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Symbian backers lure developers
News The scheme will let developers, network operators and phone customers test and certify Symbian applications, the companies said. This new collaboration with Nokia and Sony Ericsson will drive even faster development and availability of innovative...
[February 17, 2003, 16:21]
Google and Microsoft jostle for desktop position
News According to a report in The New York Times, Google will try to fulfil an unmet need among PC users for tools to easily find information across multiple applications on the hard drive -- searching through email, text documents in various formats...
[May 24, 2004, 10:50]
Google Desktop 2.0: screenshot gallery review
Reviews Google Desktop 2.0 (beta) lacks finishing touches, but is available for the public to test. Google Desktop's Photo module grabs photos from your local drive or the Web; just click the arrow to see upcoming images.
[September 8, 2005, 8:50]
AMD bets all its chips on Opteron
News If we didn't exist, I think Intel would be in a position to drive Itanium down everyone's throat. Pentiums and Xeons run the same software, but Itanium 2 requires entirely different code, which can be costly to develop and test.
[April 22, 2003, 10:10]
PayPal opens up code
News The company, a unit of eBay, hopes that software developed by third-party programmers will drive more traffic to its online payment system and hence expand its user base, which currently hovers around 45 million.
[May 4, 2004, 15:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A glorious break from the daily nonsense -- HP decides to fly a group of journos down to Cornwall, launch some new digital cameras and leave us in the Eden Project to test them by snapping various exotic plants.
[September 28, 2001, 18:21]
IBM 'Quicksilver' flash sets data-speed record
News But the company said it has been running the technology under test with select IBM BladeCentre customers. Monshaw went on to say that the strategy is not about replacing today's hard-disk drive, but that the main emphasis is to show IBM's technical...
[August 29, 2008, 13:19]
Smoothing out two-way video
News FVC.com's Web-based technology also should drive down the cost of video communications. Carriers can buy FVC.com equipment at a cost of $500,000 to $1m to support 500 to 1000 users in a niche or test market, or use FVC.com's operations centre and...
[September 13, 1999, 15:25]
Google Desktop 2.0: a first look review
Reviews The test edition of this new tool expands upon Google Desktop Search, with live, as-you-type searching (à la Apple's Spotlight) and the eye-catching Sidebar, a clever combination of 1997-era PointCast channels and Apple's new Dashboard that...
[September 7, 2005, 9:10]
$100 laptop takes shape
News The first 15 A-Test boards have been successfully assembled and tested, according to the OLPC site, and wide-scale distribution of developer boards is expected by mid-June. The PCs, which will not have a hard drive, are meant to work wirelessly...
[May 25, 2006, 9:50]
Dell tells critics: We do innovate
News Although his company is running a pilot scheme to test tablet PCs -- Microsoft's new form factor for delivering Windows in pen-controlled devices that ship this week -- Dell told a press conference he did not expect tablet PC to achieve 25 percent...
[November 4, 2002, 15:43]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback I know shut down, restart, PC Recovery from the D drive, how to safely take a computer apart and locate/remove/replace all the boards (sound/video card, 56K data/fax modem card, etc. The guy even asked me to test the voltage on my power outlet...
[October 17, 2006, 0:40]
Ireland kicks off wireless 'black boxes' for cars
Talkback They don't MOT cars and didn't they talk about changing the side of the road they drive on? Be warned and be afraid - the tricj=k is to start something like this in a 'test area' then release the foregone conclusions that it was 'an outstanding...
[November 7, 2003, 16:04]
Running Mac OS X on standard PCs review
Reviews The hard disk was a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 with a SATA interface and 750GB capacity, while the DVD drive was an ASUS DRW1814BLT, also with a SATA interface. In many cases, the Leopard hard drive is identified as a removable device — especially...
[May 14, 2008, 7:46]
Microsoft to delete Sony DRM 'rootkit'
News The Sony BMG software installs itself deeply inside a hard drive when a CD is played on a PC. Windows AntiSpyware is Microsoft's spyware-fighting software that is currently available as a test version and used by millions of people worldwide.
[November 13, 2005, 10:15]
Facebook, Twitter hit by fresh phishing scams
News A new scam hit Facebook users that, like others in recent weeks, sends them to a website that steals their log-in information and also secretly downloads malware onto computers when they visit the malicious website in what is known as a 'drive-by...
[May 22, 2009, 15:33]
depends on the hardware
Talkback The only problems are the AGP slot, which isn't quartz enabled, the Intel 865 chipset is a known problem, but there is an AGP GART plugin for those who want to test it. I have it installed on a single drive, and boot switch via the BIOS popup...
[May 15, 2008, 9:00]
Norton SystemWorks 2003 review
Reviews In one test, it took three tries and several system reboots (SymClean requires a reboot each time) to finish its work. To put this suite to the test, we ran Norton SystemWorks 2003 on a PC with a 1.3GHz Pentium 4 processor and 256MB of RAM, with a...
[October 1, 2002, 11:10]
Netgear SC101 Storage Central review
Reviews The first step is to install a hard drive into each of the SC101's two bays; you'll need two if you want RAID mirroring (data stored simultaneously to two drives for redundancy), but you can use just one as well.
[October 19, 2005, 9:45]
Toshiba Portégé A100 review
Reviews The integrated optical drive provides 8X DVD play, 24X CD-ROM play and 24X/24X for CD-R/RW. Typical running time as calculated by the MobileMark 2002 test was 3 hours and 23 minutes, which is reasonable, but not up there with the 4.5 hours-plus...
[May 4, 2004, 10:00]
