Mar 29, 05 @ 11:53AM by CrimsonA in General Hardware

In addition to Blu ray and HD-DVD, Taiwan (or at least some companies) have developed another new format- the FVD.
Digitimes

Mar 29, 05 @ 11:53AM by CrimsonA in General Hardware

Fuel cell batteries are a gimmick - it's too hard to make them work for a laptop. However, Toshiba has a new LiOn battery which finishes charging in 1 minute.
The Register

Mar 29, 05 @ 11:52AM by CrimsonA in

Talk about double taxation. The IRS is looking into taxing eBay sales - but then, at what point does a personal sale become a business one? Business Week

Mar 29, 05 @ 11:52AM by CrimsonA in Video

The Radeon 9600 Pro was a very popular mid range card in the day. Now ATi is going to put it as the value card, to provide good performance at under $100.
The Inquirer

Mar 29, 05 @ 11:52AM by CrimsonA in General Hardware

Many of you have already noticed the effects of lower memory prices. Now it seems prices are set to fall even further - even memory makers are offering price matching.
X-bit Labs

Mar 28, 05 @ 09:54AM by zero in Video

It?s been a few weeks since the shipping of Nvidia?s Geforce 6200 Turbo cache cards and now ATI is on the move with their X300SE HM. The 6200TCs are equipped with 16MB at a price of $67, while the X300SE HM cards are expected to be priced at $59 with 32MB.
The Inquirer

Mar 28, 05 @ 09:54AM by zero in General Hardware

All you Firefox users, read up on this article which gives you a guide on how to beef up your Firefox!
ipkonfig

Mar 28, 05 @ 09:54AM by zero in General Hardware

If you bought yourself a PSP and you?ve got some dead-pixels that come with it, Sony is acting on this issue. PSP does come with a one year limited warranty.
AnandTech

Mar 28, 05 @ 09:54AM by zero in General Hardware

Remember those 100/250MB Zip disks? Well, Iomega has come out with a 40GB external hard disk that is tiny enough to fit on your shirt pocket and only weighing 99 grams!
Techtree

Mar 24, 05 @ 02:36PM by zero in General Hardware

For those who don't know, Firefix1.0.2 has been released. The new release updates Firefox's security problems.
Mozilla

Mar 24, 05 @ 02:36PM by zero in General Hardware

We've all been waiting for it! The new portable Sony console PSP is just around the corner!
CNET

Mar 24, 05 @ 02:36PM by zero in Processors

AMD introduced it's new Opteron processor for 2 way servers or workstations. This new chip is clocked at 2.20Ghz, with dual channel PC3200 memory controller, 1MB cache and SSE3 technology. And it only produces a maximum thermal power of 55W!
Xbit Labs

Mar 23, 05 @ 01:00PM by CrimsonA in General Hardware

The PSP is about to come out, and Wayne Gretzky is hoping that his hockey game will sell well. Of course it will, it's being bundled with practically every PSP. You can barely find a store that WON'T bundle it.
Globe Technology

Mar 23, 05 @ 01:00PM by CrimsonA in

Yahoo mail was the first to bring it u pto 100 Mb, and then followed Hotmail to go up to 250 Mb, and is now going up to 1 Gb to follow Gmail. And to think we were living with 2 Mb just last year.
News.com

Mar 23, 05 @ 01:00PM by CrimsonA in Video

SLi is all fine and dandy in benchmarking, but in actual game tests? It wasn't working so great. But with the new nVidia driver, many more games are now supported.
nZone