Tech News
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AOL patents instant messaging
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2002 | By: Dennis"America Online has quietly secured a patent that could potentially shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software. The patent, filed in September this year, grants AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ rights as the inventor of the popular IM Internet application. The patent covers anything resembling a network that allows multiple users to see when other users are present and then to communicate with them."
This could be good and it could be bad.
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Soltek nForce2 Board Announced
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2002 | By: DennisI have posted the relative info and product image in the forums. The color has changed since Comdex but that was to be expected.
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Desktop-Concept Moble PC from Quanta
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2002 | By: DennisSome of you may remember the Freeway FWD-P3C4XD review we did quite some time ago, well one of the fellow sister companies is called Quanta. Since our latest Freeway reviews both Freeway and Quanta have gotten out of the motherboard business though it would seem that they may venture back into building stuff for themselves.
"According to the company, it will use desktop CPUs, motherboards, graphics cards, hard drives and memory. Consequently, the mobile PC will be heavier and larger than existing mobile PCs. Including the battery, it will weigh seven kilograms and measure 52mm in thickness. Mobile PCs now on the market weight about 3-4 kilograms." -
VIA Wafer Orders Increase to Meet Demand
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2002 | By: Dennis"VIA Technologies recently confirmed that it has placed an extra order of 3,000-5,000 wafers at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to resolve the tight supply of its KT266A, P4X266A and P4M266A chipsets. Output of the products is expected at the end of this month."
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MSI and Leadtek First with GeForce FX
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisSimply put
"Based on the production schedule, GeForce FX graphics cards are expected to hit the market at the end of January at the earliest."
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800MHz FSB Roadmap Updates
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: Dennis"The updates were in response to Intel’s specification changes in its new Springdale platform. The chip giant had announced that instead of 677MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR333 standards, its Springdale products, expected to be launched in the second quarter of 2003, will come with 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400 designs."
Go Intel!
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AOpen AX4PE Max Review @ Active Hardware
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisAnother AOpen motherboard under review at Active Hardware this time it's the AX4PE Max. This AOpen board is one of those that doesn't have the "tube" style audio but performs about the same with more PCI slots. Be aware the review is a little light in the image department.
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Springdale Benchmarks
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisThe next chapter in Pentium 4 performance has yet to be written but we can always rely on rumors and leaked info to get us by. Though I endorse HyperThreading I will have to say that I agree with this statement.
"THE SAME document showed "positive press coverage" across print, TV, and Web sites. Those quoted as endorsing Hypethreading were [H]ardOCP, Ace's Hardware, Extreme Tech and Cnet. Intel reached over 1,000 press and analysts when it launched the 3.06GHz, apparently. It got two of us from the INQ, that's for sure, so reaching its "critical mass" target. However, no-one at the INQ has been let loose on HT technology yet, unless Andrew Thomas has got one in his bottom drawer and hasn't told us yet. Our jury of four is, therefore, still out on this technology... "
Ninjalane hasn't gotten one either.
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DFI AD77 Infinity Review @ ExtremeCooling
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 | By: DennisThis DFI board is based on the KT400 chipset and looks to be a very solid package. All of the needed connectors come included in the box, even a serial ATA cable. Even though the EC guys didn't post any benchmarks
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JavaScript is not the Problem
Published: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 | By: DennisBelieve it or not there are groups out there saying that JavaScript is the root of everything evil on the web. The scripting language has been used to help spread virri, launch popup ads, and even make cool mousetrails. Though can you really punish JavaScript? I don’t think so, in all reality the functionality for all of this has been there for years and was just used as a tool to help get the job done. In the case of virri, It is still the consumer that made it spread and security holes that make it happen.
"Hartmann said. In this way, Nimda would set the stage for replication. "It was just one to two lines [that] caused vulnerable (unpatched) browsers to automatically execute infected .eml files. As a result, people got infected with Nimda by browsing infected Web sites." "
