Intel plans to end the product cycle for 10 of its Core 2 based CPUs. Four of these are quad cores while six are Core 2 Duo SKUs. The first to die are two Core 2 Extreme CPUs, the QX6800 and QX6850 that actually ended their life cycle in July. The QX6850 is replaced by the super overclockable Q9650. (...) read more>>

Apple has sent out invitations to all its tame press to print its latest press release next week. The invitation, for an event titled "Let's Rock," went out Tuesday morning inviting media to the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco next Tuesday. (...) read more>>

Internet Explorer 8 needs more than double the system memory of its main rival Firefox, and spawns nearly six times the number of processor threads. (...) read more>>

The current Geforce GTX 260 has 192 Shaders and it looks that the new one will have 216. The story is quite simpe. The GT200 core has 10 units with each featuring 24 Shaders and instead of eight clusters enabled with the old GTX 260, Nvidia will enable nine. (...) read more>>

Further proof that the so called peoples encyclopaedia is under the control of politicians has come to light in the case of John McCains running mate Sarah Palin. (...) read more>>

With ever increasingly fast digital cameras which can shoot more and more pictures per second at higher and higer resolutions, not to mention the large influx of SD based camcorders, we're not surprised to see SanDisk launching its latest Extreme III SD 30MB/s Edition cards with read and write speeds of 30MB/s. (...) read more>>

Google is testing software that allows users to fiddle around with query results by re-ranking them and writing comments. (...) read more>>

Estonia is hosting the Web sites of Georgia's central bank and Foreign Ministry to try to protect them from cyber attacks. (...) read more>>

While Toshiba lost the HD disc war to Blu-ray, it seems that they are not ready to throw in the towel all the way just yet. Taiwanese optical disc drive makers have been trying to acquire the Toshiba HD DVD patents without success. (...) read more>>

Creative has expanded its X-Fi lineup with yet another so-so product, the X-Fi Go! Now, we're not sure who would really want this, as it seems to be a mishmash product aimed possibly at people that hang out at internet cafes and want better sound when playing games. (...) read more>>

Microsoft has ploughed shedloads of cash into the Internet TV company Move Networks.

At the moment it is not clear how much money Microsoft has put into Move but it seems to be hoping that the company will broaden the reach of its video streaming technology. The pair already had set up a strategic partnership six months ago and Microsoft said it would support Move Network's video streaming technology within Silverlight. (...) read more>>

Chinese mandarins have allowed Apple's glorious iTunes to continue to function behind the bamboo curtain, but access to the free Tibet album that sparked the ruckus is blocked. (...) read more>>

As the US economy has slumped, pundits have been sitting around waiting for the IT hardware industry to go tits up. However for some strange reason it hasn't and Tom Smith, who follows computer hardware stocks for Standard & Poor's Equity Research thinks that this time there is something strong about the connection people have to their laptops. (...) read more>>

We heard and confirmed that some state of the art engines such as Doom, Unreal or Cry engines will set you back at least $400,000. (...) read more>>

Dual-core-based CPUs are going to remain on Intel's roadmap for longer than many expected. This is mainly because of the fact that it is very hard to write a real multi threaded code that can really use the benefits of more than two cores. (...) read more>>