Computer Industry News

Jetline Systems has launched it's latest line of high performance flight simulation gaming computers. The companies newest offering is the Intel Core i7 powered Xjett 795. The Xjett gaming series is focused on providing flight sim enthusiasts the necessary performance to run their favorite gaming software at the most optimum level possible.

With many of the latest big budget cinema releases being available in 3D, and everyone talking about the 3D future of television, many eyes are starting to focus on 3D hologram projections...without the glasses!

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) is light years ahead of its predecessors, but by no means does that proclamation mean that the browser is perfect. You are still going to encounter issues with IE from time to time.

Recently I had a program cause a problem with; well I’m not sure exactly what. But it created a file folder that absolutely could not be deleted no matter what I tried. I tried to rename it, to move it, to delete it, from safe mode, from administrator safe mode, nothing worked.

Panasonic showcased their 150 inch plasma at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, trumping their puny 103 inch model from last year. Currently they use this sucker for stadiums as a jumbo tron, but pretty soon you can buy one for your living room.

It's a threat Microsoft can't let stand: the entire third world learning Linux as children, and growing up to use it. And Microsoft is going to get its way.

Microsoft said Tuesday that it will offer $1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), a big player in the enterprise search market.

Today, Mitchell Baker announced plans to step down as Mozilla Corporation (MoCo) CEO, a role that will be turned over to John Lilly, who has previously served as Mozilla COO. Baker and Lilly have been deftly tag-teaming Mozilla operational responsibilities for many months and will still work closely together going forward. Baker, who will continue to serve as Mozilla chairwoman and plans to focus on new initiatives that will serve Mozilla's long-term interests, believes that Lilly is presently best suited for the CEO position.

The backers of the Blu-ray high definition DVD system are predicting victory in the format wars with HD DVD.  The two rival camps have divided consumers since the two incompatible systems were launched.

Remember October's news of Comcast throttling Bit Torrent traffic? The debacle not only created a firestorm of bad press for the nation's largest cable provider but also re-ignited the nationwide debate about Net Neutrality. We had numerous signs that Comcast was inhibiting our use of this legal and legitimate file transfer protocol, but to have the AP catch them red handed was icing on the cake.

Bill Gates has heralded the arrival of the world's “second digital decade”, predicting that within a few years technology will be in every room in the home, from screens to wall projections and even built into desks or tables.

I am confirming that Network Solutions steals domain ideas when people check domain availability on the Network Solutions website. They seem to have started the practice of stealing domain ideas on December 16th 2007 according to our Domain History database but I was just made aware of this practice today. I am appalled at the concept of taking people’s domain ideas and registering it before the consumer has the ability to manually register the domain.

The same way light confuses scientists by existing as particles and waves at the same time, information increasingly seems to confuse us. Information is getting cheaper and more expensive at the same time, and it appears that many of us, especially those of us who own or control a great deal of it, no longer understand how to observe or use it.

The initials F-C-C don't usually engender excitement, but at least according to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, it's ground zero for most of the broadcasting, wireless and high-bandwidth landline innovations we'll see in the next couple years. Martin spilled on everything from the 700MHz auction to a rumored DirecTV/Dish network merger. (Seriously.) They covered a lot of stuff, here's the Cliff's Notes

A friend of mine contacted me asking my opinion on why Google isn’t loving Celebrity Cowboy. Celebrity Cowboy is a celebrity blog that should be ranking well for a variety of terms is, for some reason, continually under-performing for its niche.

Rumors just won't stop about the future of HD DVD, and while we try not to post all of them, some seem too believable to pass up. Our friend Bill Hunt, at the Digital Bits, -- still waiting on those permalinks, Bill -- is reporting that his "second to none" sources informed him that both Universal and Paramount are in the process of going blu.

For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.

Today, we get a new blogging platform from Russian/San Francisco startup Profy. Does the world need another blogging platform? Maybe not. But, hey, give the Russians a chance.

AT&T executive James Cicconi, senior vice president of external & legal affairs must not read the news before opening their mouths. The New York Times Bits Blog is reporting this morning that representatives at CES have openly stated today “that they may start filtering Internet content.”

Get ready, speed freaks. USB 3.0, the oft-rumored, much-discussed, rarely seen new standard heading our way has been spotted, sliced, chopped, and diced at CES 2008. Actually, we just got a chance to check the connectors and compare with the old 2.0 standard (which the reps tell us is backward compatible, of course).

The long awaited xJETT series is a microATX system that has been specifically designed for flight simulation games. The xJETT focuses on processor power (the most important performance factor in flight sim). The xJETT features high end dual core processors from AMD and Intel. There is an available CPU overclocking option on the xJETT 700.

Samsung Semiconductor executives said Monday that the concept of a hard drive incorporating flash memory will be a reality, and come to market in mid-2006. The drive, first talked about at last year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle, will be manufactured by Samsung's hard disk drive division, according to the company. The drive will be initially targeted at notebooks, where the drive's low power consumption will yield the most benefit.

Samsung claims that it has developed the industry's fastest memory for graphic chips with a bandwidth of up to 2 Gbit per second. A slightly slower memory generation has entered mass production and will enable the production of 1 GByte graphic cards.  Click on Read More for full story.

Nvidia today launched its next-generation graphics chip for gamers: The GeForce 7800 GTX, formerly code-named G70, offers more horsepower, more speed and at least temporarily takes the lead in the benchmark race. The best news probably is that 7800 cards in fact are available, according to Nvidia.  Click on Read More for the full story.

AMD expands its mobile processor product line with a new flagship model. The ML-40 is clocked at 2.2 GHz and targets thin and light notebooks.  Click on Read More for the full story.