Archive for January, 2009

AMD Phemon II X4 @ 6.5GHz – Fastest Quad Core overclock breaks 3D Mark world record

Records are tumbling as AMD folks shows their professional skills to break number of world records related to CPUs. At the deserts of Las Vegas, few individuals from AMD have taken their new 45nm processor to its limit  with the help of liquid Helium to break few processor related world records.

Monster.com database hacked – Hackers are looking to employee ?

Hackers are looking to employee ? As it seems, some one or some group of hackers have gain access to Monster.com word wide data base and may have stolen some data out of it. As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to [...]

Google sends out early adsense payout via BlueDart (India)

It seems, this month Google is sending early adsense payouts, that too via private (BlueDart) priority courier service. Till last month, Google used to send cheque to Indian Adsense users via local government postal service. Where as in US or in other states the optional private courier service was available however for which an user [...]

Apple OS X gets a Virus attack – P2P distributed iWork 09 comes with OSX.Trojan.iServices.A Trojan Horse

And you thought MAC wont get an infection ? Intego, a leading security application developer for OS X platform just issued a major security bulletin warning all apple users about a potential threat. Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is currently circulating in copies of Apple’s iWork 09 found on BitTorrent trackers [...]

Godaddy to sell .IN and all related ccTLDs

It seems the worlds largest domain registrar Godaddy, has just started to accept domain registration request for Indian ccTLDs. It is been a while since the demand of .IN and related ccTLDs have gone up, and gone up dramatically as the availability of the primary .com / .net domains are becoming a major issue. One [...]

Kaspersky / Norton (Symantec) / AVG – AntiVirus / Security products for Microsoft Windows 7

With the beta of Windows 7 coming in the market, security software manufacturers are also releasing their Windows 7 specific AntiVirus or Internet security software. Microsoft is actively working with additional security software vendors on the availability of the security software solutions  for Windows 7 Beta and Windows 7 RTM. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/windows-7.aspx Download Windows 7 Beta [...]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 / ES.2 / DiamondMax 22 drive issue – Company issues major firmware updates

Alarming news for all Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 / ES.2 / DiamondMax 22, hard drive users as a company statement confirms the potential flaw in the firmware of their brand new Barracuda 7200.11 / ES.2 / DiamondMax 22 drives. In last few weeks there were lots of web reports from around the world suggesting that the [...]

List of motherboard / mainboard for Intel Core i7 (Quad / Eight) processors with support of LGA 1366

The first batch of Nehalem platform based processors are now in retail market. Few major changes since the launch of Core 2 range CPUs back in 2006. Introduction Socket LGA 1366 by replacing the LGA 775, which is running since 2004 with support for wide range of processors, including Pentium 4 / Pentium D / [...]

How to make your internet connection faster ?

At-least 10,000 times, since 2000, in last 8 years I have google-d / MSN-ed / Yahoo-ed / Altavisat-ed and all other search engine-ed to find the right answer or tips and tricks or tweaks for the question as how do I make my Internet connection faster ? No matter what type of connection I use, [...]