007. Specs of the product are unclear, but... More...

Sapphire Technology, the world's largest producer of ATI Radeon-based graphics cards, unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show the industry's first dual-chip graphics card based on the Radeon X1950 Pro graphics processing units (GPUs). The novelty may... More...

ASUS has introduced the XG Station: a dedicated external graphics card. Laptop users rejoice; high end graphics performance is available, without losing the portability of a laptop. The XG Station is powered by a power... More...

The graphics card market may have to wait until CeBIT in March when makers are expected to unveil new products, according to market observers. Despite Nvidia's launch of graphics processing units (GPUs) supporting DirectX 10,... More...

MANY businesses in Europe will be closed from Monday till probably January the 3rd 2007. That hasn't stopped Sparkle from announcing its Calibre P768 card based on Geforce 7600 GT 80nm chip. I guess Nvidia... More...

Hackers have obtained credit card details of 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms company AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed... More...

ATI Technologies has introduced several graphics cards, including three that it says offer top performance at a low cost and two more that make up a new family of high-end cards. Three new Radeon cards,... More...

Nvidia Corp., a leading supplier of graphics processors, is reportedly planning to unveil a graphics card that is likely to offer performance between the levels of the GeForce 7900 GT and the GeForce 7900 GTX... More...

Graphics card maker Sapphire are gloating today after announcing that they will be the first to bring out a PC graphics card with a HDMI output, which is the preferred output for HD media. The... More...

Israeli company Compulab recently announced a computer that manages to cram a complete PDA into a device two-thirds the size of a credit card. The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as... More...

Sony is re-imagining the way we play old-fashioned card games with one title for the forthcoming PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console. Called "The Eye of Judgment," the game uses real cards which, thanks to a... More...

If you were to purchase any PC processor today it would come with a reasonably large heatsink and fan. This is due to the fact that their desktop and server processors produce very large amounts... More...

WE didn't expect any AGEIA cards before May, as Asus told us we'd have to wait for May to get them. But AGEIA's other exclusive partner BFG actually has PhysX cards in retail already. BFG... More...

Photos have been popping up depicting what appears to be the first true HDMI-HDCP ATI video card, complete with HDMI connector and onboard SPDIF audio jack. This card appears to be HDMI only -... More...

Asus has unveiled a new GeForce 6600 DDR2 graphics card with a twist. Typically, graphics cards have their processors on the topside of the card, and when fitted in a standard computer case have... More...

The Radeon 9600 Pro PC and Mac Edition graphics card offers dual-link capabilities, 256MB of on board memory and is AGP 2.0 compliant, among other things. Graphic cards maker ATI is thinking cross platform with... More...

Star Trek type technology isn't that far off, 2006 to be precise. Who would of thought that in the late nineties the very same type of data discs carried by the crew of Voyager would... More...

For those of us that don't have the resources to upgrade our systems in one go, say from a AGP to PCI-e based mainboard, MSI have come up with a solution that allows the card... More...

ATI'S HIGH-END RADEON X800 CARDS have been reasonably successful by most measures. The technology is solid and, although a little older, more or less on par with NVIDIA's GeForce 6 series GPUs. They seem to... More...

National Institute on Media and the Family says game ratings are ineffective; ESRB begs to differ. For the ninth year in a row, the National Institute on Media and the Family released... More...

Sources within the graphic industry confirmed that delays of high end graphics cards are being heavily affected by a shortage of high clocked GDDR 3 memory. ATI won't even talk about the X800XT PE and... More...

ATI Technologies has revised its forecast, and the Canada-based graphics-processor maker now expects PCI Express (PCIe)-enabled graphics cards to account for 25% of the global graphics card market by year-end, according to sources at ATI.... More...

ABIT today launched its first ATI-based graphics cards to incorporate overclocking software derived from the code its ships with its overclockable motherboards. The RX600 Pro-Guru, X600 Pro-HDTV and RX300 SE-Guru boards both ship with vGuru,... More...

The Inquirer is reporting that mobile manufacturer Nokia could be planning an imminent implementation of SD technology across its mobile phone range. Secure Digital (SD) technology is a data storage technology, allowing easy storage and... More...

GRAPHICS CARDS ARE STARTING to bother me. No, not because they are expensive, not because they are cheap, and not because I don't have a good one, it is a problem with names. There are... More...

Keeping up with Nvidia's Quadro video card ATI has unveiled a new version of its video card the FireGL. The new FireGL isn't expected to ship till later this month, but it should give... More...