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by Stan Beer
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In an obvious reaction to the release of VMware Server as free download, Microsoft has announced that it will make all of its Virtual PC products free as well, including the upcoming Virtual PC 2007 for Windows Vista when it finally arrives.
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by Stan Beer
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A new silicon chip implanted in the brain of a 25 year old quadraplegic test subject has been shown to enable the paralyzed man to move computer mouse cursors and robotic arms by thought power.
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by Stan Beer
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Early reports from users on the ground have been highly critical about a number of usability aspects of the interoperability trial between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.
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by Stan Beer
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Virtualization is all the rage these days, and market leader EMC owned VMWare has finally brought its free virtualization platform, VMware Server, to market after five months of beta testing. From all accounts, the beta version has been a roaring success attracting hundreds of thousands of downloads and multiplying the company's user base many times.
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by Stan Beer
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The two star performers of the new 64-bit Intel dual-core range of processors have been knocking the wind out of AMD's star performing dual-core processors in virtually every published independent benchmark test so far. It seems that with the release of its Core 2 Duo range, Intel has come up with a formula that maximises speed of execution and throughput of data, while keeping the heat and power consumption bogeys at bay.
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by Stan Beer
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The news that chip maker Intel plans to fire 1000 managers may not appear to be small beer in the scheme of things. After all, it's only about about one percent of the work force. However, looking more deeply into the action, the implications for far wider scale staff culls at the poorly performing market leader.
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by Stan Beer
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It seems that everywhere you turn these days the age old feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys of the personal computing world, Apple and Microsoft, is resurfacing. In this epoch, however, the battlefield is not just desktop computing but online entertainment, whether it be music downloads or high definition video.
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by Stan Beer
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Last month it was Intel's Woodcrest Xeon throwing out the challenge to AMD Opteron server processors, now the spectre of the imminent release of Intel's Conroe desktop processors has been tipped to force AMD to duck for pricing cover with its Athlon range.
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by Stan Beer
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It has taken nearly two months since the original announcement but as promised the Nike+iPod Sport Kit is finally no longer vapourware. For US$29, fitness conscious consumers will be able to incorporate a device with a range of Nike running shoes to track their performance on iPod Nanos while they're training.
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by Stan Beer
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Integrated graphics is killing the PC games business and it's the fault of Intel, according to Mark Rein, the boss of games developer Epic Games. Reins claims that integrated graphics chips from Intel do not have the power to play modern sophisticated games.
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by Stan Beer
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Two Microsoft watchers at UK-based research group Ovum have been highly critical of the EU's treatment of Microsoft, after regulator the European Commission levied a hefty fine against the software giant.
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by Stan Beer
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We have all seen the pictures and we have all heard the name. Now the billion dollar question is can Microsoft's Zune really take a serious bite out of Apple's stupendous iPod marketshare?
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by Stan Beer
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It is now official. Yahoo and Microsoft are now talking to each other - or rather their users are. The companies have commenced implementation and testing of interoperability of their respective instant messaging (IM) systems in a public trial and the size of their combined user base should make rivals nervous.
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by Stan Beer
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The folks at Hitwise obviously have a very different formula for ranking web site usage than other analytics firms. In what must be the most incredulous claim of the month, Hitwise asserts that social networking site MySpace has displaced Yahoo! as the number one ranking website for page views in the US.
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by Stan Beer
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The open source Firefox web browser, owned by Mozilla Foundation, has started to make serious inroads into Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser share, according to a new study.
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by Stan Beer
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 Life in the financial capital of India returned to normal after a series of bomb blasts ripped through the city, killing around 200 people at seven local railway stations and injuring over 400.
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