Friday's Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:22 PM CEST - Apr,19 2002
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- Gates: PC to rule home network - At WinHEC, Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates lays out his
vision of home networks, where a PC acts as a hub for video cameras, stereos, TVs--and
even replaces the phone.
- Microsoft Cuts Xbox Price in Australia, Europe, UK - As I
mentioned yesterday, the company said it is recommending the Xbox consoles be sold for 399
Australian dollars (about $216) down under, 199 British pounds in the U.K. (about $288), and 299 euros on
the continent (about $266).
- DoS attack storms port 445 - Security experts have warned that
default registry settings on Windows 2000 boxes could allow a malicious user to cause a
denial of service (DoS) attack
through port 445.
- Look out for Klez - Anti-virus experts are warning UK businesses
of an old worm said to be on its way back from Asia. If you didn't upgrade your antivirus yet, be
sure to do it now!
- Florida Bank Suffers Online Security Breach - A large commercial bank in Florida
said Wednesday that "an Internet hacker" penetrated the security of its systems earlier
this month and made off with a file containing 3,600 online-banking customer names and
addresses. Officials of Republic Bank said the attacker managed to get past the bank's
security firewalls but did not access account balances or transactions of its online
banking customers.
- FBI hunts ex Cisco exec - The FBI has issued a warrant for a
fugitive former Cisco executive charged with multi-million dollar stock fraud after he failed to
report to authorities. Robert S. Gordon, 42, a former vice president of business
development at Cisco, missed a court hearing on Tuesday and has been missing since last
week, according to the FBI.
- Sega bringing games to U.S. cell phones - Game publisher Sega
will announce on Thursday the formation of a U.S. division that will focus on games for
cell phones and other mobile devices. Sega has 2.5 million Japanese subscribers for
its mobile game and entertainment services. The company contracts its services out to cell
phone carriers, which sell game packages to their customers.
- The end of the free cell phone? - In the last two weeks, two of
the three U.S. wireless carriers have unveiled new phones that will cost from $20 to $200, even after
rebates and discounts. Although some no-frills models are available at no cost, customers
looking for advanced capabilities will not get a free ride
- AMD to ditch Duron chips - CEO Jerry Sanders and President
Hector Ruiz, who will become AMD's CEO next Thursday, laid out the company's manufacturing
plans Wednesday for the future, and they don't include Duron. Instead, AMD will position
Clawhammer, a chip that is expected to make its debut by the end of the year, as its
premier desktop and notebook chip. Meanwhile, Athlon, the company's current top-end chip,
will become its processor for cheap desktops and notebooks.
- Cisco takes dual route to WLAN market - Cisco yesterday launched a wireless
access point which supports simultaneous operation of both 802.11b and high-speed
802.11a wireless LANs. The Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point is positioned as
offering investment protection by giving a ready migration path from 11Mbps 802.11b to
networks using either 802.11a or the emerging 802.11g standards, which have a theoretical
throughput of 54Mbps.
- IWILL announces DPX Dual Xeon Processor Server board - DPX is
one of IWILL's new generation server boards. It's specially design for high-end
e-Business server and dedicate workgroup applications. DPX using Intel Plumas Chipset that
supports two Intel Xeon processors, and Dual Channel DDR Memory. With Adaptec Ultra 320
SCSI and ability of supporting PCI-X. This board will make your business running at the
highest-level performance possible.
- Chaintech A-G441 GF4 MX440 Gallery - The package
consists of the graphics card, User's Guide, 2 games MDK2 and Aquanox. Drivers CDROM.
S-VHS cable.
- Belkin Nostromo n45 Gamepad Review - From the setting up to the
game playing, the Belkin Nostromo n45 was a pleasure to review. The look of it doesn't
seem so impressive; so don't judge this by the way it looks. I think Belkin added that
silver bar and the bottom so it would look "pretty" or at least have some sort
of attractiveness. The only thing I can say that's bad about it would be that it was hard
to get out of the hard plastic package.
- MSI G4MX440-T Review - All things considered you have a good
performance using this card, even though it is the slowest one in the review. In my
conviction MSIs
GeForce4 MX440 is cheaper then Gainwards, so this should justify this.
- Leadtek WinFast A250 TD Ti 4400 Review - The
review covers the standard fare - first impressions, software bundle, installation,
and benchmarks.
- Asus V8460Ultra Review - Hardware Mania has written a review
of Asus V8460Ultra graphics card.
- Tom's VGA Charts - The VGA
charts give you a performance overview for the most widespread collection of graphics
cards and 3D chips on the market! Here, we bring you VGA charts from 30 different graphics
cards. Check it out!!
- More Video Card Reviews - MSI
GeForce 4 MX440-T, Leadtek A170 DDR T GeForce4 MX440, NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4400 Shoot-out, Creative
3DBlaster4 MX440, Apollo
Radeon 8500LE Pro, Leadtek GeForce 4 WinFast A250 Ultra, ASUS GeForce 4 Ti 4400, Palit Microsystems 128MB GeForce 3 Ti 200, NVIDIA Detonator 28.80 Win2k/XP Beta, GF4
Ti4200 vs. Radeon 8500LEs, Leadtek A170 DDR T GeForce4 MX440,: ATI Radeon 8500,
ATI Radeon Driver Comparison.
- Kazaa Lite is 'spyware free' says creator - Kazaa users can now
get hold of a hacked version of the peer-to-peer file sharing software which claims to be spyware free.
- McAfee launches free security analysis tools - McAfee have just launched its
SecurityCenter - a suite of free analysis tools aimed at getting users to become more
security aware and hopefully plug any gaping holes with yearly licences of McAfee
products. Once downloaded and installed, SecurityCenter will scan your PC, giving you a
security rating between one and 10 based on the vulnerability of the machine to viruses,
hackers and abuse. Also on offer is a Hacker Vulnerability Scanner that will chuck packets
at your PC, through your firewall if you have one, to check the vulnerability of common
Internet ports.
- Windows XP Patch: GDI+ Graphics Rendering Issues - This update (1.8MB) addresses several graphics rendering issues with
GDI+ in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q318966.
- PowerStrip v3.16 Beta Build 276 - PowerStrip 3.16
provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of
graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and
GeForce4 Ti4600.
- Rage3D Tweak v3.1d - There is a new bugfixed version v3.1d
of the Rage3D's tweaking tool.
- ATI Remote Control Software Version 1.1 - For those that own the
kickass remote control that comes with the latest line of AIW cards you can download a
bugfixed version 1.1 of their remote control software.
- ATI DVD Player 7.6 Update - ATI has released a small updated version
of their new DVD player version 7.6. All the new packages does it add more allowed
cdkeys to the installer. I know some people have been having problems with that.
- CloneCD 4.0 Beta 30 - It seems that in this new
beta version the Tray Icon bug has been fixed.
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