By Zack Stern PC World (US) January 06, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – With only a few days left in the year, I’ve been looking for ways to upgrade my PCs while still scoring deductions on my 2008 taxes. Whatever your motivation, a few simple upgrades can make you more productive. And these upgrades make more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

k 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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]