Microsoft is “aggressively investigating” an Internet Explorer hole that could allow hackers to take control of Windows XP machines. Microsoft is not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of any Continue reading “Microsoft Investigates Critical New IE Hole Found By badpack3t”.
It looks like It’s full steam ahead for FB-DIMM memory (Fully-Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module). The new technology uses existing DDR2 modules. It allows for upto up to six channels of eight dual-layer FB-DIMM modules Continue reading “Micron: JEDEC specs of FB-DIMM should be available by year-end”.
Google is expanding its lucrative Internet advertising network into the print world in a bold attempt to capture traditional ad dollars. The print ads will feature full pages of Google-facilitated ads with the URL of Continue reading “Google To Offer Print Ads”.
Memory spot prices continue to drop due to weak demand in the market. PC-2700 (333MHz) has dropped nearly 4% over the past week. Except for 8Gbit NAND flash parts, spot prices for all types of Continue reading “DRAMeXchange: Memory spot prices continue to drop”.
Apple Computer and Motorola plan to unveil a cell phone with Apple’s iTunes software next week, the New York Times reported Tuesday. On Monday Apple invited members of the press to the Moscone Center in Continue reading “Apple iTunes is coming to cell phones”.
ATI Technologies (ATYT) warned Monday that fiscal fourth-quarter revenue — and potentially profits — will fall far short of its previous prediction as a result of slower-than-expected sales of its chips for desktop computers and Continue reading “ATI Tech Slashes Outlook”.
NASA has had really bad luck with their shuttle fuel tanks and things do not seem to be getting any better. Hurricane Katrina has damaged the Michoud Assemly plant, which may halt production of the Continue reading “NASA Woes: Hurricane Katrina hits shuttle tank facility”.
Slashdot has a post that claims the Creative Zen Neeon MP3 player has been shipping with a virus! Creative has released a statement in order to help consumers identify affected products. (Its translated, so it Continue reading “Creative Zen Neeon Ships with a Virus!”.
File-sharers have moved away from the popular BitTorrent system following legal action, say experts. The study by the Cambridge-based Internet analysis firm CacheLogic found that eDonkey is now roughly on par with BitTorrent in the Continue reading “File-sharers move from BitTorrent to eDonkey”.
It is common knowledge that in 2006, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will change their socket design to the M2 940-pin socket for all single- and dual-core desktop processors. What we didn’t know it that ATI Continue reading “ATI to launch five new chipsets for AMD M2 platform in 2006”.
Corsair just published a detailed Application Note on performance impact of changing memory size from 1GB to 2GB. Find this and other articles in the LegitForums! We were very eager to run testing on Battlefield Continue reading “Tuesday Reviews Around the Web”.
The Intel marketing machine has left the IT industry looking forward to the Viiv systems coming out in 2006. We are just now finding out prices and the complete sytems are looking to run US$1,000-1,500. Continue reading “Intel Viiv platform PCs said to cost US$1,000-1,500”.
WindowsAtoZ analyzes a serious question in their article, “Security: What’s the Big Picture?” Find this and other reviews by visiting our fourms! Just the other day the creators of the huge Zotob worm that we’ve Continue reading “Monday’s Reviews Around the Web”.
Many of our readers may remember Microsoft’s hardware-based security plan called Palladium as the evil software that was going to invade ones privacy. It now seems that Pallidium is not dead and how it will Continue reading “Windows Vista: Palladium (NGSCB) delivery is still to be determined”.
The FBI says two men were nabbed in Turkey and Morocco, and charged in relation to the Zotob and earlier Mytob and Rbot worms. Looks like the FBI won this round! Farid Essebar, 18, a Continue reading “Suspected Zotob Makers Arrested”.