bit-tech.net: It’s been a very, very close battle for 2008’s Mod of the Year competition, but there can be only one winner - check inside to see the results!

PC Perspective: Lake Forest, IL - January 5, 2009 - BFG Technologies, known as a leading supplier of premium power supplies and 3D graphics cards, is excited to announce its first line of complete gaming and multimedia PCs, called Phobos. These sleek hand-built, high performance machines were designed with the "Graduated ...

PC Perspective: The HIS Radeon 4870 ICEQ4+ TURBO is a full 1GB model sporting a fancy third party cooler that drops the temperatures as well as the noise at full. As the running temperatures and fan noise were the two biggest faults of the original 4870, this really is a great step forward. Add into that equation ...

PC Perspective: Samsung has placed a Intel Atom N270, 1GB of DDR2-800 and a 160GB 5400RPM HDD into a shell with a 10.2" WSVGA 1024 x 600 display and called it the NC10 Netbook. Even with it’s diminutive size, Samsung has managed to fit an almost full sized keyboard, as well as a 6 cell battery that will keep you going ...

[H]ardOCP: Just so you know, there are fake celebrity profiles on LinkedIn that have links to malicious code. Damn it! I was sooo close to clicking that Beyoncé link too. Must. Resist. Urge. Advanced Threats Researcher Ivan Macalintal found some bogus LinkedIn profiles which contain links to malware, using the ...

[H]ardOCP: Live coverage of Macworld was marred today when MacRumors’ live-blog feed was hacked during the event. Pranksters posted stuff like “Steve Jobs Just Died” during the event causing a bit of a panic before people realized the site was under the control of hackers. Some nasty pranksters, likely ...

[H]ardOCP: Left 4 Dead developer Randy Lundeen talks about the lighting choices made by Valve during the development process of the game. You can see a before and after image below to give you an idea of how the game was changed_ "While sudden zombie attacks were inarguably scary, they were also frustrating--players ...

[H]ardOCP: The G-series line of gaming peripherals from Logitech® gives gamers what they want: complete control. Today, Logitech unveiled an extension of its award-winning G-series by introducing three new products that deliver precision, high performance and customization: the Logitech® G19 keyboard for gaming, ...

[H]ardOCP: Monitoring your quad-core desktop processor with Windows task manager is a snap but, as the world moves towards processors with many more cores (even thousands of cores), how will you monitor your processors’ performance? Intel’s Doug Holland has an interesting blog post today that addresses ...

[H]ardOCP: Have you guys been following this story? Some model is suing Google to find out the names of the person or people that called her a “skank” and “old hag” online. Ummm, what? Is this really something that needs to be tying up the court system? "I can’t begin to imagine why someone ...