Archive for February 21st, 2008

New 3D camera chip design might put Adobe on guard

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras You'd better watch your back Adobe, because it looks like you've got company in the 3D picture game. Stanford University researchers have recently hit upon a method of image sensing which can judge the distance of subjects within a shot. By using a 3-megapixel sensor which is ...

Asus delays U2E launch, wants other products to ride its coattails

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Filed under: Laptops It looks like those in North America eager to get their hands on Asus' sleek new leather-bound U2E ultraportable will have to wait a little while longer, although it's not clear exactly how long. There's apparently no production delays or other problems with the laptop, however, with Asus ...

Microsoft announces new strategy of interoperability, jumps on the “open” bandwagon

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_jumps_on_the_open_bandwagon'; Someday in the distant future, your grandkids will be hugging their Microsoft Robot Friend, browsing the Weboverse on Internet Explorer 29, and going to a rock concert held by Steve Ballmer's head, and they'll have never known the evil, nasty Microsoft we grew ...

NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600 GT card is officially the new budget hotness

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming It's been a long time coming, but it looks like the GPU industry finally figured out the fact that most consumers don't want to blow a couple grand on an SLI setup, they just want to play Crysis debt-free. The new GeForce 9600 GT from NVIDIA is an ...

Windows Home Server bug corrupts iTunes, Zune, lots of other apps

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Media PCs, StorageUh-oh -- it looks like the nasty Windows Home Server bug that corrupts data affects quite a few more apps than Microsoft initially let on. The company's just updated the WHS support note to include reports of data corruption when using iTunes, the Zune software, ...

Microsoft lets loose Vista SP1 for x64-based systems

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops Not a whole lot to say here, but if you're running Vista on an x64-based system, you've probably already noticed a little surprise courtesy of Windows Update, which today started pushing out the x64 edition of Vista Service Pack 1. If you've been following things in SP1 ...

C64 games coming to Wii’s Virtual Console

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Just when you think all of your nostalgic fantasies have all been fulfilled, along comes Nintendo with a little extra joy for your retro heart. That "little extra" in this case happens to be Commodore 64 games for your Wii. You read that correctly, people -- C64 games are headed ...