Seagate has just started shipping its massive 750GB drive. The huge drive uses perpendicular recording, a way to get tons more data on the platters, roughly ten times as much as with traditional longitudinal recording.
PC World (and specifically, the very lucky Melissa Perenson) has already tested one of these monsters; read her First Look for [...]
After downloading Google’s latest cool tool, Google Sketchup, I discovered what all the fuss was about. The free 3D drawing program which can be downloaded from google.sketchup.com takes minutes to download and is dead easy to use even for a beginner with absolutely no drawing experience. But, like Google Earth, please don’t try to run [...]
London - Of all the programs that sit on our computers, we surely take web browsers for granted more than any other. They may be given away free of charge, but they are exceptional feats of programming skill that give us access to untold information. They are as integral to the computing experience as the [...]
Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 faulty Opteron processors that could produce “inconsistent results” under an unusual circumstance.
The potential problem affects a number of single-core Opteron 152, 154, 252, 254, 852, and 854 processors manufactured in late 2005 or early 2006, AMD said Friday. The company hasn’t [...]
Pioneer, at a press conference in Taipei on April 25, unveiled its BDR-101A, one of the world’s first PC-use Blu-ray Disc (BD) DVD burner, for sale at US$995. Due to the high price, the model caters to professional users and enterprise users, according to general manager Shannon Yu for Pioneer’s Optical Disc Drive Sales Division [...]
Microsoft has expanded its anti-piracy efforts by unveiling a tool that puts nag messages on the screens of computers running bogus copies of Windows.
Using its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool and a new tool called Office Genuine Advantage (OGA), Microsoft intends to detect all pirate users of its software whenever they download the constantly needed [...]
The goal is to squeeze more work out of desktop computers through greater virtualization and the alliance should help speed adoption.
VMware this week announced an alliance of hardware and software vendors that will work to squeeze more work out of desktop computers through greater virtualization. It’s not a new idea, but the resources [...]
AT&T and Yahoo have joined forces to offer subscribers of their high speed Internet service an integrated voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application, United Press International (UPI) reports.
The two companies will release a dual-branded edition of the Yahoo messenger service with voice capabilities, according to UPI.
You’ve decided to buy a laptop because you need a machine that you can take with you when you leave home–a machine that you might use when you are out in public; a machine that other people will see. Of course you want it to perform well, but let’s not downplay the importance of design. [...]
REDMOND, WA, United States (UPI) — Microsoft Corp. has released a test version of its Internet Explorer browser that aspires to be more secure as well as more convenient.
Internet Explorer 7, which may be downloaded from the company`s Web site, features color-coded warnings when a user tries to access a Web site that is suspicious [...]
