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Redirecting its wireless course after betting on the weaker of two technologies, Intel has introduced an 802.11g wireless network connection aimed at boosting the speed and capability of wireless local area networks. The Santa Clara, California-based chip giant said its new PRO/Wireless 2200BG netwo...
Because of his background in assembly-level programming and low-level C coding on machines with slow CPUs and very little RAM, David Wren, PassMark Software's founder, had a strong interest in coding efficiency and computer performance. It was from this interest that PassMark's benchmark application...
Information technology researcher Meta Group predicts that less than half of all corporate computer users will use a desktop as their primary information device within two years. A new report from the research firm highlights the mobile-computing trend that has been boosted by lower laptop prices, i...
In the past, mobile computers could not begin to approach the processing power of desktop machines. When you bought a new laptop, you had to be happy with the graphics processor, CPU and other fixed-system components. While the Alienware Area-51m does have some drawbacks -- including a fairly high p...
Opposing forces in the DVD format world are lining up support and touting firm rollout timelines as they compete to establish the next generation of DVD format specs, with the Blu-ray disc format winning support this week from computer makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard. The two American companies join...
Digital video recorders (DVRs) that allow consumers to skip commercials in television programs they record might be more difficult to find in the future due to the "chilling effect" of a court case ended by a federal judge last Friday. Judge Florence-Marie Cooper dismissed a lawsuit filed against 28...
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic has begun to advance a vision founded on the concept of computing without PCs. Part of the company's plan is to create home networking with a new power-line technology that does not require traditional computers. Scoffing at the PC crowd's contention that compute...
Apple Computer set its sights even more squarely on supercomputing and distributed grid computing this week with the preview and beta release of its Xgrid technology designed for scientists and their compute-intensive environments. Apple's announcement of the technology, which is available as a free...
While the ATI Radeon 9800 XT produces frame rates comparable to the Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 chipset in many of today's most popular benchmarks, the Radeon delivers -- on average -- higher frame rates in many of the most popular 3D-intensive applications released in the past year. Stating this fact is...
Kicking off the new year by trying to leverage last year's biggest PC trend -- burgeoning sales of cheaper notebook computers -- Intel and AMD released new mobile processors for the value and 64-bit markets this week. Intel is aiming the Celeron M at the value market to compete with AMD in the value...
A Norwegian court has upheld a lower court exoneration of the man charged with cracking Hollywood's copy-protection technology for DVD movies. The software crack, known as DeCSS, earned then 15-year-old Jon Johansen the nickname 'DVD Jon.' Now 20 years old, Johansen was cleared when a three-judge pa...
Laptops are no longer the slow-but-necessary alternative for mobile professionals. Today's notebooks offer powerful processors, dazzlingly large LCD screens, improved upgradability and features as potent as those you'd find on many desktops -- all at attractive prices. Couple that with the siren son...
Portability and price have combined to fuel consumer thirst for personal computers, according to IDC findings on worldwide PC shipments -- a trend the company says will be matched by more corporate spending through 2004. Updating its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, IDC forecast "record levels" for 2...
After recently building a new system with one of the latest Nvidia cards powering the graphics, I poked around Nvidia's demos to see if I could push the new card to its limits. After installing a few of the demos designed to showcase Nvidia power, I was blown away. In the interest of hearing from th...
Concerns about computer viruses and worms are spreading beyond the PC arena as embedded software and systems vulnerable to attack are introducing risk to several unique technology sectors, including automatic teller machines (ATMs), emergency response systems and even automobiles. ATM maker Diebold ...
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