Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna. The network connects six locations across Vienna... More...
Microsoft has unveild two limited edition Xbox 360 controllers, which come in blue or red finishes. The new controllers will retail with rechargeable battery packs, in the same finish as the controller, and are... More...
The combination of AMD's ATI graphics division and AMD's CPU division means that AMD often fights a two-front war, directly competing against Intel in the CPU business as well as Nvidia in graphics. AMD's Hybrid... More...
British chip designer ARM will demo an Android-based prototype mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona next Monday. Google's open-source Android software platform will be used by T-Mobile and HTC when... More...
A supercomputer that could help answer some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday. With the power of 12,000 desktop PCs, the mammoth machine called HECToR is the country's fastest computer and one... More...
US scientists at the University of California have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound, marking the first time that a... More...
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. has announced plans for the second expansion to World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled at the company's BlizzCon™ gaming festival before an audience of more than... More...
Microsoft is going to release a new version of its XBOX 360...just for the release of Halo 3! This new 360 will have the color profile of "Spartan Green" and "Spartan Gold" colxbox360or, with a... More...
AMD's next-generation DirectX 10 graphics products, including benchmarks and specifications, have been rumoured, slandered and discussed for quite some time now. The cards are still not out, but more details about them should stall enthusiasts... More...
Big Brother maker Endemol is to launch a virtual world where people can take part in familiar games and shows. Three dimensional worlds such as Second Life, which allow people to create online... More...
NVIDIA's GeForce 8600GTS and 8600GT are G84-based GPUs while the GeForce 8500GT is G86-based. The budget-priced trio feature full support for DirectX 10 features including pixel and vertex shader model 4.0 as well as support... More...
At CES 2007, ASUS revealed an external graphic card "enclosure" aimed at OEMs - dubbed the XG Station. ASUS plans to bundle the XG Station with ASUS PCIe graphics cards: pricing will therefore vary depending... More...
Imation Corporation, a leading supplier of optical disc media, revealed the world's first Blu-ray scratch-resistant media that features water-resistant technology – using ink-jet printer or markers on the discs is now possible. The manufacturer's suggested... More...
DailyTech's hands-on with the GeForce 8800 series continues with more information about the GPU and the retail boards. The new NVIDIA graphics architecture will be fully compatible with Microsoft's upcoming DirectX 10 API with support... More...
It seems that the engineers over at PC manufacturer AOpen have been studiously reading the reviews of the first generation of their Mac mini ripoff homage, the miniPC, as the latest version is promising to... More...
The chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, Nicholas Negroponte, has announced his plans for a laptop that costs less than $100 (£57) to produce. The laptop is aimed at education... More...
Thanks to WinMonkey for the heads up According to sources at pre-PDC sessions Microsoft will release build 5219 to attendees tomorrow. 5219.winmain_idx02.050824-2010 is the build tag so the build... More...
America Online debuted on Thursday a beta of My AOL personalized Web pages. My AOL is designed to give people the ability to customize the AOL portal based on specific needs and... More...
It had to happen. The first Mac Mini clones running Windows have been unveiled at Computex. Taiwanese manufacturer Aopen has unveiled its "Pandora" project, which looks surprisingly like the highly-successful Apple project. It's due to... More...
With Microsoft's official announcement of the next-generation Xbox 360 console this week, ATI has decided to disclose some of the architectural details of the graphics processor that it created for the system. I had a... More...
Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider game "will be unveiled this autumn and is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of the current financial year," Eidos told the City today, as insiders claimed that the version... More...
In an unusual move for Nintendo, the Nintendo DS codename for their new dual-screen handheld is to be kept as the official name, making it the first hardware codename that has actually made it to... More...
East Coast Games has distributed first information on their first project named Spoils of War. The game places players into a futuristic battle between Ematrants and Humans. Special features such as technological weapons, sorcery and... More...
The classic fighting series is back and, not surprisingly, it's looking better than ever. Here's the proof... Namco have released a slew of new shots of Tekken 5, the latest game in... More...
It's the DS's instant messaging tool that you can send pictures with too. Hangman, anyone? Nintendo have released new shots of PictoChat, their instant messaging application for DS. Up to 16 "players" can make use... More...
Loads more footage of the handheld wunderkind in action: GT4, Metal Gear, Wipeout Pure and more... Sony's PSP handheld was one of the real highlights of this year's E3 and, so you can... More...
A visitor of a Chinese BBS revealed information that, he thinks, mirrors some architecture peculiarities of the Microsoft's Xbox 2 console in addition to the date when the world's largest software maker is expected to... More...
Looks like the next Grand Theft Auto will miss E3 - but only just Take 2 - parent company of Grand Theft Auto publishers Rockstar - have revealed that GTA: San Andreas will... More...
Digital Extremes' Dark Sector will debut on the Xbox Next or the PlayStation 3--or both. Today, Digital Extremes gave the public a taste of the future of gaming when it released the... More...
Logitech unveils its new Cordless Precision Controller for Xbox at the CeBIT tradeshow in Germany. Logitech has today unveiled the successor to its Cordless Controller for Xbox at the CeBIT tradeshow in... More...
Famitsu magazine has unveiled BioHazard 4 (the Japanese version of Resident Evil 4), showing a completely reworked game. Gone are the days of traveling through pre-rendered screens and shooting at hordes of fumbling zombies. Replacing... More...
The Entertainment Software Association announces details of the conference program for this year's E3 in Los Angeles. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has today announced details of the conference program for this... More...
This just in at ActiveWin. French website Clubic.com reports new improved Microsoft Mice. The new mice support four way wheel, better autonomy (up to 6 months) and new radio technology that should avoid parasits. The... More...
Sun Microsystems has revealed that it secretly signed a deal to license SCO Group's Unix intellectual property in February, before Microsoft made a similar announcement in May. The deal expanded one that... More...
The initial pricing of Intel code-named Prescott processor was revealed by an unofficial source here today. The fastest Socket 478 chip from Intel with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus and 1MB of L2 cache in addition... More...
A company based in Hong Kong has created a portable version of Sega's console. According to online retailer Lik-Sang, a Hong Kong-based company has created a portable Dreamcast unit called the Treamcast.... More...
Satellite links have been used to demonstrate the streaming of live video and data to DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) enabled devices from across the world. This was unveiled in Las Vegas at the NAB show,... More...
A new Indian supercomputer has been announced, dubbed the PARAM Padma computer. This new machine isn't as quick in terms of processor speed as supercomputers developed in the US and Japan, as it has been... More...
The Xbox budget range is set to launch at €29.99 / £19.99 on April 11th in Europe, Microsoft has today announced. "Xbox Classics", as the range will be known, boasts a slightly different line-up to... More...
With the rising popularity of instant messaging There, a company which has been working for the last four years in secrecy, have created what they tout to be the 'killer app' of the Internet. They... More...
IN JAPAN, exchanging business cards is an elaborate ritual. And we have heard many a tale of disgraced executives humiliated in front of their colleagues, when unable to produce a finely-printed card to offer scruffy... More...
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is without a doubt one of the most highly-anticipated games of this year. To commemorate the premier of the game, Blizzard will be offering a limited number of the Warcraft... More...
Australian game developer Strategic Studies Group has announced its upcoming fantasy real-time strategy game, Warlords Battlecry II. The game is the sequel to Warlords Battlecry, which was released in July 2000 and received praise for... More...