Archive for November, 2007

New Breed of Viruses Designed for Windows Vista (+ Service Pack 1)

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Windows Vista has had everything but an easy ride since its introduction in November 2006 and in January 2007, but the worst is yet to come. Microsoft's latest Windows client was plagued with a variety of problems from software and hardware incompatibility to poor performance, reliability and support. The Redmond ...

Vista Requires More Hardware Resources than Microsoft’s Windows for Supercomputers

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

A new level of the absurd... Windows Vista requires more hardware resources than Microsoft's Windows for Supercomputers. Yet one operating system is designed to run on home computers while the other is aimed at the high-performance computing (HPC) market. And when it comes to the actual machines, there simply is ...

Phone in Italy? Apple In Talks with TIM!

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

There seems to be no limit to the amount of things that can be deduced by poking around in Apple’s code. The latest tidbit found in the iPhone’s firmware indicates that Apple may have already started preparing for the device’s launch in Italy. Although more iPhone launches are unlikely ...

Dirt-Resistant LCD Displays Developed By LG.Philips

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

As probably most (if not all) computer users can confirm, LCD displays have a tendency of getting dirty really quick, if they're not constantly and thoroughly cleaned. And this is exactly the reason why the people over at LG.Philips have developed a dirt-resistant 15.4-inch TFT-LCD panel for notebook computers, which ...

Windows Live Messenger Targeted By Virus

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Although it happened in the past, I decided to write this article because this type of threats tends to become too dangerous affecting more and more users. Back in October, The Hindu reported that some sort of virus aims to steal the usernames and the passwords of MSN/Windows Live Messenger ...

Alienware’s New Area-51 ALX Desktop System: Power of the Overclocked Quad-Core Intel Penryn Unleashed

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Alienware has been creating specialized, high-end, gaming-oriented rigs for quite some time now, providing certain configurations that really sound "alien" to most normal users. And now the "alien" engineers have come up with yet another technical marvel, because the company has just announced the Area-51 ALX desktop with the new ...