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Check Point Connectra 2.0 review
Reviews The first version of Connectra (released last year) addressed this issue by adding firewall-like filtering of the VPN traffic. Known as Integrity Clientless Security, this new endpoint security is based on technology from Zone Labs, acquired by...
[October 10, 2005, 0:00]
Acer launches Dothan and 64-bit notebooks, plus a budget handheld review
Reviews Last year, Acer, as a sponsor of Ferrari's Formula One team, introduced a 'special edition' notebook based on the TravelMate 800 and decked out in the famous red livery with the prancing horse badge. Last year's successful TravelMate 800 range of...
[May 27, 2004, 17:10]
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro: a first look review
Reviews Last year, Nvidia squandered its formidable lead in the 3D graphics market when manufacturing miscues delayed the company's follow-up to the popular GeForce4 series. On the heels of last year's successful Radeon 9700 Pro, ATI today announced the...
[March 7, 2003, 10:56]
New Year, old flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer review
Reviews Last Tuesday, Microsoft released three new security bulletins for 2005, including one critical patch for Windows XP SP2, last year's much-touted security upgrade of the Windows XP operating system. Non-Windows XP SP2 users don't have access to the...
[January 17, 2005, 7:45]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Except for that, this version's smooth setup is an improvement over last year's. NAV 2003 offers few notable enhancements over last year's model. We found only one noticeable glitch in NAV 2003's otherwise easy installation.
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
No escape from lugging a laptop review
Reviews In fact, I wear out a notebook per year on average, and I'm afraid my current system may be on its last legs, too. For that reason, I'm still taking my notebook home each night (FolderShare was acquired by Microsoft last year).
[March 21, 2006, 7:55]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: a first look review
Reviews One thing missing from the Technical Preview are the online Office applications demonstrated last year at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. There have been some snippets of information over the last year or so (among them its final...
[July 13, 2009, 14:32]
Say goodbye to choice review
Reviews Now that PowerQuest's engineers have been assimilated into Symantec's corporate culture, it'll be interesting to see whether Norton Ghost 10 delivers a knockout blow to last year's Editors' Choice, Acronis True Image 8, in this year's comparison.
[October 10, 2005, 0:00]
CPU roadmap: 2007 and beyond review
Reviews Not long after its Athlon 64 X2 processors toppled Intel's Pentium D chips, AMD found itself back in the familiar role of underdog when Intel moved to its 65-nanometer process and released the Core 2 Duo to universal praise last year.
[March 19, 2007, 16:12]
Whom do you trust? review
Reviews Microsoft did neither and, instead, announced last year that it would create an online service that customers could subscribe to annually that would deliver full technical support for the security and overall health of their PCs.
[February 6, 2006, 10:45]
Norton Internet Security 2004 review
Reviews While Norton AntiVirus and Personal Firewall are the heart of the suite, they remain relatively unchanged from last year's versions. Symantec's technical support is relatively unchanged from last year -- and it's still expensive.
[November 21, 2003, 8:05]
Fedora Core 5 review
Reviews In fact, Xen was in the last release too, but is better integrated in version 5 and is based on Xen 3.0, launched at the end of last year. The latest Xen virtualisation software, due to be included in RHEL 5 later this year, is also in the new...
[March 24, 2006, 12:05]
Blades and business review
Reviews Blade server revenues have jumped 30 per cent in the last year, according to Gartner's latest figures for this market. It's all the result of a huge growth in the numbers of servers being installed, with the volumes having doubled over the five...
[June 5, 2007, 7:58]
Intel catches up with its 64-bit competitors review
Reviews These chips will also run cooler than last year's Prescott-core Pentium 4 chips, and they could make your PC less susceptible to viruses. When Windows XP SP2 was released last year, it included a security feature call Data Execution Prevention (DEP...
[February 22, 2005, 6:40]
Apple iMac G4 1.25GHz review
Reviews Apple's high-end 17in.iMac now runs on a 1.25GHz G4 processor, up from the 1GHz G4 processor that last year's 17in.model used. On our iMovie benchmark, the system took 2 minutes and 28 seconds to combine and compress three video files totalling...
[December 2, 2003, 9:25]
Sony VAIO VGN-TT11WN/B review
Reviews Last year's VAIO Z11WN/B was a 13.1in.ultraportable weighing 1.5kg, but the 11.1in. The VAIO VGN-TT11WN/B is superbly made, with a sleek design that's familiar from the VAIO Z11WN/B we reviewed in November last year.
[January 28, 2009, 10:05]
Photoshop CS2 review
Reviews Last year, with Photoshop CS, Adobe introduced the concept of multi-user interfaces, allowing one or more users to save and return to custom colours, tool and palette layouts. Replacing last year's file manager are two programs.
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
Netbook platforms: VIA Nano v. Intel Atom review
Reviews Despite the rapidly cooling economic climate, netbooks sold like hot cakes last year. The boom in small, affordable, notebooks looks likely to continue this year. Introduction Most netbook manufacturers use Intel's Atom processor along with the...
[February 10, 2009, 16:22]
Photos: Palm Centro review
Reviews Palm launched the Centro in the US in September last year, and the device has just made it to the UK as a SIM-free product available for £199. In fact, the company's last Palm OS device, the Treo 680, launched in late 2006.
[March 6, 2008, 11:13]
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro review
Reviews These continuous improvements are most evident in the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro, the flagship model released late last year. Although the Dolby Digital EX 6.1 decoding of last-generation Sound Blasters uses up-mixing to synthesise the...
[March 18, 2004, 6:25]
