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- Windows 2000 Security Flaw Worse Than First Thought - A Microsoft
security flaw announced last week is
much more serious than initially thought, several security companies have
said. It's important that businesses apply a new patch to all Windows
2000 systems, advisories state -- not just those running Microsoft's IIS Web
server software.
- Microsoft Sets Limits to Stop Spam - Microsoft has reduced the
number of e-mail messages that
Hotmail users can send each day to 100 in an effort to prevent spammers
from using the service to export spam. The cap, put in place earlier this
month, only applies to users of the company's free Hotmail e-mail service, not
to MSN 8 subscribers or to users who pay for MSN Extra Storage, a Microsoft
spokesperson said Tuesday.
- RTCW Deathmatch for $ - YouPlayGames announced that it has
signed
an
exclusive deal with id Software and Even Balance, Inc. to offer Return to
Castle Wolfenstein as the premiere title available through the company's new
skill-based online gaming service. Through the agreement, gamers at any skill
level can play Return to Castle Wolfenstein and vie against each other over
the Internet for the opportunity to win money and prizes. Participants
who connect to YouPlayGames' servers to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein will
be required to have the latest version of Even Balance's PunkBuster Anti-Cheat
software on their systems in order to compete.
- EarthLink Speeds Its Dial-Up Service - EarthLink today
officially launched
a "Plus" version of its Internet access software, which enables dial-up
users to surf the Net at up to five times the standard rate. EarthLink Plus is
powered by Propel Software's Web accelerator, which reduces the size of Web
pages and Web elements sent to users' browsers, allowing users to surf faster,
EarthLink said.
- Nintendo Ups Game Boy's Allowance - Nintendo says it has
invested heavily in a redesigned version of its top-selling Game Boy Advance
to boost sales in the vital but struggling European and American markets.
In Europe, Nintendo has shipped 400,000 units of Game Boy Advance SP, an
upgrade of the Game Boy Advance, ahead of its March 28 launch. The new device
had a March 23 U.S. debut. The company will spend $32 million in Europe
alone to market the product, which features a rechargeable battery, a brightly
lit screen and a sleeker metallic-look finish to appeal to an older consumer
base.
- IBM to produce Nvidia chips -
Nvidia has signed a pact with IBM Microelectronics to help it avoid
putting all of its graphics chips in one basket. The chipmaker on Wednesday
will announce an agreement in which IBM will serve as an additional
manufacturer for the GeForce family of graphics chips. Nvidia's current
manufacturer is TSMC. Nvidia wanted more manufacturing capacity and was
looking to avoid the pitfalls of working with just one producer, said Nvidia
spokesman Derek Perez.
- Bye-Bye CD-RW? - Today, a top 52X/24X/52X
CD-RW drive costs less than $150. But for $100 more, you can get a DVD
burner with CD-RW functionality. If you add another $50, you can buy a fast,
new rewritable DVD drive like Pioneer's DVR-A05.
- SPD Performance on a 333 MHz FSB nForce2? -
This
review will deal with four RAM manufacturers: Corsair, Kingston, Mushkin,
and OCZ. This is not a standard RAM review, in which a recently received stick
of RAM is tested in a few benchmarks and results proclaimed; all of the RAM
we'll discuss has been in our labs at least six weeks, with some of it present
as long as four months.
- Serial ATA Adapter Review - OCIA checks out a
Serial
ATA Adapter in their latest review.
- Kingston 5GB DataPak PC Card HDD & Reader Review - Mikhailtech has
posted
a Kingston 5GB DataPak PC Card HDD & Reader review.
- Linksys WRTG54 Wireless-G Broadband Router Review -
Linksys' WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router seems to have taken the lead
over its sibling WAP54G Access Point. Although it's priced about the same, it
has a key difference that you should know about before you buy. Read our
review to make an informed purchase.
- 9700 Pro to 9800 Pro SoftMod & Catalyst Driver Comparison - There
comes a time when the past product has to be pulled from the shelf, dusted off
and
re-benchmarked with the latest drivers. This time we are going to share
our findings with you as we move from ATI's Catalyst 2.3 drivers to the
Catalyst 3.2 drivers and if our softmod 9700 Pro to a 9800 Pro got us some
"free stuff!"
- Mandrake Linux 9.1 -
Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) is now officially available at a number of
FTP mirrors.
- Microsoft Pulls DirectX 9.0a - Shortly after the initial release of
the
silent update, the Redmond based company removed the download. Now the
website just displays a message that The download you requested is
unavailable.
- iuVCR v4.7.0.282 -
iuVCR is
a Windows 2000/XP intended video recording program. Have a TV tuner or a
video capture card installed on your Windows 2000 or XP system? Now you can
easily record your favorite TV programs and videos in *.AVI or *.WMV format.
iuVCR has got a simple and plain interface, allows to capture video of any
format, resolution and duration, can automatically start when scheduled and
has a number of other useful features.
- PowerStrip 3.31.375 Beta -
PowerStrip (download)
provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide
range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest
SiS Xabre. It's the only program of its type to support multiple graphics
cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows
operating system from Windows 95 to XP. This new version adds GeForce FX
support.
- Hmonitor 4.1.2.4 -
Hmonitor (download)
has much more functions than MotherBoard Monitor, for example, including
thermocontrol features and COM/PerfMon API support.
- MSN Messenger Service 5.0.0540 (official) - Windows Messenger 5 (Win98/ME
~
WinXP ~
Win2K/NT4SP6 ) supports 3 instant messaging services: MSN .NET, Exchange
IM (part of Exchange 2000), and RealTime Communication Server (RTC, codename
Greenwich). RTC uses an Internet-standard IM protocol called SIP (Session
Initation Protocol).
- Gainward Detonator 43.03 Drivers + 3D Stereo - Gainward have
released a new set of Nvidia Detonator 43.03 drivers (Win9x/ME
~
2k/XP ~
Stereo3D driver)
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