TECH... 

• MS Confirms Highly Critical IE Hole - The vulnerability was confirmed on a fully patched system with IE 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. It has also been confirmed in IE 7 Beta 2 Preview.
• 60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten - Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems. Heh.
• Robertson Launches Online Version Of MS Word - ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents.
• Universal launches film download/DVD service - From April 10, consumers will be able to download two digital copies of selected movies -- one for a computer and one for a portable device -- and receive a DVD in the mail.
• SiN Episodes Playing on Holographic Projector - More interesting than the actual SiN episode info!! (a movie included)
• PayPal Goes Mobile - PayPal mobile will launch within the next two weeks, and will allow users to pay bills and receive funds using a text message interface
• Windows XP on Macs: Tested, Benchmarked - In other words, Apple makes fast Windows PCs!
• AMD confirms Athlon 64 X2 5000+ - Recent roadmaps suggest the 5000+ will ship in June, alongside the 5200+ and the FX-62.
• ATI's Take On Physics - ATI claimes that its cards will handle physics processing faster than NVIDIA's.
• Graphics Cooler Roundup - Zalman's VF900-Cu is the clear winner in this roundup
• ASUS to Release Ageia PhysX Processor Card in May - ASUS will be one of only two companies who will manufacturing the card, and will be the only company making the card in a 256MB configuration.
• MSI's K8N Diamond Plus motherboard - MSI has also fitted the board with a Sound Blaster Audigy chip that promises support for EAX Advanced HD and better audio quality than typical motherboard audio implementations.
• Plextor PX-755A DVD Burner review - What makes this drive stand out is its 10x writing speed for DVD+R Double layer media.
• LaCie Skwarim 30GB pocket hard drive - The disk itself is a 4,200rpm job with 2MB of cache.
• Toshiba will delay HD DVD players until there's some content - Toshiba may push back the release of their HD-DVD players a few weeks to coincide with April's HD-DVD movies availability.
• Alcatel OT-C850 Music Phone - I like it. It has a nice clean, straight forward design.
• London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles into the sea - The threat comes from melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica...
• Talking Cats - Starting today you can speak with your cat. As they were envy with parrots they have decided to learn human language as well. Next time your cat is hungry, ask him what he would like to eat and listen to his answer!
• Superglock - check it out!

GAMING... 

• Spielberg & EA's First Project Revealed - Apparently the first EA/Spielberg collaboration is going to be set in World War II. Surprise, surprise. Players will take on the role of one of our country's first Secret Service agents, when the agency was in its infancy. They desribe it as James Bond meets Medal Of Honor.
• GTI Racing Demo Next Week - Techland has informed us that the SP demo of it's latest car racing game - GTI Racing, based on the Chrome Engine used previously in Xpand Rally, will be available in Internet on Friday March 31st.
• Sony Online COO Leaves Position - According to Gamespot, Sony Online Entertainment COO Raph Koster has left his position and is no longer with SOE. The official explanation is that the MMORPG veteran is leaving to pursue development interests that "don't match SOE's strategic goals".
• Championship Manager 2006 Gold - The latest release of the game, Championship Manager 2006, is due to hit the shelves on Friday, 31st March.
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII ships - Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (PC, Xbox, Xbox 360) will be releasing on March 30, 2006, in Europe and Australia.
• Battle of Europe ships - Strategy First announced that Battle of Europe has shipped to retailers nationwide.
• Nintendo to make Sega games available for "Revolution" console - Virtual console so far was announced to include classic games from previous Nintendo console generations, including 32 NES titles, 30 S-NES games and 18 N64 titles. According to Iwata, the service will also include an unspecified number of Sega titles, dating back to time of the Genesis console, which was introduced in 1988. Instead of recompiling these games, Nintendo will simply use a software emulator to enable this content to run on the Revolution.

• Vista gamers need 2GB plus of memory - Far Cry is not that an intensive game, and they ended up with 1.23 GB page file and you can see that they are running a single instance of Explorer and a task manager.
• Gainward Bliss 7800 GS 512 MB AGP - This card's magic is that it actually has G71, Geforce 7800 GT PCIe core bridged down to AGP!!
• NVIDIA 7600 GT vs. ATI X1800 GTO - The form factor of the 7600 GT is considerably nicer, being smaller, quieter and cooler. The X1800 GTO is loud, clunky and annoying.
• How Quad-SLI works - Quad SLI is largely designed for rendering at high resolutions, such as the 2560x1600.
• Shuttle next-gen SFF PC exposed - A typical spec, said Shuttle, is a 1.83GHz Core Duo T2400 processor; 512MB RAM - looks pretty coo!
• Samsung SyncMaster 214T Silver 21.3inch LCD Monitor - The 214T showed no flaws in terms of crosstalk, bleeding, or ghosting.
• Toshiba V604T analog TV and FM Mobile Phone - The Toshiba V604T will be available through Vodafone in Japan
• Sony's MZ-RH1 - MD is not dead - The $340+ new model is very nice, but pricey.
• French National Assembly approves copyright bill - Due to how strong Apple is against licensing out its proprietary FairPlay DRM technology, there is a good chance Apple will withdraw its iTunes service from France completely if this bill passes, particularly if only France decides to make this move.

• NVidia Forceware 84.25 BETA Drivers - As promised, NVIDIA has released 84.12 Beta Drivers on nZone.
• Software Round-Up (March 23) - MSIE 7 beta 2 build 5335.5, Windows Live Messenger Public Beta 8.0.0566, Yahoo! Messenger 7.5, etc
• Dell Buys Alienware - It's now official: Dell has bought Alienware, making the company an independent subsidiary of Dell.
• Samsung Q35 Notebook with Intel Core Duo T2700 CPU - The world's smallest dual-core notebook that weighs just 1.9kg and sports a 12.1in, 1280 W 800 widescreen display.
• AMD X2 5000+ gets accidental unveiling - 2.6GHz clock speed, Dual core, 1MB cache, 110W power consumption - basically, then, an FX-60 with less cache
• Cool Motorola A1200 Linux PDA Phone - Looks like Motorola wants a phone that looks like the PEBL and RAZR had a kid on steroids.
• Casio Exilim EX-S600 reviewed - The Casio Exilim EX-S600, a versatile 6-megapixel ultracompact, puts the brains back into no-brainer snapshooting.
• Linux-based iSetBox from Media Systems does it all - The device includes a CD and DVD writer, can record analog and digital TV, offers a web browser and email client, and can even has a 6-in-1 card reader. Made in Bulgaria.
• Sendmail flaw opens door to intruders (v8.12.6 and below) - The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to take control of a PC. Patch your system asap!
• Law professor bans laptops in class, over student protest - Memphis Professor who has decided to ban laptops from her classroom.
• Dell is Selling $10,000 XPS 600 System! - The XPS 600 Renegade comes in a custom-painted case inside which sit four GeForce 7900 GPUs each with 512MB of video memory ready to run games at 2,560 x 1,600.
• Toshiba 0.85-Inch Hard Disk Drives - It is as small as a coin!
• J-porn awards go down from the sublime to the ridiculous - check it out

• Microsoft delays Windows Vista to 2007 - Microsoft has delayed the release of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system to 2007.
  Trojan horse? Researchers warn of Trojan hearse - The software has two components: a Trojan horse application that communicates with the Russian server, and rootkit software that cloaks the malicious software from system tools and antivirus programs.
• Intel prepares extended goodbye to NetBurst - The Pentium D 940, 950, and an upcoming 3.6GHz 960 will be priced at $209, $241, and $316, respectively, while the 920 and 930 will be discontinued.
• 3.38GHz AMD X2 faces an Intel 2.93GHz Core Duo - Wow! Yonah T2600 is looking very strong!!!
• Samsung launches 32 GB Flash Disk - The SSD is promised to consume 95% less power than a hard drive.
• Mid-range shootout: 7600 GT v X1800 GTO -  BFG Tech's 7600 GT OC is fast enough to give it a slight performance edge.
• CPUs & Real-World Gameplay Scaling - On the Intel platform you need at least a 3.2 GHz to overcome CPU bottlenecking in games
• Belkin Wireless G Print Server - The device is designed to enable a standard USB printer to be accessed over a wireless network.
• New Lenovo Core Duo N100 Notebooks -  Intel's latest platform, numerous screen options, discrete graphics on the 15.4", and all the other standard goodies one would come to expect.
• Sonos Digital Music System - A multi-zone digital music system which allows users to play their music through a network
• Apple's 60-gig iPod 'at risk' - It could be discontinued or replaced
• Neolog A-24 II Watch is Neither Digital Nor Analog - This watch is not digital, it's not analog!
• An inside look at Windows Vista - DirectX 10 will increase game performance by as much as six to eight times.
• French Want to Free Digital Music - It could force Apple into choosing between making its service compatible with rival players or shutting down its online store in France.
• New bug can crash Internet Explorer - The vulnerability is caused due to an array boundary error in the handling of HTML tags with multiple event handlers.
• FBI Agents Don't Have Email Access - Many FBI agents do not have access to an email account
• Soldiers Use Game Skills to Master Remote Guns - The guys operating these systems grew up playing video games
• Battlefield 2142 Scans - Here's an 8.5MB archive of images from the mag, with 9 pages concerned with 2142 and 2 pages having to do with Half-Life 2: Episode 1.
• StarForce Not Investigated by Futuremark - Futuremark's statemend (Updated story)
• The Top 11 Spaceships - check it out
• A MySpace Cheat Sheet for Parents - So Wired News addresses some of the most pressing questions parents might have if they explore their teenager's relationship with MySpace.
• 1/3 in HD on 24's set - In part two of their 1/3in chip camera test, Rodney Charters and Taylor Wigton introduce the Canon XL H1 and Panasonic HVX200 to the rigours of high-end drama production on the set of 24.
• Title & Plot for the Third Shrek - DreamWorks Animation has given the third "Shrek" installment a title - Shrek the Third. The anticipated animated-comedy hits theaters on May 18, 2007.

• Microsoft IE7 Beta 2 Preview (March 20) - This new build is 'layout complete,' and will not undergo any further rendering engine changes.
• Software Round-Up (March 20) - AutoPatcher XP March 2006, Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1, Azureus 2.4.0.2, DC++ 0.688, Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0, and more.
• NVIDIA demos GPU-accelerated Havok FX physics - According to NVIDIA, Havok FX will run on GeForce 6 and 7-series graphics cards, although a GeForce 7600 is the suggested minimum.
• NVIDIA SLI Physics Technology preview - It looks like 2006 may be the kick start, a sort of revving up on the physics side of things and by the time we hit 2007 physics may just be the next '3D'.
• ATI announces 1GB FireGL card - The high clock rates of these new graphics cards, combined with full 128-bit precision and extremely high levels of parallel processing, result in floating point processing power that exceeds a 3GHz Pentium processor by a staggering seven times.
• How CRT and LCD monitors work - Pretty good guide with pictures to illustrate how the picture is formed
• RAM prices set to rise with Vista launch - Who knows...
• Two External HDDs with 400GB and 500GB Storage Capacity - The Maxtor OneTouch III seems to be the better buy between the two top models.
• Seagate 500GB Barracuda 7200.9 SATA II HDD - The Barracudas come with a 5-year warranty!
• Lenovo ThinkPad X60s and X60 review - The X60s is a leap forward in performance over the X41 and offers more in terms of ports and features.
• Infrared Camera Images Reveal Serious Flaws in PC Case Design - The infrared photograph reveals how hot air is trapped at the top of the case, which heats up the PSU.
• New Panasonic Plasma TVs; Carbon nanotube TVs - The new Panasonic Plasma HDTVs feature NTSC and ATSC/QAM (SDTV and HDTV broadcasts) tuners and the obligatory SD Card slot.
• Microsoft's Plans For Handheld Game Player And 'iPod Killer' -  This news confirms numerous rumors that such a device was in the works. The device is still in its early stages and may not hit store shelves until 2007, writes Takahashi.
• Star Wars: Empire At War copy Protection - check it out

• Sapphire Releases Water Cooled X1900 XTX - Sapphire's monster card takes up an additional bay for a total of three slots.
• Radeon X1900 XTX Crossfire vs GeForce 7900 GTX - Remember to build evenly-- there's no point in spending $1200 on a pair of video cards if you're still using a $300 monitor.
• Gainward Bliss 7800GT/6800GS Goes Like Hell 512MB PCI-E - The X1600 XT is an outsider. Yep, this card is cheaper. Though it's not so cheap but it can lose 30% and more.
• The Tulip Ego Lifestyle - Fashion Laptop for the Geek Chick! - Nonetheless, the 2.6kg Ego Lifestyle laptop comes with a 12.1" display and sports an AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU, 1GB of DDR RAM, 80GB SATA HDD and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 M chipset
• Windows Vista to appear in three versions for consumers - Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, and Windows Vista Ultimate will be available in the second half of 2006
• VW's GTI - Unpimp my ride - Pimped car goes airborne, German engineering is in da house - check it out!
• Mighty Optical Illusions - A huge collection of pretty "strange" images!
• Pulling the plug on standby power - Interesting article that generates awareness for this issue (something more difficult than the technology needed to solve it).
• Move over Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? - Brian Bouchard and his delusional friends think they are the next Microsoft!

• New Zero-Day Bug Crashes Internet Explorer - The zero-day bug occurs within the "mshtml" library when a malformed HTML tag with an abnormally large number of script handlers is fed to the browser
• Google forced to reveal websites, but not search terms - Google claims: "This is a clear victory for our users and for our company, and Judge Ware's decision regarding search queries is especially important."
• AMD Interested In Reviving the Math Co-processor - It'd be cool if it could be used to help with video encoding!
• Intel Dual Core Gaming Analysis - Testing has shown that while dual-core and gaming can be a lucrative deal, it really only gets useful if the rest of your system is already powerful enough, and simply being held back by your current CPU
• PS3 to ship with Linux, Sony confirms - The gaming console will ship with an upgradable 60GB hard drive pre-installed with Linux
• Lite-On LVW-1105HC+ standalone DVD recoder - This DVD recorder can easily replace an existing DVD player
• Logitech Driving Force Pro Force Feedback Wheel review - Are you looking for PC racing wheel?
• Senators Renew Call for .XXX Domain - It's an election year again, and the usual PR causes are being picked up
• Audi & Volkswagen Drop XM, Sign Exclusive Deal with Sirius - Both Audi and Volkswagen will be offering Sirius satellite radio receivers with new cars through 2012
• Xbox 360 update causes chaos? -  Large number of irate gamers are reporting repeated crashes on their Xbox 360s, caused by downloading a mandatory Xbox Live update earlier this week.
• New Da Vinci Code TV Spot - Columbia Pictures has revealed a new TV spot for director Ron Howard's highly-anticipated The Da Vinci Code at the film's official website.
• The New Mission: Impossible: III Trailer - The movie kicks-off the summer on May 5.
• Scrolling LED bra sends mixed messages - So here you have it, Enlighted's custom-made scrolling LED message bras, which sell for $500 and up.
• Rare 1972 Documentary on ARPAnet - Watch the architects of ARPAnet explain what it is and what they envisioned for the future of ARPAnet and networks as a whole.
• The One Thing DELLs Are Good For - Maybe they should use this in their next marketing campaign?

• Software Round-Up (March 17) - SpyBot update, Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.50, Media Player Classic 6.4.8.9 and more.
• Internet Explorer Has a Future - Microsoft will be hosting an "IE7 Compat Lab" at Mix '06, where developers can test their applications for compatibility with the latest IE test builds.
• Installing Windows XP on Intel iMac - A very detailed how to for installing and running Windows XP on an Intel iMac.
• AMD's Socket AM2 CPUs only 3-5% Faster? - The guys that ran some benchmarks on these machines confirmed that you can expect _ONLY_ a three to five percent performance increase.
• Samsung SH-B022 Blu-ray Disc writer preview - Sure you can store 25GB of files on it, but you can't play it back in anything else than your own drive :P
• Denon responds to Apple's iPod Hi-Fi claims - It seems that Apple wants a bigger slice of the accessories pie...
• Hacking Made Easy  - A story about a number of botnets and keylogger operations being controlled by Web-sites with point-and-click type front-end software interfaces.
• What if piracy stopped tomorrow? - Are you looking for free alternatives to software piracy? No? Well read this article anyway...
• Pirkus-R, the Bluetooth bot with facial recognition skills - Equipped with a built-in CCD camera, the 29-cm (1-foot) tall personal robot can spot faces that it would like to inspect at closer range.
• PSP - under the skin - A Norwegian journalist breaks the screen of his PSP. What to do? Unscrew it and put in a new screen of course!
• Warner delays HD DVD titles - Warner Home Video said Thursday that it has pushed back the release dates of its initial slate of high-definition DVD titles from March 28 to April 18.  The studio also has scaled back its launch to just three titles: "Million Dollar Baby," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Last Samurai."
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Movie - Bethesda has released the fourth countdown trailer for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This one shows more of the game's lush environments and architecture.

• Sony introduces first high definition Blu-ray disc products - Sony will today begin taking pre-orders for its upcoming Blu-ray Disc player
• Tribler: social P2P system - Tribler defaults to sharing among your friends , donates bandwidth to your friends...
• Banks do battle with debit-card fraud - Account holders can receive a daily update of their balance and choose whether the alert goes to their BlackBerry, Treo 650 or office computer.
• Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty audio card
- Only Battlefield 2 and Quake 4 even support X-RAM, and neither's use of the X-Fi Fatal1ty's 64MB of onboard memory results in higher in-game frame rates or superior audio quality.
• Self-destructing flash drive - If anyone tries to use a brute-force attack to guess your password, the drive will automatically erase itself.
• ATI Catalyst 6.3 Performance Analysis - The X1800XT got an increase in 3DMark05 in our non AA and AF tests
• Philips Recalls Almost 12,000 Flat Panel TVs - The recall centers on potential arcing by capacitors...
• What electronic components do when you're not looking....! - check it out
• Turtle Rock's Source Game - Valve announces that Turtle Rock Studios is at work on a Source-engine game, though details are scant at this point
• DropTeam demo - Battlefront.com announced the availability of a multiplayer 'Public Test' version of DropTeam, the upcoming Sci-Fi themed real-time armored vehicle combat simulation.
• Phosphor Beta 1 (public) - Shockwave3D FPS - The overall initial experience was rather smooth and impressive.
• Hot pepper kills prostate cancer cells in study - The chemical that makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves.

• Halo 3 = Forerunner - The April issue of GameInformer reveals details about Bungie's next project
• DRM evasion to become illegal in France - Suppliers of software or methods used to disable DRM systems will be liable for six months of imprisonment and a €30,000 ($36,102) fine
• Essential USB Memory Drive Projects & Tips - some useful projects and tips
• Dual GeForce 7600GT Card Spotted at CeBIT - The Galaxy brings forth SLI performance in a package that's easy to manage
• New Intel Viiv DRM info - Viiv won't be testing to see if the content being played is pirated from networks such as BitTorrent.
• Build your own Home Theater PC -  A step-by-step text and picture guide
• Sharp Announces 65-inch LCD Monitor - Pixel response time for the PN-655 is less than 6 ms.
• DDoS Attacks through DNS Recursion - The recursion feature of open DNS servers can be used to launch massive distributed DDoS attacks:
• Lord of the Rings:Battle for Middle Earth 2 copy protection? - Use CureRom with Daemon Tools (all emulations and options off).
• X-Men: The Last Stand Pictures - A new pictures from 20th Century Fox's X-Men: The Last Stand
• Fast and the Furious Trailer - Universal Pictures has released a new trailer.

• Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop - Bill Gates is making fun of the one laptop per child initiative
• Retail 7900 GTX roundup - NVIDIA's hardware suffers from having lower realistically playable image quality
• Plextor 250GB Network Attached Storage - It is fast, feature-packed and works as advertised.
• Seiko Spectrum e-ink watch on eBay - Seiko is only making 500 of these
• Tests find DRM shortens player battery life by up to ~25% -  I'm sure the DRM will reduce battery life a little, but not by nearly as much as is claimed here.
• Windows Vista interim build expected - It's unclear why Microsoft has chosen to ship a Vista refresh build at this time.
• Microsoft Windows Telephony Service (exploit) - This exploit will remotely execute command on the machine running TAPI service vulnerable to MS05-040.

• PSP dropping to $199, new features announced - Sony dropping the price of its PSP to $199 on March 22.
• WinXP on a Mac Contest is Over; Dual-Booting Success - It's over, folks, and the rumors, screenshots, and videos all appear to be true!
• Xbox 360 flaw makes machine hackable - A flaw in the Xbox 360 DVD firmware could allow the forces of darkness in the hacking world to install custom firmware in the machine.
• Sony VAIO VGN-TX2XP - The TX2XP is a beautiful, lightweight, slim and sexy notebook.
• 1 Terabyte of Solid State Hard Drive Space! - This baby requires Requires 2,500 watts of power!
• ASUS EN7900GTX review - There seems to be no clear winner as the ATI Radeon X1900 XTX and NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 GTX each exchanging blows one after another in each test.
• Build a Quiet Gaming System - How much does this quiet gaming rig set you back?
• Build a Skype Phone out of your old cordless phone - Cost $0.
• Adobe fixes critical Flash vulnerabilities - Attackers could theoretically exploit the bugs by tricking a user into loading a maliciously encoded Flash movie file.
• AOL launches free 'broadband' TV service - Through AOL's HQ player at a 1500 Kb/s bit rate, which is enough to display a decent picture at screen resolution of up to 1280 x 1024 pixels.
• Dutch Researchers Create RFID Malware - The tainted radio-frequency identification microchips could corrupt RFID databases and cause major chaos at airports and supermarkets
• Britain warns US over jet software codes - The UK has warned America that it will cancel its £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter

• Star Wars TV-series Confirmed - George Lucas has agreed to make 100 episodes!
• OQO Model 01+ (Origami-Like) reviewed  - It's a 1 GHz desktop PC crammed into a package 5 inches long and 3.4 inches wide.
• Will your PC keep pace with Vista? - Microsoft is building into the new operating system a tool that will rate a PC based on how well it is running

• Volkswagen and Google navigation system (first images) - The central element is a touch-screen interface linked to Google Earth.
• Computer-in-a-keyboard goes retro -  The system features an Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800FSB processor, 2GB 400MHz DDR
• MSI K8N Diamond Plus Based on NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 - Equipped with an audio controller, based on Sound Blaster Audigy SE.
• LiteON 16X Super AllWrite DVD Drive - Performance on this drive could be better, especially with 16X media
• LG L1981Q 19-inch Flatron monitor - The touch sensitive controls are a pain to use.
• Apple Offering Full Length Movie on iTunes - 10 bucks?! If you really enjoy the movie enough to want to buy it, it can probably be had for around the same price on DVD elsewhere.
• Slobodan Trojan poses as murder pics - Prospective marks are invited to open emails with subject line "Slobodan Milosevic was killed...
• XP on Mactel: The Movie - A video of Windows XP booting on an Intel-based iMac.
• Here's why you shouldnt buy an Acer Laptop - Acer's support is ridiculous.
• God of War II High Res Scans - check it out

• Motorola RAZR V3i - First Look -V3i features a Transflash memory expansion slot, which together with a piece of bundled Transflash memory card of 256MB (maximum of up to 512MB) capacity means instant storage of more than 60 MP3 files.
• Eurotech WWPC for wrist-top computing - The WWPC features WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, a 3.5-inch TFT touchscreen, 64MB RAM/32MB ROM/SD slot for expansion, as well as an unspecified "low-power CPU."
• Dual-core not enough? What about 16 cores? - The boards come with four dedicated 350 watt power supplies and are interconnected via PCI-Express backplane and have two Gigabit Ethernet ports each for eternal connectivity.
• Intel offers 31W dual-core Xeon - The Xeon LVs are rated for a 31W total dissipated power (TDP), clocked at 1.66GHz and 2.0GHz, and compatible with Intel's existing E7520 chipset.
• OCZ introduces DDR 2 1100 MHz modules - The DDR2 just got wings!
• Hewlett Packard LaserJet 2550L Printer -  Print speed is 20 page per minute for black and 4 page per minute for color.
• Western Digital Raptor X - Return of the 10,000 RPM King - Digital Raptor X is definitely not one for quiet PC users.
• Silent Mouse Loses the 'Click' - The Silent Mouse uses a 800 dpi optical sensor and measures 60x105x35mm with a weight of 90 grams.
• Microsoft Developing Web's Largest Advertising Network - MS has begun testing display advertisements across Microsoft Office Live, Windows Live Mail and MSN Spaces.
• Amazon's New Storage Service - Allowing users to store unlimited amounts of data at $0.15 per GB paid monthly.
• Judge will order Google to reveal search data - A government representative said that it would be seeking only 50,000 web addresses and 5,000 search queries
• New FBI management system could cost $500M - Cost estimates for the new FBI IT system range from $400 million to $500 million.
• What do you use your Dell PC for? - LOL! That's funny as hell.

• World's Smallest Windows XP Computer - For all its fine features, the Model 01+ has some serious faults.
• Debit card crime ring busted  - Law enforcement officials in New Jersey have arrested 14 people
• Windows Live parental controls due this summer - The first version of the new software will let people filter online content and get activity reports on Web sites that were visited by users
• AKUATEK eXtreme FS-92 Liquid-Cooling System - efficiency is not that impressive.
• DVD and HDD recorder with 800GB of storage space - It has 2 TV tuners, it supports DVD-DL and RAM, has an HDMI connector
• French law could break iTunes, Microsoft DRM - consumers would be able to legally use software that converts digital content into any format.
• MSI NX7300GS review - scored 2191 3DMarks, enough for The Battle for Middle Earth 2 and Guild Wars
• Google to sell access to books online - the books cannot be downloaded onto a computer.
• Your Home Planet at a Glance, and at Never Before Seen Resolution - check it out!
• Condemned PC shots - a batch of new screenshots

• Software Round-Up (March 13) - QuickTime Alternative 1.69, VirtualDub 1.6.14, etc
• Verbatim 8x DVD+R Double Layer media review - interesting review
• Tyan shows desktop supercomputer - there are eight sockets and up to 16 cores on either one, depending on how you want to set up the system
• Mobiblu DAH-1900 MP3 player-153 hours from one battery charge - it does include an OLED display and an FM radio
• D-Link launches DSM-520 high definition media player - the unit also includes a USB2.0 port in the front panel
• Video Card Memory Analysis: 256MB vs. 512MB
- there is no reason not to get a 512Mb card other than price
• 18 Ways to Escalate Privileges in Zone Labs ZoneAlarm - check it out

• Super overclockable Mushkin DDR2 RAM - o/c the Mushkin XP2-5300 to nearly 900MHz.
• Windows Live Messenger Beta -  be the first to trial Windows Live Messenger :P
• Google Launches Google Mars - lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.
• Customer upgrades to Vista not assured, users say -  Microsoft faces a variety of hurdles...
• BlackBerry 8700g review -  features higher resolution screen and a new smaller keyboard
• Apple easing out 20-inch G5 iMac - check it out
• Hacked bank server hosts phishing sites - Criminals appear to have hacked a Chinese bank's server
• ASUS EN7800GT TOP Silent Video Card - a hefty and rather innovative cooling design
• Silverstone SG-01 Evolution SFF Chassis - the SG-01 is now a quiet but extremely effective cooling environment for our AMD64 3500+ system

• Single Windows security patch for March  - The patch won't require a system restart
• Virtual rootkits create stealth risk - By hiding rootkit software in virtual machine environments....
• devolo MicroLink dLAN Highspeed Starter Kit - with a claimed nominal speed of 85Mbps.
• SanDisk Sansa e270 (6GB) review - boatload of features for a reasonable price
• Samsung SPH-B5200 Gaming and DMB TV Phone -  A very nice machine that would definitely fir into my pocket!
• ATI agrees to let its partners overclock - and ATI will provide a warranty for such chips
• 15 answers to creationist nonsense - the following list rebuts some of the most common "scientific" arguments raised against evolution
• UnrealIRCd Server Link TKL Command Denial of Service - The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.2.3.
• Prey shots - here're some new images of Prey

• Internet blows CIA agents' cover - The Chicago Tribune has compiled a list of 2,653 CIA employees
• 2560x1600 Gaming Performance with Dell's 3007WFP - 2560x1600 provides two times the resolution of 1080p
• Motorola PEBL review - Bluetooth, SMS and MMS messaging along with POP3, SMTP, etc, etc..
• ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content -  Affordable Space. com, was fined $5,000.

• Samsung Unveils Two Sexy Sliders - Samsung unveiled 5 GSM handsets at CeBit this week
• PIN Scandal 'Worst Hack Ever' - The scam has hit national banks like Bank of America, Wells Fargo...
• NVIDIA Quadro FX3400 Graphics Card review -  It's not made for gaming...
• Test shows how vulnerable unpatched Windows is - An unpatched Win2k Server was the quickest to be compromised
• Employees cannot delete files without permission, says U.S. court  - Deleting Files is a Crime?
• Germany preps 50 Mbit broadband - VDSL2 will offer download speeds of up to 50 Mb/s
• Brainic VW-500 Vibrating MP3 Player - Hot little OLED display and up to 1GB storage are nice.
• McAfee update exterminates Excel -  The problem occurred with virus definition file 4715
• LG GSA-4166B Super-Multi DVD writer review -  Support for DVD-RAM and LightScribe Direct to Disc Labeling technology
• Rock Xtreme SLI notebook -  The NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX was really desktop-level performance
• The Joys of vinyl: LPs hold their own in a downloadable digital market - LP sales still accounts for 0.5% of all music sales
• Secrets to Cybersex Success - A webcam chat administrator gives guidance on how to be a lover, not a loser, in adult chat.

• IBM demos Cell-powered blade servers - IBM showed off a prototype Cell-based blade server
• Amazon may offer downloadable movies - A potential download service for movies and TV shows
• Sony Ericsson Black Diamond - Pretty sexy!
• Microsoft Responds to Xbox 360 Foil Video - Microsoft sent over an official response to the claim by a German blogger that forgot foil was the reason behind the Xbox 360 overheating problems.
• Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client - Dubbed Windows Live Mail Desktop
• Samsung Shows Flash-Disk-Based Laptop - The drive packs 32GB of flash memory!
• Usenet Under Piracy Scrutiny - A successful action against the three firms could lead to more lawsuits against other Usenet index sites
• Radeon X1800 GTO announced - The card is very similar to the X1800XL, just with 4 less pixel Shaders
• France wants to crack down on illegal file-sharing - The new draft would see fines (38-150 euros) for home users
• TDK exits CD and DVD media market - TDK has decided to exit the manufacturing of both CD and DVD media products as part of its on going restructuring process.
• Razer launches gaming sound card, headphones - Razer has launched the Razer Barracuda Integrated Audio System
• Razr defect forces halting of US sales - Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA temporarily stopped selling Motorola Inc.'s popular Razr phones this week because of a defect in some of them that causes calls to disconnect
• Oblivion Soundtrack Released - Check it out

• Seagate, Secude Show Encrypted Laptop - The laptop has Seagate's Momentus 5400 full-disk encryption hard drive
• Xbox 360 Overheating Caused by Protective Foil on Heatsink? - modcontrol.com  checked on 2 independantly bought Xbox 360 consoles and found that the protective layer on the GPU heatsink's heat transfer pad didn't get removed during assembly.
• Zero to 60 Mph in 3.4 Seconds! - Porsche's new 911 Turbo: Packing 480 hp into a 3.6-liter engine - wow!
• Casio G'zOne Coming to Verizon  - water-and-shock resistant, clamshell CDMA phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, and digital compass
• GeForce 7800 GT power but without all that damn noise! - overclocked & passively cooled
• Trojan websites shut down - three websites selling trojans were shut down
• Intel Conroe performance previewed - benchmarks from Conroe are very exciting
• Cassini Finds Signs of Water on Saturn's Moon - Enceladus may have pockets of liquid water lurking beneath its surface
• Vista not to support EFI - shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot
• The Problems With Game Copy Protection - the company that makes StarForce, seems to think that problems aren't real....

• Software Round-Up (March 9) - ATi Catalyst 6.3 with Control Panel, WinACE 2.61
• Google Acquires Writely Web Based Word Processor - Writely does what Word does but uses a web browser rather than an application residing on your desktop
• No future for fusion power, says top scientist - The issues include the potentially prohibitive costs of building, etc
• NVidia Forceware 84.20 BETA Drivers - Adds support for GeForce 7900 GTX, GeForce 7900 GT, and GeForce 7600 GT.
• Microsoft to update Office 2007 beta -  beta refresh will be available only to the about 10,000 participants
• New Cars Trailer Now Online - Moviefone has launched the new theatrical trailer for Pixar's Cars
• Silly Japanese Girl doesn't quite get why she can't call her cat '[censored]', makes website... she really loves her [censored]!

• NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX, 7900 GT and 7600 GT - NVIDIA announced three new graphics chips today!
• Battlelines drawn over next gen DVDs - The boycott is in protest against the latest DRM
• Microsoft fixes can cause Windows Media Player trouble - The updates can cause issues when trying to seek, fast rewind...
• Eurocom Launches M590K SLI Notebook with 19-Inch 16:9 Screen - Looks cool, but a bit expensive
• British PSP Ads Promote Suicide -  Shame on you, Sony ;)
• BSA's informant fee hike is a money-maker, says attorney - Cash reward for qualified software piracy leads from $50,000 to up to $200,000.
• Bigfoot to develop Gaming Network Accelerator -  Bigfoot Networks has received a $4 million investment
• It's Official! Windows XP Boots on Macbook! - good one :)

• Origami's the wrapper for a small PC - the Origami will include a circular virtual keyboard as part of its user interface.
• Microsoft Shows Off New 'Windows Live Search'  -  CHECK IT OUT!
• Logitech MX610 laser mouse takes a jump to the left - due out in April
• MAGIC smartphone boasts 8GB HDD, 512MB RAM, dual QVGA - Ultrasmall but also ultraexpensive -  $1,000 :(
• Intel invents 5GHz stock cooler - coolers are expected to cost less than $50!
• AMD releases Live! spec - specifications describe a fairly typical next-generation PC
• Fuel cell powers notebook for two days - the UltraCell UC25 could be available by the end of this year
• ATI CATALYST Drivers v6.3 - fix a number of bugs in various games
• Nero 7.0.8.2 - fixes bugs, adds Burn support for audible audiobooks
• Radeon X1800 + Xpress 3200 drops big dong - X1800 XL Crossfire without master hardware suddenly looks mightily attractive