Monthly Archives: December 2006

From [H]ard|OCP: Monarch Computer seems to have fallen on some hard times in 2006. They were not too happy with us when we evaluated a system of theirs back in May. They pledged then to fix all their support issues … Continue reading →

More than four out of five people admit to telling little white lies at least once a day and the preferred way of being “economical with the truth” is to use technology such as cell phones, texts and e-mails, a … Continue reading →

“Happy New Year!” That’s the subject line on a new malicious e-mail making the rounds. The sender wants you to click on the attached postcard. The file name is postcard.exe or postcard.zip. Don’t do it! Don’t open that attachment, even … Continue reading →

The crew on board the International Space Station (ISS) may have decided to ring in the new year without any alcohol, but they’ll still be having their bit of fun as Russian Jack Frosts. Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin said in … Continue reading →

Four Taiwanese manufacturers control over 70% of notebook manufacturing currently. The other Taiwanese notebook brands control another 10% of the manufacturing development. As early as 2001 the capacity in Taiwan to build notebooks all but vanished. The “Big 4″ in … Continue reading →

A number of Gmail users are complaining that their e-mail has mysteriously vanished. After TechCrunch picked up the story, Google issued a public apology, stating that the problem affected only 60 users. There don’t seem to be any noticeable patterns … Continue reading →

Ever wanted to stuff that “Can you hear me now?” guy into the trunk of your car and take him on a tour of those maddening spots where your cell phone won’t work? One telecommunications company has a plan to … Continue reading →

Starting tomorrow, December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with…software [that] circumvents the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library. … Continue reading →

Preliminary findings from a revolutionary satellite system launched earlier this year show that the system can boost the accuracy of forecasts of hurricane behavior, significantly improve long-range weather forecasts, and monitor climate change with unprecedented accuracy. Six microsatellites are entering … Continue reading →

Detailed pictures of the long-awaited Phantom Drophead Coupé have at last been released. And on Sunday 7th January, the new convertible itself – Rolls-Royce’s first such car since the Corniche of 2002 – will be formally unveiled at the Detroit … Continue reading →

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Presumably turning a joyous, thrilling Christmas morning into one giant moment of awkwardness, a South Carolina mum was aghast when her son’s toy phone, which was purchased from K-Mart as an innocent symbol of motherly love, vocalized a profanity instead … Continue reading →

Features and Specifications: » Hotrod candy apple red design » Motherboard features: Support for dual AMD 64 Opteron CPUs with Hypertransport Two (2) extra large solid copper based heatsink and fans NVIDIA nForce3 Professional MCP chipset Two (2) 184-DIMM slots … Continue reading →

Spam is hardly news to anyone with a mail box. What is new is that some spammers are spinning a large spiders’ web of different domain names leading to a site peddling dubious “OEM software” downloads.The messages usually begin with … Continue reading →

From The Inquirer: YOU NEVER QUITE wrap your head around how anti-consumer Microsoft’s policies are until they bite you in the bum. Add in the customer antagonistic policies of its patsies, HP in this case, and vendors like Promise, and … Continue reading →