Government solution providers will have a few more dollars to compete for in 2007 if President Bush’s proposed budget for $64.3 billion is approved by Congress. The slight increase would mostly benefit civil agencies, with Continue reading “President Bush Proposes $64 Billion Federal IT Budget”.
Symantec announced Tuesday that it will offer a new “all in one” application to thwart malicious viruses, spyware and identity theft. Symantec will continue to offer Norton AntiVirus and other products for those who prefer Continue reading “Symantec Readies Genesis Software For Battle”.
Google Inc. users will be able to conduct instant message chats from a Google Web browser window, alongside their e-mails, instead of requiring a separate application! Seems pretty slick, but only time will tell how Continue reading “Google puts instant message service inside e-mail”.
Despite big initiatives by the likes of Wal-Mart, Target and the Department of Defense, and a good bit of hype, tracking goods with RFID tags isn’t going to become commonplace anytime soon, said Sal Iannuzzi, Continue reading “RFID Is Not Ready For Prime Time”.
Apple Computer Inc Tuesday launched a new 1 gigabyte iPod nano music player for $149 and said it cut the price of its Shuffle music player. The new smaller Nano can hold 240 songs or Continue reading “Apple launches first 1GB iPod Nano”.
Anyone that has looked into buying a CrossFire ready motherboard using an ATI chipset knows the choices are far and few. The next generation ATI chipset (RD580) is still on the table for this month, Continue reading “ATI RD580, Crossfire Xpress 3200 to launch February”.
Are you one of the tens of thousands waiting for AMD to come out with the next generation socket before you upgrade? If you are one of these consumers you will be happy to know Continue reading “AMD’s Socket AM2 to launch summer 06 (before June 30th)”.
Contract prices for mainstream DRAMs shot up in the first half of February, with DDR2 pricing rocketing up 18% from the second half of January. We told you this months ago! DRAMeXchange observed that DRAM Continue reading “DDR2 contract prices soar in 1H February”.
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) today unveiled the C19-A SLI, the first ECS motherboard leveraging SLI technology for the Intel platform based on the NVIDIA nForces4 SLI XE chipset. With the C19-A SLI, Intel enthusiasts can Continue reading “ECS Launches The C19-A SLI Motherboard”.
International Business Machines Corp. on Monday said it has developed a small, low-cost chipset that could allow wireless electronic devices to transmit and receive ten times faster than today’s advanced WiFi networks. The chips use Continue reading “IBM creates chip for faster wireless data”.
The Inq has found sources in Asia that have disclosed the numbers and the specs of Intel’s next generation “Merom” processor, slated like Intel’s “Cointreau” and “Woodcrest” for the third quarter of this year. With Continue reading “Intel Dual-Core Merom CPUs: T7200, T7400, T7600”.
AOL and Yahoo! are to start charging for sending emails. Both companies will still accept free emails but are offering the chance to pay to avoid their spam filters. By paying between a quarter and Continue reading “AOL and Yahoo to charge for emails”.
It looks like DDR2 memory prices jumped over thirty cents over the Chinese New Year. This is a 6% increase in pricing and may impact the pricing on economy memory lines from many big companies Continue reading “DDR2 Spot Price On The Rise”.
Professional and hobbyist 3D rendering nuts are in for a treat this April when the new Quadro is released. The card will feature the new 90nm G71 GPU core and a whopping 1GB of memory. Continue reading “1GB GeForce Quadro slated for April”.
Got a high end Radeon that’s chewing through your electricity? Want to save a few dollars on that electric bill? The new Catalyst 6.1 drivers from ATi which employ power saving features borrowed from ATi’s Continue reading “Newer drivers reduce high end ATi GPU power consumption”.