Apple has posted on its website that they have improved MobileMe syncing with Microsoft Outlook. This is a step in the right direction for the platform after it faced a very rocky start. From... More...
It seems Microsoft may have a successor (or replacement) for Vista after all and it's already been released. Windows Server 2008 isn't easy to configure as a desktop operating system but when done correctly... More...
Is Vista SP1 really the shot in the arm your Vista system needs? We've spent many hours strapped to our benchmarking system in a caffeine and pizza fueled haze to uncover these very interesting results.... More...
AT&T announced today that it is boosting speeds for some of its AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet customers and offering AT&T broadband customers access to free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. AT&T says that more... More...
We just got a nice look at the R680, the upcoming enthusiast graphics card from ATI that is, apparently, as fast as 1000 Cray-1s. We're not allowed to say exactly how fast that is, but... More...
Samsung Electronics next year plans to begin mass production of a new type of graphics memory that both consumes less power and is significantly faster than existing chips. Called GDDR (Graphics Double Data Rate) 5,... More...
It's not unheard of for some of the earliest adopters of Microsoft's Vista this year to compare the experience to swimming in wet cement -- slow and not very pretty. But word is filtering out... More...
Until recently, Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, but now, by sending data using 10 different colors of light over a single cable, operators are boosting the network's capacity to 100... More...
The chip manufacturing community has long dreaded the day when flash memory could no longer shrink in size. But that day continues to be pushed back as chip manufacturers are seemingly slowing their commitment to... More...
A technical group working on the next generation of Ethernet has agreed to disagree and will now work on a single standard that covers both 40Gbps and 100Gbps speeds. The Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG),... More...
IBM has developed a new process called airgap that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes - it enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act... More...
Intel Corporation said a new line of computer processors due out later this year will greatly speed up running computer games, videos and other heavy workloads. The world's biggest microchip maker, which powers about 75%... More...
Intel Corp. may be preparing another pricing attack on its arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices and is currently projected to start offering its successful Core 2 Duo microprocessors with higher speed processor system bus (PSB) at... More...
This one is for all the Neowinians in Canada. Shaw currently offers a download bandwidth of 25 Mbps, Videotron offers 20 Mbps, Telus offers 6 Mbps, Rogers offers 6 Mbps and Bell offers 5 Mbps.... More...
Power-line networks--networks that use the existing electrical wiring in your residence or small office--may yet prove the dark horse of home networking technologies. That's the message emerging from the HomePlug Powerline Alliance's annual technology conference... More...
Microsoft Corp.'s customers will never again face as long a wait between new versions of Windows software as they're enduring now, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer vowed Tuesday. Meanwhile, Chairman Bill Gates said the company's much-delayed... More...
Nanowires are made with regular crystal structures and uniform electronic properties - a level of predictability is essential for manufacturing high-performance electronics. Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least... More...
The reorientation of hard drives has begun: The first drives to use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to pack more data into less space are out. And our tests reveal that they not only boost... More...
British Telecom have announced plans to quadruple current broadband speeds from March 31st by adding BT ADSL Max and Premium to their current range of services. ... More...
International Business Machines Corp. on Monday said it has developed new chips for quickly transmitting data over wireless networks. The chips use a portion of the radio spectrum that can carry more data at faster... More...
In what may prove to be a technological breakthrough of immense proportions, Stanford University announced on Thursday that members of it's electrical engineering department have come up with a solution to what has until now... More...
DESPITE WHAT people were claiming, the G70 will score better than the 7800. The card never got the 7800 suffix based on its 3Dmark05 score and if it was number would end up significantly bigger.... More...
An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that claims it will increase DSL technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second, 10 times faster than the DSL... More...
ViewSonic on Wednesday announced what the company is billing as the world's fastest 17-and 19-inch LCD monitors. The new products, the 19-inch Xtreme VX924 and the 17-inch Xtreme VX724, feature an eight to ten times... More...
IBM has improved the processor of its JS20 blade servers and now sells them with its AIX version of the Unix operating system, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The changes mean the blades now... More...
Intel is planning to introduce a faster front-side bus on an upcoming version of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor that will help the firm increase the performance of its chips by improving a crucial... More...
Cable company Telewest is to offer the UK's first three megabit broadband service. In a shake-up of existing services it will speed up all its broadband products by 50% for free. ... More...
ACE'S HARDWARE has filed another report about Intel's forthcoming Prescott chips and suggests that the main reason for the introduction is to give the chip company a chance to update the clock frequencies in the... More...
Search is one of most heavily trafficked sites on Microsoft.com with more than 76 million page views per month, 28 million queries per month, and 13 million unique users per month. Although 25 incremental changes... More...
WinFS is Destined to Supersede FAT and NTFS Around 20 years ago, Microsoft's widely used MS DOS 2.0 operating system could only handle hard drives up to 16 MB. Yet, for the... More...
The long-time debate between PC and Mac partisans over which platform performs better reached an interesting impasse this week when long-time Apple partner Adobe published a document on its Web site supporting claims that the... More...
Thanks to bangbang023 for this one. "Via's graphic arm, S3, launched the Delta Chrome chip, formerly codenamed Columbia, we have tried to dig out some new information about it, and now we have... More...
Thanks OoO for this gem. "AMD said on Tuesday that it would embrace a strategy of developing processors for a wider range of products outside computers and called on the industry to focus... More...
Thanks neo1980 from our BPN Forum Apple Computer said Wednesday it has started shipping its top-of-the-line dual processor 1.25GHz Power Mac. Apple unveiled the machine last month but said that it... More...
Thanks Borg77 A study of more than 300 companies published last week found that nearly 80 percent of companies support security consultants and hackers releasing information about software vulnerabilities even when the... More...
The number of female Web surfers is growing much faster than the overall Internet population, according to a report released by Nielsen/NetRatings on Friday. The Internet research firm said the number of... More...
From The Register: VIA has launched a new integrated chipset for the Athlon XP. It's called the VIA ProSavageDDR KM266 and the numbers at the end indicate that is supplied with 266MHz DDR DRAM... More...
Zeus Technology is releasing Zeus Web Server 4.0, an update of its flagship software which has never been hacked, according to Andrew Parker, principal consultant at Zeus. "We've never had a security... More...
The chipmaker recently launched a new effort inside its Microprocessor Research Lab aimed at examining a move from using aluminum and copper wires for moving data inside computers to using fiber-optic strands. Fiber could be... More...
If you are as yet un-decided on whether to shell out up to* $299.99 for Windows XP, Microsoft has some interesting propaganda material that claims Windows XP is up to 54%!!! faster than previous versions.... More...
Today, AMD is expected to usher in a 1.1GHz Duron processor for the value segment of the PC market. The chip will match the speed of Intel's 1.1GHz Celeron, but benchmark testers have stated that... More...