Sony PS3 price cut is not happening - Posted: 07-10-2009 by dr.death
SONY IS ENGAGED in a handbags at dawn battle with the software industry over the price of its PS3 console.
Sony Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer has spurned Activision Blizzard's call to cut prices of the PlayStation 3 because the $400 console is unprofitable.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick warned last month he might shift away from developing products for Sony's Play...
More AMD RS880 details tip up - Posted: 07-05-2009 by dr.death
WE'VE BEEN DIGGING around on Taiwanese shores for more details about AMD's RS880 chipset and have managed to pluck some 3DMark-06 benchmarking goodies from the golden sands.
The RS880, sporting AMD's new Radeon HD 4200 graphics core with integrated DX10.1 graphics, is purportedly close to 15 per cent faster than anything comparable currently on the market and also supports the firm's ...
Psystar emerges from Chapter 11 - Posted: 07-05-2009 by dr.death
APPLE'S pesky nemesis Psystar has announced it will emerge from bankruptcy soon and has released another Mac clone to sail up Job's Mob's nasal passages.
The company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May, claiming that it could not afford to keep facing Apple's expensive briefs.
Psystar's bankruptcy threatened to delay Apple's lawsuit because that proceeding was put on hol...
Microsoft to put Windows 7 on USB sticks ? - Posted: 07-01-2009 by dr.death
RUMOURS HAVE IT that Microsoft will offer Windows 7 on USB thumb drives.
The report surfaced at Cnet, which heard the news from one of its sources close to the Vole, apparently, who may or may not have heard it from a bloke down the pub.
The thought is that doing so will enable netbook owners to upgrade their machines, but it will break the tradition that only allowed Vol...
GTX285 battle, Asus versus Gigabyte - Posted: 07-01-2009 by dr.death
THESE DAYS, the memory capacity on a graphics card often comes close to the amount of main system memory. Many high end PCs still have only 4GB or maybe 6GB of RAM, while there are quite a few graphics cards that have 2GB RAM on board. Do a TriSLI or TriFire with them, and you've got 6GB of graphics memory, the same amount as the RAM in a top end!
Put aside the fact that the SLI and C...
Pirate Bay goes legit - Posted: 07-01-2009 by dr.death
FILESHARING SITE The Pirate Bay is lowering the Jolly Roger and setting sail under the legitimate flag of Global Gaming Factory, a Swedish software company that also runs Internet cafes.
Global Gaming Factory (GGF) is to pay 60 million kronor ($7.8 million) for the download service in a mixture of shares and cash.
Pirate Bay had become one of the largest file-sharing site...