If you need a ridiculous amount of storage space, Western Digital can say that they more than have you covered. The company has brought its top-tier hard drives to a monstrous 4TB capacity. More...
UK Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt has decided that he wants the country to be blazing the trail for internet speeds in Europe by 2015, offering super-fast connections to at least 90% of its populace. More...
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...
Six weeks after promising to double the speeds of its broadband customers free of charge, Virgin Media's upgrades have begun, with a new website for customers to find out when their upgrade is due. More...
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. More...
Virgin Media customers have been given a New Year treat, with the news that their broadband speeds will be doubled (or even tripled) free of charge, with the fastest connections soon reaching 120Mbps. More...
SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can... More...
Microsoft's Hotmail web based email service is still extremely popular and recently the service got a small makeover with a number of improvements. One of the improvements is increasing the speed and performance of Hotmail.... More...
Browser speed has always been a talking point in the never-ending mobile OS war(a war we hope doesn’t end anytime soon). According to Blaze, a website optimization company, Android’s native browser blows iOS’s Safari out... More...
Just when you thought you were finally getting used to 802.11n Wi-Fi, those rascals at the IEEE are at it again, this time adding another letter to the now almost ubiquitous Wi-Fi certification symbols. This... More...
In the world of browser wars, speed is everything. All the top vendors love to show off how fast their browser is and why it is better than the competition. So, when a user comes... More...
Virgin Media today announced a free upgrade for its broadband customers. Calling it an 'adrenaline shot', Virgin is aiming to boost upload speeds for customers across its range of broadband speeds. The upgrade has begun to... More...
According to a report released by the FCC this week, US broadband consumers in 2009 were getting half of the download speeds advertised by their service providers. In 2009, the median advertised download speed for... More...
According to ReadWriteWeb, Google just announced a small, but much needed feature update to Gmail - One-click previews for Microsoft Word documents. Previously the one-click preview service only covered PDF, TIFF and Powerpoint files which... More...
One wonders how such a thing would be useful to the average home user, but Engadget reports that Comcast may be preparing to offer cable speeds up to 105Mbps downstream 10Mbps upstream. According to information... More...
EA, the publishers behind the Need For Speed series of games, have announced that fans of the popular series will be able to act out their car fantasies in real life in June 2009. Over... More...
Breaking the speed barrier of traditional flash memory, Intel and Micron Thursday announced a new flash memory architecture that increases the data transfer rates in consumer electronics by cutting the bottlenecks affecting conventional NAND flash... More...
Broadband ISP Virgin Media has announced its plans for upgrading customers' broadband systems. Beginning late February customers with a 4Mbit/s service on Virgin Media's 'L' tier package will be upgraded free to a 10Mbit/s service.... More...
Nero CD-DVD Speed is a program for testing optical drives and media and is part of Nero Toolkit. A free CD-ROM/DVD benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive. Tests... More...
There is a huge gap between advertised broadband speeds and the actual speeds users can achieve, new research from consumer group Which? has shown. A survey by the organisation found that broadband packages promising speeds... More...
Infineon Technologies AG, a leading semiconductor developer, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a leading producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled their new read/write channel system-on-chip solutions for HDDs that can be combined... More...
Japan's Toshiba plans to speed up its flash memory expansion plans and boost production capacity by 70 percent by June 2008, six months ahead of schedule. Toshiba, the world's second-largest maker of NAND flash chips,... More...
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced today that the blockbuster Need for Speed franchise is introducing a new version that drives the series in a new direction. Need for Speed ProStreet is a ground-breaking Need for... More...
At the Internet2 consortium's spring meeting in Arlington, Virginia, it was publically announced that a group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo had broken Internet speed records – twice in two days. On... More...
Why would someone want to install a client OS from a thumb drive instead of a DVDROM or over the network? One reason: Performance. Installing Windows Vista from a high speed USB flash drive is... More...
Thanks to Hurmoth for posting this in BPN. German electronics company Siemens has set a new network speed record: 107 gigabits, 2.5 times faster than the previous record. The test was performed over a 100-mile... More...
Thanks to funding by the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the record for the world's fastest transistor has been broken once again by U.S. researchers. The new transistor, made of iridium phosphide and iridium... More...
Electronic Arts has finally released the playable demo for the PC version of Need for Speed Carbon, the next game in the long running Need for Speed franchise that will be released to retail on... More...
The highly anticipated Need For Speed Carbon just got a little closer apparently. EA has just released a demo of the game to Xbox Live Marketplace. It clocks in at a smooth 1 Gig and... More...
A new build of Vista appeared on connect late yesterday, and first reports of it are promising. Ryan Hoffman of Bink.nu had this to say: "I've gotten Windows Vista Build 5472 loaded up on my... More...
EA today confirmed the role of Emmanuelle Vaugier in the latest title in the series. The TV actress best known for appearances in "Smallville", "Two and a Half Men" and let's not forget "House of... More...
IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that their researchers have demonstrated the first silicon-based chip capable of operating at frequencies above 500 GHz -- 500 billion cycles per second -- by cryogenically... More...
Good news for everyone, well nearly everyone signed up to NTL Broadband. From the 1st June NTL will be upgrading 2Mb subscribers to a 4Mb connection for free and will be removing any bandwidth caps... More...
The industry group behind theBluetooth wireless standard announced on Tuesday that it has received clearancefrom the FCC to increase Blutooth transfer rates by utilizing a version of the new radio technology known as ultra-wideband or... More...
An international group of scientists and engineers have broken the world network speed record for the third consecutive year. The team consists of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers from the California Institute of Technology,... More...
After NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB effectively stole the title of fastest consumer level graphics card earlier this week, some ATI video card partners are considering a speed boost for ATI's flagship X1800 XT in... More...
Current-gen platforms will see EA's latest racer launch November 15, Xbox 360 version release still TBD. Every version of Electronic Arts' latest racer Need for Speed Most Wanted is set to peel... More...
No more long waits for your PC to wake up. Longer laptop battery life. Data that survives a drop. These are the promises of solid-state-memory disks (SSDs), which use flash memory to supplement or replace... More...
Broadband Internet access via TV cables can reach 100 Megabits per second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said... More...
Memory developer Rambus, creators of the ill-fated RDRAM for the Intel desktop platform, are touting their upcoming XDR graphics memory as being five times faster than current graphics memory products such as GDDR3. The... More...
Think your 1Mbps connection is speedy? You ain't seen nothing yet. A Hong Kong ISP has unveiled a service which zips along at an impressive 1Gbps - well, for local traffic anyway. Connections outside of... More...
Two companies introduced products for the 4GB Fibre Channel environment Wednesday at Storage Networking World. ATTO Technology Inc. of Amherst, N.H., announced the ATTO Fibre Bridge 2400C/R/D, a 4GB Fibre Channel-to-SCSI bridge designed to integrate... More...
China advanced its nation's communications infrastructure by launching Cernet2, a high-speed Internet backbone. Cernet2, a high-speed internet backbone, connects 25 universities in 20 cities. Cernet, or the China Education and Research Network, has... More...
Researchers at IBM and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon, boosting semiconductor performance at a time when such gains are increasingly hard to come by, the companies said on... More...
As expected, Intel has introduced a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 processor in what could represent the end of an era for the chip maker. The Pentium 4 570 processor at 3.8GHz will have the fastest clock... More...
Taking place in a massive, free-roaming city featuring five distinct interconnected neighborhoods, Need for Speed Underground 2 delivers an immersive game world where the streets are your menus. As players explore the city, they'll encounter... More...
The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM's prototype Blue Gene/L machine. It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, a US... More...
Thanks to Torankusu for the heads up. Uncover the tuner underground in a massive, free-roaming metropolis. Get behind the wheel in one of 30 of the hottest cars and own the streets from... More...
A new movie from Need for Speed Underground 2 is now available from download, offering four minutes of in-game footage from this sequel which will feature new game modes, deep new performance customisation and tuning,... More...
Publisher Electronic Arts has confirmed that it plans to support Sony's PlayStation Portable with two titles at launch, with Need for Speed Underground Rivals and Tiger Woods PGA Golf to arrive in Japan this year.... More...