Monthly Archives: February 2008
Consumer group slams RealPlayer as ‘badware’
A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users. In a report published Thursday, StopBadware.org faults the latest version of RealPlayer for secretly installing its Rhapsody Player Engine during the RealPlayer … Continue reading
Intel to launch X48 in mid March, sources claim
Intel has informed motherboard makers that it will definitely launch its X48 chipset in mid March, two months later than its original launch date, according to industry sources. The X48 chipset was originally slated for launch in January, but Intel … Continue reading
Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain-Name Trade
A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links. In October, Dell sued a group of … Continue reading
Windows Server 2008 Is Microsoft`s Leanest, Meanest Yet
“Faster” and “slimmer” are two adjectives to which few software product upgrades can lay legitimate claim—particularly if the software upgrade in question is a Windows operating system.And, yet, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, which recently hit the RTM (release to manufacturing) … Continue reading
Kodak Designs New CMOS Sensor
Eastman Kodak Company revealed today in a press release that it has created the world’s first 1.4 micron, 5 megapixel device, the KAC-05020 Image Sensor. Using significantly smaller pixels, this sensor enables a higher level of resolution in small optical … Continue reading