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October 31
- Third quarter chip inventories remain high
- New Catalyst driver accelerates Intel 965 Crossfire configurations
- Windows Media Player 11 now available
- Tul unveils PowerColor X1650 XT in PCIe and AGP
- Sharp introduces 12.1" SVGA transflective display
- Microsoft releases Windows Media Player 11
- Kingston offers 2 GB notebook memory modules
- Microsoft unveils new retail packaging for Vista and Office
- Valence N-Charge Model 130HL01 Power System
October 30
- Seagate debuts content protection technology in hard drives
- Gateway introduces factory over-clocked desktop computer
- PowerColor debuts X1650 XT graphics card
- Epson develops frame buffer embedded digital video encoder for NTSC and PAL systems
- OSD introduces 7" WVGA LED-based TFT LCD
- LGE opens new PDP module plant in Mexico
- First 7/7.5G LCD plant in China expected online by 2009, says research firm
- Fujitsu updates notice, reports Sony battery incident
- MTV acquires video game developer Harmonix
- The CalDigit S2VR Duo RAID Enclosure
- Flood of game releases for Halloween
- Title: Gateway FX530 enthusiast PC
- The Scariest Games of the Decade
October 28
- QuickVid - Logitech Z10 Speakers
- Price/Performance Charts: U.S. retail still waiting for effect of AMD price cut
- More than one-third of Americans using the Net to get election info
October 27
- Vision-body link tested in robot experiments
- Red Hat promises to keep charging customers double
- Dell recommends 2 GB of memory for Vista
- IBM promises cooler chips with capillary-action and water jets
- Carnegie Mellon University developing real-time translator
- Gigabyte mobo receives Vista premium certification
- MS Office developer to become next space tourist
- Outsourcing accelerates in LCD TV market
- Samsung SDI to volume produce AM OLED in Q1 2007
- The Gaming Case Showdown
- Comparing The Performance Of Gigabyte's W251U And W551N Notebooks
- Gigabyte's W551N From All Sides
- Gigabyte's W251U From All Sides
- NZXT Adamas
- Antec 900
- Zalman Fatal1ty
- Silverstone TJ09
October 26
- Surveillance system spots violent behaviour
- Really 'light' computers
- Secunia claims second IE7 flaw
- Gears of War goes gold
- Firefox 2.0 bug hunt getting into gear
- Spansion selected as main flash memory supplier for Lenovo handsets
- Mobile music market estimated to reach $13 billion by 2011
- Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Battle Head to Head
- Microsoft Releases Windows Desktop Search 3.0
- Shuttle small factor computers now Energy Star compliant
- Adobe Soundbooth Beta
- AMD's Fusion: Revolution or dangerous adventure?
- Dungeon Siege II
- Gears of War
- Let the War Games Begin: Inside Introversion Software's DEFCON
October 25
- Solar cells could power most of your home in the future
- Adobe's Digital Editions nears public beta
- Google offers customizable search engines
- Analysis: YouTube becomes a popular spot along the campaign trail
- Fedora Core 6 makes its debut
- Rambus aims to offer PCIe Gen2 PHY solution on 65 nm with TSMC by mid-2007
- IcyDock's MB559 Happily Marries eSATA and USB 2.0
- AMD's "Fusion" processor to merge CPU and GPU
- Tour of Boeing's Spectrolab Factory
October 24
- Prime number with 9.8 million digits found
- AOpen XC Cube system provide 64-bit processing
- IPTV subscribers to reach 29.5 million worldwide in 2010, says Ovum
- Firm DRAM contract prices to persist through November
- Extreme CompactFlash: A Digital Photographer's Best Friend?
- Gateway recalls 35,000 Sony batteries
- Firefox 2.0
- Dell introduces AMD-based 2P, 4P servers
- Vonage starts offering free local traffic reports
- A Brief History of Star Trek Video Games
October 23
- Lexmark touts faster, quieter, instant warm-up laser printers
- Crucial spices up Ballistix gamer memory
- Google Earth integrates election info in U.S. map
- Realistically Augmented 2D? The Neurok Optics 17" 3D LCD Monitor
- UPDATE: Eeye rolls out free PC security solution
- Silicon retina mimics biology for a clearer view
- Researcher attempts to shed light on security troll
- Intel demos Tigerton
- Google Earth integrates election info to US map
- Medal of Honor Heroes for PSP
- The Bully Conundrum
- The Neurok Optics 17" 3D LCD Monitor
October 21
- Price/Performance Charts: Price of Core 2 Extreme drops ahead of quad-core launch
October 20
- One in 10 snared by fake 'phishing' messages
- Price competition emerges in grid hosting
- Lions trained to chase by robots
- Winzip unzips public beta for version 11.0
- Samsung develops first 50nm DRAM chip
- Microsoft to develop future Xbox chips
- Lite-On IT looking to produce Blu-ray Disc drives for HP
- Mobile games market shows growth, but major challenges remain
- UMC has doubts about Moore's Law, may soon produce ATI chips on 80 nm
- Welcome to Your Worst Malware Nightmare
- PC Personality Clone: It's Ethical, It Works, But Is It Enough?
October 19
- Nvidia offers performance boosting debugging kit for Linux and Windows
- Scientists create 'invisibility' cloak that bends microwaves
- Nvidia releases Vista graphics drivers
- Wired catches a paedophile and promises to arm vigilantes to do the same
- Samsung sees printing as key to lowering TFT LCD costs
- NEC develops system-on-glass LCD modules
- Enterprise Storage Solutions Solid Integration for Enthusiasts
- iPhone Competition
- Internet Explorer 7: Overview of new features
October 18
- Sun wants to be different in virtualization market
- Volume risks of MP3 players sounded out
- Symbian for Playstation on the horizon?
- Nvidia expected to launch Geforce 8800 on 8 November
- Sanyo Epson unveils high-resolution cellphone display
- The New Graphics
- Microsoft opens up Virtual Hard Disk specification
- Intel to tape out first 45 nm processor by year-end
October 17
- Some Americans are Internet addicts: Stanford study
- Mozilla releases Firefox 2 RC3
- Yellow Dog Linux to run on PS3
- ATI releases new mainstream card into the gaming arena
- ASRock announces motherboard with Vista Premium logo
- NEC shows 2800x2100 pixel LCD
- LG.Philips LCD to show new LCD technology at FPD International
- CMO to go quad high-definition with new 47" LCD TV panels
- Sanyo Epson develops 7.1" full HD LCD panel
- Game On With the Ultimate X9 from ABS Computers
- Samsung's solid state flash disk gets Vista certification
- Bully
- Bully
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
- How Horror Films and Video Games Have Bled Together
- New Plextor drive "obliterates" data on CDs/DVDs with laser blasts
- Ultimate X9 from ABS Computers
- Targeted trojan attacks on the rise
October 16
- Intel quad-cores expected to arrive on 13 November
- Kyocera intros 8.5" widescreen display
- Freescale intros dual-core Flexray controllers
- Solar cells inch up in efficiency
- Reuters to bring news to Second Life
- Widescreen display to account for 90% of notebook market in 2008
- Kingston to continue evaluating PCBs with embedded resistors
- Building a Low-Power Home Theater PC System
- Killer Notebooks Executioner: Unique Features
- Performance: Eurocom Divine Duo M570U/Killer Notebooks Executioner
- Eurocom Devine Duo M570U/Killer Notebooks Executioner: Common Features
- Eurocom Divine Duo M570U: Unique Features
- What If EA Hadn't Cancelled Ultima Online 2? A Visit to the Tangent Universe
October 14
- Intels' Core 2 Duo E6400 joins the Price/Performance Charts
October 13
- Watchful car monitors its driver's every move
- Memory upgrade slows Microsoft Vista right down
- Microsoft adjusts EU, Korean versions of Vista
- Intel gives 910- and 915-chipsets one year to live
- Sharp introduces high-contrast in-car LCD display
- OSD Displays releases low-cost 1.5" full color OLED display
- MythTV Plug-ins
- Santa Clara university student wins Tom's Hardware Guide's $10K PC
- The Burning Crusade - Getting to the Outlands
- The $10,000 PC Goes To...
- The Fall Games Preview, Part 1
October 12
- Nvidia announces new high-end mobile GPU
- Intel's PM96/GM965 chipsets to be rolled out as scheduled - sources
- NEC to launch two TFT-LCD modules for portable information devices
- 200 GB, 2.5", SATA: Fujitsu's MHV2200BT
- The Burning Crusade - Blood Elves starting area
- Nvidia GeForce Go 7950 GTX (Courtesy of Nvidia)
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Yahoo beams social media into space
- The Burning Crusade Beta - Dranei starting area
October 11
- Intel quad-core QX6700 reaches system builders
- Comcast worker snoozes at customer's house
- UPDATE: Google combines spreadsheets and word processing
- Microsoft releases ten patches in its October security update
- DVD Forum to offer China-specific HD DVD-ROM format
- South African PC market to hit 1.6 million units in 2006
- Samsung introduces 30" widescreen LCD monitor
- Transcend and TwinMos launch 4 GB and 8 GB SDHC cards
- Four 975X Motherboards For Core 2 Duo
- Installing and Using RoboForm2Go
October 10
- Growth of Internet slows considerably in September
- A plane spike to cut sonic boom
- Google Code Search peers into programs' flaws
- Terra Soft moves past Apple with first Cell-based supercomputing cluster
- Vista a 'threat' to the national security of India
- High-def media to dominate home video market by 2012
- AMD schedules 65 nm "Taylor" launch for Q2 2007
- Viewsonic launches DLP projector for less than $1000
- NEC to sample high-brightness 12.1" LCD module
- Asustek rolls out 2ms 22" widescreen LCD monitor
- Cheap Thrills: Core 2 Duo E6400 Overclocked to 3.33 GHz
- Orange County Auto Show: What gadgets do your $$$ buy today?
- OCZ rolls out 600 watt modular power supply
- 'The Cult of Khan': One on One with Star Trek director Nicholas Meyer
- Sonic to use Macrovision DRM for secure DVD burning
October 9
- Microsoft's next Office file format reaches final draft status
- Firefox gears for 2.0 with new release candidate
- VGA Charts Update October 2006
- Monitor panel prices expected to increase by 3-5% in H1 October
- Lenovo 3000 N100 Notebook
- Fujitsu Lifebook P7120D Laptop
October 6
- Microsoft releases Windows Vista RC2 to beta testers
- Sun to hold press conference in Second Life
- CPU price/performance update: AMD undercuts Intel on the low end
- Roadmap leak indicates ATI direction after AMD acquisition
- Apricorn Aegis Mini 60 GB
- Robot whiskers sense shapes and textures
- IBM demonstrates Ajax mashup tool for the rest of us
- Starbucks brings Hear Music catalog to Apple's Itunes
- Foley scandal provides plenty of material for humor on the Internet
- World of Warcraft for Linux, thanks to CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux
- Star Wars Galaxies
- Dennis Hastert's Batavia, Illinois Press Conference: Jeffery D. Schielke
October 5
- Single-pixel camera could simplify imaging
- Linux not ready for mobile phones, Nokia exec says
- Google extends searches to code, pie, mash
- Nvidia shares rocket on Intel takeover rumors
- Microsoft reduces feature set in pirated copies of Vista
- Tight supply of low-end CPUs delivers uncertainty for Q4
- Will 17" give way to 19" widescreen LCD monitor panels?
- Mobile display shipments to hit 1.2 billion units in 2006
- Notebook panel prices unlikely to rise further, notebook makers say
- AMD validates 65nm CPU production at Chartered
- IBM releases new lower power PowerPC processors
- Desperate Housewives: The Game
October 4
- Amazon's A9 search drops block view & yellow pages
- Google launches literacy project to link resources
- Social networking sites a ticking security time bomb, study indicates
- Teams picked for rush hour robot race
- Mobile e-mail revenues to pass SMS in North American wireless business market
- Nvidia Tightens Up Midrange Performance With The $300 GeForce 7950GT
- Burger King Releases Xbox 360 Games
- Robot cars will race in real traffic
- Flexible transistors for your clothes
- Apple suspect in Internet device market study
- Hackers invited to break the security on $100 laptops
- Remembering the Psion 5mx and Designing a Modern Version
October 3
- Quad-core and a 6000W heatsink: Impressions from the IDF showfloor
- Ageia physics SDK now supports Vista 64-bit, Linux
- AMD to release first 65 nm processors in December
- AMD to postpone DDR3 adoption, first quad-core K8L resident Socket AM2+
- AMD to ship 90% of desktop CPUs at 65 nm by end-2007
- AMD to launch quad-core K8L platform in Q3 2007
- SATA may replace ATAPI as mainstream for DVD burners in 2007
- Notebook makers scramble for CPU supply
- Price war for 40" LCD TVs intensifies in N. America
- Fall IDF 2006 Technology Showcase
- Gangs of London
October 2
- Inexpensive podcast studios are no excuse for low-quality audio says podcast expert
- Microsoft and Hughes to roll out 5000 satellite-based Internet kiosks in India
- Maxtor hard drives get Seagate genes
- Nvidia to launch DirectX 10 chip in mid-November
- Lite-On IT to start volume production of Blu-ray disc burner
- Toshiba unveils slim HD DVD write drive for notebooks
- IBM, Infineon, Chartered and Samsung tape out 45nm chips
- US still leads in electronic design influence but China catching up
- HTC to ship Ipaq rx5915 to HP in October
- Thecus YES Nano N1050 OTG: More Than Just a Mobile Backup Box?
- Star Trek: Legacy
October 1
- Thecus YES Nano N1050 OTG
- Samson Shows Off The "Ultimate" Portable Recorder