Drive maker Western Digital begins shipping a new drives with up to 200GB of capacity--a whopping 80GB more than found in most high-end consumer PCs.
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The chipmaker is shaving up to 20 percent from prices for Athlon XP chips in an effort to make AMD-based PCs more attractive to buyers. It hopes Duron cuts will also spark interest.
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Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, says he will not publicize details about how to circumvent the controls on a DVD player.
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VIA Hardware has published a new article: Why the Buzz on AMD's Hammer won't quit
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives would dramatically rewrite federal law to permit copyright owners to legally hack into peer-to-peer networks.
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The bankrupt company, one of Europe's largest Internet backbone providers, switched off Wednesday but is now coming back online.
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Hewlett-Packard's board of directors has formed a technology committee to study such key issues as the company's transition to Itanium processors.
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Microsoft has released Windows
XP Service Pack 1 build 1079 to the beta testers. This Build is not RC1. Thanks NaTaN.
Registered beta testers can download this build from the Windows Beta Website
XP Service Pack 1 build 1079 to the beta testers. This Build is not RC1. Thanks NaTaN.Registered beta testers can download this build from the Windows Beta Website
A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.
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Thanks Clutch for this one:
A year into its development, the effort to create an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform is beginning to bear fruit.
The Mono Project has delivered 520,000 lines of code, including a fast x86 run-time engine, a self-hosting C# compiler that can compile its class libraries and better development tools for the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) open-source desktop environment, according to the initiative's technical leader, Miguel de Icaza.
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A year into its development, the effort to create an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform is beginning to bear fruit.
The Mono Project has delivered 520,000 lines of code, including a fast x86 run-time engine, a self-hosting C# compiler that can compile its class libraries and better development tools for the GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) open-source desktop environment, according to the initiative's technical leader, Miguel de Icaza.
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SAN FRANCISCO - In a San Francisco hotel conference room buzzing with lingo-slinging technology executives and public relations representatives, Bruce Perens is an unassuming standout.
The advocate and developer of free software isn't wearing a gray suit like the rest of them, and he's not overly optimistic about the announcement being made here -- that media software maker RealNetworks is making some of its vital source code freely available to developers.
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The advocate and developer of free software isn't wearing a gray suit like the rest of them, and he's not overly optimistic about the announcement being made here -- that media software maker RealNetworks is making some of its vital source code freely available to developers.
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Both Apple and Microsoft are expected to release tweaks to their operating systems next month, in the form of Mac OS X 10.2 and Windows XP Service Pack 1.
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The chipmaker aims to boost consumer interest in PCs and its processors by developing components for a portable personal video player.
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The chipmaker is advancing its release schedule of new 2.8GHz and 3GHz Pentium 4 chips in an effort to speed ahead of rival AMD.
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A consortium of hardware makers and software developers is looking to establish a standard for bringing the world's library of computerized 3D images to the Web.
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X-bit labs has posted an article called On the Way to Ideal Picture: Anti-Aliasing by Contemporary Graphics Cards.
Aiming to fend off the software powerhouse, RealNetworks plans to unveil "Helix," a new open source version of its streaming media software that supports multiple file formats.
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