Theo Valich

Workstation graphics from AMD appear to have an edge over its green rivals pretty much since the FireGL team in Germany came out with a next-gen driver for R600-based cards.

Palo Alto (CA) - We were intrigued by DispalyLink, a technology that uses the USB 2.

Mountain House (CA) - Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few year.

In depth - The good old movie theater is ready for a big step into the future.

Dell is continuing on its quest to become a green company, this time with an expansion of Reconnect, the firm's electronics recycling service.

If you own an ATI Radeon HD graphics card and have seen stuttering issues 3D applications (predominately games such as Battlefield 2 and TimeShift), you should visit AMD's site and download a hotfix that was made available today.

Santa Clara (CA) - Current and future owners of Nvidia's nForce 790i Ultra SLI and SLI chipsets own a piece of history: Nvidia confirmed to TG Daily that it is now focusing on delivering chipsets with integrated graphics.

Mountain House (CA) - Starting yesterday, American TV viewers will tune in for NCAA's March Madness, college basketball tournament that saw more giant killing feats in its history than any other.

Milpitas (CA) - The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced that the Radeon HD 3000 series of graphics cards and AMD-based 780G-based motherboards are the first products to receive DisplayPort certification.

Seoul (Korea) - Samsung engineers managed to squeeze a fully functional CMOS module providing 8 megapixels of image resolution or cellphone cameras in an area measuring just 28 x 15.

Tokyo (Japan) - If there is one place in the world that any gadget-electronic freak should go to, that is Akihabara district in Tokyo.

Hacienda Heights (CA) - During a recent visit to Thermaltake's office, we learned that the company is working on creating a compact phase-change cooling solution - which would be affordable for the majority of PC enthusiasts who are looking into extreme overclocking of their processors.

Santa Clara (CA) - AMD has been pushing its Fusion idea for quite some time.

Sunnyvale (CA) - OCZ Technology has announced it next generation of SSD drives that are up to twice as fast as the previous generation.

London (UK) - Blastflow, a subsidiary of British boutique PC manufacturer Vadim Computers, just announced its latest product, the Blastflow Tidal Skulltrail SB Block: If you are worried about the heat produced by your sparkling new Skulltrail PC system, this copper cooler for the Southbridge and SLI bridges might be the solution.

When read about Nvidia's SLI and ATI's Crossfire technologies these days, we often get the impression that multi-GPU solutions don't make a lot of sense yet. But they aren't just useful in some games and benchmarks to get to the top of the ladder of bragging rights.

Sydney (Australia) - If you have co-founded a company and spent a better part of your life in it, does that mean you need to adore every product that came out of the company?

Leap day (February 29) happens once every four years, but it seems that there cannot be a single leap day without mainstream media reporting about computer-related problems associated with the date. This time around, so called "Easy Check-in" kiosks at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) were crashing as the software did not allow passengers to check-in for the flight.

Fremont (CA) - If you're in the market for a USB stick, you can choose either to go for capacity or speed. With the largest sticks at 32 GB in size, but with speed of a dying horse, and the fastest stick at four times less capacity, choice has always been narrow.

Tributaries just introduced its T12 power strip which promises to solve a common tech problem of "I can't fit all my power adapters on one strip." While we usually forward the press releases into a virtual recycle bin, this product caught our attention as it finally solves some of headaches we experience on daily basis.

After years of Creative's dominance and players who would occasionally manage to produce a product that was relatively competitive, Taiwan giant ASUS decided to step up to sound card table.

Dell is now shipping its second monitor capable of both DisplayPort and HDMI input. The new 2408WFP follows the company's 30" 3008WFP which had an impressive list of inputs including HDMI and DisplayPort.

Flags, like the checkered finish flag, have always served a critical part in any form of car racing, but drivers can sometimes miss those wavy pieces of fabric driving at 200+ MPH. In a bid to change the status quo between judges, race organization and the drivers themselves, FIA as the world's automotive governing body recently tested digital flags on the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona.

In a bid to win hearts, minds and pockets of FB-DIMM users such as Intel V8, Skulltrail or Mac Pro users, Super Talent launched new FB-DIMM modules working at DDR2-800 speeds.

With severed cables causing Internet outages to several countries in recent years, it was only a matter of time before funding is found to create another link in the complex globe of cable connections.