Archive for September 1st, 2003

Can RSS Trump Spam?

From Internet News - “With scam artists, spammers and virus writers all using the e-mail inbox as the main target, it has become a daily nightmare for legitimate online publishers and marketers to cope with mail filters, blacklists and irate subscribers. Enter RSS… the XML syndication format that allows publishers to shuttle content to news [...]

Microsoft has once again shifted the schedule for the release of “Longhorn,” the company’s next major version of Windows. The product was originally expected to ship next year. Then in May of this year, officials pushed back the release date to 2005. But now executives are declining to say when they expect the software to [...]

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb review

Tweak Town has dropped word of their review of the beefy 256Mb edition of the 9800 Pro from ATi. The card is expensive over it’s 128Mb brother. Does the extra 128Mb serve a purpose? Well don’t expect to find that purpose in this review. Can you believe it? No AA or AF results. WTF is [...]

Will Microsoft Change IE?

Microsoft told the Web’s leading standards body that it’s considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued a statement Thursday indicating that Microsoft is mulling its options after a federal court earlier this month [...]

XBOX IS PLATINUM AGAIN

Microsoft has brought out its second wave of Platinum Hits titles for Xbox in the US.
Available for a budget price of $19.99, the games included in the second wave will be: Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Dead or Alive 3, Dead to Rights, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin, James Bond [...]

World’s thinnest camcorder

New pocket-sized digital camcorder from Panasonic that eschews video tape entirely and records to SecureDigital Flash memory cards instead. The D-snap SV-AV100, which is supposed to be the world’s thinnest camcorder (we think some of those new videocamphones in Japan might lay claim to that title), weighs just 156 grams, has a 10x optical zoom [...]