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?

"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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

With Opera recently releasing their web browser completely free of Ads, it is a good time to let the truth be told. Not only is Opera Faster then Firefox in all performance areas, it is much more Secure and more Compliant.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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?

I?m excited about these new products, but I?m disappointed as well. The Ajax, RSS, and e-mail, are all well and good, but I?m not ready to change my homepage quite yet. Would someone please integrate storage!?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.