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FireWire 1600, 3200 approved: Now, USB 3.0 or FireWire?

In today's news, the IEEE has approved the new FireWire 2008 specification, which will include the S1600 and S3200 standards, running at 1.6Gbps and 3.2Gbps each. The new IEEE 1394 standards will use the same connectors as FireWire 800 and will be fully compatible with the previous...

Tags: IEEE, USB, TG Daily, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Counting to (Windows) 7

I've gotten lots of questions from Windows users this week about TG Daily's story that Microsoft is running early with Windows 7 and has delivered an early build to unnamed parties outside of the company. Here's what I know and don't. First off, Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TG Daily, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Additional Resources

Even with adult content regulated, Second Life is dead in ed

OK, so the title is a little cheesy, but I don't think I'm wrong here. Linden Labs announced today that it would be regulating the adult content rampant on its virtual world, Second Life. According to TG Daily, The company will implement a three-tiered...

Tags: Second Life, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Chrome currently beating IE8 Beta in market share

I ran across an interesting chart from TG Daily which shows a side-by-side comparison of market share for both Chrome and IE 8 from Net Applications data. It's very interesting to see that Google has been ahead Microsoft's new browser since they were both launched. To be fair,...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Beta, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-12-15

News to know: Microhoo; Adobe patch; Windows bloat; AMD

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer? Garett Rogers: Google gets business from Yahoo...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Windows 7 debut in 2009? Another reason to skip Vista

If Windows 7 really is scheduled to make an appearance during the second half of 2009, does this mean that making the move to Vista is now a pointless effort? TG Daily claim to have uncovered a roadmap for Windows 7 which suggests that Windows 7 is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Did Intel rig test or out engineer AMD/ATI?

When Humphrey Cheung at TG Daily wrote a glowing review of Intels G965 embedded graphics chipset beating an AMD/ATI X1600 dedicated graphics board on a video playback quality test, AMD cried foul, and other journalists echoed some concerns with the massively one-sided test. That prompted Cheung to write a follow-up...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video cards, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Willis, ATI X1600, video, graphics, ATI Technologies Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Intel's good enough graphics

Intel has been working to convince computer buyers that the graphics capabilities present inside its latest PC chipset, the 965G, are good enough. That is good enough for all the tasks that most people would possibly throw at them, even including some level of gaming. The chipmaker has said much...

Tags: Chipsets, Games, Semiconductors, graphics, game, chipset, Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Inside Apple's new Core 2 Duo chip

Apple released a significant update to the MacBook Pro yesterday adding a new Core 2 Duo T-series processor to the mix. Let's take a look at what's changed.Core 2 Duo MicroprocessorApple has upgraded the MacBook Pro to the latest Intel silicon and the Core 2 Duo chip features a 64-bit...

Tags: Intel Core 2 Duo

Blog posts 2006-10-25

Antispam list gets spammed

Antispam list gets spammedlol at different reports and biasGo check on http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/03/bluesecurity_spammers_hitback/ for a different article on the same subject. While ZDNet says:Spammers are feeling the pressureTG Daily says:Spammers are hitting backbias?lol at different reports and biasGo check on http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/03/bluesecurity_spammers_hitback/ for a different article on the same subject. ...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, spammer, Blue Security, spam, anti-spam

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

Tablet envy

In case you missed it, there's a whole lot going on with tablet development these days - and it's not in the Mac camp.The Wintel community is abuzz about Intel's Ultra Mobile PC UMPC platform and a new product from Microsoft called Origami due to launch on March 9. The...

Tags: Origami, tablet, ultramobile PC

Blog posts 2006-03-08

What does mobile productivity look like?

In our most recent podcast, James and I were talking about the new Ultra Mobile PCs announced by Intel. The concept, in slightly different form, was discussed again at a recent Microsoft Partner Briefing where this new type of device was called a Lifestyle PC. It turned into a conversation...

Tags: telephone

Blog posts 2006-02-13

Eulas revisited and why you should read them

Techdirt says "If You Read The EULA, You'd Never Agree To It", and links to a discussion at Slashdot about another article on EULAs. Note, I previously blogged about EULAs and two new tools that help make sense out of the nonsense found in many EULAs. TG Daily posts about...

Tags: EULA

Blog posts 2005-10-24

Europe likely to opt for biometric passports

Europe likely to opt for biometric passportsOnce again, the united States taking....a nice dump all over the rest of the world. C'mon you Europeans! Come to the land of the surveilled and profiled!:-)What is it that SHEEPLE do not understand.....FREEDOM is RISKY! and here is something for the...

Tags: Government, Rockwell, Red Sox, passport

Discussion threads 2004-10-28