January 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on January 31, 2004 · 0 comments

While not technology oriented, Business 2.0’s yearly 101 Dumbest Moments in Business is sure to amaze and dumbfound….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 31, 2004 · 0 comments

The short of it: Sony launched their high end Playstation 2 called the PSX a few months ago claiming that they had merged their CPU and graphics core into one chip using an advanced 90-nanometer process . Along comes Semiconductor…

Read more Is Sony Fibbing?

by Rafael Hernandez on January 31, 2004 · 0 comments

Bungie, the developers of Halo and owned by Microsoft, have set a rough time-frame for their highly anticipated Halo 2. When you may ask? Well it’s still a good amount of time away unfortunately. Reuters pins it down for you….

Read more Halo 2 Release Date Narrowed Down

by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2004 · 0 comments

Internet Explorer has had its fair share of security holes but the recent URL spoofing exploits have made Microsoft rethink its moves and, instead of trying to fix the problem, will go ahead and remove the feature entirely. CNET News…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2004 · 0 comments

Gateway, the spotted box computer maker turned tech gadget dealer, is going to acquire eMachines which is known for its low-priced PCs. It’ll be interesting to see if this relatively small business purchase can actually save the much larger Gateway….

Read more Gateway to Graze on eMachines

by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2004 · 0 comments

The US Federal Trade Commission as well as a host of other agencies from 26 different countries are getting ready to email negligent server owners to inform them of gaping holes in their setups which allow spammers and other nefarious…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2004 · 0 comments

While it had been rumored for months that Intel has been working on chips that include the x86-64 64-bit instruction set, which AMD uses on its Athlon64 line, they’ve only now hinted about it. ITworld.com has more details….

Read more Intel Mulling x86-64

by Rafael Hernandez on January 29, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica got their hands on one of the smaller, and heavily featured packed MP3 players out there. The Digitalway MPIO FL 100 boasts MP3, WMA, MPEG-2, MPEG-2.5 and ASF support as well as a built in FM tuner with the…

Read more Digitalway MPIO FL 100 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on January 29, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC, which is both a PC hardware retailer and an indepth review site, has tested AMD and Intel based rigs using software other than games. Shocking! Take a look at the performance of these higher end PCs on some server…

Read more AMD and Intel Head-to-Head

by Rafael Hernandez on January 29, 2004 · 0 comments

Ars Technica has the story of a team of researchers at JILA labs that performed experiments, which I can’t even begin to understand, and created a new state of matter called fermionic condensate….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 29, 2004 · 0 comments

Reuters is reporting on the possibility of some early CPU price cuts from Intel. These supposed price cuts will come about 2 weeks early, this coming Monday, and will lob off a good chunk of change from the list prices…

Read more Intel to Cut Prices Soon?