The French government is considering extending the television licence fee to include computer screen owners to boost revenues for public-sector broadcasting operations, the culture minister said on Saturday. President Franois Hollande’s Socialist government aims to Continue reading “Computer Displays Might Get 125 TV Licence Fee in France”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 1, 2012 at 7:01pm
The French government is considering extending the television licence fee to include computer screen owners to boost revenues for public-sector broadcasting operations, the culture minister said on Saturday. President Franois Hollande’s Socialist government aims to Continue reading “Computer Displays Might Get 125 TV Licence Fee in France”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 1, 2012 at 7:01pm
4K cameras are normally the preserve of professional photographers and film makers, for those ultra high definition movies you see at the cinema. Not any more. Canadian company Point Grey have released a new model Continue reading “Point Grey Releases Tiny Flea3 4K USB 3.0 Camera”. …more
By michaels •
Jul. 1, 2012 at 10:54am
AMD released its new Trinity core based Accelerated Processing Units (APU) in May to the mobile market, followed by embedded chips. AMD also announced that the desktop versions would be released at the end of Continue reading “AMD’s New Trinity-Based APU Goes Into HP Desktop System”. …more
By michaels •
Jul. 1, 2012 at 7:36am
VideoLAN has released version 2.0.2 of its acclaimed VLC video player, which brings major bug fixes and improvements along with extra features for the Apple Mac. “After more than 100 million downloads of VLC 2.0 Continue reading “VideoLAN Releases VLC 2.02 – Major Bug Fixes and Improvements Plus Retina Support for the Mac”. …more
By michaels •
Jul. 1, 2012 at 7:03am
The Adobe PDF document format has been an ISO international standard for some time now, which means that anyone can create and edit files in this format. PDF support has been available in Word since Continue reading “Microsoft Word 2013 to Support PDF Editing Natively”. …more
By michaels •
Jul. 1, 2012 at 5:30am
Famous bittorrent search engine The Pirate Bay is down again. It’s been on the receiving end of copyright holders’ attacks for years over alleged, but never proved, financial losses due to copyright infringements, so one Continue reading “UPDATED: The Pirate Bay Down Again – Reason Unknown”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 8:45pm
Ubisoft’s just published (June 28) game Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was due to receive its first DLC offering on July 3, less than a week after its release. However, this now won’t be Continue reading “Ubisoft Delays ‘Arctic Strike’ DLC For Ghost Recon”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 7:47pm
There won’t be any ARM-based Windows RT tablets coming from HP, since it has scrapped plans to introduce them. Instead HP will focus on a business slate using the x86-based Windows 8. It may be Continue reading “HP Scraps Plans for ARM-based Windows RT Tablets”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 7:16pm
It’s not looking great for companies who want to compete with Apple against their mobile products. Not because Apple is out-innovating them with superior products at great prices, but because they’re winning court injunctions against Continue reading “Apple Kills Sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus in the US, For Now”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 5:50pm
About a month ago, the logo for Microsoft Office 2013 was revealed, having a somewhat stark, simple, angled style in keeping with the new Windows 8 and Metro style look. Now, the icons for OneNote Continue reading “Upcoming Office 2013 Application Icons Revealed”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 5:12pm
Valve is to launch the massive and much-anticipated Cold Stream DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 on PC, Xbox 360 and Mac platforms on July 24. Cold Stream includes a user-design campaign, plus ports Left Continue reading “Massive Cold Stream DLC for L4D2 To Launch July 24”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 3:48pm
Point of View partnered with German performance tuning team TGT, will be announcing and launching the POV/TGT GeForce GTX 680 Beast Edition next week. It will look the same as the current POV/TGT GeForce GTX Continue reading “PoV/TGT Launching GTX 680 Beast Edition Next Week”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 3:06pm
Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H AMD A75 Socket FM1 Motherboard Review @ PCSTATS and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! “Top of the list of features for the Gigabyte GA-A75-UD4H motherboard Continue reading “June 30, 2012 News from Around the Web”. …more
By amy •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 8:04am
EVGAs popular overclocking and monitoring software, EVGA Precision X, has been updated to version v3.0.3. This free update includes a number of bugfixes and new features including new indicators for maximum and minimum values to Continue reading “EVGA Releases Precision X Version 3.0.3”. …more
By michaels •
Jun. 30, 2012 at 3:55am