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Chrome 87 out with huge performance improvements, new omnibox actions, more

Abhay V — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:32:01 +0000

Google has released Chrome version 87 to all users bringing huge performance gains and battery life improvements, a new Chrome Actions feature, and the addition of cards to the new tab page. Read more...

Google's new symptom search will likely tell you it's not Lupus

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:14:01 +0000

Google is rolling out a new update for mobile search, which will now display helpful cards with symptoms, disease and warning signs for all your hypochondriac needs. But this is not medical advice. Read more...

Action Center and Cortana to use cards in upcoming Windows 10 Redstone builds

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:56:01 +0000

Microsoft is looking to change things around and redesign the Action Center's and Cortana's interface in Windows 10. The new look is expected to feature a card-based model and be announced today. Read more...

Wallet for Windows 10 Mobile now supports loyalty cards

Matt Brown — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 22:00:01 +0000

A new update is now available for the Wallet application for Windows 10 Mobile, adding support for retail loyalty cards. Select cards can now be scanned into the app, and used in-store. Read more...

Samsung unveils new SD and MicroSD cards designed for 4K video

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 06 May 2015 18:50:01 +0000

Samsung is bringing a new generation of its EVO and PRO memory cards, which are now capable of meeting the increasingly demanding requirements for storing very high resolution video content. Read more...

Twitter is building its own video service; wants to compete with YouTube

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:32:01 +0000

Twitter is rolling out new features left and right and it looks like the company has big plans for its video service even going as far as building a direct competitor to Google's YouTube. Read more...

100 million credit cards compromised

Sean Bradford — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:31:18 +0000

Yesterday during the biggest day in America's history, Heartland Payment System finally revealed that it's systems were compromised by hackers in late May of 2008. Speculation around the blogosphere is that the company waited until... Read more...

AMD unleashes the New Radeon Cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:06:03 +0000

AMD today announced the introduction and availability of the ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 and ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 series, the leading-edge entry-level and mainstream graphics processors (GPU) in the ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 series. ... Read more...

Asustek launches overclocked AMD and Nvidia graphics cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:07:34 +0000

Asustek Computer has introduced a pair of overclocked AMD and Nvidia graphics cards aimed a gamers who want to squeeze every last bit of performance. The ATI Radeon 3850-based EAH3850 TOP/HTDI/512M offers core and memory... Read more...

PSN Cards Confirmed For US

Andrew — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:35:47 +0000

Sony has confirmed that it will bring PlayStation Network Cards - which work like Wii Points Cards - to the US in 2008. Both Wii and 360 already have Points Cards systems in place, which... Read more...

Fraudsters Use Charities Before Selling Stolen Credit Cards

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:44:08 +0000

Internet security company Symantec claims that Internet fraudsters are donating money to charities as a way to check the validity of stolen credit cards prior to resale. Unfortunately, Symantec doesn't have any figures to indicate... Read more...

Asustek Develops Manual Overclocking Tool for Graphics Cards

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:20:16 +0000

Asustek Computer has unveiled what it calls "the world's first hardware based real-time overclocking device for graphics cards" along with its new Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT-based graphics board. Asustek's OC Gear real-time overclocking device should... Read more...

Sapphire Readies DirectX 10 Graphics Cards for Old Computers

Mon, 21 May 2007 18:57:35 +0000

Sapphire Technology, one of the world's largest producers of graphics cards, is planning to release three graphics cards featuring ATI Rialto bridge, which allows GPUs originally architected for PCI Express to work on platforms supporting... Read more...

EVGA Bans Sales of 'Offensive' XFX Graphics Cards in Germany

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:43:24 +0000

EVGA, a supplier of graphics cards and mainboards, has announced that Germany trade regulators ordered its rival XFX, a division of Pine Technology, to stop selling graphics cards that potentially insult EVGA as a company.... Read more...

Skype offers Pre-Paid Calling Cards at Wal-Mart

Mon, 14 May 2007 19:10:17 +0000

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to offer the first pre-paid cards for Skype VoIP calls along with a line of Skype certified headsets, webcams, and handsets that it will sell in the Internet and... Read more...

Touch-and-pay cards get go ahead

Wed, 09 May 2007 00:56:10 +0000

Thanks to a system by Visa and Mastercard starting in September, UK consumers will be able to settle bills of less than Â£10 by holding up their credit and debit cards against a special secure... Read more...

Putting WiFi into camera memory cards

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:51:27 +0000

Chip start-up Eye-Fi has created a memory card that includes a Wi-Fi chip. When a picture is taken, the photo is automatically sent to a photo site, according to Ken Elefant, a partner at Opus... Read more...

Lawmakers working to ban hacked RFID door cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:28:44 +0000

There's already an RFID security brouhaha brewing in Washington, and if some people have their way, it won't be the last legal fight waged in the nation's capital over use of the wireless technology. The... Read more...

Sony Announces Its First CompactFlash Cards

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:17:28 +0000

That's right, for once, Sony is following a standard (the CompactFlash standard) instead of offering its own formats. Sony was forced to go through with this one though. Sony's Alpha A100 D-SLR supports both CompactFlash... Read more...

Visual Business Cards 4.17

Razvan Serea — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:48:33 +0000

Visual Business Cards allows you to design and print your own professional looking business cards using an easy-to-use visual design window. You can insert clip art, select a background and use use the included tools... Read more...

PowerColor to launch passively cooled X1950 Pro and XT cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:30:46 +0000

PowerColor and Arctic Cooling will launch in the first quarter of 2007 a solution for PowerColor's X1950 Pro and X1950 XT passive cards, which are claimed to be the fastest passive cards in the world,... Read more...

Non-Vista-supporting motherboards and VGA cards DOA?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:13:46 +0000

With Windows Vista up and coming, makers of motherboards and VGA cards are now worried they will incur losses from their inventory of low-end products that do support Microsoft's new operating system (OS), according to... Read more...

MSI - Stolen Video Cards

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:36:15 +0000

Woot.com, a popular "One deal" website, has been called out by MSI and accused of selling stolen video cards. MSI reports that an undisclosed number of 7900GS video cards where stolen during transit. At this... Read more...

PS3 to require 'adaptor' to use PSOne, PS2 memory cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:36:30 +0000

Sony's PlayStation 3 will play "thousands" of PSOne and PS2 titles, the company has claimed, but if players want to carry over saved games, they'll need to obtain a memory card adaptor first, the Sony... Read more...

ATI Trims Power Consumption of High-End Graphics Cards

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:41:41 +0000

ATI Technologies said Friday it had employed technologies originally designed to reduce energy consumption of graphics processors for notebooks to trim power hunger of high-end desktop graphics cards, such as Radeon X1800 or more advanced.... Read more...

ATI X1300 and X1600 Won't Need Master Cards

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:41:51 +0000

According to AnandTech, ATI will release a driver which will enable CrossFire multi-GPU configurations on X1300 and X1600 products without the need for a "master" card. Alternatively, all data will be handled by the... Read more...

Activision requires credit cards now

Todd Tanner — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:05:13 +0000

According to Gamecloud the new "Age Gate" has just gone a step further. Activision is now requiring users to not only verify age, but they must provide a valid credit card to view "M" rated... Read more...

The Fastest Graphics Cards of Summer 2005

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:33:00 +0000

X-bit labs has posted a comprehensive article today containing benchmark results from 17 graphics cards in 30 popular games. The roundup includes cards from entry level, mainstream, and high end price segments (including SLI... Read more...

ATI persists in selling AGP cards

Steven Parker — Mon, 23 May 2005 14:52:02 +0000

Which is a good thing I suppose.. - ED Tech Report has an interesting article about the new AGP Radeons. Seems as if ATI has finally acknowledged that AGP is (still) not... Read more...

Microsoft to flash Windows ID cards

Wed, 18 May 2005 15:33:00 +0000

Microsoft is getting ready to provide an early peek at new Windows software that aims to help consumers deal with the plethora of Internet logins. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant plans to... Read more...

ATI Discloses Pricing of New "Bridged" AGP 8x Graphics Cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:31:57 +0000

ATI Technologies disclosed pricing of its recently announced graphics solutions for systems with AGP 8x interconnection. While the RADEON X800, X800 XL and X850 XT AGP graphics cards by ATI's add-in-card (AIB) partners have virtually... Read more...

ATI paves way for sub-$50 graphics cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 11:08:16 +0000

ATI today introduced a low-end Radeon X-class graphics card that utilises the company's AGP-like HyperMemory technology to save money by limiting the on-board memory. The Radeon X300 SE is expected to ship in 128MB and... Read more...

PCIe graphics cards to equal 25% of graphics card by Q4

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:09:56 +0000

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.... Read more...

XGI makes own graphics cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:32:29 +0000

XGI HAS DECIDED to brand and to introduce its own range of cards based on the chips it makes. We know that ATI has done this in the past, and that 3DFX was doing this... Read more...

S3 Graphics, Bring Cost-Effective HDTV Multimedia Cards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:39:52 +0000

Club 3D, a European graphics card vendor, and S3 Graphics, a graphics processors designer, recently announced the release of a graphics card that is equipped with TV tuner in addition to HDTV and multimedia capabilities,... Read more...

MSN to launch business cards for kids

Tom Warren — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:17:17 +0000

MSN's French department plan to launch a new service for kids using MSN Messenger next Thursday. The service, named "MSN Cards", will allow children to order personalized cards, for free. The initiative will debut in... Read more...

Credit Cards, Google, and The Internet

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:35:15 +0000

Credit Card information theft has always been a worry to their users, a worry multiplied by the internet and online shopping. Users have often been haunted by 'scare stories' of data being intercepting and their... Read more...

Google queries provide stolen credit cards

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:27:20 +0000

Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday. The lists of financial... Read more...

Intel to bundle ATI VGA cards with 915/925 motherboards

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:36:44 +0000

Intel and ATI Technologies plan a co-marketing initiative called "Driving Change," which will target the channel and bundle ATI own-brand add-in-board (AIB) clients with Intel own-brand motherboards, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboards makers. The... Read more...

Katamari Damacy sequel on the cards

Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:18:41 +0000

Cult Japanese classic Katamari Damacy is to get the sequel treatment according to Japanese newswire Nikkei. The follow up to Namco's bizarre but loveable ball rolling oddity will be released in Japan on the PS2... Read more...