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If you own an unlocked iPhone that was recently put out of commission by the firmware upgrade that just came down the pipe, have hope yet! It appears that the eternal struggle between Apple and hackers isn't over yet, and in many cases you can at least partially resurrect your non-functional device:“These latest instructions allow users...
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Microsoft is set to unveil the second generation of the Zune tomorrow, including the first flash-based Zunes.According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Design and Development chief J Allard will be on hand for the event. The main part of the announcement will center around the players, which will include...
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Video: The Graphics Shuffle @ PenStarSys XFX 8800 GTS 320mb Fatal1ty Edition @ Overclock3D Philips 200XW 20 inch WSXGA LCD Monitor @ OCC Insignia NS-LCD32 32 Inch 720p HDTV Monitor @ BMR ATI Radeon HD 2600XT vs Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS @ TechSpot ViewSonic VX2255wmb 22-inch Widescreen LCD @ ThinkComputers MSI RX2600XT Diamond @ [H] Processors:...
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As of today, Microsoft is taking pre-registrations for "Office Live Workspace," their answer to Google Docs. Only a limited number of pre-registrants will be allowed into the first group.The software maker is announcing Office Live Workspace, a free online tool for viewing, sharing and...
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Norwegian phone giant Nokia announced its intention to purchase Chicago-based navigation software maker Navteq for around 8 billion dollars. Nokia, already the world's largest maker of mobile phones, seeks to expand the mobile services it offers to go along with the hardware.Nokia's President and Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo...
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Tascam, the king of inexpensive multitrack recording, is out this month with a nifty CD player, the CD-VT2, that will either play music tracks as recorded, or allow you to strip out the vocals and sing along with the backing tracks. The idea behind the product is based on vocal/instrument training, and being able to do it with any CD that...
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Sony will offer an ultra-thin flat television starting in December in Japan. It's the first to use the spiffy new organic organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology. It's not cheap for what you get: only 11" at around $1740.00, but OLEDs are wafer thin, use much less power than LEDs or plasma, and are great at displaying fast moving images...
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The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has struck out at pirates yet again, and we're not talking about the Jack Sparrow variety of pirates here. We're talking about the kind that put expensive movies on the 'net for all to view for no price.Perhaps the most interesting piece of news in this story is that the MPAA not only filed...
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SAPPHIRE Announces MICROLOOPS© as Strategic Thermal Solution Partner Hong Kong / Taipei / London / Los Angles / Toronto –Sept 24th 2007, SAPPHIRE Technology today announces choosing MICROLOOPS© Vapor Chamber Technology as part of its next generation...
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World of Warcraft will run just about any PC that has been shipped in the past 5 years. Blizzard has obviously spent a lot of time optimizing the game so that it runs well on even the lowest end PC with integrated graphics, and to be honest it still looks pretty decent at those lower settings. Blizzard has continued to strive to make the...
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It's bad enough Comcast has their secret limited unlimited service, whereby they will cut you off if you (in their opinion) hog too much bandwidth (although they won't tell anyone what that limit is). Now AT&T won't let you be critical of them.Have you taken a look at AT&T’s Terms of...
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Just about anyone who lived through the 90's knows what The Gap is. It was almost impossible to escape their advertising blitz, and even harder not to spot people wearing clothing from one of their brands.Life is generally just peachy at The Gap until somebody nabs a laptop with 800,000 personal information belonging to applications, not...
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Phishing, we all hate it. Not the kind with Uncle Earl out on his 14 foot “yacht” and 8 sick-packs that were never going to see the shore again, but the kind of misleading e-mails and/or web sites that result in innocent users (such as Uncle Earl) giving out personal data to people who would intend to misuse it.Despite anti-phishing technology...
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The war between next-gen consoles (are they still next-gen? They're here aren't they?!) often has a lot to do with graphics quality. Given that High Definition (HD) is the current buzz-word of the day, it's not a big surprise. What is a big surprise is that some sharp-eyed forum posters have started looking at the picture quality of Bungee's...
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Rumor has it that Intel will rebrand its processor line, beginning in January. There is quite a bit of data, but it is still a rumor.At the moment, the Intel Centrino mobile platform has five different logos with brands like Centrino, Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro. Starting from January 1, 2008, Intel will consolidate the Centrino Duo and...
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Windows Vista. Those two words either make users cringe in fear or perhaps evoke happy times with the new OS. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of middle ground here. Perhaps some of the more jaded simply gave Vista a try before there were proper drivers for their hardware, or perhaps before some patch on Microsoft's part that fixed some...
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How about a 80, 160, 320 or 640Gig NAND Flash drive on PCI Express card? Sounds interesting, right? What if we told you such a product could hit an amazing 800MB/sec sustained data rate? OK, so it's an expensive Enterprise SAN type product but great oogly-moogly! That's some blinding...
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It's amazing that lawsuits like this aren't immediately thrown out. It's not enough that Apple / AT&T have been sued over the battery (three times!); now they are being sued over the $200 price cut. Dongmei Li, a resident of the borough of Queens, sued Apple earlier this week for "price...
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Apple warned that its latest update, 1.1.1, might disable some hacked, unlocked phones, but it appears there are cases of unhacked phones being bricked. It is not clear exactly why this is occurring, as Apple has yet to comment on the problems. But the rash of reports from those...
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For those of you that like to jump right down to the news, we wanted to pop in and let you all know that we've just posted a new article here at HotHardware. We recently got our hands on a pair of Diamond’s Viper HD 2900 XT 1GB cards and have compared their performance to the original 512MB Radeon HD 2900 XT, and to a trio of GeForce 8800...
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Just prior to the Radeon HD 2000 series' introduction, numerous rumors circulated regarding an ultra-high clocked ATI R600-based video card, that featured a large 1GB frame buffer. Some went so far as to say the GPU would be clocked at or near 1GHz. Spy shots even cropped up on the web showing the card in all its glory. But sometime between...
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Viewsonic has added three new monitors to its lineup. All the new screens are priced at under $349. New offerings include 19" and 22" in widescreen format, and a non-widescreen 19". With a Dynamic Contrast ratio of up to 4000:1 (typ), the VX1940w and VX2240w provide many benefits such as enhanced light and dark images and reduced...
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