HEXUS.tv has done it again, bringing you an exclusive interview with Pat Gelsinger, self-confessed über-geek and Intel legend... and guess what? If he wasn't at Intel, he'd be a potato farmer!

The PowerColor brand was created by TUL Corporation back at ?97. PowerColor has already earned a good reputation and has become very well known as one of the most popular of ATI?s partners. Recently, they came out with an X1950 PRO that uses Arctic Cooling Accelero X2 Cooler. So today, we will present a few questions to their Marketing/Public Relations Manager.

Earlier this month, LaCie revealed another one of its SAFE desktop hard drives with biometric fingerprint reader (scan to get access), internal drive lock (lock the drive inside the case), secure password protection (only authorized users can lock or unlock the drive) and external chain lock (securely and physically lock the drive in place).

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of Settlers II, developer Funatics are releasing a completely rewritten from the ground up remake of this classic title. Elite Bastards talk to the Project Manager for the game, Thomas Friedmann, to get the low-down on Settlers II: 10th Anniversary.

EliteBastards

In the coming few weeks, some members of the Elite Bastards team will be spending a day at FutureMark's headquarters and research and development office in Espoo, Finland, where they'll get to take a look around and talk to the brains behind such hugely popular benchmarking tools as PCMark, SPMark and, of course, the ubiquitous 3DMark.

GIGABYTE and ASUS have announced their intentions to join forces. Our questions are answered in an exclusive interview.

Here is an interesting interview with seasoned computer author Wallace Wang. His most recent work, "Steal this Computer Book 4.0" gives readers an insight into the history of hacking, some of the threats which exist today, and much more. The can be used by people at any level as a guideline on how to protect themselves and also looks into the hacker mentality. In the interview Wang talks a lot about the book, but also touches on privacy, hacking, and how to protect yourself on the web.

With today's dramatic announcement that AMD would be acquiring ATI for $5.4 billion, we were eager to hear why AMD felt this move was necessary, particularly with ATI. Over the course of the interview we got quite a few interesting responses.

Ed Lima discusses the audio development in Prey that sets a new standard for sound in PC gaming.

Creative

Blake Ross was a teenager in 2002 when he and fellow software developer Dave Hyatt launched the Mozilla Firefox project -- a community-made Web browser that has won devoted fans and taken market share from Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer, stirring the Redmond company into action.

Seattle Post Intelligencer

During the course of the CTS show in Birmingham last week, Elite Bastards got the chance to have a chat with Lite-On's Marketing Director for Europe, Jelmer Veldman. Their discussion took in a number of issues, from Lite-On's current product range to the next-generation optical format war.

EliteBastards

We chat briefly with Harvard Associate Professor Kimberly Thompson in an article that looks at content descriptions for M-rated games and recommends changes to the ESRB's process to rate video and PC games.

FiringSquad

ABIT has been on a financial rollercoaster lately, but as one of the best known manufacturers of enthusiast motherboards the activity has continued in hope of a solution appearing soon. A couple of weeks ago we found out what this solution was; Abit merged with circuit manufacturer USI, a company making components you can find almost anywhere. But many feared that ABIT's identity as an enthusiast company would disappear at the same time.

Internet star Robin "roblimo" Miller recently wrote "Point & Click OpenOffice.org", a work explaining this suite's basics. The book is meant to be easy and instructive, so that any user can be proficient in OOo in just a few minutes. This interview was conducted with Miller to learn a bit more about the book and its author.

Exclusive interview with Phil Hester, AMD?s Corporate VP and CTO, discussing AMD?s plans, strategies, new CPUs and a little bit of his professional life and experience.

HardwareSecrets

ATI's Group Manager of Software and Video, Terry Makedon, does an interview with The Core. Let's see what we can learn today...

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Sounds like fun doesn't it? That's the title of a book by Gavin Harper and he's got another one coming out soon as well titled "Build Your Own Car PC". Both books provide step by step instructions to building, installing and controlling a PC for the car, using cost effective off the shelf components. Gavin uses the VIA Mini-ITX platform for car PC projects at times. This interview with Gavin explores why this platform is so popular for car PCs and also delves into what Gavin thinks are the next big steps in car PCs. If you think it's all been done before, think again.

VIA Arena

We recently met up with Henri Richard, the Executive Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of AMD, and spoke with him about several developments taking place in the microprocessor space, particularly the company's roadmap and views of the competition.

HardwareZone

FiringSquad is an equal opportunity griller ? last month we talked with ATI about AVIVO. This month we talk with Scott Vouri about PureVideo. Did you know that NVIDIA has the technology to improve LCD ghosting by overdriving the color signal?

A short while ago, we had a brief chat with Futuremark Corporation about their thoughts on past, present and future projects. Amongst the topics discussed were matters such as the length of time and research required to produce a benchmark; how they work with other partners and planning for the mobile sector. Their Benchmark Development Architect, Nicklas Renqvist, supplied the answers to the first interview and he has kindly done so again for the 2nd part.