Posts from ‘July, 2008’

Back in February, a French team that is part of Tom’s Hardware managed to double the cycles of an Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 2.4GHz. Now, nearly five months later they are bragging about it, claiming a world record with an overclocked speed of 5.1GHz.

Can Dell beat Apple in the iPod game? According to reports it’s going to try with a Dell digital music player that could go on sale as early as September. Can Dell succeed is the question, or will it end up another Cuil to Google’s, well, Google?

[The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to rule on Friday against Comcast over violating federal policy by deliberately preventing some customers sharing video files online. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Comcast admitted "delaying" traffic to file sharing sites and services like BitTorrent but deemed the measure as necessary for user who overburden [...]

Not so much discussed in the press this week was the alleged move of major record labels teaming with UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to crack down on piracy. In a campaign to reduce the losses of the record labels, there is no benefit to the users. Above all, our privacy will be invaded when [...]

This was under wraps for a while now but Gina released the “news”. The Forum for European Journalism Students (FEJS) will be holding its annual conference in Lincoln. More details after the jump.

When Jurnalul National (National Journal), the Romanian newspaper with the biggest number of sold copies launched their “new” beta site, made by the boys at DWD.ro, they decided to go cheap. Consequently, one should have a look at the obscene similarities with Guardian’s site.