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The Windows Vista Challenge for Microsoft

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Lately, I have been asking myself one question over and again: Is this the end of Microsoft? This burning question came to pass after speaking with a couple different corporate executives. I can safely say the overall consensus is that Windows Vista is too little, too late.
Editorial

Why Google OS Already Exists

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Let's face it. Google pretty much owns the Internet landscape. Unless something truly unexpected happens within the web community, I see no real indicator that they'll lose their market share anytime soon. This also opens them up to other online opportunities should they decide to pursue them.
Editorial

ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6.5 Released in BETA State

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ZoneLabs over the years has offered a very good ZoneAlarm Firewall product but they have not been without their mishaps. Just last year they experienced serious issues with their "True Vector" Engine Crashing. The year before with ZoneAlarm 5 they had a serious bug that prevented CHKDSK from running at bootup in Windows XP (It appears all forum posts relating to this issue have been conviently deleted).
Editorial

Why First Generation Apple Products Suck

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It?s not that I despise Apple or the wonderful products it showcases year after year, but the fact that almost every first generation Apple product has serious quality assurance issues bugs me beyond belief. Let?s take a look at two of Apple?s most successful products, the company?s portable music player and its notebook series.
Editorial

Gaming Cynic: WOW - It Really Is Evil @ GD Hardware

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A few months ago I finally caved in to trying this game out to see what all the uproar was all about. I personally find it offensive that certain publishers have the gal to charge you $50 dollars for a game and then another $15.00 per month for the privilege of playing the game you just spend 50 bux for online! However, what is even more of a mind-bender for me is that over 4 Million suckers have fallen for Blizzard?s lure.
Editorial

Twisting the Definition and Redefining

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Innovation is great. Regardless the industry, the concept of innovation is to improve technologies, and thus products to better facilitate our society with productive devices for the future. I doubt there?s anyone who would disagree with this basic, yet novel concept. However, there are times when companies are coming up with products for the sake of innovation that are utterly ridiculous.
Editorial

The Stupidity of Consumers

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In my last column, Why Everyone Loves Apple, I mentioned Apple?s great customer support by using the latest iPod volume level patch as a supporting example. That apparently didn?t stick well with a few readers who e-mailed me expressing their anger towards consumers in general and the way companies have to protect themselves from litigations because of redundant and obvious warning labels on products. I?m inclined to agree with the select few that replied to state their opinions. It?s dramatically idiotic.
Editorial

Microsoft: Irresponsible, Distrustful and Lame

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And again, Windows Vista is delayed to January 2007, as opposed to its original and vague Q4 2006 release date. What is Microsoft thinking? Seriously, the company has been delaying Vista for a long time now. Not only that, but Microsoft stripped numerous critical features to make the deadline, but apparently the laziness, disguised as security improvements this time, depicts irresponsibility and distrustfulness beyond what most of us expect from the Redmond, Washington-based software "giant" (so much for that moniker).
Editorial

AMD Opteron: The Savior

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The Athlon64 processors have been around for years. For years, AMD has had a better product than Intel. The consumers know it, the vendors know it, AMD knows it and even Intel knows it, but the sales (outside the enthusiast market) aren?t happening. Why?
Editorial

?GO DOWNLOAD FIREFOX!?

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"Go Download Firefox!" That?s what I?ve been screaming to people in my personal surroundings. "Why?", one might ask? Well, I'm Dutch, and the Dutch are notoriously cheap bastards. I heard that the phenomena they call Firefox is free and more importantly free of spyware and popups.
Editorial

Is AMD Doomed?

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We recently published our review of Intel?s Core Duo platform and confirmed that Intel has in fact leapt ahead. Quite logically, the performance results of the Core Duo prove, yet again, Intel?s superiority in the mobile segment. Intel has managed to fit in a billion transistors on a single 65nm microprocessor. Moreover, 45nm is already in the works and 65nm is passé. To give you an idea of transistor comparison, Smithfield has 230M in contrast to Presler?s 370M.
Editorial

Digital Rights Management (DRM): Media Companies' Next Flop?

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Big media players are accustomed to watching the ratings for the most popular music, video and book content, but perhaps they should pay more attention to how consumers feel about three letters at the bottom of most charts -- DRM, which stands for digital rights management. Broadly defined, DRM encompasses multiple technologies that control the use of software, music, movies or any other piece of digital content. These technologies typically prevent consumers from moving content around to multiple devices and limit how the content can be used.

eCoustics
Editorial

Fatal1ty; The Next Michael Jordon

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It's no surprise that Fatal1ty has become one of the most recognized brands in the enthusiast community. He first signed a contract with Abit and is now working with Zalman and Creative (along with three other brands) on more projects.
Editorial

Inside Pentium M Architecture

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In this tutorial we will explain you how Pentium M CPU works in an easy to follow language. Since all new CPUs from Intel will use Pentium M?s architecture, studying this architecture is very important to understand the architecture of forthcoming CPUs like Yonah, Conroe and Woodcrest. You will learn exactly how its architecture works so you will be able to compare it more precisely to other processors from Intel and competitors from AMD. Hardware Secrets Thanks Jackass fyi.
Editorial

Are we too Paranoid about Privacy?

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I recently read a blog entry by Ed Foster, columnist for Infoworld.com, part of the IDG Network of online publications. In the entry, Mr. Foster discusses an e-mail sent to him by a reader who purchased a monitor from TigerDirect, had to fill out an online rebate form with OnRebate.com and was apparently shocked when the form asked for the industry he worked in and his job function. As much as I respect privacy, I think Mr. Foster?s take on the situation and the reader?s reaction are farfetched in this case.
Editorial

Firefox Fanboys Regroup to Spam More

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Guess what time of year it is? Firefox Spam Time! - Video Spam that is. "My Lord, IE still holds Market Dominance!" cries the Fanboy. The Emperor responds, "Yes young Foxer, on my word unleash more Spam!". "Yes my lord, we will commence Spamming.....I mean "Spreading" Firefox."
Editorial

Reason Why Vendors Don?t Sell AMD Products

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AMD went to court with an antitrust/unfair business practice lawsuit against Intel Corp. earlier this year. AMD also claimed that Intel was strong-arming and/or giving indirect incentives (joint marketing efforts) to vendors such as Dell to ensure that they don?t retail AMD products.
Editorial

Timeline: Google Acquisitions

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Listed here is a list of companies acquired by Google, the search giant that has got me paranoid. Why? Well, the magnitude of its search operations and its willingness to track me where I go in cyberspace is a scary thought, but that?s a different optic, so I?ll skip the details on that for now.
Editorial

PlayStation 3 a year after Xbox 360 - but why?

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You?d think Sony would want to get their answer to Microsoft out the door as soon as possible, but they won?t be. Is waiting until next Christmas to release the PS3 a product delay, or could it be the result of a long planned business move? In a lot of ways, the answer to that isn?t nearly as important as the fact that now Sony has a new opportunity with PS3.
Editorial

Firefox FireTune Utility Includes Useless Tweak(s)

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Another day, another program that spreads misinformation. You would think by now people would do five minutes of research before providing others with advice. In this case the FireTune Tweak Utility made by TOTALidea falls for the old /prefetch:1 shortcut myth. FireTune claims to improve Firefox performance using Placebo effect tweaks like this? I wonder how many other useless tweaks are included in this utility?
Editorial

Technology Makes Us Stupid?

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With the advent of PDAs, smartphones, notebooks and whatnot, humans have a companion that?s with them pretty much all the time. It?ll remind you of what to do, when to do it and most importantly, it?ll go after your life if you forget to do something as fatal as taking out the trash.
Editorial

Plagiarism by Anandtech

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We (ngohq.com), are very proud of our professional conduct and ethics. We feel it?s important that you all help us fight the rude and unethical behavior we have encountered from the site AnandTech.com. Site?s like the mentioned one just help discredit all the hard work we all do on a daily basis.
Editorial

Candy-Ass Gamers - the latest Gaming Cynic

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This article has been thundering and rumbling between me and many of my fellow gamers for quite some time now, and its delay in publication is due mostly to the fact of how much it distresses us to have to write it.
Editorial

The Future of Wireless Connectivity

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With Google offering free Wi-Fi to San Francisco, the beginning of the end of wired networks has probably begun. The reasons are many, and newer technologies are in place to support them.
Editorial

Google: The Microsoft of Tomorrow

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Continuing from my previous column on Google (The Future is Indexed: Thanks Google!), the bashing continues and this time, Google is given the ultimate insult (or honor, depending on how you look at it) of being touted as the next Microsoft, and that?s not because of its dominant market share in a particular area.
Editorial

Crappy PC Games

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If you?re going to stick a new number next to the title of something you released last year, make sure you actually have something new to add. If it?s just an updated graphics engine, or the addition of less than two new features, then it?s either called an expansion pack, a mod, or a total conversion.
Editorial

ATI's Crossfire and X1800 Paper Launch

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Now enter in the X1800-series from ATI and we see a similar pattern taking shape and after spending some time talking with the aforementioned system builders we?re sad to report that tomorrow?s pending reviews on the X1800?s may not deliver the full facts that we?ve uncovered with regards to their availability.

GD Hardware
Editorial

Game Developers Don?t Take x64 Seriously

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It?s been several months since Microsoft released their Windows XP Pro x64 edition. At the first we had to suffer through a lack of drivers; now at least most of the popular manufactures provide driver support for the x64 platform. Many application developers also provided us with x64 binaries. Now what?s left? Just Games
Editorial

Who Says It's a Microsoft World?

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I have been working for operating systems companies for nearly eight years ? first in UNIX, then in Linux. During this time, as happens to nearly all of us, I have been frequently asked the question, "What exactly do you do for a living?"

TheTechZone
Editorial

Inside Microsoft's decision to back HD DVD

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Few were surprised when Microsoft (along with Intel) announced that they would back HD DVD over Blu-ray. While Microsoft's stance on the next-generation of optical storage media was officially neutral, their close working relationship with Toshiba led us to suspect that HD DVD would get the nod. The interesting question is, why?

Arstechnica
Editorial

Changing times, changing ethos

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The hardware and gaming markets are going to be turned on their heads in the coming months. Do you understand the issues involved in evaluating the technology progressions we're going to be making, and do you understand the ethos behind the editorial?

Bit-Tech
Editorial

Can Intel Pull off the New Mobile Platform?

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At the recently concluded Intel Developer Forum (IDF) , Intel made a number of surprising announcements. It was largely speculated that Intel will play catch up with AMD in the 64-bit and dual-core market, but Intel took an entirely different approach. Not only did it refuse to give much importance to dual-core and 64-bit initially, news reports later suggested that Yonah ? Intel?s next generation mobile computing platform ? will neither be dual-core nor 64-bit, at least not in its first iteration.
Editorial

What Is the Ideal iPod Competitor?

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Even now, after so many years since its appearance, iPod still manages to rule the MP3 Player world and this is even more remarkable if we think about the technologies? short life cycles.
Editorial

NVIDIA x16 SLI; Far Ahead of Time

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Then Intel came out, yet again, and informed us that AGP was passé and we needed something a lot faster to keep up with future needs. The technology was called PCI Express (PCIe), which was revolutionary because not only did it exclude dedicated bus to the graphics cards, but it was also applicable across the entire motherboard, thereby replacing the archaic PCI technology.
Editorial

Apple Tries Hard to Wake Up to Consumerism

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Apple, the self proclaimed creator and pioneer of GUI computing as we know it, has been fairly hell bent on keeping everything in-house and proprietary including hardware locking its OS and the irritatingly un-functional single button mouse.
Editorial

I Love Microsoft

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Microsoft is perhaps the most hated company in the history of business. Anointed with names such as the Redmond Giant, Microshaft, Microsloth, so on and so forth, the nicknames and jokes are perhaps exceeded only by the vengeance with which people hate it.
Editorial

Battlefield 2: The Video Card Controversy Part 2

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Following the feedback received from the initial article: Battlefield 2: The Video Card Controversy, it appears this issue is far from clear and understood. Battlefield 2 requires new hardware in order to even startup, while in the past games have required new hardware in order to run smoothly at higher detail and resolution levels. Besides the fact that the minimum supported hardware, a Radeon 8500 is slower then the non-supported GeForce 4 Ti. With the upcoming release of Battlefield Modern Combat on the Xbox making this all the more laughable. Battlefield Modern Combat will be the Battlefield 2 Xbox port. The Xbox uses a tweaked version of the GeForce 3 running PS 1.3 and is programmed for in DirectX. This is clearly showing that DICE can make the Battlefield 2 engine run on GeForce 3/4 Ti hardware.
Editorial

Welcome the iPod Shuffle Killer

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Once Apple had established itself as one of the world?s top brand with hard drive MP3 players, the company had to delve into other markets. Knowing that flash players are still more popular and account for significant sales of all portable audio players sold, Apple decided to introduce its very own flash player, thoughtfully named the iPod Shuffle.
Editorial

Could AMD be the Next Intel?

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The microprocessor industry has received a nice shake since AMD?s announcement of filing an antitrust complaint against Intel due to its monopoly in the market. Whether all of AMD?s claims in its 48-page complaint are valid is up to the court to decide and Intel to counter argue, but at least some of what AMD states is 110 percent correct.
Editorial

AMD vs. Intel; The Legal Challenge

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Yesterday turned out to be the most widely anticipated day in the microprocessor realm. AMD finally filed an antitrust complaint against its archrival Intel, the world?s largest chipmaker. Regardless of the obvious superiority of AMD?s Athlon 64 line of microprocessors, the world?s largest OEMs such as Dell, HP and Sony have either offered limited AMD based systems or they have outright declined to work with AMD at all. Allegedly, this is due to unfair and monopolistic business practices by Intel.
Editorial

Windows + RSS = Something Good?

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Not everyone is cheering about RSS integration into Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7. With the event of making RSS a native format for Longhorn, many software developers whom make stand-alone feed readers are crying out that Microsoft is once again shutting down a sector of business which in all respects is somewhat true. With the complete integration of the format within the OS, there is no need of stand-alone feed readers. Flexbeta has a nice write up about what MS is trying to accomplish with RSS integration into the OS.
Editorial

Battlefield 2: The Video Card Controversy

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As a PC Gamer you expect to upgrade, you expect that at some point your hardware will not run the latest games acceptably. Battlefield 2 does not even give you that option. It attempts to make all non DirectX 9 compatible video cards obsolete. Which means all GeForce 4 and older video cards will not run Battlefield 2. You cannot even start up the menu. Neither Electronic Arts nor the game's developer DICE have any plans to fix this. Even though the GeForce 4 line of video cards has enough horsepower to render the game it is not compatible with Pixel Shader 1.4. Emulation to Pixel Shader 1.3 would easily make the game playable on these cards but redundant texture checks make this difficult to implement.

All GeForce 4 owners need to read this!
Editorial

NVIDIA, Paper Launches and 7800GTX

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NVIDIA has finally launched the much anticipated G70, or GeForce 7800 GTX, to the masses. While there?s a standard performance boost with this card, there is one thing that has me impressed with the launch: the availability. As we had pointed out earlier in our reports titled, "No More Paper Launches from ATI and NVIDIA" and "NVIDIA G70 Launch and Shipping Dates Confirmed" it?s refreshing to see that NVIDIA didn?t intend to do another paper launch. Due to the heat both NVIDIA and ATI had received with their 6800, X800 and X850 series, NVIDIA has thankfully listened to its customers and learned its lesson.

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