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Opera Uses Server Power to Speed up Browsing

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Opera’s latest release, dubbed Opera Turbo, touts the ability to use the company’s own server to compress the data transferred by web sites, allowing users on slow Internet connections to surf at a reasonable speed. According to Opera’s ...

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Poken Are Sort of Like Tamagotchis, But Full of Personal Data

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Sure, you could carry around all of your personal data on a business card, but why do that when you can just carry about a Poken ? These adorable little dongles allow you to carry all of your information (including your Twitter, LinkedIn, ...

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British Entrepreneur/Looter Uses Google Maps to Identify Targets

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

In the most recent case of Google Earth being used for mischief, British Builder Tom Berge used the program to zoom in on historic buildings before stripping them of nearly $227,000 worth of lead from their roofs. The area that was ...

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AMD, Intel Want More Data Public in x86 Licensing Fracas

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The dispute between Intel and Nvidia over disagreements pertaining to Intel's Nehalem chipset license almost seems like old news now that Intel and AMD are going at each other. Intel claims AMD doesn't have the legal wherewithal to ...

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Boston Power's Long-Lived Batteries Now Available with HP Laptops

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Boston Power says the battery cells in its Enviro-branded notebook batteries can "deliver sustainable performance for three years -- three times longer than most other notebook computer batteries," a claim HP notebook owners can start ...

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MSI Eclipse SLI

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Gordon Mah Ung at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

An eclipse occurs when one celestial body obscures another. When MSI stuck its X58 motherboard with that moniker, we wondered just what it wanted to hide. Our guess is it’s the fact that the board supports ATI’s CrossFire X. Despite the ...

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Four Ways to Separate Open-Source Winners and Losers

 

Published 3/18/2009 by David Murphy at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The competition between open-source projects and retail applications is a never-ending struggle.  Even when two products aren't in direct competition -- like Adobe's Photoshop versus the GNU Image Manipulation Program -- there's still an underlying ...

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Psystar Releases Another Mac Clone Amid Legal Battle

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Perhaps feeling confident from its first legal victory last month in its ongoing legal battle against Apple for selling Mac clones that allegedly violate the Mac OS X end-user license agreement, Psystar is far from waving the white flag and is ...

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Fujitsu Releases Full-Color, Windows-Rocking eBook Reader

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Giving Amazon's Kindle and Kindle 2 some competition in the eBook market, Fujitsu has at long last released its full-color eBook reader called FLEPia. Fujitsu had first shown off the FLEPia in concept form back in 2006 and has been drumming up ...

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Intel Atom to Power Most Entry-Level Desktops by 2010

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Intel's crazy-popular Atom processor already dominates the netbook and nettop segments, but that might turn out to be only a glimpse of things to come. By the end of the year, look for Atom CPUs to have found a home in more than half of all ...

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Nvidia Loses $43 Million Due to Failure-Prone GPUs

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

According to Nvidia's Form 10-K filing for the fiscal year ended January 25, 2009, the graphics chip maker has spent $43.6 million to cover warranty and product replacement claims for GPUs suffering from a "weak die/packaging material ...

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Rise of Nations/Legends Developer in Danger of Closing

 

Published 3/18/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

If you thought Empire: Total War and Dawn of War II were forcing the sun to beam a little too brightly over the RTS landscape, here’s some cold reality to yank your bloom setting back down to normal levels. Speaking with Crispy Gamer, THQ VP ...

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Freecom Releases ToughDrive Sport Hardrive

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Freecom recently released their 2.5-inch ToughDrive Sport hard drive that has been built to endure “even the toughest conditions.” What exactly entails the toughest conditions though? We have no idea. The ToughDrive comes in three different ...

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Computer Science College Enrollment on the Upswing

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

According to an survey conducted by the Computing Research Association, the number of majors and pre-majors in American computer science programs was up 6.2 percent from 2007. This marks the first time in six years that an increase in computer ...

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Microsoft Promises to go 30% Greener by 2012

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Microsoft makes its way to the increasingly popular green movement by announcing to its more than 90,000 employees plans to reduce its carbon emissions by more than 30 percent by 2012. "As a technology company, we believe that our footprint ...

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Comcast Freezes Accounts After Thousands of User Passwords Found Online

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Comcast has frozen more than 8,000 users names and passwords for Comcast email addresses, a full two months after they were uncovered on the document-sharing site, Scribd. Scribd reportedly has removed the list thanks mostly to The New York ...

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Comcast, Sony Open Joint Retail Location

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

It looks like Comcast and Sony are looking to take a bite out of the Apple pie that is retail marketing, by opening up their very own joint retail store that will push Sony’s tech and Comcast’s services. “At Sony Style Comcast Labs, trained ...

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Dell Adamo Unveiled and Hands-On, Just $1999 for the Stylish Thin Wonder

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Norman Chan at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Dell teased us with a brief showing of their new Adamo laptop line at this year's CES, but after that first peek, we were all left hanging with only a mysterious website to satiate our curiosity. Today, Dell has finally officially announced the ...

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Australia's Blacklisted Hyperlinks to Cost Webmasters $11,000 a Day

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), this and other blacklisted hyperlinks will cost webmasters $11,000 a day if published on a website. The hefty fine applies to any site containing a banned URL, which was ...

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Lenovo's Mysterious Portable is a 2-year-Old Concept, Still Sexy

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

With the netbook craze in full swing and Intel's Atom processor opening all kinds of doors for smaller, low power devices, you can expect to see some groovy gadgets make it to market. And after two years in development, maybe we'll soon see Lenovo's ...

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Second Generation Surface Coming, Will Utilize Two Projectors

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Currently in the development stage, the next iteration of Microsoft's Surface technology is probably about two or three years from materializing. SecondLight , as Microsoft refers to the Surface 2, will add a second camera to project images onto a ...

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Yet Another Atom-Fueled Nettop Released Courtesy of Mouse Computer

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Intel's Atom platform has become so popular that even companies you've never heard of are using it. Such is the case with Japan-based Mouse Computer, who has put together a new nettop PC, the EGPA33DR32XP. Specs include an Intel Atom 230 ...

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Steam Now Offering In-Game DLC

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Steam’s only one or two artillery shells away from becoming Skynet at this point, we think. First, it gained access to the Internet’s vast wells of knowledge, and now the thing can even purchase DLC , if it’s feeling so inclined. We’d be ...

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Warhammer Online Wants You Back, Bears Gifts

 

Published 3/17/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Trying to decide whether to take another walk down the aisle with Warhammer Online or try your luck with a different MMO of equal value, but just can’t bring yourself to end this excruciatingly long game of eeny-meeny-miny-moe? Well, if giving ...

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Think HD-DVD is Going to Make a Comeback? Now There's an HTPC for You

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

While HD-DVD fell to Blu-ray years ago, it looks like Kinetic is still looking to push an HTPC that supports the format. Though, that may be a bit unfair. The Kinetic HD:Hub has a drive in it that supports not only HD-DVD, but Blu-ray as ...

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This is No Joke: Conficker.C to Strike on April Fools' Day

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Mark Edward Soper at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Just when you might have thought it was safe to start using USB flash drives at work again, the third, and by all accounts, most fiendish version of the Conficker worm  that's infected millions of PCs already is set to attack on April 1st, Ars ...

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MSI Begins Shipping Wind Nettop CS120 to US and Reveals VR430 Notebook

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Just this past week MSI announced that they would begin shipping their CS120 Wind Nettop to the US, and introduced another new laptop, the VR430. The CS120 Nettop will come complete with a 1.6GHz Atom 230 processor, GMA950 graphics, up to ...

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White Paper: Solid State Drives

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Nathan Edwards at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

In the past year and a half, solid state drives have come from nowhere to take their place as the Next Big Thing in storage, especially in notebooks. The MacBook Air and the Asus Eee PC and OLPC XO-1 (One Laptop Per Child) netbooks were among ...

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Via Claims VX855 Chipset Capable of 1080p

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Recently Via announced their VX855 Media System Processor that allows their Nano, C7 and Eden processors to support 1080p video. This entertains the possibility that Via will provide a more attractive option an Intel and Nvidia when it comes ...

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Motion Releases Rugged, Two-Battery Tablet PC

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Motion's rugged new J3400 all-in-one tablet PC is being billed as "the ultimate computing tool" for anyone wo needs a "robust device" for both indoor and outdoor use. And it's hard to argue that claim, given that it comes ...

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Linux Celebrates 15th Birthday

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

In the past year, Linux has shown quite a bit of mainstream maturity, finally giving Windows users a viable alternative that is much more user friendly than has been the case in years past. And how appropriate, given that the Linux kernel has just ...

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Angry Intel Threatens to Pull Cross-Licensing Patent Agreement from AMD

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Back in October 2008, Intel expressed concerns over AMD's announcement it would split into separate design and manufacturing firms, saying such a move would might run afoul of the Patent Cross License Agreement the two signed in 2001. The Agreement, ...

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Amazon Threatens Lawsuit over Kindle DRM Workaround

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

"The power of the DMCA compels you! The power of the DMCA compels you!" That was essentially the mantra muttered by Amazon, who invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to convince MobileRead.com to remove instructions on how to use ...

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Samsung Predicts HDD-Priced SSDs

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Early solid state drives (SSDs) suffered from a number of negative characteristics preventing them from finding use in mainstream applications. These included low capacity, surprisingly poor performance, reliability concerns, and high prices. Recent ...

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Study: Piracy Now the Norm for Web Users

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

See that person sitting in the cubicle next to you? One of you is probably using P2P networks to download music, movies, and software, statistically speaking. According to not one, but two recent studies in Canada and Spain, nearly half of all ...

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Blizzard Looking for Fan Fiction, Will Trade [Plane Tickets], [Frostmourne]

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The apparent state of <insert WoW class that’s constantly nerfed and obviously in need of buffing here> may have led you to believe that Blizzard’s exceedingly affluent staff doesn’t want to hear from you. Well, given the nature of the ...

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LiveCD Lockdown: Five of our Favorite, Installation-free Collections!

 

Published 3/16/2009 by David Murphy at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The beauty of a Live CD is that it gives you a chance to access your computer or a batch of alternate applications without actually having to load up your operating system.  You only need to pop the CD into your optical drive and boot it up from ...

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How To: Mash Up Your Music

 

Published 3/16/2009 by Kris Fong at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

  Radiohead jamming with Kanye West would be an odd pairing on any stage, but in the world of mashups—where the vocals of one song are folded into another—the weirder the combination, the bigger the bragging rights. While the RIAA is ...

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French Anti-P2P Bill will Kick Users off the Net & Could Spread to the Rest of the World

 

Published 3/15/2009 by Justin Kerr at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

We have been keeping our eyes on a disturbing new trend within the movie and music industry over how to deal with online copyright disputes, and the news continues to worry privacy advocates. The idea of booting people off the internet without ...

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Adobe Patches Zero-Day Vulnerability

 

Published 3/15/2009 by Justin Kerr at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

If you haven’t done so already, make sure your Adobe reader has checked for, and downloaded the latest updates. Adobe has finally released a patch for the zero day scripting vulnerability in its PDF software. The patch for version 9 hit the ...

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Sacked Sony France Employees Hold Boss Hostage

 

Published 3/15/2009 by Justin Kerr at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Mel Brooks may have coined the phrase “it’s good to be the king”, but that probably wasn’t what the president of Sony France was thinking when he was taken hostage by the angry employees at his soon to be closed Pontonx-sur-l'Adour tape ...

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Valve to Rate TF2 Servers, Help Players Decide Where to Play

 

Published 3/14/2009 by Nathan Grayson at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

All servers are not created equal. Some leave you feeling all warm-and-squishy after each match, while others insult humanity as a whole nearly as often as they insult your mother. Valve understands this and – with an eagerness to please its ...

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No BS Podcast #99: This Episode is a Palindrome

 

Published 3/14/2009 by Maximum PC Staff at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The gang launches into this week's edition of the No BS podcast by immersing themselves into webcam-powered augmented reality. We also report on Seagate's SATA 6Gb/s interface test (it's fast!) and share our thoughts about HP's Firebird ...

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Now Available

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

For those that are looking to help the folks at Mozilla test out the latest version of their popular Firefox browser, you’re in luck! At long last, Beta 3 of Firefox 3.1 is up for download, and you can get it here . The new version is, as ...

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Analyst Predicts ARM Will Take The Netbook Crown by 2012

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

It’s expected that the ARM processor will take over market dominance over Intel’s Atom in 2012. Ever since Asus introduced the first Eee PCs in 2007, netbooks have become a mainstay of the mobile market and currently, Intel’s Atom is a ...

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IE8 Release Date Looks Like March 20

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Mark Edward Soper at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

The Taipei Times reports  that the Taiwanese edition of Internet Explorer 8 will be released next Friday, March 20. The Times interviewed several Microsoft Taiwan personnel, including GM Davis Tsai and platform marketing manager Juno Su, for ...

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Sentience System is AI For Your Cruise Control

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Andy Salisbury at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Driving with cruise control is a pretty nice luxury. The added bonus of not having to worry about using your feet to adjust the speed is pretty gratifying, but what if you could forget about using the gas and break altogether? The masterminds ...

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Intel Experimenting with Linking Mobile Devices' Screens

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Pretty soon you may be able to link multiple gadgets together to create a larger display. The idea is part of Intel's "Carry Small, Live Large" initiative, in which the company looks to take mobile computing to the next level. In the ...

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For Once, MySpace Gets Somebody OUT of Jail

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

It's been well documented how what you post on MySpace and other social networking sites can get you into trouble (just ask 16-year-old office worker Kimberly Swann who was fired over a Facebook entry calling her job boring), but for the first ...

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Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6 (Jaunty Jackalope) Now Available

 

Published 3/13/2009 by Paul Lilly at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

Following its rapid release schedule, eager Ubuntu fans need only wait until April 23rd for the next release of the open-source Linux distro. In the meantime, if a little over a month is just too long to wait, you can take a sneak peek at Ubuntu ...

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