Microsoft Corp. announced today that it will issue an emergency patch tomorrow to quash a critical Internet Explorer bug that attackers have been exploiting for more than a week. The advance warning came less than...
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Microsoft has been doing a lot this week to help boost the image of the future for their Live services, along with the recently released "wave 3" of Windows Live utilities, Microsoft has sent an...
Microsoft is planning at least four security updates this week in its Patch Tuesday release for March. The security update will address four vulnerabilities, all of which have been given Microsoft's highest alert level of...
It looks like Microsoft are getting closer to putting Windows onto a portable USB Flash drive. The All About Microsoft blog has news an an upcoming Microsoft Start Key. It is the same kind of...
Microsoft plans to issue two security patches next Tuesday, one of which earns the dreaded rating of critical, in this year's first edition of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. The critical update covers a...
AMD is expected to launch the successor to its ATI Radeon HD 2600 in January, and now the two new parts' speed details have emerged. Graphics card maker sources cited by DigiTimes point two versions...
Advanced Micro Devices plans to update its family of chipsets with built-in DirectX 10-compliant graphics cores in January, 2008, sources with knowledge of the matter revealed. The new products will help AMD to offer more...
Multi-core chips are sweeping the processor market and single cores are becoming harder and harder to find. This trend is about to go through the roof while prices plummet to the basement. With affordability as...
It's a bit later than Linspire had planned, but the company's CEO Kevin Carmony told DesktopLinux that the new commercial version of its Linux distribution, Linspire 6.0, along with the free version, Freespire 2.0, and...
Speaking at a technology event near Amsterdam, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Forefront Client Security, Microsoft's antivirus and antispyware product for business desktops that has been in development since 2003, will be available "in...
May will see the arrival of AMD's 'RV630' graphics chip, it has been claimed, and the company has prepared three reference card designs for the part - two of which will support PCI Express 2.0,...
Microsoft is expected to release a beta three version of its next Windows Server, code-named Longhorn, as a community technology preview (CTP) in early March, industry sources say. The upcoming CTP would be the first...
In April 2007, Toshiba will begin selling NAND flash memory chips capable of holding up to 2GB of data. 2GB? Why is this a big deal? Patience my friend, I'm getting to that. The 2GB...
The GeForce 8 Series is starting to take shape as NVIDIA continues to release information on new graphic card models to its many partners. A 320MB derivative of the GeForce 8800 GTS product should be...
iTunes users in the US will be able to buy a new version of Neil Young's acerbic 'Living With War' album through the service on US Election Day, 7 November. The album has been...
OnMonday at the Mix '06 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft will issue arefreshed version of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 beta, which the companyis describing as feature complete. The company will also discuss thenext version of...
Photos have been popping up depicting what appears to be the first true HDMI-HDCP ATI video card, complete with HDMI connector and onboard SPDIF audio jack. This card appears to be HDMI only -...
NVIDIA Corp. may be preparing a new GeForce 7-series graphics processors in addition to already launched GeForce 7800 GTX product, as the firm's unofficial drivers already list a chip code-named G72, which may turn out...
Thanks neufuse for the heads up on Paul Thurrott's article which takes us through his expectations of the PDC 2005 event in September. No one was more disappointed in the Longhorn content...
Leading chipmaker Intel Corp. has unwrapped some of its plans concerning the server and workstation processors and chipsets. The main headliners of Intel's pedestal and rack server roadmap – Intel Xeon MP processor code-named Potomac...
Makers of mainboards, systems and other computer hardware equipment are reportedly testing the new Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 processors with enhanced performance and functionality, according to various sources in Taiwan. Intel Pentium 4 processors series...
Sources close to ATI Technologies said the company was preparing a technology that is similar to NVIDIA's Multi-GPU Scalable Link Interface, but offers additional flexibility and enhancements not presently available on NVIDIA's approach to graphics...
Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to fire a new engine for hot-rod PCs. The chipmaker will unveil its Athlon 64 FX-55 chip next week, in an effort to bump up the performance...
In an attempt to strengthen product lineup Intel Corporation has included a number of new chips into its plans. The new microprocessors to be introduced later this year will sharply modify the family of Intel's...
Copy protection software developer Macrovision is set to roll out an updated version of its CDS 300 system that it claims can beat attempts to bypass Windows' auto-run feature but goes some way to balance...
Thanks sadatkarim for this news. ATI Technologies faced strong competition when NVIDIA Corporation unveiled its GeForce 6800 GT graphics chip earlier this year, but the Markham, Ontario-based graphics company reportedly preps a counter-attack with a...
A roadmap for Nvidia's next chipsets has emerged today. Thanks to an image located on an Asian website. According to X-bit labs "Nvidia is expected to release NV48, NV48e, NV43, and NV44 graphics...
A new version of Bluetooth is making its way to consumers (sooner or later). This new version dubbed Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) increases data transmission by compressing the data better. Bluetooth EDR...
Intel is planning to introduce over the coming months eight new Pentium 4 processors utilizing a new packaging technique. Among the new chips will be the company's first workstation processors with 64-bit extensions technology, according...
Intel may have plans to introduce Xeon processors for 2-way applications with 1066MHz bus next year and already discusses chipsets with support for such PSB with certain partners, The Register web-site reports. ...
Sony's Japanese side has alluded to a price drop for the PlayStation 2. In revealing its expectations for the current financial quarter (April to June, 2004), the company revealed that it expects to slip into...
Lindows Inc., fresh from changing the name of its flagship product, is preparing to go public as it struggles to earn a profit. The San Diego-based company on Tuesday filed an initial...
Asus is promising to "change your perception on data storage" when it releases what may be the world's first Wi-Fi enabled network-attached hard drive storage system. The WL-HDD is a hard drive enclosure capable of...
SIS told us about its 659 Rambus chipset at last year's CeBIT and the game is far from over on this front, it appeared from a conversation we had with the firm today. The 659...
British-based commercial P2P music company Wippit is to launch an iTunes-style music download service offering songs for less than 50p (91c) a pop, The Register has learned. Wippit's move was pre-announced by the company's first...
"We are getting ready to go public with the next phase of our effort to build a new TechNet site that we believe will better serve your needs. Phase 1 included a redesigned home page...
Toshiba has developed a 0.85in hard disk platter and will begin sampling drives based on the tiny unit to mobile phone and PDA manufacturers next summer. The 2-3GB drives will go into mass production early...
Microsoft is prepping Windows XP Service Pack 2 to be released into beta testing within a week, sources said. Service Pack 2, or SP2, expected to be delivered in finished form during...
Next two versions of Microsoft's home-entertainment-hub version of Windows are already in the works. Even though it has barely put the finishing touches on its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 release,...
Redmond's RMS technology is ready to roll. But so far, the only application making use of it is Office 2003 As Microsoft rolls out its first-generation Windows rights-management service (RMS) designed to...
