BioWare has announced on their forums that a patch is on the way for the PC version of Mass Effect. Currently there is no information available, but Chris Priestly, Community Coordinator for BioWare, has said... More...

BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days in order for the... More...

Progress was made Monday in mitigating thousands of SQL-based Web sites injected with malicious javascript code. However, one security expert says we can expect more such attacks in the near future. A traditional SQL injection... More...

Electronic Arts, likely sick of having their recently-acquired role-playing franchise Mass Effect dragged through the mud on national television, has requested that Fox News Channel correct their error-plagued segment on the game. In the letter,... More...

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization launched in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to design, manufacture and distribute affordable laptop computers to children around the world, announced that mass production of the... More...

If you've been following news of the full-sized 113-keys Optimus Maximus keyboard with colour OLED screens (10.1mm² large with a 48x48 pixel resolution) located inside each key, you are probably aware of the bad news... More...

About 98-99% of SanDisk NAND flash are of multi-level cell structure. As there still is a considerable amount of low-price MLC NAND flash being sold in the market, prices are being affected. Once the inventory... More...

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 1Gigabit DDR2 DRAM using 60 nanometer process technology. In its press release, Samsung estimates efficiency gains of the 60nm process are 40%... More...

It turns out that the demand for electronic dictionaries is fairly big, and growing. Enough anyways, for Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. to announce the mass production of its 5.01-inch monochrome, highly reflective, thin... More...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to begin mass production of its low-cost notebooks aimed at children in developing nations in August or September. In late 2005, when the nonprofit organization released a prototype of... More...

Kotaku has the scoop that a UK gaming magazine, PC Gamer UK to be exact, has word that Bioware's next big game Mass Effect which up until now has been an Xbox 360 exclusive -... More...

The mass market for WiMax technology faces a number of challenges, but will probably reach its potential within five years. "Now that the certification of WiMax equipment has started and coverage areas have begun to... More...

Taiwan-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC specialists AOpen and Shuttle and own-brand PC companies Acer, Gigabyte Technology, and Micro-Star International (MSI) are gearing up to introduce new desktop PCs based on the Intel Viiv platform in January... More...

HP is expected to initiate a corporate restructuring within the next two weeks that could see as many as 15,000 layoffs. Analyst firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co said that HP could slash between five... More...

New York and Los Angeles store to stage flagship sales, with over 1,000 others planning their own midnight events. November 9 can't come soon enough for some gamers, and EB Games is... More...

Prices for 5-megapixel CMOS digital cameras are expected to drop from around US$200 currently to US$150 in the second half of the year as local companies move into mass production, according to sources. The sources... More...

ATI Technologies is expected to enter volume production of its R420 graphics chip core as early as the end of the first quarter, according to local industry sources. The R420 will be fabricated at Taiwan... More...

A playable demo of Navy SEALs: Weapons of Mass Destruction is now available, offering the opportunity to try out the Lithtech-powered first-person shooter that was released a few months ago by Jar Head Games and... More...

Microsoft is to cough up $1 million in legal fees to Massachusetts - the lone state pursuing an appeal against the 2002 antitrust ruling. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ordered Microsoft to shell out... More...

EVEN THOUGH Asus has already announced Nforce 3 motherboards that you can buy in many parts of the world, there's evidence suggesting the chipsets not so ready as Nvidia would like, at least not for... More...

IN THE HIGH PERFORMANCE graphics industry, performance must be combined with quality. It is this neverending race which will lead to initial availability of Nvidia's new Geforce FX cards this month. However, we have learned... More...

Greetings from the Notorious R.A.D. no not a fallen overweight rapper but your host on a journey through the days Bits, Bytes and the just plain crazy. No i wasn't drunk when i posted this... More...