TG Daily: Taiwan-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC specialists AOpen and Shuttle and own-brand PC companies Acer, Gigabyte Technology, and Micro-Star International (MSI) are gearing up to introduce new desktop PCs based on the Intel Viiv platform in January 2006, with mass production slated for early February, ...

TG Daily: Total shipments from Taiwan-based first-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Gigabyte Technology, and Micro-Star International (MSI) totaled 11.01 million motherboards in November, an historical monthly high.

TG Daily: HomePlug chipmaker Intellon today announced what it says is the world’s first integrated circuit based on the recently-approved 200Mbps HomePlug AV specification.

Moddin.net: Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks then you will have seen all the recent news regarding the next gen console from Microsoft, namely the Xbox 360. Having got it on the day of release, it’s now been a week and I thought I’d share with you what you may find if you decided to ...

TechSpot: Already Firefox 1.5, the latest incarnation of the popular alternative browser, has had exploit code released which takes advantage of a bug in the history.dat file, which stores information from Web sites users have visited. Basically, using an overly long topic of a page can cause the browser to ...

TechSpot: If you are a laptop user, and have at any time had cause to try to work on the move, you will be aware that laptop batteries leave a lot to be desired. They don’t last long, and they take forever to charge. Well, clever minds at NEC have developed a super-thin battery that can be charged in just ...

TechSpot: Sony’s CD copy protection patch that it issued in response to concerns over security vulnerabilities in the DRM technology has not fixed the security issue, according to Professor Ed Felten and Alex Halderman of Princeton University, New Jersey. These are the US computer scientists who first discovered ...

TechSpot: Just like Google and MSN, Yahoo is always keen to expand the different kinds of services provided. In a recent move, Yahoo has started a service Wednesday that allows users to get their questions answered online. The service is free, and is provided by volunteers. Dubbed "Yahoo Answers", the service ...

TG Daily: The amount of social uncertainty and awkwardness that accompanies the annual buying [Holiday -Ed] season rarely ceases to amaze me.

TechSpot: Dual Core is the latest tech buzzword, and it’s a very nice one. Whether you back AMD or Intel, the x86 dual core desktop processors have gained tremendous popularity in a very short amount of time, with people wanting them for workstations, gaming rigs, office machines, development and a slew of other ...