Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputer – Blue Gene. Coming in just under Continue reading “Japan to build world’s fastest supercomputer”.
Hackers who seek out loopholes in popular programs could soon get cash rewards for their finds. Those who top the scheme’s rewards system could be earning $50,000 a year from their bug hunting. While $50,000 Continue reading “Hacking For Good = Getting Paid Legally”.
By naming the next version of Windows “Vista,” Microsoft may have stepped on the toes of another software company just down the road in Redmond. That would be Vista, a business software and services company Continue reading “Vista software Flaming Hot Over Windows Vista”.
Some more info was published today on Intel’s famed “East Fork” desktop platform. This would of course be the Yonah Pentium M processors platform that is designed for desktop PCs, Intel?s digital home strategy, and Continue reading ““East Fork” Platform to get Intel Pentium D9 support, with ICH7-DH southbridge”.
Free broadcasting services to handheld devices like cell phones may be offered across the country next year after testing later this year in Seoul and the surrounding Kyonggi Province. Now if we can only get Continue reading “Korea To Offer Free Nationwide Mobile Broadcasting in 2006”.
City officials claim that wireless operators make misleading pricing promises in their ads. Deceptive advertising has been something everyone has become used to with cell phones, but at least New York is trying to clean Continue reading “New York City Sues Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile Over Ads”.
Ben Goodger over at Firefox has posted up a nice little roadmap of Firefox’s past and future releases. If you are a Mozilla fan go check it out and see how the progress is going! Continue reading “Mozilla Firefox 2.0/3.0 Roadmap Published”.
Mirosoft announced Friday that it will call its next-generation operating system “Windows Vista.” The much-anticipated operating system had formerly been code-named “Longhorn.” Microsoft also unveiled the Windows Vista Web site and said the first beta Continue reading “Microsoft unveils Windows Vista (No Longer Longhorn)”.
ATI Technologies has released CrossFire-compatible dual graphics card drivers to support Intel 955X chipsets, according to sources at motherboard makers. Products supporting ATI?s dual-card graphics solution, including motherboards with CrossFire-enabled 955X chipsets, are scheduled to Continue reading “ATI CrossFire to support Intel 955X chipsets”.
The computer maker Gateway confirmed Thursday that it is exiting the business that it entered with much fanfare in late 2002. At the time, Gateway snagged plenty of headlines and attention from rivals when it Continue reading “Gateway Stops Selling Plasma & LCD TV’s”.
Bad news for the gaming industry as Take Two Interactive admitted to putting the sex scenes into GTA: San Andreas and the video game industry has changed the rating from Mature to Adult Only. Shares Continue reading “Rockstar’s Sex scenes force ‘Grand Theft’ re-rating”.
Microsoft is buying FrontBridge Technologies, its second acquisition this year of an e-mail anti-virus protection provider. FrontBridge provides an outsourcing service that allows companies to have their e-mail and instant messaging scanned before it reaches Continue reading “Microsoft to Buy E-mail Security Provider FrontBridge”.
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 Continue reading “Super-speed broadband seen coming in 2006”.
Do memory DRAM terms like UTT, ETT and branded/unbranded make your head spin? Memory companies have several options on what IC’s to put onto their memory modules and we go over them in a brief article showing the differences so you can become a better buyer or consumer.
The open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client will be updated for the second time in a week because of code changes that have unintentionally stopped some third-party extensions from functioning correctly. This means Firefox Continue reading “Buggy FireFox 1.0.5 Prompts Release of FireFox 1.0.6 beta”.
