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USB 2.0 with its 480 Mbps theoritical bandwidth has become ubiquitous in PCs of all sizes and shapes. However, unwary consumers may not be getting the high-bandwidth devices they believe they are when buying USB 2.0 peripherals. AP has a write-up on an issue that many had hoped would have died months ago when the [...]

Shacknews verified and got an update, read below:
1) We’ve taken our network connection down to pretty much a minimum. We’re still finding machines internally that have been compromised.
2) The suite of tools that the attacker was using included the modified version of RemotelyAnywhere (basically a Remote Desktop-style remote admin tool), Haxker Defender (a process, registry [...]

Anarchy Online:Shadowlands (PC) - GameZone

Age of Mythology: The Titans (PC) - GameSpot

Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic (PC) - Boomtown

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII (PC) - Worthplaying

Chariots of War (PC) - The Entertainment Depot

Emergency Fire Response (PC) - The Entertainment Depot

Enigma: Rising Tide (PC) - Game Chronicles

Etherlords II [...]

VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes.
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Ice Cube will replace Vin Diesel in the Revolution sequel to its action franchise XXX, to be directed by Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day).
Originally envisioned as a franchise to star Diesel, Cube will step in to play a new character who is recruited by the National Security Agency to become a XXX agent. The XXX [...]

A new development in the DVD recordable area has been announced by the DVD+RW Alliance that might take the current DVD format war in a totally different direction. The new dual layer technology will make it possible that a whopping 8.5 GB of data can be stored on the discs while remaining compatible with current [...]

Atari today announced plans to develop a patch for its recently released PC game, The Temple of Elemental Evil, set in the Dungeons & Dragons World of Greyhawk created by Wizards of the Coast. The patch, which is initially slated to release later this month, will address a number of issues associated with the retail [...]

Users of Yahoo’s enterprise instant messaging (IM) product can now launch Web conferences right from their IM client, Yahoo said Thursday.
The marriage of IM and Web conferencing, both relatively new to the enterprise IT space, is the result of an agreement between Yahoo and WebEx Communications, a San Jose, California-based Web conferencing company. The [...]

LonghornBlogs.com is a community initiative to help spread the word with factual information about the next version of Windows, straight from the people that are building it. Because of this, the majority of people posting here (at least for now) will be Microsoft employees. Our intention here was to keep the signal-to-noise ratio extremely high. [...]

Judge Dredd: Dredd Versus Death is a futuristic first-person shooter in which players will patrol the streets of Mega-City One as elite law enforcer Judge Dredd. For more information on Judge Dredd: Dredd Versus Death, check out our previous coverage of all four versions of the game using the links above.