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GIGABYTE full range latest P55 mobos video intro

Cameron Wilmot — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:10:24 -0400

Tim Handley (marketing manager) and Hunter Lee (motherboard product manager) were kind enough to go on video and give us a full introduction in plenty of detail. We even get an exclusive first look at�

iPhone 3G S falls to the Jailbreakers! - Update

Sean Kalinich — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:14:37 -0400

You might also have to run it a couple of times before it works (I had to run it four times.) Once purplera1n is done you then have to run freeze to install Cydia. This is another one that might need�

EVGA Launches X58 SLI Micro Motherboard

Zac O'Vadka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:53:51 -0400

The EVGA X58 SLI Micro is an Intel X58 chipset based motherboard shrunk down to the mATX size, yet doesn't lose much in the process. The board still packs enough features to satisfy many enthusiasts'�

YouTube Doubles Size For Uploaded Videos

Zac O'Vadka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:07:52 -0400

The new limit for standard videos is set to 2GB, twice that of the previous limit. YouTube says the change means that users will be able to upload longer videos at higher resolutions, and maybe even�

Deal of the Day: LaCie 1TB USB 2.0 Ext. HDD

Steve Dougherty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:45:31 -0400

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Microsoft May Allow Multi-PC Installs Of Windows 7

Zac O'Vadka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:44:55 -0400

Considering that Microsoft has announce in the past that they were considering multi-PC licensing and Apples upcoming Snow Leopard is said to be coming in a five-user pack for families, it wouldn't seem�

Even In Death, Michael Jackson Still Haunts Many

Zac O'Vadka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:28:47 -0400

Michael Jackson has expanded his trickery, touching computers inappropriately with spam and malware. Sophos says that there is an email floating around claiming to contain details on secret Jackson songs�

Friday Morning Roundup

Steve Dougherty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:36:51 -0400

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Chip bans hit OEMs

Sylvie Barak — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:52:44 -0400

It would appear that one�s package can indeed make a difference, and sometimes not a good one, with several systems makers in a jam because of a limited exclusion order prohibiting the import of chips�

Google's App engine falls over

Sylvie Barak — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:32:48 -0400

At 6:30 a,m, Pacific time, the engine began to splutter a bit with high latency levels and error rates. It then went into �unplanned maintenance mode� before copping out into read-only mode, leaving developers�

Some thin and light books cracking under use

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:07 -0400

Granted not all thin and lights are made from plastic there are some that are much more expensive that are made of metal like the Apple AirBook. But there is a class of inexpensive thin and lights that�

Dell Ordered to honor $15 monitor mistake

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:43:14 -0400

The site depicted a 19-inch LCD monitor for the low price of NT$500 which is about $15 US dollars. In the eight hours that the ad existed roughly 26,000 orders were placed for the monitor. Dell did not�

Psystar is back from the Dead�

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:54:57 -0400

What is this new product? Well if you were not able to guess for yourself I will tell you. It is another Hackintosh. This one dubbed the Open(7) will feature Intel Nehalem CPUs adding quite an extra kick�

SMS security hole found in iPhone OS 3.0

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:21:59 -0400

Charlie Miller, the person who discovered the flaw went on to say that despite the SMS flaw that the iPhone OS is still very secure. He praised Apple�s decision to remove Flash and Java (despite advertising�

Black Hat/Defcon ATM Security Flaw Talk Canceled

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:35:08 -0400

For the second year running a talk at Defcon/Black Hat covering a security hole in an automated service has been canceled. Last year it was after the Boston Transit Authority filed an injunction on three�

iPhone 3G/S operating temps below most areas norms

Sean Kalinich — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:24:48 -0400

Operate iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in a place where the temperature is between 0� and 35� C (32� to 95� F). Low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device�

Deal of the Day: Sandisk Extreme III 8GB SDHC Card

Steve Dougherty — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:20:09 -0400

Offer: Abes of Maine has the best pricing around on one of the fastest (if not THE fastest) SDHC cards around, the Sandisk Extreme III, equivalent to Class 10 speeds (30MB/s). This 8GB card with an MSRP�

Thursday Morning Roundup

Steve Dougherty — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:53:24 -0400

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HP Launches First Istanbul Powered Workstations

Zac O'Vadka — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:20 -0400

The xw9400 Workstation is available in single or dual chip models offering six or twelve cores of Opteron computing for whatever the needs may be. HP says that xw9400 is ready for all sorts of computing�

Foxconn and Pegatron Land Slim PS3 Contracts

Zac O'Vadka — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:39:04 -0400

Foxconn and Pegatron have landed a contract with Sony, each getting 50% of the orders on a new PS3. This would be the newer, slimmer redesign that many have been eagerly awaiting. Pictures of the slim�

NVIDIA ION 2 To Have More Than Twice ION's Shaders

Zac O'Vadka — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:16:41 -0400

The ION 2 is said to have at least double the sharders of the ION. This means that have at least 32 and it will more than likely have more. ION 2 users should enjoy better GPU performance do to this�

Sony Walkman Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Zac O'Vadka — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:41:36 -0400

Few will probably remember the launch of the Walkman, the first portable cassette player to come to the market. It was an overnight success and owners faced wait times of up to two months due to the�

Blizzard Announces No LAN Support For Starcraft II

Zac O'Vadka — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:19:41 -0400

Blizzard stated that there were two reasons backing their decision to exclude LAN play from Starcraft II. First up is that Blizzard wants to ensure that players receive the highest quality experience�

IBM builds water cooled supercomputer

Sylvie Barak — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:02:57 -0400

The Aquasar system, which boasts two IBM BladeCenter servers in one rack and peak performance of 10 Teraflops, will use chip-level water-cooling as well as reusing any excess heat to warm the university�

iPhone 3G S suffering from overheating

Sean Kalinich — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:26:17 -0400

The exact cause of the heat problem is not known although it is suspected that a bad battery could be the problem. Batteries have been the bane of many a mobile device in the last few years and everyone�