t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

Laptop gaming systems are getting more popular these days. Given a laptop’s portability, you could easily dump it into a laptop messenger bag and effortlessly (maybe not to everyone) carry it to a lan party. It sucks to bring your rev-ed up desktop CPU, although it would be so much cooler and extreme.
To up one’s […]

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Internet services have broken down across parts of the Middle East and India, due to damage of an undersea cable in the Mediterranean. Egypt’s Telecommunications Ministry claims the damage caused disruption to around 70% of the country’s internet network. The ministry says it has no knowledge of how the cable was cut, but that service […]

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When Vista was released not so long ago, it had a fair share of mixed opinions and results. Some users loved the new “glassy” interface while there are some who hated the hardware compatibility issues that Vista brought. Things got sour and Microsoft even gave a free downgrade (though some would rather call it an […]

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Scientists have discovered that sound waves may hold the key to cooling ever faster PCs. Liquid cooling systems for computers have been around for many years, but they have problems.
As liquid draws heat from a computer component, tiny bubbles form and create an insulating layer, reducing the cooling effect.
Ari Gletzer and his team […]

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Zdnet ran an interview with Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla (the person who worked on Netscape and father of Javascript) in one of their shows, “_super_ _techies_”. A must watch, sincere and awe inspiring interview, especially for those who are thinking of breaking through to the IT industries.
Watch the video here.

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I was trying to get work done today when all of a sudden, my internet connection started to crawl to snail-speed. And it has been happening quite often lately. It’s so frequent that I find it unproductive to do work online at times! Initially, I thought I was the only soul experiencing the speed problem. […]

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Getting a notebook can cause a bad headache these days. There are so many mobile processors to consider in the market and hence, causing more confusion to an average laptop buyer (measuring the Ghz does not always mean a better processor). So what CPU specs should you look for in your next laptop buy? Here’s […]

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Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source product. The action came at a time when Netscape was still the dominant web browser: 65 million users and 90% market share in the educational segment according to Netscape’s […]

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Recently I wrote a post on an MSN virus which has been fooling people around the world into downloading it by using infected computers to send a message that goes something similar to this:
Hey, is this your picture? :S http://www.msnimages.net/images/viewimage.php?=abc@hotmail.com
The infected computer would then be a the next zombie host which will spread the […]

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Scotts Valley (CA) – While Seagate is the dominating hard drive manufacturer worldwide, the company has not really been a driving force in the capacity race on the notebook side. Today the company joined its rivals with a new mass market 250 GB drive that may soon appear as standard equipment in higher-end mainstream laptops.

The […]

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