News
Latest News - January 2009
- US House Cancels Digital TV Transition Delay
- Fennec to Hit the HTC Touch Pro in Feb.
- Cox Hops On Data Discrimination Bandwagon
- Super Talent Offers SSD Upgrades For ASUS S101
- Gen Yers aren't the only 'Net-savvy folk
- Water-Cooled GeForce GTX 285 / 295 Coming Soon?
- Hardware RoundUp
- Google Adds Offline Gmail Support
- A Non-QWERTY Keyboard For Hunt-and-Peckers
- Panasonic Unveils New LUMIX Point-And-Shoot Line
- Have Security Software, Will Travel
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2G GDDR3
- Lawmakers Ponder Internet Expansion Tax Credits
- Thrift Shop MP3 Player Laden with Military Info
- Electric Car Network Motors To Denmark
- Get ready to fire up Kindle 2
- Google: Spam Volume on the Rise Again
- iPhone, iPod Touch Get a Small Software Update
- Transient Malware is the New Online Threat
- Apple Issues NVIDIA Graphics Update
News Archive
-
Search 2024
-
Search 2023
-
Search 2022
-
Search 2021
-
Search 2020
-
Search 2019
-
Search 2018
-
Search 2017
-
Search 2016
-
Search 2015
All News for January 2009
Well, you can't say you saw this coming, can you? After the United States Senate approved a four month delay for the digital TV transition that would have effectively moved the cutover date from February 17th to June 12th, the House of Representatives stopped the whole show.In a shocking decision, the House voted 258 to 168 in favor of the...
Read more...
Fennec, AKA Firefox Mobile, is targeted for an initial release on the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch Pro during the first week in February, according to a post of meeting minutes on the developer wiki. According to the minutes: We are targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC touch pro. We are two patches...
Read more...
Oh great, this again? The awful aftertaste from Comcast's data meddling still hasn't completely vanished, and now we're being hit with yet another cable company attempting to grab hold of customer Internet traffic.As the battle over net neutrality rages on in Washington, Cox Communications has opened the flood gates for criticism by announcing...
Read more...
ASUS' Eee PC S101 may be incredibly gorgeous, but what's the use in having good looks if you've no room to store anything? The US version of the aforesaid netbook comes with just 16GB of internal space, and evidently, Super Talent understands just how serious a travesty that really is. Thus, said SSD maker is pumping out a new line of S101...
Read more...
Though it may not come as a surprise to many readers of Hot Hardware, the denizens of Gen Y, otherwise known as Millennials, are not the be-all and end-all when it comes to the 'Net.A report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project (you can download the PDF, charts and all, here) showed that, for example, no one banks,...
Read more...
If you consider yourself a graphics snob, there's a good chance you were still unimpressed by the performance doled out from NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 285. If so, help could soon be on the way. We're hearing reports that both Zotac and EVGA are currently working up water-cooled GTX 295 GPUs, with the former outfit also cooking up a liquid-assisted...
Read more...
Video:Zotac GeForce GTX 285 & GTX 295 @ Techgage.comSapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR4 512MB video card review @ Elite BastardsSapphire Ultimate HD4670 Passively Cooled Graphics Card review in MetkuSapphire HD 4870 1GB Toxic Edition @ HardwareZoneMotherboards and Chipsets:Asus P5Q-EM Intel G45 Express Motherboard Review @ PCStatsECS A780GM-A...
Read more...
For any of the naysayers out there still harshing on Gmail for its lack of Offline support, get a load of this. As of this week, Google is at long last rolling out a feature to US and UK English users that it has been testing internally for quite some time, and for those who live somewhere between an airport terminal, taxi cab and an uncomfortable...
Read more...
Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and hunt-and-peck typists who must visually locate each key they want to hit. The vast majority of English-language keyboard users--be them touch-typists...
Read more...
The year's big photography expo, better known as PMA, has yet to kick off in Las Vegas, but Panasonic's not waiting for March. Instead, it's delivering an all new family of LUMIX point-and-shoots, and we'll be breaking the whole crew down right here. The party gets started with the creation of the ZS-Series, which is being introduced with...
Read more...
If cloud computing truly is the future, then this means that we'll likely be accessing our data from many different computers and devices--a number of which might belong to other parties. If you are like us, we get a little nervous when accessing our data on someone else's PC--it sort of feels like handing our wallet over to a stranger for...
Read more...
When AMD launched the Radeon HD 4870 X2 a few months back, the company hinted at the impending release of another, more affordable, dual-GPU powered card aptly named the Radeon HD 4850 X2. Like the more powerful 4870 X2, the 4850 X2 would sport a pair of RV770 GPUs on a single PCB, but on the 4850 X2 they would be clocked somewhat lower and...
Read more...
While we're hardly in favor of the Senate's approval of a four month delay on the has-to-happen-sometime digital TV transition, this is one political agenda we can definitely stand behind. Reportedly, United States lawmakers are mulling a plan that would provide tax credits for Internet and wireless companies as part of a "broad stimulus package...
Read more...
It's not the first time a used storage device of some type has yielded sensitive information, and it won't be the last. Chris Ogle from Whangerei, NZ (pictured) got a surprise after he bought a used MP3 player from an Oklahoma thrift store for $18. Upon hooking it to his PC, he found 60 files of military information in total, including the...
Read more...
It seems that we Americans could learn a thing or two from Denmark. Not only are Danish citizens amongst the happiest in the world, but they're also amongst the most energy conscience. In a landmark deal announced today in Copenhagen, Better Place -- the same outfit responsible for planning an EV network in Hawaii -- has teamed with DONG Energy...
Read more...
When Amazon announced today that it would hold a press conference Feb. 9 at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, the rumors started flying fast and furious, and the consensus seems to be:Kindle 2 is to be released soon.A quick trip over to Amazon.com also shows that the Kindle just happens to be "sold out." How convenient that it isn't...
Read more...
If you've noticed more spam in your inbox recently, it's not necessarily because you are now getting more spam that you used to. In fact, spam levels are still lower now than where they were this time last year. No, the increase is just spam slowly working its way back to its "normal" levels after it significantly dropped off last November....
Read more...
Size is in the eye of the beholder. A 0.0.1 upgrade from 2.2 to 2.2.1 sounds minor, but size-of-download-wise? Whew. On Tuesday Apple released a minor update to the iPhone / iPod Touch Software, 2.2.1. The typically vague release notes say: iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:...
Read more...
Security software company, AVG Technologies, reports that as many as 300,000 new, unique Websites launch every day, whose sole purpose is to infect visiting computers with malware. Not only has this number jumped up from as many as 200,000 only three months earlier, but many of these sites stay active for only a short period of time--sometimes...
Read more...
Apple's latest update probably brings back horrifying memories of the GeForce 8600M GT debacle that's still plaguing previous-gen MacBook Pro owners everywhere, but rest assured, this update has absolutely nothing to do with those notoriously buggy boards.Instead, the NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 remedies an issue where users saw erratic cursor...
Read more...
Late last week Western Digital briefed us on their forthcoming release of a new addition to their Caviar Green family of hard drives. No we're not talking some sort of exotic sushi or cracker-bound fish egg here either but rather a new, rather humongous and environmentally more friendly hard drive from WD, that can be considered an "industry...
Read more...
Video:BIOSTAR Radeon HD4650 256MB GDDR3 @ InsideHWEVGA GeForce GTX 295+ Graphics Card Review @ XBitLabsAcer P244W Review @ Digital TrendsSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 review at Ultimate HardwarePalit Revolution 700 Deluxe 1GB GDDR5 Video Card Review @ Hardware CanucksMotherboards and Chipsets:Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P DDR2 P45 Motherboard @ Benchmark...
Read more...
