By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By PC World India staff
PC World India
December 10, 2008
BANGALORE - XFX is now offering the popular Far Cry 2 game bundled with its GeForce 9 series of graphics cards. According to a press release, in India the game is being offered free with the GeForce 9600GT card. The XFX GeForce 9 series boasts of a [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Grant Gross
IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)
February 17, 2009
WASHINGTON- Two U.S men have been indicted on several software counterfeiting related charges for allegedly selling pirated software on eBay and through Web sites.
The indictment, announced this week, was returned by a federal grand jury for U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in November. Christopher [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Scott Nichols
PC World (US)
January 21, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Users trying the Windows 7 beta who keep their computers safe with McAfee virus protection are in for a bit of disappointment — and a loss of security. According to a Channel Web report, when you try to run McAfee Total Protection in the Windows 7 [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Rick Broida
PC World (US)
January 06, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - So long, AIM. Farewell, Yahoo Instant Messenger. See you in hell, Windows Live Messenger. Though I still love to chat on your networks, I don’t love your bloated, intrusive, still-non-cross-platform-after-all-these-years software.
Programs like Pidgin and Trillian solve the cross-platform problem, allowing you to sign into multiple networks [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
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PC World (US)
December 10, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - I guess it was really just a matter of time until it happened, but thanks to PlanetBeing, an industrious member of the iPhone Dev Team, Linux is running on an iPhone. iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo
The port is of the Linux 2.6 kernel and can [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Danny Allen
PC World (US)
January 06, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - What would the ultimate full-size laptop need to include to convince you to ditch your desktop for good? Our dual-screen laptop concept merges some of the best tech from Apple, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Toshiba, and others, along with some old-fashioned “if only” whimsy. Read on for [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Carla Thornton
PC World (US)
November 27, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Except for an abrupt keystroke and uninspired sound, the Sony VGN-NR485 has few flaws. It performs well, looks handsome, and comes fairly loaded for a laptop that you can snag for well under US$1000.
A Windows Vista Home Premium laptop powered by a 2-GHz Core 2 Duo [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By James A. Martin
PC World (US)
November 13, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - And now for something completely different: a bit of bright economic news. Several laptops with reasonably robust specs are available for US$500 to $700.
It’s probably no surprise that laptop prices have continued to fall. But those who need a new laptop now might be heartened [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Jon Brodkin
Network World (US)
February 17, 2009
FRAMINGHAM- A startup called Neocleus is preparing to ship a bare-metal desktop hypervisor that it promises will improve endpoint security and let IT shops manage how virtual desktops interact with each other.
The current desktop virtualization market is dominated by Type 2 hypervisors, which run as an application on top [...]
By blogadmin on March 13, 2009
By Lincoln Spector
PC World (US)
January 21, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - The “show desktop” icon disappeared from Rusparadox’s Quick Launch toolbar. He asked the Answer Line Forum how to get it back.
Once again, I have different directions for XP and Vista.
XP:
Select Start, the Run. Type regsvr32 /n /i:u shell32.dll, then press ENTER. A little dialog box will [...]
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