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Video: One Ultra or Two 2900s @ t-break Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB GDDR4 @ Elite Bastards Processors: Intel E6750 CPU Review @ OCC Motherboards...
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While we wouldn't advise you to use a leaked copy of anything, that doesn't mean we wouldn't want to give you some insight into the upcoming Vista SP1 - which, as most of you should know, has had a beta leaked to the Internet. APCMag took a close look at it, and found nothing earth-shattering (typical for most SPs, with the possible exception...
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Second Life is fairly unique amongst a crowd of Dwarf & Goblin infested online worlds, as it doesn’t focus on gold coins, levels or even experience points. Residents of Second Life go about a wide array of tasks, almost all of which could be easily done in the real world. There are still limits to what people can or should do, but scripting...
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For once it's not a Sony battery being recalled, but it is a huge number. 46 million BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita are being recalled by Nokia because of possible overheating. Replacements will, of course, be free. The batteries were manufactured between December 2005 and November...
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This will go over like a lead balloon - I hope. Time Warner Cable already offers a feature called Start Over in 6 of its 23 markets. This feature is free and allows you to watch a program from the start, within 30 minutes its beginning - but without the ability to fast forward. Starting...
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Something called the Online Publisher Organization Internet Activity Index is out, and it has some very interesting information in it; just not what they think it is. It measures the proportion of online time spent doing purely communications functions, as compared to viewing online content...
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Just in case you like to jump right down to the news, we wanted to let you all know that we’ve just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of Corsair’s new Flash Padlock USB drive. If you have ever been concerned about data security, the Flash Padlock may appeal to...
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Data. Can't live with it, can't live without it. We're sure you can all understand why we can't live without it, but you may be curious why we say we can't live with it. The problem with data is not the data itself but rather the users of that data. More accurately, we should say that the real problem (or challenge or opportunity, depending...
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Why do we buy HotHardware? The answer is always to play games. You don't need to overclock and cool to use Microsoft Word. We want to go places and kill things. But as the worlds we wander through with our weapons have gravitated online, and involve thousands of other players worldwide...
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Google is a very powerful thing, whether you're referring to the search engine or the company that offers it. Microsoft feels Google's breath on its neck now, and is purchasing web-based companies to help them get into the lucrative online advertising business that is Google's strength. And Google continues to buy companies that can help...
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It's been said that if you want DRM-free music, take your CD and rip it to your hard drive. But everytime you do something like this, you lose something: quality. The compression involved in creating the MP3 file reduces the fidelity of the sound. But this is something we've all become used...
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Colbert and Stewart on the other side of the desk? In other words, being interviewed instead of interviewing someone? That will be what happens if Google gets its way. Google wants to depose the two of them, in addition to at least 30 other witnesses, in testimony pertaining to the Viacom lawsuit leveled against Google and YouTube....
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A recent article in The Inquirer indicated that ATI, as well as other vendors, had "particularly badly" written drivers which could expose the Vista kernel to attack. This afternoon ATI plans to release a new driver package with a critical security fix in response to this issue. "The...
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It's called social networking iTunes-style. Today Apple unveiled web widgets designed to facilitate social networking between iTunes users. It allows customers to share their purchases, reviews, and favorite artists. Called My iTunes, the service includes three flash-based widgets...
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According to our current poll, Bioshock is one of the more highly anticipated games scheduled to be released, with only Crysis and UT:3 receiving more votes. Well, it turns out that Bioshock fans are a little bit closer to getting their hands on the final game. As of last night, the demo for Bioshock was made available for download on the...
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Video: Silent GeForce 8600 GT and 8600 GTS @ [H] Gigabyte 8600GTS 256MB Silent Pipe 3 Review @ Techgage Memory & Storage: Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive @ TR...
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I'm beginning to think all of the world's industry is geared solely to part parents from their money by amusing their children. Now toy makers are getting wise to the fact that even very young children will spend lots of time online if you give them something soft and fuzzy to clutch while they're doing it. That's why toymaker Ganz won the...
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Way back in early June, HotHardware told you that Mozilla was considering configuring the next iteration of their Firefox web browser to detect malicious code, and to warn users not to open infected websites. The next version of Firefox is indeed being developed to do just that, and may or may not even allow you to override the warning and...
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Electronic Arts, the behemoth of all things PC and Console gaming, is teaming up with old-fashioned toymaker Hasbro to adapt a bevy of Hasbro's titles for video gaming. EA figures the appeal of the rainy day board game will help them to win over the community of people who do not currently...
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I've seen it before on shows like "Law and Order" - suspects caught because of electronic bridge toll records - you said you were in place X but you were in place Y - and you could in fact have committed that murder. And so on and so forth. Well, adulterers beware: E-ZPass is now being used...
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No one should be surprised nowadays when a site gets hacked. Even sites that you would expect would have an extremely high level of security are vulnerable, as shown by the hacking today of the United Nations official website. Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from...
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It's no secret that despite the unveiling of Windows Vista, many continue to purchase Windows XP with their computers. For some, it's the lack of drivers or compatible software that forces them to stay with Vista; for others it may be the fact that Vista simply doesn't add enough for them to...
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