Archive for February, 2008
Monday, February 18th, 2008 by Andy
The flagship model of LG's new LCD range is the HD ready 1080p LG6000, a TV with a slim silhouette and a unique red-coloured back while a round LED light aperture gives the set a "soft red pulsating glow".
The hero plasma model, the PG6000, incorporates a slim, frameless design. LG ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008 by Andy
A new study has some humorous comments at Mac owners' expense, but reveals some serious market trends.
Mac users and Mac-loving analysts often use phrases like “the halo-effect” to explain increased sales of Mac computers and OS X due to iPods and iPhones. Now, the stock market site The Street ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008 by Tim
In an article published by The Guardian, Wikipiedia, the free online open-content encyclopedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, despite being flooded with complaints from Muslims demanding the images be deleted.
More than 180,000 worldwide have joined an online protest claiming the images, shown on European-language ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 by Tim
Following Toshiba's rumoured move to drop HD-DVD, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has picked Blu-ray over HD DVD in the market battle for the format of high-definition video.
The nation's largest retailer said Friday it has decided to sell only Blu-ray DVDs and hardware in its 4,000 U.S. stores and no longer ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 by Jarrod
Engineer Ray Kurzweil has stated that he believes that humanity is on the brink of seeing robots implanted in people’s brains to "make them more intelligent." Kurzweil suggests that these nanobots could be inserted into the human brain via capillaries and "interact with our biological neurons" making us "smarter" and ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 by Andy
If you haven't heard of Intel's Skulltrail platform, then you can probably stop reading at this point; For those of you still reading, HotHardware have provided a sneak peek at the Asus motherboard used. The Skulltrail platform supports two Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors in a dual socket motherboard:
The ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008 by Tim
As PlayStation 3 users eagerly await the arrival of the console's PlayTV freeview accessory, an online report has revealed more details of the device and its functionality.
The add-on unit, which is due for release this year, will connect to the PlayStation 3's USB port and features an aerial socket at ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008 by Andy
In spite of their recent attempts to revitalise the HD-DVD market, Toshiba could be about to pull the plug if The Hollwood Reporter is to be believed.
Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Matt
Brief post, but to save you a lot of time and frustration, if you are thinking about getting an Asus Striker II Formula, DON'T, (well for the time being at least!)
There are huge problems with this board, from experience, and from reading dozens of internet forums.
Everyone seems to be having ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 by Andy
There are now around 68,000 rogue DNS servers on the internet returning false results, new research suggests.
The DNS scam requires a computer to have its DNS settings changed by a virus, so that it's redirected to one of the rogue servers.
The paper, released by the University of Georgia, estimates that ...
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