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From our front-page news: Honeywell probably isn't a name that first comes to mind when dealing with home video equipment, but lately they've been introducing some interesting products. In late August, they announced a "self-healing" HDMI cable, which corrects HDCP and EDID data before it...

From our front-page news:Spike TV is a network that came out of nowhere and somehow became a trusted source for video games. How this happened, I'm unsure. Questions aside, their awards show, Spike Video Game Awards, is now an event looked forward to by gamers everywhere. Their fourth aired last...

From our front-page news: The ASUS Eee has been selling incredibly well in the marketplace, and it's not much of a surprise. The ultra-portable notebook weighs only 2lbs, has sufficient capabilities and costs only $400. What's not to love? Well, the warranty was an issue... until now. Ambitious...

From our front-page news: Companies who sue small companies over frivolous matters is nothing new, but this is one of the more <strike>humorous</strike> hilarious ones. Lexus, who sued a pornographic actress earlier this year for using their namesake as a stagename, is now apparently so bored...

From our front-page news:I grew up and still live in Canada, so I am not familiar with CompUSA at all. However, it's easy to see the impact it had on B&M stores since it's first opening in 1984. The franchise closed many stores earlier this year, so the writing was on the wall. The rest of the...

From our front-page news: ASUS announced last week the first 8800GT card equipped with 1GB of GDDR3, courtesy of Qimonda. Equipped with the extra memory, the EN8800GT is destined to allow the highest of resolutions while keeping maximum quality settings. Of course this is said of all cards, but...

Smaller displays don't need to lack features, and ASUS proves this with their PG221 22-inch wide-screen. It boasts such specs as 2ms GTG, 2000:1 and stellar design. Where its unique though, is with it's large subwoofer. Yes, we said subwoofer! Do the features make up for it's higher price? You...

From our front-page news: I began using Linux full-time about eighteen months ago, and since then I've come to enjoy it so much that I've have a very difficult time moving back to Windows if I had to. Oddly enough, one of the reasons is thanks to a single application: Amarok. It might sound odd...

From our front-page news: Intel's Celeron processors have been designed for value-conscious consumers since their inception, and that is not about to change. However, as the rest of Intel's line-up continues to grow and improve, so do their budget offerings, which is evidenced by the new E1200...

From our front-page news: Ripoffs in video gaming is nothing new. Whether it's EA's downloadable content for items that can be acquired through regular gameplay or rechargeable gamepad battery packs that need to be purchased separately... it sucks getting played for a fool. The latest case is...

http://jalopnik.com/cars/speed-racer/the-speed-racer-trailer-prepare-to-trip-balls-331126.php I was looking forward to this one... but not so much now. I might just see it for nostalgias sake, not sure. Is it a new fad to screw up franchises?

From our front-page news: There are few companies that leave me constantly impressed, but Seagate is one of them. Their products have never left me disappointed, which is why all my computers use their hard-drives. Even their RMA process is rather painless - something I figured out a few years...

From our front-page news: I have to admit something. I love the Playstation 3. Despite not playing it as often as my Xbox 360 (which recently died), I get excited each time I turn it on simply because it's well-designed and offers plenty of power. Another plus is the fact that Sony has been...

From our front-page news:We reported yesterday regarding Tech Report's look into the errata issue that is plaguing all current Barcelona-based processors, including the desktop-aimed Phenom. The issue resides within the TLB logic for the L3 cache which can, on a rare occasion, crash the...

I am working on a review of a Toshiba Satellite P205D, which features an AMD dual-core and is suited for the business/media crowd. So far, I am enjoying it quite a bit and have no serious complaints, except that I wish the monitor was a tad sharper and had less fade at small angles. That...

SEGA Corporation has filed a new application to protect the trademark Dreamcast - sparking rumours that the Japanese publisher is planning on making a shock return to the console manufacturing market with the Dreamcast 2. The application, sent to the United States Patent and Trademark Office's...

From our front-page news:The latest entry to the "How the hell did this happen" files has to do with EVE Online's latest game patch, which adds a slew of functionality and upgrades and also manages to kill off a Windows XP installation. For those not aware, Windows XP uses a file in the root...

From our front-page news: MMORPG titles first hit the gaming scene in a big way eight years ago with the help of Asheron's Call and Everquest, and since then, things have changed drastically. Back then, all titles were unique... there just wasn't that much competition at the time. Nowadays it's...

From our front-page news: Vista has proven to be a popular operating system over the past year, but mostly thanks to the fact that it's bundled with the majority of new computers sold... desktops or notebooks. To catch on even greater though, problems need to be fixed. Service Pack 1 is supposed...