Online electronics retailers produce some odd, but often very useful bits equipment for gadget enthusiasts. These range from a wristwatch to remotely control your TV, DVD and PVR to external open air hot-swap hard drive docking stations. The latter are for real techies and accept every memory card known to man, with all the possible [...]
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- Recall Roundup: Technology fuels frenzy - Appleton Post Crescent
- Dr. Bonnie on Technology and Texting Causing Mental Illness, Narcissism, and ... - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
- Technology: Need advice? New Bing will let you ask a friend - Indianapolis Star
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AMD has finally gotten around to releasing open source drivers for its ATI Radeon HD 5000 “Evergreen” family of GPUs.Phoronix reports that the xf86-video-ati DDX driver branch has user-space mode-setting support for the Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs. The ATI kernel mode-setting support is nearly finished but has not been published.The current open source ATI [...]
OPEN SOURCE OPERATION Mozilla has put out a release candidate of Firefox 3.6, which suggests that the final version should become available soon.Today Mozzarella said that the preview software built on the Gecko 1.9.2 engine has already been released to beta users and is available for download through its web site. According to the accompanying [...]
Dell Computers CEO Michael Dell was on hand to show off a raft of new products to try and recapture market share lost to Acer and HP last year. As expected the company concentrated on notebooks.Introducing Intel Core i3 and i5 processor based models throughout the Inspiron line with “immediate availability” and sporting 14, 15 [...]
DESPITE HAVING SAID that a recent court ruling would not disrupt its sales of Office, Microsoft pulled copies of the software from its own website yesterday.The Vole had said it would release a version of Office that did not contain the custom XML features that a court has ruled it nicked from Canadian software house [...]
APPLE WON’T DELIVER Boot Camp for Windows 7 this year.According to AppleInsider, the fruit-themed toymaker is going to miss its target for supporting Mac users who want to use Boot Camp to run Microsoft’s latest operating system.Earlier this year Jobs’ Mob said that it would deliver support for Windows 7 through an update to Boot [...]
THE RUMOUR MILL claims that AMD is bringing forward the launch of its six-core desktop CPUs.Details are fairly light. One report of the rumour is at Fudzilla and therefore is likely to originate from suppliers rather than direct.If the rumour is correct, and that seems to us to be likely, it is only a slight [...]
KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung is taking the latest models in its netbook range to Las Vegas.The Samsung N210, N220, N150 and NB30 are designed to evoke personal freedom and boast long battery life, anti-glare screens and the quick-boot Phoenix Hyperspace operating system tool. Because it is not enough merely to be technically competent these days, [...]
Optical drives that write to fewer formats than they read are nothing new. The early days of recordable DVDs greeted technophiles with DVD burners priced at over $200 and blank media at several dollars per disc. This was just about the time that CD-R media fell to 50 per disc, making it the format of [...]
When Microsoft announced the Windows 7 Family Pack option, it said that the three-user bundle of Windows 7 Home Premium would be available only for a limited time. That time, it appears, is drawing to a close. As noted by WindowsITPro, supplies are drying up fast. (Credit: Amazon.com) “The Windows 7 Family Pack was introduced [...]