August 2008 - News

  Thanks Robert . In a post about journalism Robert Scoble points to a book " Blue Planet Run ". In Robert's words: "It’s a stunning book. Shocking." The Rick Smolan book is available for free on Amazon . Spend time...

ASUS Z7S WS Receives Intel Innovation Award --Integrating Dual CPU Performance with Compact Size -- FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (August 19, 2008) - ASUS, a leading name in high quality computer components and solutions, received an Intel Server and Storage Innovation...

There have been more than a few rumors in the press lately about nVidia getting out of the chipset business. Most of these revolve around the poor reception of the 790i by OEMs (many of whom are pulling boards based on this chipset). Some claim that nVidia...

With IE8 Beta 2 ante portals people start talking more about the next major release of the Internet Explorer. If you followed the discussions on the portal, the forums and blogs , you probably know more than I about what's coming. Be it as is may...

Steven Newhouse and Wenming Ye have spent some time together producing a great series of technical webcasts on Windows HPC Server 2008. Here's the 5 (in words: five) sessions plus a tiny teaser to wet your appetite. Teaser Intro HPC Basic Profile...

My collection of favorite blog posts from last week in no particular order. Intel backs Microsoft’s concurrent-computing play on Mary-Jo Foley's blog I found the first reference (I'm always a bit late) to Intel's plans on integrating...

David interviewed Mark Russinovich over on TechNet Edge. Don't miss the opportunity to get an inside view into Mark's life (well, his life at Microsoft at least). http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals...

Not too long ago we took a look at an HTPC board from GIGABYTE with AMD’s 780G chipset on it, the GA-MA78GM-S2H. This board was fairly nice and would be good enough for most HTPC usage. There was a problem though. When GIGABYTE designed it they did not...