U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration will seek to aggressively enforce its intellectual property laws by putting pressure on countries that don’t shut down piracy Web sites and by requiring all government contractors to check for illegal software, the White House announced.
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We’ve been waiting for one of the major players to get their mitts into mini-ITX for Intel’s chipsets and finally Gigabyte has delivered with the Intel H55 chipset based H55N-USB3.
mini-ITX goes USB 3
ECS did us all a favour by introducing their H55H-I at an incredible $79, forcing Intel and to lower the price of the […]
An anonymous reader writes “Google Voice is now open to anyone in the US, removing the need to search for an invite. At the Google Voice site, anyone with a US IP address and a US phone number can sign up for an account. Non-US IPs are blocked, and non-US-based phone numbers are prevented from […]
Ben Patterson - Yes, the new Xbox has a trimmer profile and a sleeker, glossier case than predecessors, but what caught my eye — or, rather, ear — was Microsoft’s promise that it would be “whisper-quiet.”
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just fiddling around writes “Now that Michaëlle Jean is approaching the end of her customary five-year post as Governor General of Canada, the rumor mill has started on who Prime Minister Steven Harper will propose to the Queen in her stead. According to the CBC, the short list includes Captain Kirk, actor William Shatner. It […]
When we reviewed Zotac's ZBOX HD-ID11 we noted that the upgrade to the Next-Generation ION didn't feel like much of an upgrade. Performance improved in some cases, but power consumption got worse and in 3D games and Flash playback performance actually dropped. The latter was a particular problem because many want to buy these NG-ION […]
Acer's latest Ferrari-branded laptop looks to compete in the crowded CULV ultraportable market. Packing an X2 L310 processor and HD 3200 graphics, on paper at least the Ferrari One should compete relatively well. Does AMD have a viable answer to the long battery life CULV laptops? Do the HD 3200 graphics offer any real benefit? […]
Appolicious - One not-so-small app for man could eventually help bring mankind to Mars. Leave it to astronaut Buzz Aldrin to pilot the way on the iPad.
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WiMax service provider Clearwire raised more than US$290 million in a rights offering that expired on Monday, building up its war chest as it continues to deploy a national 4G network.
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Researchers in the U.K. are developing a lean-and-mean programming framework called Mirage that is designed specifically to support applications running on cloud infrastructure platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.
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While we're still waiting on our EVO 4G review sample, AnandTech Mobile Editor Vivek Gowri got his hands on the HTC EVO 4G. Android 2.1 running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC with a giant screen and 4G network support makes for one beast of a phone.
Read on for Vivek's thoughts.
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An anonymous reader writes “In yet another bad ruling concerning copyright, a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling, and said that it’s okay for Congress retroactively to remove works from the public domain, even if publishers are already making use of those public-domain works. The lower court had said this was a […]
GovTechGuy writes “On Tuesday the White House made a show of rolling out an expansive new strategy to combat online piracy and counterfeit goods, to the delight of industry groups. The plan emphasizes targeting foreign websites that host pirated software and movies and increasing the number of investigations and prosecutions by the FBI, FTC, and […]
AP - Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. posted higher net income for its most recent quarter, driven by strong demand for the software package it sells to professional designers and developers.
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Reuters - British scientists who conducted the largest study yet into cell phone masts and childhood cancers say that living close to a mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman’s baby developing cancer.
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Following the launch of their budget range of LCDs, HP has now launched some more premium models for those in need of better specifications. There are four new models ranging from 20” to 27” featuring integrated speakers and HP’s BrightView displays, and three of the models include HDMI connectivity. The 27” model in particular boasts […]
At the start of Computex ASUS unveiled its two tiered approach to an iPad competitor: the 12" Eee Pad running Windows 7 Home Premium on an Intel CULV Core 2 Duo, and the 10" model running Windows Embedded Compact 7 on NVIDIA's Tegra 2. Yesterday ASUS answered some additional questions we had about the models:
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AFP - Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy and new-generation star Zoe Saldana on Wednesday put their acting skills to the test in a Yoostar “film karaoke” videogame.
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Last month Ryan Smith published his findings on OS X Portal performance. While we're all glad that Valve ported the Steam engine to OS X, we weren't very happy with the performance of the initial release. Since then Valve has updated its Steam client and games as well as released Half Life 2 Episode 2 […]
AP - Red Hat Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit climbed as demand rose for its open-source software. The company’s adjusted earnings met analyst estimates, while revenue was higher than expected.
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Trustwave has acquired Breach Security for an undisclosed sum, an acquisition that the company said would bring Breach Security’s Web application firewall together with Trustwave’s own enterprise security tools.
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Kilrah_il writes “Now you have the option to OCR every PDF and image you upload to Google Docs. ‘When you upload files to Google Docs, you’ll notice a new option that tells Google to convert the text from PDF and image files to Google Docs documents. … I’ve tried to convert an excerpt from the […]
Google’s telephony management application Google Voice is now open to all U.S. residents, as the company on Tuesday removed the requirement for prospective users to receive an invitation in order to sign up for the service.
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Today UPS dropped off my Xbox 360 Slim (codename Valhalla) and I did exactly what you'd expect me to: run power numbers on it and take the whole thing apart. I've posted pics of the system compared to the old Jasper Xbox 360 here and a gallery of my dissection of the system here. Expect […]
Yesterday we kicked off the first of 28 days of giveaways celebrating our 13 years of operation here at AnandTech. G.Skill was the first to send in product and they sent in a lot: 58GB of desktop and notebook memory for us to give away. Congrats to yesterday's winner: Wieland, your 4GB kit will be […]
Lenovo is launching their IdeaPad Y560d today, better known as the company's first 3D laptop. The new laptop is marketed as "TriDef" due to the triad of a 3D display, software applications to make the most of it, and the glasses to view it. Other interesting additions are Lenovo's "Enhanced RapidDrive" technology that combines HDD […]
adeelarshad82 writes “Adobe announced that it has released the final version of Flash Player 10.1 for Google’s mobile operating system. The app will be available for download via the Android Market for those users who have Android 2.2 (Froyo) installed on their phones. Devices expected to offer the Android update include the Dell Streak, Google […]
Last week we looked at the ASUS U30Jc and found a lot to like… so much that we awarded it a Bronze Editors' Choice. The stock configuration comes with a conventional hard drive, but SSDs are all the rage these days. What happens to performance when you install a decent SSD, like a 120GB OCZ […]
snydeq writes “InfoWorld’s Galen Gruman investigates what businesses can expect from Apple’s new iOS 4. Multitasking, the biggest new capability, is for now simply a promise, as apps will need to be retrofitted to make use of the capability. The other big new capability for IT, a set of APIs that allow BlackBerry-like management of […]
Christopher Null - How do you deal with an epidemic like the spread of computer malware? Australia thinks it has the answer: Blame the victim.
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A friend of mine who works at Intel emailed me asking for my help in this. Kyron Horman, the son of an Intel employee, has gone missing. The report is vague but seems to imply that the child went missing somewhere in Multnomah County, Oregon. He is 3'8" tall, weighs 50 lbs and has brown […]
The U.S. needs local education and training programs and better computer reuse programs to overcome a large broadband adoption gap, speakers at a broadband adoption forum said Tuesday.
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Eric Boehs believed that he had accidentally thrown away his iPhone and iPad. Alas, that’s not exactly what happened.
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As we mentioned in our previous edition of The Cable Chronicles, Microsoft and CableLabs have come to an agreement to allow the installation and use of CableCARDs on unapproved and non-OEM systems, allowing for the wider proliferation of CableCARD equipped HTPCs beyond the handful of OEM systems that CableLabs had previously approved. With […]
If you’ve been keeping up with our articles for a while, you might have picked up on vApus Mark I: the virtualized stress test we created for internal use at the Sizing Servers testlab.
As detailed in Johan’s article, this bench consists of 3 separate applications, all of which we are very familiar with […]
AP - Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google’s search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what’s happening on the Web.
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Scientists suddenly realize that robots need ethics.
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AP - Music videos from Norah Jones, Coldplay, Katy Perry and other artists under EMI Group PLC are headed to an online music video venture, Vevo, set to launch Tuesday with a gala in New York.
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PC World - Intel’s decision to indefinitely delay its Larrabee graphics processor is a setback for the Linux community, delaying improved performance for users of open source operating systems. Competitors Nvidia and AMD, however, saw their share prices rise following the news.
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Could this be AMD’s comeback? It sure looks bold at a high level……
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