With a waning subscriber base, especially for its traditional dial-up services, and ever diminishing prominence in the instant messaging and e-mail fields it once dominated, AOL is turning to a new - and, at the same time, old - means of future revenue. It's placing a free commercial TV network over the Web, complete with reruns...and 20-second spots. Read more
Yesterday, an IDC report pointed to higher than expected, double-digit growth in PC shipments in the third quarter of 2005. But as the PC market matures and becomes healthier, says one IDC analyst, be prepared for economic forces to play a more notable role, especially in a downturn. Read more
The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is in full swing: The first players are out, content follows. Now it's up to the marketing talent to get consumers excited. TG Daily spoke with Universal's Jerry Pierce about HD DVD's advantages and opportunities now and in the future, copy protection and the impact of IT in Hollywood. Read more
Two key milestones in the settlement of digital rights management issues regarding next-generation high-definition content, took place this week: an interim agreement on the final AACS specification, and an agreement on an interoperable DRM framework by the members of the Coral Consortium. But could the fact that they happened together, cancel each other out? Read more
Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable gaming alternative. Read more
The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down from the flagships. Read more
When a new paradigm like cloud computing or a new platform like Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) comes along, it’s smart to ask tough questions. Read more
With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platform's connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to find out. Read more
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