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Security Update for Microsoft Mac Office 2004 and 2008

10 March 2010, 11:39 am by:
Microsoft published seucirty update for the Mac Edtion of Office 2OO4 and 2008. It fixes a potential security breach affecting Excel. Direct link to the resources:Update Office 2008 (222 MB).Updater Office 2004 (9,7 MB) 

NVIDIA: The Nightmare Period Continues...

9 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
It really seems that NVIDIA is experiencing the darkest period of its history. After numerous issues and problems, the latest one being the delay for the production and the availability of Fermi-based graphic cards, a new story will again darken even...

Cisco Announces New Ultra Fast Routing System

9 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
Cisco unveiled yesterday new routing systems able to revolutionize the worldwide network edge: the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. According to the company, the new system is designed to serve as the foundation for the next generation internet, and sho...

Blu-ray Drives Never Been Cheaper

9 March 2010, 3:10 pm by:
Digitimes announced that the price of Blu-ray drives dramatically dropped over the past weeks, reaching a price range of 70 to 80 USD. It remains more expensive than the DVD burner drive; however it could help computer companies to integrate such opt...

Games on Mac: A True Comeback?

9 March 2010, 12:22 am by:
The Mac community of gamers is getting excited as Valve, the famous game editor on Windows (for Half-life and counter-strike for examples) started a "teasing" campaign as the company will release games on Mac OS X in a near future. It seems quite cle...

Intel: people do not really need powerful graphics chips

8 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
Hardly a week goes by without us criticizing the bad performances of the graphics chips of Intel that the foundery has now the bad idea to directly install next to the processor, removing any chance to be able to doing without it. In an intervie...

A SSD To Optimize HD-based RAID Volume

8 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
If SSDs are clearly offering higher performance levels than disc-based HD, it is also clear than they remain too expensive for being true competitors when it comes to save large amount of data. LSI just introduced a new solution aiming to g...

Macs To Be More Expensive In Europe And In The Rest Of The World BESIDE USA!?

8 March 2010, 3:08 pm by:
This is a rather hot topic, as many EU customers are already complaining about the higher price of Mac on this side of the Atlantic, when compared to USA; especially considering that we are closer to the assembling lines located in China... The way o...

Local APR Getting More And More Upset Against Apple And Its Policies

8 March 2010, 3:03 pm by:
Over the last past years, we have already been reporting about the tension between Apple and its APR (Apple Premium Resellers). They have been supporting Apple during the crisis ranging from mid-90 to 2002, and they did not really benefit from the "r...

A Trojan horse in a battery charger

8 March 2010, 9:00 am by:
A Trojan horse (Windows) was detected in the software accompanying a USB Energizer DUO charger of batteries. It opens a port on the affected PC that makes it possible to be able to reach it easily from outside. Even though it is impossible not t...

NVidia: It is not our fault that we rename our graphic cards

7 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
Grace of being the champion of the graphics cards, all at least for the moment, Nvidia excels at a practice that is heavily criticized, that to regularly rename their graphics cards that are rather ancient and sometimes go back a few years in order t...

RSA 1024-bits Key Encryption Cracked!

7 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
Scientist from the University of Michigan reports to have found a weakness in the key encryption system used for almost all authentication process. They also describe the associated way to exploit it to crack the key in about 100 hours while it would...

500 GB SandForce-based SSD

7 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
Following other SS manufacturers (among them OCZ and OWC), G.Skill announced its future SSD models based on the SandForce 1200 controller: All models will arrive in April and will be slightly different than current models based on the same controlle...

Counterfeited Core i7 on NewEgg

7 March 2010, 3:09 pm by:
A report from a reader of Overclockers.com illustrates how counterfeited products can be found in an increasing number of places, here the new target is the popular Intel Core i7: Retrospect, we could spot some weird details, otherwise the...

Manufacturers of SSDs are made anxious by a possible success of the iPad

5 March 2010, 11:45 pm by:
If though the iPad seems to have production problems at the moment, it would be expected that 600.000 to 1 million units will be produced monthly. This represents enormous quantities of flash memory chip for the models: 16,32 or 64 GB.Howev...

iPad Available in USA on April 3rd

5 March 2010, 7:02 am by:
In a press release, Apple announced the launch of the pre-order campaign for the forthcoming iPad: Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for...

Support for Blu-ray Playback on Mac OS X: Far from Being There

5 March 2010, 3:02 am by:
As you might know, we have an insider source following the discussion between Apple and the AA CS LA regarding royalties for adding support for Blu-ray playback in Mac OS X. While discussion started in 2007, this source just let us know that there is...

Apple does some more house cleaning in the AppStore

4 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
After having prohibited all that could in any way being considered as software with some sexual connotation, Apple is now attacking with a new segment. They withdrew, without warning, all the software which used an undocumented API iniPhone SDK ...

Sony comes out fighting to compete with the iPad

4 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
Sony seems to have leaned from its past errors. After having seen the market of the walkmans escaping from them, they do not want to leave the field free for Apple with the iPad. The Wall Street Journal  announced a product which would like...

Google declares war on Apple and Microsoft ?

4 March 2010, 9:00 pm by:
A declaration by the Vice President of operations of Google is likely to light a fire between Google and the providers of traditional OS, Microsoft and Apple. He thinks that in 3 years time the desktop machines such as they are conceived today will b...

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