Piracy Day! I mean ANTI- Piracy Day
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 21. Oct, 2008 | 2 Comments
Microsoft has official called today ‘global anti-piracy day’. In other words Microsoft has enforcement actions in 49 countries in six continents. Microsoft is trying to create anti-piracy efforts across countries and continents through a sophisticated system of business intelligence forensics and education. Interesting.
Together Microsoft think that by working together to identify an international connection points [...]
AMD Launches new catalyst 8.10 drivers
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 16. Oct, 2008 | No Comments
AMD has its monthly driver release, Octobers driver launch the v8.10 introduces a useful feature. Any one who downloads the driver will be able to control the speed of their Radeon HD 4000 series CPU fan. Any one remember using third party software to change fan speeds?
If XML isnt your thing then you can use [...]
The internet will end in 2012
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 15. Oct, 2008 | 5 Comments
Speculation or not but the topic does get you thinking! Apparently by 2012 ISP’s will reduce Internet access to a tv like subscription model, offering access to a small amount of news, entertainment websites. To visit other based websites, say third party (your bookmarks) an extra fee will be introduced for the privilege. The result [...]
The Intel Atom Processor
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 13. Oct, 2008 | No Comments
I have recently found bargain laptops but I was quite surprised to see that manufacturer x was not selling Atom based processors for budget bases mobile computation. The company was advertising dual core Intel processors and Celeron budget type processors for mobile technology, ok ok so this is what they do but where are these [...]
Terabyte bandwidths
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 10. Oct, 2008 | No Comments
Rambus was showing the first tangible parts of a Terabyte bandwidth initiative. It was announced less than a year ago and they have already created a working version. With a working silicon version that’s not bad at all!
DRAM Emulator pushing Gbps
The idea was to get a single chip with 1Terabyte data transfer on and off [...]
Asus EEE PC dual hardcore!
Posted by Simon Whiston in General News on 09. Oct, 2008 | No Comments
Asus released a different machine, something small, something portable and something mobile. Other manufacturers followed suit where Intel even designed a processor specially for the mobile x86 market. Now all the main vendors such as msi, asus, dell etc are all at it!
There are talks about a dual core atom processor called ‘intels nettop-orientated atom [...]
