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1. ATI reveals Radeon 5970 overlocking details

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... stay within the PCI Express specification. In doing so, we would stay compatible with the majority of the high-end power supplies in the market with 6-pin and 8-pin power connectors. On the other hand, ...

2. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   And the biodegradable bone The Intel+Berkeley cooperative attempt to promote fresh ideas has announced the three winners of its entrepreneurial push. But we'll start with the third prizewinner as that ...

3. Pinky Pogoplug USB thing is very perky

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   Plug and play The very pink new Pogoplug was announced today - you can pre-order it and it will ship the week before Christmas. The Pogoplug is a bit of a fashion accessory provided you're prepared to ...

4. We need Chrome

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... (and companies) that focus on moving their IT operations into the cloud. In fact, it will become the preferred cloud operating system. It will give Google a leg up among enterprise software developers ...

5. Nokia trims research and development division

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... only represents two percent of its R^D personnel globally. And no one will be actually laid off, it seems - it said that it will try and find as many alternative jobs for the affected employees as it can. ...

6. Health IT doesn't save money

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... modestly improved the quality of care for heart attacks. The findings will disappoint President Obama, who believes that health IT, including electronic medical records, will save billions and help make ...

7. Mammoths weren't killed off by meteor

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... eliminate several possible reasons for the mass extinction. The first is the spread of trees caused by a changing climate. But according to Gill, the die-off of the big mammals predated this change - ...

8. Steve Ballmer hallelujahs Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   The lid it is lifted Delightfully understated Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally lifted the lid on how well Windows 7 sales have been doing. Previously Ballmer has only told the world that the operating ...

9. Hacker restores Atom support for Snow Leopard netbooks

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Who's got the crack? A Russian hacker known as "teateam" claims to have restored support for Atom-based Hackintoshes running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. 
Apple had previously disabled the processor in an effort ...

10. Tech Economy in the Hands of Nude Entrepreuners

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... high-tech entrepreuners. The proceeds from the sale of the calendar will be going to Take Heart India, "a charity focused on IT education projects for blind and disabled students in India." According ...

11. Microsoft claims "fantastic" Windows 7 sales

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... by the Wall Street Journal, reportedly described the reception to Windows 7 as "fantastic." He added that the latest iteration of Windows had outsold any previous version of the operating system by "two ...

12. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... OS 
The world waits for Google's Chrome OS Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9 Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS? 
Google preps Mac Chrome beta for holiday launch  ...

13. Rumor: Sony planning Firefox PS3 port

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... spokesperson John Koller told Ars Technia that support for Linux had been stripped away for a "couple" of reasons. "We felt we wanted to move forward with the OS we have now. If anyone wants to use previous ...

14. Space walkers will drink their own urine, dammit

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... turning pee into water earlier this year, the previous shuttle had to carry up supplies to fix it." "When we do finally get to setting up shop on the moon and Mars, urine recycling will be crucial. By ...

15. Want to write for TG Daily?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... journalist accreditation. You've got to love writing and be willing to learn, and you will have lots of opportunities to spread your writing wings. Enthusiasm and a sense of humor are essentials. These ...

16. Apple tablet delayed. The rumors continue PR drip

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... it will make are that it will be delayed from a March 2010 launch to a launch in the fall. Digitimes seems pretty certain that there will be two tablet PC models - one with a 9.7-inch OLED screen and ...

17. The world waits for Google's Chrome OS

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... We suspect that's a typo because any press conference that goes on for over an hour is way too long for your average hack. We'll all have to wait to 10AM to find out what Google holds in store for an ...

18. Gaming hardware to hit $27 billion next year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Outlook is up, up up A report said that PC gaming hardware will increase by $1.2 billion this year to $21.26 billion, and the outlook is better for next year too. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) predicted ...

19. ZTE to make its own LTE 4G chips

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... chipsets for LTE – the 4G standard. ZTE has designed its own ICs before but this represents something of a major leap. The company is a major customer of Qualcomm – using the latter's cellular chipsets ...

20. Energy-saving lightbulbs get dimmer over time

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    And they're pretty rubbish to start with Energy-saving light bulbs lose as much as 22 percent of their brightness over their lifetime, according to a report from the Institution of Engineering and Technology. ...

21. AMD to use Intel cash to pay off debt

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... off the struggling company for good - due to come knocking on the door in 2012. In a trio of press releases issued yesterday, AMD says it wants to buy back up to $1 billion in 5.75 percent of its 'senior ...

22. Lab-on-a-chip provides instant disease diagnosis

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... than previous tests. It uses capillary forces to draw blood or serum through the chip and checks for the presence of disease markers - typically proteins specific to particular diseases. It can test for ...

23. British police bust Zbot Trojan ring

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... transfer money to other accounts. If they break into your Facebook page they could use that to spread spam and phishing messages to the compromised account's online buddies," said Cluley. 

 "Typical ...

24. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... performance," said Sinofsky, who was quoted by Gregg Keizer of Computerworld. "[However], on SunSpider, we're on par with IE9 [and] getting very close to the other browsers." Indeed, previous Computerworld ...

25. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... weeks ago. And, not long after, Andy Rubin - Google's vice president of engineering for Android - went on the record as directly saying the company was 'not making hardware.'" As expected, Arrington attempted ...

26. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ...  Nvidia's 3D Vision has already received positive accolades from MSI, which described the product as the "best" 3D technology currently available. 

Samsung vice president SH Moon also offered his ...

27. Call of Duty grosses half a billion dollars in five days

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Shoot em up Activision Blizzard said that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold $550 million worth in five days. It didn't say how many units this represented and the figure is an internal estimate, ...

28. Casio caters for the clumsy cameraman

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... month – presumably from an altitude of less than seven feet - at a retail price of $299. Why seven feet, we wonder? Is Casio aiming the EX-G1 at the unfeasibly-tall? The 12.1 megapixel camera is positioned ...

29. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... documents at the Commission's premises. His decision, which was classified as confidential, was sent to the Commission and Intel on 14 July 2009. The preparation of the non-confidential version of the ...

30. Be a Martian, says NASA

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... in producing far better maps, smoother zoom-in views, and make for easier interpretation of Martian surface changes, says NASA. By counting craters, the public could also help determine the relative ages ...

31. Microsoft Bing grows its market share a bit

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... three percent up on the previous month. Google accounted for 13.5 billion search queries, Yahoo 2.7 billion queries and Microsoft 1.5 billion searches. Bing showed an eight percent increase - up to 1.2 ...

32. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... that Apple's in the middle of the pack," commented Vince Tseng, vice president of marketing at Square Trade. "What was surprising was that ASUS came out on top." HP, which shifted more notebooks last ...

33. Tiny brain is no bar to intelligence, say scientists

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    There's hope for us yet Insects could be as bright as much bigger animals, despite their teeny-tiny brains, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. Insects can show some pretty intelligent ...

34. Phuggers are like chuggers

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... to Veritape, low-paid workers chained to their telephones in call centres are under pressure to meet quotas put about by their bosses, often resulting in harassed punters on the other end being put out ...

35. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... products that already do this that have been in market for some time.   There are two prominent products in market that do pretty much the same thing only potentially better.    Both products have similar ...

36. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... (40nm) and uses over 3,200 stream processors. It delivers approximately 5TeraFLOPs of compute power, which facilitates superior performance for DirectX 11 gaming, as well for previous versions of DX and ...

37. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... President, wrote in an internal memo obtained by Kotaku. "This type of change can be difficult. But the situation calls for us to act decisively, to take control of our destiny and to run a stronger, more ...

38. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... last 50 years," the spokesperson explained. He added that Tesla 20 GPUs offer support for double precision floating points (IEEE 754-2008), standard error correcting codes (ECC) and a multi-level cache ...

39. Adobe upgrades Flash player with improved HD support

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across the desktop and devices. "Flash Player 10.1 takes advantage of new media delivery options using HTTP streaming coupled ...

40. Activision denies Russian ban of Modern Warfare 2

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    But admits self-censorship Activision has denied that the Russian government imposed a ban on sales of CoD: Modern Warfare 2. Previous reports had suggested that "every copy" of the console version ...

41. Google tarts up its Translate tool

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... pressing the Translate button. It's also offering a feature that will romanize languages with different scripts, such as Mandarin or Hindi. The feature works for all non-Roman languages except for Hebrew, ...

42. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    Evidence, dear boy, evidence Self-interested anti-virus corporation McAfee has thrust a press release into the public domain suggesting we should all get into a spin because of "cyber warfare". It has ...

43. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    All Around the Web President Obama has had a pop at the Commies for repressing people via the Internet. That's according to the UK newspaper, the Grauniad. It's here. The Tech Report compares the Corsair ...

44. How to stop the Feds tapping your phone

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... "represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation and as evidence in trial," says the paper, presented at the CCS security conference ...

45. 'Unfriend' is Word of the Year

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ...  It's used as a verb - for example, "I've unfriended Oxford University Press for making fatuous announcements". "It has both currency and potential longevity," glows Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer ...

46. Analyst offers Apple tablet sneak peek

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... admitted that he found it hard to "comprehend" how the tablet would replace all other mobile tech products. "But then again, what I can't imagine, Steve Jobs often can. The tablet will be awesome, and ...

47. Microsoft issues Windows 7 security advisory

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Windows 7 "looks and feels" like Mac OS X Microsoft preps critical security updates Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption  ...

48. Phenom II overclockers shatter 7GHz barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... of the vastly under-appreciated overclocking community," AMD spokesperson Simon Solotko told TG Daily. "These people do lots of great work, but unfortunately, overclockers typically make less in a year ...

49. Russian airport massacre prompts Modern Warfare 2 ban

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... month. Predictably, the above-mentioned airport massacre has yet to negatively impact game sales in the US and UK. Indeed, Wedbush Morgan analyst Edward Woo told TG Daily that CoD: Modern Warfare 2 ...

50. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... the desk, grab AMD by the throat, and give it what the Scots call a Glaswegian kiss. Magnanimity in victory is a wonderful thing but in truth the settlement represents just another milestone in the continued ...