The internet’s 11 worst blogs revealed

The internet’s 11 worst blogs revealed After an internet-wide search, here are the 11 blogs that depressed – er, uh – impressed us the most with their lameness. Blogging is more than an internet craze. Everyone from your aunty and the man at the end of your street to Britney and Paris Hilton has decided they’re gonna share their feelings with the internet. Let’s face it though, while there are some brilliant musings in the blogosphere....

November 22, 2008 · 9 min · 1916 words · Joseph Dunn

nVidia 4GB Quadro FX 5800 graphics card

nVidia 4GB Quadro FX 5800 graphics card nVidiahas launched its first 4GB graphics card. The nVidia Quadro FX 5800 is a high-end graphics card for use in creative and industrial design. The nVidia Quadro FX 5800 graphics card has 240 programmable parallel cores while its 4GB of dedicated graphics memory is designed to rapidly visualise and interpret massive data sets. Using the FX 5800 card’s vast image processing capabilities, designers will be able to render and view interactive 4D models – three-dimensional models that are represented as they evolve using time lapse visualisation....

November 12, 2008 · 1 min · 172 words · Sheryl Short

SSD laptop drives ‘slower than hard disks’

SSD laptop drives ‘slower than hard disks’ Solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a more frequent storage component in laptops, and are promoted as being faster and more energy-efficient than traditional spinning hard drives. But tests prove that such drives are actually slower than standard laptop hard disks. Apple’s top-end MacBook Air features a 128GB SSD and costs 40 per cent more than a similar model that has a 120GB hard drive....

November 7, 2008 · 3 min · 520 words · Louis James

Dell laptops to get ‘white space’ wireless chips

Dell laptops to get ‘white space’ wireless chips Dell is to add new radio chips to laptops that will provide connectivity over the unused television spectrum known aswhite spaces. On Tuesday, regulators at the US Federal Communications Commission voted to open up white spaces, the unused portion of the spectrum from 512MHz to 698MHz assigned to broadcast TV. Dell, HP and Google were among the companies that fought to open up the white spaces, which will provide an additional broadband option for users, especially in rural areas....

November 6, 2008 · 2 min · 284 words · Mallory Coleman

Botnets to attack smartphones in 2009

Botnets to attack smartphones in 2009 The same week one of the world’s worst spam operations isbeing shut down, security researchers are warning the next big threat may not be for PCs at all – but rather for mobile phones. A report issued Wednesday by theGeorgia Tech Information Security Centersays spam and other botnet-based attacks will make the move to mobile in the coming months. The study, called theEmerging Cyber Threats Forecast for 2009 (PDF), was presented at theGTISC Security Summitin Atlanta....

October 16, 2008 · 3 min · 433 words · Ann Christensen
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