Intel's upgradable processor: good sense or utter catastrophe?

Intel is about to experiment with a new concept in mass-market processors with its forthcoming Pentium G6951 CPU: upgradability. The chips will be upgradable by end users via a purchased code that is punched in to a special program. Previews of the processor quietly hit the Web last month, and with Engadget's post of the retail packaging, people took notice with reactions ranging from surprise to outright disgust. The Pentium G6951 is a low-end processor. Dual core, 2.8GHz, 3 MB cache, and expected to be around $90 each when bought in bulk—identical to the already-shipping Pentium G6950. The special part is the software unlock. Buy an unlock...

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AMD ships Llano, the ultimate HTPC processor

It has been five years since the AMD/ATI merger promised us the "Fusion" of a CPU and GPU onto a single die, and on Monday AMD finally made good on that promise with the shipping of the company's first true multicore CPU/GPU combo parts, codenamed "Llano." Sure, the Brazos platform launch was technically the first time that AMD put a CPU and GPU onto the same die, but Llano is supposed to be what the company originally intended with Fusion—a combination of CPU cores and vector hardware that's somehow more "integrated" than a normal on-die GPU. (The exact way in which the latter is true is not clear to me; if anyone knows, feel free to enlighten.) The picture above is from AMD's blog post announcing that Llano is shipping to OEMs, and it shows the workers in the company's Singapore factory...

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Tips To Keep Your Computer Safe From Attack

When you have a computer, you start to accumulate important things. Photos, documents, files, and programs are all important components. You maybe have a music collection, a lot of important information and things that if lost, would cause a lot of heartache and misery. Sometimes people keep their entire school portfolio of work online or conduct businesses and work documents are protected on peoples’ personal computers. That is why a virus can be a really devastating thing when it takes over the system of a computer. It can cause serious damage and cause you to lose all of your work.Sometimes when a virus gets really out of hand and causes all...

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Has Your Personal Data Been Leaked on The Internet?

The latest gadget on everyone’s most wanted list is the iPad. They are cool and less bulky than a laptop but more simple to use than a netbook, plus they have the ability to use all the applications in the iTunes store. They can be used for work or play and could be used as a phone too.Apple computers are notorious for being the most secure as they do not suffer from virus attacks as machines using a Window’s operating system can do. Apple machines are often chosen by security conscious computer users who believe they will be safe from many internet viruses.However a group of iPad owners have been the victim of an internet security scam which resulted in 114,000 email addresses on the AT&T mobile network being revealed without their permission. Two American citizens have been charged with...

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Firewall Configure

Additionally, a firewall provides defense against people or programs, including viruses and worms that try to connect to your computer without any invitation.Firewall act as a barrier that checks all information, also known as traffic, which comes from the Internet or from a different network. The firewall either turns traffic away or let it pass through to your computer, depending on your firewall settings.In Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you may turn off or turn on the Windows Firewall. By default, Windows Firewall is always turned on for all the network interfaces. This is the configuration which provides network protection on...

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