Nokia handsets are advised to visit their nearest Nokia Center to upgrade their fones that are still using an old version of the Symbian OS. This advice came after a code was discovered that could make your handset crash by recieving specially-formatted text message from other celfones. The bug, called “Curse of Silence”, prevents incoming SMS messages from being received …
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Creative: Zii Computing
Creative Technology Ltd. has released a teaser of its upcoming product, Zii: Stemcell Computing, that will be unveiled at CES 2009 on January 8, 2009. Drawing our inspiration from the intelligence of Mother Nature – who through over a billion years of evolution has designed the basic building block of life: the stem cell – we have created a stem …
Read More »Windows 7 Beta Leaked
Microsoft’s upcoming new operating system Windows 7 Beta is being distributed at popular BitTorrent sites including Pirate Bay and Mininova. Build 7000 of Microsoft Windows 7 Beta is beeing distributed at torrent sites probably been leaked as we’re sure Microsoft would not let its own OS to be distributed other than their official website. This is not the first time …
Read More »AVAST Update Blocks WoW Account
I always start my day by powering my PC and checking news sites. My AVAST Home Antivirus is doing its routine by automatically downloading and updating its virus signature to the latest available which is always great for this free software. An e-mail arrived at my Windows Mail inbox coming from World of Warcraft’s billing informing me of my successful …
Read More »Intel: No Ion for Atom
In what seems to be a breakthrough for netbook fans after NVIDIA announced their Ion platform which promises to greatly improve its performance whilst consuming a little bit more in battery energy, then comes Intel refusing to acknowledge it’s ever gonna happen. How? Basically, Ion will use Intel’s Atom microprocessor but eschewing 945GSE and 945GC, the component that delivers display …
Read More »Phenom II OC’ed to 5.9GHz!
The title says it all! The upcoming microprocessor from AMD has achieved 5925MHz overclocked. This was made possible by using Liquid Nitrogen to cool the CPU under -190 °C and with a voltage of 1.9V. The three German national, “MusicIsMyLife”, “Hoschi” and “masterchorch”, tested three Phenom II CPUs and could confirm the outstanding results at Planet 3Dnow!. The faster speed …
Read More »AMD/ATI Prep 40nm RV740 GPU
2009 will be a bloody war for the video card industry as NVIDIA with its upcoming GTX 295 with dual GPU hitting the shelves January next year. Touted as the card that will regain the single card performance king held by AMD/ATI for its 4870 X2. Nevertheless, AMD/ATI is preparing as well, RV740 targeting the midrange category. RV740 is rumored …
Read More »Play on Your Netbook? NVIDIA has the Answer
Playing games on current generation of netbooks is not yet possible at this time due to underpowered components particularly the graphics processor built into it. NVIDIA will be offering a new integrated GPU to accompany the power of Intel’s Atom CPU. The new integrated GPU will be the Geforce 9400 codenamed “Ion”. Clearly it is more powerful than the current …
Read More »X-Play Moved NBA Street Online Launch to Early 2009
NBA fans will have to wait a bit more as X-Play moved the launch of NBA Street Online to anytime early 2009. No definite date was given yet by X-Play. Earlier, an official press release state that NBA Street Online will launch November of 2008 but was delayed and no further news were heard. Not even the official website post …
Read More »Ragnarok Online: Battlegrounds Newbie Guide V1.2.1 (updated)
First there was PVP, then WoE, then WoE 2.0, now there is Battlegrounds. What is battlegrounds you ask? What is this new thing Ragnarok Online offers that players are going gaga over? Read on kapatid and find out! Ragnarok Online Battlegrounds is basically a PVP arena with the same skill and damage rules as WoE, only it offers so much more than the sheer fun of owning a castle (agit). To give us a better idea of what it is exactly let’s start with the background story.
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