Brett Thomas

Microsoft seeks to standardise the HD Photo

Microsoft has announced its intention to turn its HD Photo format into a standard. Could we see the end of the JPEG?

March 9, 2007 | 08:49

Samsung releases hybrid HDD

Samsung is the first company to announce its hybrid HDDs, which have both a NAND flash component and a standard disk.

March 8, 2007 | 14:35

Turkey bans YouTube

The Turkish court has shut down YouTube country-wide after a battle of online racial slurs between Turkish and Greek teens.

March 8, 2007 | 14:13

Nvidia brings 65nm DRAM mobile graphics chips

The guys in green have got 65nm chips with embedded DRAM, thanks to TSMC. All the better to make mobile graphics with.

March 7, 2007 | 12:07

Internal Sony difficulties come to light

Sony's CEO has publicly discussed some of the inner turmoil that has hurt the company since the PS3 was in its infancy.

March 7, 2007 | 09:13

Intel deleted court ordered emails

Intel told a judge in the lawsuit it's defending from AMD that it "misplaced" several important emails which the court demanded be preserved. Maybe the dog ate them?

March 7, 2007 | 08:26

LEGO MMO revealed

Some things in this would should never be strung together in a sentence. LEGO and MMO are two of those things - but they're here.

March 6, 2007 | 08:32

Microsoft silently patches Xbox 360

Be vewwy, vewwy quiet - we're hunting "bugs." Microsoft has fixed a "vulnerability" in the XBox 360 that could allow sneaky, horrible hackers to run bad things like Linux.

March 6, 2007 | 08:28

PS3 may upscale DVDs soon

Sony has dropped hints that an upcoming firmware release will allow the PS3 to upscale DVD video on-the-fly, something that no other high-def player currently does.

March 5, 2007 | 10:24

Nvidia releases next beta drivers for Vista

Vista finally supports all the technologies that Nvidia graphics cards have to offer with the new beta drivers released on Friday. How do they work? We take a look...

March 5, 2007 | 10:20

EA starts selling soundtracks

Games made by Electronic Arts have had one thing mostly in common - some pretty sweet soundtracks. Now, you can buy them.

March 3, 2007 | 11:05

Wikipedia manager lied about background

One of the editors on high from Wikipedia lied about his own background to the press. Practical joke, or credibility blunder?

March 2, 2007 | 09:22

AMD says ATI-Intel chipsets will continue

Rumours can finally be put to rest. AMD has publicly announced it will continue ATI's partnership with Intel for chipsets. Along with a whole lot of other stuff...

March 2, 2007 | 09:12

Vista activation cracked by brute force

The Vista licensing and authentication scheme has already been cracked - not by sophisticated keygens or hacks, but by unadulterated brute force.

March 1, 2007 | 20:38

Digimark creates "active" watermark

The technology behind an actively-searched watermark has finally been patented by Digimark, which may make a huge step forward in content rights.

March 1, 2007 | 10:46

High-speed Vista installs via a USB key

One website has found that Vista on a USB installs more than twice as fast. Ten minute installs, here we come.

March 1, 2007 | 10:42

Corsair introduces VoyagerGT High-speed USB

February 28, 2007 | 16:12

Project Logs Update 8

Here we are wrapping up February 2007, so it's time for another project log update. Let"s take a look at some of what our talented modders have been doing over the past month...

February 28, 2007 | 09:47

Capcom licenses Unreal Engine 3

You can add Capcom to the growing list of publishers who have licensed Epic's Unreal Engine 3. However, the company is pretty tight-lipped as to what...

February 28, 2007 | 09:34

Sony debuts Blu-Ray player #2

Sony took some time at Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon to debut its second-generation Blu-ray player. It sports a couple new features, and a $400 USD lower price tag.

February 28, 2007 | 09:22