Gareth Halfacree

Asus "condemns" Gigabyte: Round 3

Motherboard manufacturer Asus has launched the latest salvo in its ongoing spat with rival Gigabyte, suing the company for defamation regarding an anti-Asus propaganda presentation.

May 28, 2008 | 12:24

Homeplug AV II tech announced

The Homeplug Powerline Alliance has announced the latest revision of its Homeplug AV standard, promising greater speeds for networking over mains cabling.

May 28, 2008 | 11:16

Samsung announces speedy 256GB SSD

Korean company Samsung has announced its latest solid-state drive, and it's a 256GB unit with pretty stunning performance using relatively cheap MLC memory.

May 27, 2008 | 10:11

MIT team refines image recognition

A team at MIT has developed a system capable of searching through a database of 12.9 million images in seconds on a normal desktop PC.

May 27, 2008 | 08:54

First open-source graphics card available

The Open Graphics Project has announced availability of the worlds first open-source graphics card, but don't think you can just buy it and plug it in - it's a development platform.

May 23, 2008 | 09:09

UK Gov plans snoop database

The UK government has revealed plans to build a database containing information on all electronic communications made by its citizens over the last twelve months.

May 23, 2008 | 08:12

Gigabyte v. Asus – the sequel

The on-going fight between motherboard manufacturers Gigabyte and Asus regarding energy saving features continues with a press release from Gigabyte.

May 22, 2008 | 09:37

Corsair hits world record RAM overclock

Memory manufacturer Corsair has beaten all rivals to claim the biggest overclock for a DDR3 module yet, using its Dominator DDR3 RAM to achieve a frequency of 2462MHz.

May 22, 2008 | 08:11

XP SP3 breaks WHS RDP

Windows XP Service Pack 3 disables on install an ActiveX control needed to connect to a Windows Home Server box via Remote Desktop Protocol, thanks to an 'upgraded' security model.

May 21, 2008 | 13:51

Former AOL execs sued for fraud

Eight former AOL execs - both from before and after the merger with Time Warner - stand accused of inflating advertising revenue.

May 21, 2008 | 12:30

Asus responds to Gigabyte 'disinformation'

Asus's motherboard division has responded to claims that its Energy Processing Unit technology is "fake".

May 21, 2008 | 08:08

BREIN targets Mininova

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN is to drag BitTorrent search engine Mininova through the legal system over its refusal to implement a filtering system to prevent the sharing of copyright material.

May 20, 2008 | 08:10

WHS refresh ditches auto-backup

Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 was supposed to introduce an automated method of backup up the backup database, but this feature has quietly been removed ahead of launch.

May 19, 2008 | 10:41

Samsung demos 82" quad-HD panel

Beleaguered Korean corporation Samsung has taken the wrapping off its next-generation quad-HD LCD panel, featuring 120Hz refresh rate and a massive 82" visible screen size.

May 19, 2008 | 08:17

Thunderbird 3 Alpha sneaks onto web

The first alpha release of the next Thunderbird e-mail client has been made available for download under the codename Shredder Alpha 1, and it's got some nice new features.

May 16, 2008 | 13:13

The Blizzard Challenge 2008

The Blizzard Challenge is a project set up by the University of Edinburgh aimed at creating a speech synthesiser as close to human speech as is possible - and you can get involved.

May 16, 2008 | 09:03

Seagate crypto gets Gov. approval

The AES encryption implementation in Seagate's Momentus FD.2 range of laptop drives has been granted the US Government's most stringent security certification.

May 16, 2008 | 08:06

Microsoft demos TouchWall

Bill Gates demonstrated a wall-size multi-touch interface remarkably similar to Cubit at the 2008 Microsoft CEO Summit, based around infra-red lasers and a tracking camera.

May 15, 2008 | 08:21

OpenSSL flaw in Debian Linux discovered

The team behind the Debian Linux project have discovered a flaw in their implementation of the OpenSSL cryptography package that has been in place since 2006.

May 14, 2008 | 12:11

Opera Mini 4.1 released

The latest version of the Opera browser for Java-based mobile devices, Opera Mini 4.1, was made available for free yesterday - bringing some new speed and usability.

May 14, 2008 | 08:14

Image-based search with TinEye

Idée Incorporated have launched a closed beta of an image-based search engine which allows you to upload pictures from your computer and search for similar images on the web.

May 13, 2008 | 09:45

The D901C Phantom-X server laptop

Eurocomm has launched the D901C Phantom-X laptop, which features up to 8GB of RAM, a RAID 5 storage system, and an Intel Xeon Quad Core 2.83GHz CPU. In a laptop.

May 13, 2008 | 08:17