continue excursion into the history of video cards. Today let’s talk about a bright members of the family of graphics cards S3 Virtual Reality Graphics Engine (ViRGE) – S3 ViRGE / DX. Series S3 ViRGE video card designed for the mass market and combined the both 2D, and 3D accelerators. The popularity of the brand [...]

One of the pillars of the modern world of software development – the creator of Java James Gosling (James Gosling) – reported from the pages of a personal blog that became an employee of the corporation Google. The report does not say what Gosling will be engaged in the walls of the search giant, assuming [...]

Cisco Systems has announced the acquisition of privately-owned company newScale. The purchase is subject to customary conditions and is intended to be, according to Cisco in the second half of the fiscal year completed in 2011. Financial details are not known. The network equipment will be strengthened with the acquisition of cloud-portfolio. NewScale developed tools [...]

companies Panasonic and Xpand 3D recently launched an initiative to create a standard for stereoscopic glasses. M-3DI, already had the support of companies such as Hitachi, Mitsubishi, ViewSonic and Seiko Epson, will create a universal approach to the active shutter glasses technology not only in the market for LCD TVs, but also in the sector [...]

Weak security and critical gaps in the network the U.S. space agency NASA could allow an attack from the Internet, prevents the missions or steal important data. This is in a government report titled “Inadequate Security Practices Expose Key NASA Network to Cyber ​​Attack” (PDF). NASA operates a number of networks for projects like the [...]

“routing-service.de” is “black sheep” of the Month in March (Photo: OpSec). The libel award “The Black Sheep” in March 2010 goes to the operators of the site route planner service. com . OpSec, initiator of the prize, explains the decision by the way, as there are surfers led to a subscription. Users report that they [...]

HTC is planning to purchase a share of Taiwan’s service streaming audio KKBOX. Acquired the share is 11.1%, which would cost HTC some 30 million dollars. Service KKBOX popular on the island of Taiwan and Hong Kong. In carrying out the transaction helps telecommunications company Chunghwa Telecom, which owns 30% KKBOX. service provides users with [...]

Concepts – is the voice of the people. Either way, they stimulate the engineering genius, and the light does appear that yesterday could only imagine how the concept. Sometimes it takes many years, but sometimes closer to realization than it seems. In the double ‘cot »Triple Flip has almost nothing is impossible. Triple Flip is [...]

Throughout history, mankind fought fire with fire with water. This “technology” has proven himself well, although in current conditions it is justified is not always necessary, and today the use of plain water for fighting fires is something almost archaic. As, however, foam or powder extinguishers, because the principle is still the same, even if [...]

analyst Didier Asymco Horace (Horace Didieu) carefully considered the sale of the previous generation iPhone and concluded that demand for the iPhone 5 will be significantly higher than in previous years. This will contribute to consumer interest and bias – people are increasingly becoming smartphones. For the entire life cycle of the iPhone 4 can [...]

Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Image: ZDNet.com.au) Hackers have broken into the computer systems of the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Foreign Minister and Defense Minister Stephen Smith. They reportedly had up to a month unlimited access. News Ltd newspapers write that would now suspected by the state-sponsored hackers from China. The Australian Government [...]

users professionally engaged in photography and video filming, the company addresses the new Patriot Memory Card line LX PRO Series format, SDHC, belonging to the tenth grade, speed (Class 10). According to the developers, their offspring are capable of sending data at an impressive speed of 20 MB / sec. In this case the court [...]

The daughter Symantec MessageLabs has between 15 and 17 March registered a significant decline of the global spam volumes. The number of unsolicited e-mails during this period went up 33.6 percent from around 52 billion messages per day to 33 billion messages. The reason was that prompted the closure of Microsoft Rustock botnet. Rustock was [...]

Microsoft has released Windows Home Server 2011 (codename Vail) for publication. TechNet and MSDN subscribers can download the Final from the beginning of April. Then a trial version is also available. The first devices with WHS in 2011, Microsoft said will be in May in the trade. Windows Home Server 2011 is built on Windows [...]

ZDNet app for Android Three months after the launch of the ZDNet app for the IOS platform is now also a version for Android version 1.6 for download. Together with the Android app also has a new version of IOS (version 3.1) available. Differently than the previous app is the new version also optimized for [...]