Computing And Tech Enthusiast News And Product Reviews

U.S. Government Taking No Chances With Full-Disk Encryption

by Stacy Doss - Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Finally, a government program regarding technology that I can support. HotHardware has reported in prior articles Seagate Announces Encrypted Hard Drives for Notebooks and How To Turn Your Stolen Laptop Into A Snitching Doorstop both concerning the issues that are being served by this... Read more...

OLPC Gearing Up for Prime Time

by Stacy Doss - Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Hardware Upgrade has an interesting article on the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project and its roadmap for the immediate future. With its new interfaces, ship dates and commitments it seems OLPC is ready for the world. From the article: To achieve its goal of transforming the learning process,... Read more...

First Person s-Wii-ter?

by Gregory Sullivan - Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Tennis and bowling are great and all, but I wanna kill people. Ars Technica has a review of the popular Call Of Duty 3 for the Wii, and have the answer on playability with the Wii-mote: Some getting used to, but a whole lot of fun. It's worth the effort, though; the game on the Wiimote is... Read more...

HotHardware Holiday 2006 Contest Winners!

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jan 02, 2007

We brought 2006 to a close with a couple of exciting give-aways here at HotHardware. First, we'd like to congratulate forum members SilverVenom57 (Peter H.) and SuperDave (David H.). They both won brand new Microsoft Zunes courtesy of Microsoft and Webcast Magic. Congrats!... Read more...

Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 2007

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Here's a "Top 7 Most Anticipated Games of 2007" list that's sure to spark some debate. The folks at taume.com put such titles as Command & Conquer 2: Tiberium Wars and Unreal Tournament 2007 on their list... "It is 2047 and the stakes could not be higher. Tiberium a... Read more...

Old And Busted: Moore's Law. New Hotness: Areal Density

by Gregory Sullivan - Tue, Jan 02, 2007

Multicore chips are a kind of cheating as far as Moore's Law goes. You're bringing a gang to the fight for faster processors. The battle to store the information those chips handle is where a lot of the action is now. Wired took a tour at Seagate's R and D labs, and they're... Read more...

Gigabyte's GeForce 7950 GT At HotHardware

by David Altavilla - Mon, Jan 01, 2007

What's attractive about the GeForce 7950 GT is that it doesn't cost much more than a 7900 GT yet it offers nearly the same performance of a much pricier 7900 GTX. Additionally, the 7950 GT sports 512MB DDR3 clocked at 1.4GHz (effective). The GPU core runs at a speedy 550MHz and just... Read more...

The Internet Saved Our Bacon For Christmas Presents

by Gregory Sullivan - Mon, Jan 01, 2007

Online retailing continues to grow at a frenetic pace. And internet savvy consumers know that you can trust online retailers and package delivery services to save you at the last minute at Christmastime. U.S. Web spending during the work week... Read more...

Ballmer, WHISKY TANGO FOXTROT? Over.

by Gregory Sullivan - Mon, Jan 01, 2007

Microsoft has decided to go viral with their marketing approach for their Zune portable media player, and the results are ... interesting. Nothing says entertainment like a bag of eyeballs screaming at an ambulatory penis through an empty eyesocket while holding back a fart. The guys at Microsoft... Read more...

Gigabyte GeForce 7950 GT

by Shane Unrein - Mon, Jan 01, 2007

NVIDIA has enjoyed quite a bit of success the last couple of years thanks in part to its GeForce 6 and 7 Series graphics cards. Like every other company in the world, NVIDIA likes to ride its success as long as possible. In NVIDIA's case, this can be done with product refreshes. The most recent refresh brought us the GeForce 7950 GT, interestingly... Read more...

The Sopranos in Taiwan? Hynix DDR Shipment Hijacked

by Marco Chiappetta - Sat, Dec 30, 2006

Digitimes is reporting that a batch of about NT$20 million (US$306,000) worth of DDR chips from Hynix Semiconductor was stolen yesterday in Taoyuan, Taiwan. "The 20 boxes filled with DDR chips were robbed while in transit, with sources saying... Read more...

Solid State Hard Drive Versus HDD WinXP Boot-up Time

by David Altavilla - Sat, Dec 30, 2006

In our recent fall IDF coverage we told you about Intel's upcoming Santa Rosa platform for Notebooks that employs something known by its code name as the "Robson" module, that incorporates NAND Flash in a solid state disk-cache design. Here's a little demo of... Read more...

BigFoot Killer NIC Reviewed

by Sean Pelletier - Fri, Dec 29, 2006

The gang over at PC Perspective have taken a look at Bigfoot Networks new Killer NIC ethernet card to see if it is worth the hefty $250 price of admission. Although the Killer NIC showcased some impression performance gains on an Intel 975X platform, the performance gains seen on an old nForce2 platform were the largest and easily... Read more...

Pay Me Now, Or Pay Me Later. Google Decides It's Later

by Gregory Sullivan - Fri, Dec 29, 2006

Google's search engine has begun placing their own properties atop search engine results in the form of "Tips," ending its protocol of keeping advertisements and search results separate. Blake Ross of Firefox no likey: After all, Google is predicated on the idea that the... Read more...

Nope. Uh Uh. Nah. Not That One. Not That One Either. Ixnay...

by Gregory Sullivan - Fri, Dec 29, 2006

What's likely going to be the largest selling console gaming platform in the coming year, and probably the year after that? If you said ____________, you'd be wrong. Because I doubt you said: The Playstation 2. ... Read more...