Its not everyday that your neighbour is court for creating a huge illegal film copying enterprise.
Well the other day after a long hard day at work I approached my street where there were about 4 police vans that had foriensic response team on the side. When I came closer to the vans there were 4 […]
With a plethora of cheap netbooks these days the challenge is to improve on the components in them while keeping the price low and the power consumption low improving battery life. Nvidia are trying with their ION Graphics Processor that produces 10 times faster graphics and now they are transferring it to a PC. Not […]
We have a lot of precious data that can change daily. Copying it onto a USB stick can be hit or miss sometimes and you may miss some of the important files. The backup solutions that are around are ideal and provide professional software to make sure you backup everything safely. But there is one […]
What a pain it can be sharing your files from your iPod. When you are out and about and away from any computer and you want to share some of your files or a play list with one of your friends, who also has an iPod, you have practically no chance of it happening. If […]
Western Digital, the creators of the slightly dated 3.5″ 10,000rpm Raptor drives have now moved on to produce the VelociRaptor. Based on a 2.5″ hard disk design, with a speed of 10,000rpm and weighing in at 300Gb the VelociRaptor outperforms its predecessor by up to 30% and when it hits the stores will cost […]
Iomega have just released the ScreenPlay HD - a 500Gb USB hard drive that also doubles as a HDMI mediaplayer. Currently supporting most formats (Mpeg 1 & 2, DivX & XviD) the player is capable of upscaling video to either 720p or 1080i resolution, and with a plethora of connection options including HDMI you’ll […]
Toshiba have now released their SpursEngine SE1000 processor for sampling. The processor, based on the PS3’s Cell technology, contains 4 cores as opposed to the Cell’s 8, runs at 1.5Ghz and is capable of 48 Trillion floating point operations per second (48Gflops). Current plans are to integrate the chip with future Graphics Cards and set-top […]
Sun Microsystems have recently received $44 million in funding from DARPA to try and break Moore’s Law by using lasers to interconnect computer chips together, potentially being able to improve on current computing speeds by up to a thousand fold. Currently silicon chips maximum speeds are limited by the need to transport data around the […]
Western Digital have just released their latest two-platter offering, available in the US for $140. Two platter drives offer the best balance of performance vs value vs capacity, meaning a pair of these will out-perform a single terabyte hard drive any day of the week. Boasting a 3Gb per second transfer rate to external sources […]
BT have recently been testing a new device called an interstitial plate, or iPlate, that claims to be able to cut out the interference caused on telephone lines by televisions, faulty wiring and the like. Costing just £10 the handy self-installable gadget has already been tested by 1000 customers and, on average, provided […]