California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday making Internet “phishing” identity theft scams punishable by law. Sounds like common sense right? Well, California is the only state that has a bill of like this! Continue reading “Phishing becomes against law in California”.
San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom asked for a wireless network and thanks to proposals from Google and Earthlink they are going to get one. Google said on Friday it has proposed to provide free wireless Continue reading “Google & Earthlink propose Wi-Fi plans for San Francisco”.
SanDisk and M-Systems aim to increase the penetration rate of their co-developed U3 platform to 40% of the flash disk market in 2006, according to sources at downstream flash disk makers. U3 has gained support Continue reading “U3 penetration rate for 2006 set at 40%”.
VoIP is everywhere..Alot of my friends use it to talk to friends and family around the world. It looks like China will be a hard nut to crack. According to The Register, VoIP is blocked Continue reading “China blocks Skype, VoIP”.
The Sony PlayStation is a household name around the world. Now the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded the PlayStation an Emmy, aside from that what I also found interesting is Sony Continue reading “Emmy for Sony PlayStation 3D work”.
VIA Technologies and Mini-box announced the VoomPC family of compact, high performance yet affordable x86 car PC kits aimed at driving telematics mainstream. Based on low power VIA EPIA Mini-ITX mainboards, the x86 platform of Continue reading “VIA & Mini-box Announce VoomPC: Sub-$300 Car PC Kit”.
Epox have released a new NVIDIA nForce4 SLI motherboard. This is nothing new, but support for AMD’s socket 754 is. This is the first SLI motherboard to support AMD’s socket 754, also the first to Continue reading “Epox launches SLI motherboard for AMD Socket-754 CPUs”.
Dell Inc. will stop its practice of sending low-end computers to customers homes without charge in order to cut costs, the company said Thursday. We will add this to our list of reasons to build Continue reading “Dell ending free home delivery of computers”.
ATI silently lowered its warranty down to 1 year for ALL of their desktop graphics cards. This shouldn?t have any impact on the warranty that offered by third party companies like Sapphire, ASUS, or VisionTek Continue reading “ATI Technologies Cuts Video Card Warranty To One Year”.
Samsung have started work on expanding their Hwaseong semiconductor facility, at a cost of $33 Billion. According to EETimes their total expected investment will be $860 million by 2012. LONDON ? South Korean electronics giant Continue reading “Samsung breaks ground on $33 billion chip campus”.
More than 60 percent of Americans who use the Internet at home now do so with a high-speed connection, a new study finds. That’s a jump from 51 percent a year ago. Nielsen/NetRatings says 86 Continue reading “Broadband Internet use grows to 60% in U.S. homes”.
Korea-based LG Chem, a mother company of the well known LG Group, aims to be the first in the world to commercialize fuel cell technology to power notebooks. According to the company, it has already Continue reading “LG Chem aims to be first to market in notebook fuel cells”.
The BlackBerry handheld device has now found a new CPU. Intel are to collaborate with Reseach in Motion, the makers of the BlackBerry, on their new cpu. The BlackBerry will use Intel’s XScale architecture, which Continue reading “Intel, Research In Motion Collaborate on Next-Generation BlackBerry Devices”.
The AOpen Pandora may look like the Mac Mini, but it certainly is not. AOpen and their reseller partners are going to have these Mini PC’s available this Christmas, but are they going to be worth it? With complete system prices at $399 for Linux and $499 for Windows they are worth a look.
Rambus shares spiked today in response to a court filing seeking a dismissal of litigation in Virginia against vs. Samsung, the world’s second-largest chipmaker and the largest memory manufacturer. Shares of Rambus (RMBS) are up Continue reading “Rambus Chips Away at Samsung Suit”.
