Following much merriment and festivity - and a drinking session involving copious amounts of brandy - HEXUS' Steve Kerrison has joined in the journalists' Christmas tradition of "compiling some sort of end of/beginning of the year list". Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Korean computer manufacturer Trigem Computers has launched a slim new micro PC, the LLUON Crystal, which continues its trend of eye-catching machines. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Intel and STMicroelectronics NV have been forced to delay the merger of their cash-starved flash memory units because of "significant turmoil" in the financial markets. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The upcoming Inspiron 1520 notebook from Dell has appeared on the computer manufacturer's Australian website and is available for pre-order with shipments expected in early January. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Microsoft has acknowledged in a recent knowledge base article that a bug in its Windows Home Server software causes files to become corrupted when using certain programs to save data to the server. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
With the current set of SLI/CrossFire systems, we are probably seeing the biggest power draw in history. As more and more focus is given to green issues, we speak with Richard Brown from VIA about their drive in this area Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Most people think 'Razer' involves multiple blades slicing through facial hair. But, for gaming's elite, this name invokes slicing through the opposition with consumate ease. Razer are backing HMV's new game centre initiative... we investigate. Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
We all love our bargains (particularly after Christmas), and according to Madbox PC, AMD has a selection of budget graphics cards on the horizon. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Nothing quite like the smell of fresh new drivers just before Christmas is there? If you haven't done so already, you can now upgrade your Catalyst drivers to version 7.12 and take advantage of the "highest level of power, performance, and reliability", say the release notes. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
HMV has come along way from the simple dog listening to his master's voice. Having posted almost £1.9 billion in sales, HMV continues to adapt - pushing for innovation. Their latest venture involves deploying Gamerbase centres in key locations. Head of Games, Tim Ellis explains... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Intel's purchase of Havok has re-stimulated talk about in-game effects. Designed from the ground up to use PhysX, Warmonger is now available as a FREE DOWNLOAD (see below). We speak with Ageia to hear some remarkably honest self-appraisal. Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Earlier this month we ran a poll asking "A year after launch - How much would you pay to Upgrade from Vista to XP?" Having collected over a thousand votes, we've got some interesting results to reveal. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Just about every company has a breaking point and following a global complaint from, well, everyone, Dell steps forward and defends the pricing of its Latitude XT tablet PC. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
We've all read the on going reports outlining shortcomings in new operating systems from both Apple and Microsoft, but not all is doom and gloom. NPD figures reveal that Apple's latest Mac OS X version, Leopard, is the fastest selling Mac OS to date. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Constantly analysing worldwide system sales, IDC's reports help global suppliers understand what the >300 million unit market is doing and where to focus their efforts. HEXUS.tv spoke exclusively with Eszter Morvay, Senior Research Analyst for IDC Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Warning of vulnerabilities in its Flash player "that could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code", Adobe has issued a critical patch to fix at least nine vulnerabilities and recommends users update immediately. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.The next version of Microsoft's widely used web browser, Internet Explorer, is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2008. In the meantime, the IE team's developers claim to have "achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers". Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Dell announced today the availability of products with Ubuntu 7.10 and Built-In DVD playback, emphasising its support for the Linux operating system. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Following its release six years ago, Microsoft's Windows XP is still going strong. Users of the ever popular operating system are now able to download a release candidate of Service Pack 3 via Microsoft's Download Centre. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Positioned as the world's most advanced gaming centre, Gamerbase is a project backed by Intel, Microsoft and Dell - that sits inside HMV at Piccadilly. Now open to the public, we spoke with founder, Sujoy Roy, during the build up process... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Online retailer BigPockets.co.uk are offering bargain deals on refurbished Samsung camcorders. More importantly, there's still time to get orders placed and delivered in time for Christmas. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
My mum hates it! And so does my wife! But, what about me? Is it really worthy of the hype? Find out what I think of the biggest Wii game of the year, Super Mario Galaxy. Apple, like Microsoft, end the year with a massive security update for its flagship operating system. The update fixes over 40 vulnerabilities, several of which are rated as critical. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Israel has no shortage of sand and - over the past 33 years - Intel FABs have been turning this plentiful raw material into advanced microprocessors. HEXUS.tv spoke with Koby Bahar to find out more about Intel's involvement... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Customers of Virgin Media experienced a loss of broadband service nationwide last night, with the problem continuing through into this morning for some, according to reports. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
When we do competitions, we do them properly. That's why, this Christmas, we're throwing a competition to send somebody to Las Vegas to experience the life of a high-roller, check out CES 2008 and find out what zero-g feels like! Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
NVIDIA announced today its NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI media and communications processor and claims it to be the foundation for the world's ultimate gaming PC. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Here I am, sat writing code, because the boss says if I don't then all I'll get is a lump of coal for Christmas. To stop me from tearing out my RAID array and smashing it to pieces because I keep accidentally running SQL queries that return millions of rows, I'm listening to theJazz on DAB digital radio. In the ad breaks, PURE Digital's running ads about their amazing new digital radio for the car. But it's not really digital. Well, it is, and it isn't... Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
SCAN is donating 20p to the NSPCC for every person that submits a festive message on its website. SCAN hopes to have donated £1000 by Christmas Eve, but can only do so with your help. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Still want to do some Christmas shopping for yourself or others? If anything at BigPockets tickles your fancy, then make sure you use this voucher for HEXUS readers.
Compro reveal two new products for our Media Centre needs: a hybrid digital TV and analog TV tuner card as well as a USB 2.0 interface hybrid DVB-T and universal analog TV/FM reception tuner stick. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
If all coolers were made to look sexy, they'd look something like the curvy G-Power 2 Pro from Gigabyte. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The fastest GeForce 8800 GT to go through the labs, but is it worth £200? We tell you. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Intel's advanced new design centre in Haifa will be their first 'green' building. Sustainable engineering expert, Dori Hershgal, explains the advanced features that make the building attractive for both business and environmental reasons... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Sapphire, the PC-hardware maker best known for graphics cards, today made live a web portal - ATOMIC - aimed at hardcore gamers and claimed to bridge the gap between enthusiast and maker. The site will also be promoting a new range of ATOMIC-branded hardware aimed at gamers and said to go 'above and beyond' standard specifications. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Fancy yourself as a bit of a modding whizz? Put your best efforts forward in video form on YouTube as part of Intel's Modder Contest. You'll have a chance to win prizes and more importantly, the opportunity to declare yourself as supreme modder of all should you happen to win. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The best online photo management system continues to improve as it implements a new stats system for its pro customers as well as launching a new version of its Flickr Uploadr software. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Sometimes, experts don't know what they're talking about. Just ask AMD, which over the past 12 months has had to endure second-guessing from financial analysts and industry pundits about slumping market share, a string of financial losses, and costly distribution and design gaffes. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Google is forever developing new products, some become incredibly useful and others just fade out. One upcoming product we believe may become incredibly useful, is Google Knols. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Both Dell and DSGi haven't had the best of years. In an effort to turn the fortunes of both companies around, Dell will be bringing its range of desktop PCs and notebooks to DSGi's retail outlets Currys, Dixons and PC World in 2008. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Redmond software giant Microsoft looks to be heading back to its least favourite place, the EU courts, as web browser maker Opera files an EU antitrust suit accusing Microsoft of stifling competition. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.AMD continues to suffer as it announced today that it overpaid in its $5.6 billion acquisition of Canadian based graphics card manufacturer ATI. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Microsoft has today announced that XNA Game Studio 2.0, the game development platform for Xbox 360 and Windows is now available for download, adding more than 15 new features. 
Ofcom provided details today of how the radio spectrum that will be freed-up through digital television switchover will be awarded for new uses throughout the UK. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
DSG International, operator of retail outlets Dixons, Currys and PC World is expected to fall out of the FTSE 100 today and will no longer be one of the 100 most highly valued companies on the London Stock Exchange. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Seems like nearly an eternity since Thecus Technology announced the N3200 NAS device. After quite the wait, online retailer Scan.co.uk are now taking pre-orders. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.The staff over at Microsoft have been keeping busy. A Windows update this morning totalled some 220MBs and I've still more updates to choose from. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Having sailed past the 'one million quad cores shipped' mark earlier in the year, Intel is now moving their proven architecture down to 45nm with Penryn. HEXUS.tv's cameras were allowed inside Intel's Israel facilities to see the process in action... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.It has been a year since Microsoft's much talked about operating system, Windows Vista, launched amid much fanfare and HEXUS are now running a poll asking if you would be willing to pay to go back to Windows XP. Place your vote and let us know if you believe the "WOW" started back when Microsoft said it would. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Just in time for the holiday season, NVIDIA has a little surprise for the gaming enthusiasts this Christmas in the form of its GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB graphics card which became available today. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Let's face it, the world needs better batteries. Up step Toshiba with its Super Charge ion Batteries that charge to nearly full capacity in less than 5 minutes. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.IBM and Intel love their nanometer wars. One week IBM is straining something first in order to make faster, smaller chips, and the next week Intel has found some forgotten element and placed it at the center of a revolutionary effort. You won't find Big Boys getting excited about shrinkage very often in the real word, but in the chip game, that's how things are done. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.We knew it was coming, you knew it was coming and today Dell confirmed on its official blog that it "will begin taking orders and shipping the product by the end of the year". Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.SSDs (Solid State Drives) are expected to become mainstream in the very near future and Toshiba has revealed three new products that look set to make SSD growth faster than expected. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Want to know exactly what will be changing under the hood of Microsoft's Windows Vista when release candidate 1 of its first service pack launches this week? Find out in the finely detailed changelog. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, expects India to become one of its top five markets within the next three years alone. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The price of fuel broke the £1 barrier not so long ago and with the addition of the Government's tax increase, a group named TransAction 2007 is planning a "nationwide legal protest" this Wednesday, December 12th. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Kenny Lin, founder of Thermaltake, exclusively reveals to HEXUS.tv that he plans to take his company public on 12th December. Cash generated from this kind of operation is conventionally used to increase market share... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
ASUS cranks up its graphics card offerings with what it claims to be the world's first EN8800GT based graphics card to feature 1GB of graphics memory. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.AMD's anticipated DisplayPort-supporting graphics chip, 'RV635', has appeared on the web on a card that sports said next-gen digital monitor connector, along with HDMI and DVI portage. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Tablet PCs, the portable systems the world nearly forgot, are set to receive a new breath of life as Dell readies the launch of its own tablet PC, the Latitude XT. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Thermaltake is a leading provider for high-spec 'Nuts n Bolts' - everything from chassis and caddies to power supplies and advanced cooling. On our Dragon Tour, HEXUS.tv's cameras were given exclusive access to their R&D facility in Taipei... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
The AMD Phenom 9900 Spider platform looks fantastic on paper. But does reality reinforce or negate that opinion? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Not content with seeing the $100 XO laptop running only Linux, Microsoft state "we are hard at work" on bringing its OS to the device. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
After being announced what seems like many years ago, Yahoo finally releases its Messenger client for Windows Vista. After so many months of development however, it still needs a lot of work. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Due to be launched in March at CeBIT 2008, Lian-Li's product manager, Hank Chen, gave HEXUS.tv's cameras an exclusive look at their brand new, top-end, enthusiast-class chassis monster complete with 'beauty' refinements! Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
That's what the change-log proclaims. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Double the usual frame buffer and passively-cooled? Yup. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Philanthropic Gordon finds another $200m down the back of the sofa. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Announced on Microsoft's official Windows Vista Blog, the release candidate of its forthcoming Service Pack 1 has been made available via Microsoft Connect and will be available to the public next week. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Why not make the year 2008 a healthy one? Take a look at our 10 easy to follow suggestions toward a healthier lifestyle. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
According to Transformers director Michael Bay, the answer is no one. In fact, he goes one step further to claim the entire format war is one big conspiracy with Microsoft pulling the strings. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.AMD is hurting, it's clear for all to see. We're trying very hard to find some good news for the AMD fans out there, and this is what we've come up with. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Find out just what investors have made of major tech companies in the last 14 months. Who has won, who has lost, who is treading water? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Interest in Thermaltake peaked when their Big Typhoon VX cooler won our 120-page mega test back in June. On our recent Dragon Tour, we were invited to meet with their founder, Kenny Lin, to learn more about the company and their ambitions... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.But the TDP remains the same - 35W. We await quad-core mobile SKUs. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Bringing HD quality video and audio to its products, Flash Media Server 3 and an update to Flash Player 9 are now available from Adobe. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.So why can't I buy one from a leading etailer in the run-up to Christmas, huh? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
We expected to see the SilverStone Temjin TJ-10 at CeBIT 2007 back in March but the case wasn't there. Fast forward and it's finally arrived. So was it worth the wait or will Silverstone disappoint us? Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
If you're a WoW addict who likes to show it, the new Dell XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition, available now in Horde and Alliance flavours, could be the notebook for you. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.The anti-piracy system featured in Microsoft's Windows Vista, commonly known as Windows Genuine Advantage, is set to lose its ability to degrade usability. After the deployment of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, non-genuine copies of the operating system will no longer be limited in usability as Microsoft turns back to methods of old. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
OQO announce its new model, the e2. Though not much has changed, very little in fact, this new model brings with it HSDPA, a much needed feature for the portable device. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
MSI's P7N Diamond and Platinum boards will provide three-way SLI and 45nm Penryn support. We take a sneak peek. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Thermaltake develop and deliver a huge range of products - from chassis to coolers and caddies. Nick takes the cameras inside Thermaltake's head office in Taipei to bring HEXUS.tv viewers the whole story... Watch the show and comment in the HEXUS.community.
We take a look at two budget processors from Intel and AMD, overclock them significantly, and tell you which one to buy if you only have £50 to spend. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
My 1GB USB memory stick and I whimper as Corsair's 32GB Flash Voyager pendrive becomes available. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
be quiet! announce seven power supply units badged with a "First Class" logo which it claims confirms "the excellent functions, powerful performance and comprehensive service of its Dark Power Pro models". Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
At an event in Ann Arbor last week, Google gave an insight into the future of Google Apps and what it'll have in store for 2008. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Yup, GDDR5 is the speed successor to GDDR4. Expect to see it on an NVIDIA or ATI GPU card soon. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.
Dr Ruiz wasn't feeling in the festive spirit when he spoke about AMD's fortunes recently. Find out what he had to say about Intel. Read more and comment in the HEXUS.community.Copyright © 1998 - 2009, HEXUS.net. All rights reserved. Terms, conditions and privacy information.
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