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Security Update for Microsoft Mac Office 2004 and 200810 March 2010, 7:39 pm
Microsoft published seucirty update for the Mac Edtion of Office 2OO4 and 2008. It fixes a potential security breach affecting Excel. Direct link to the resources:Update Office 2008 (222 MB).Updater Office 2004 (9,7 MB) ...
NVIDIA: The Nightmare Period Continues...10 March 2010, 5:00 am
It really seems that NVIDIA is experiencing the darkest period of its history. After numerous issues and problems, the latest one being the delay for the production and the availability of Fermi-based graphic cards, a new story will again darken even further the image of the company.The last version of drives released last week for Windows (196.75) features a major bug: it slows down or even stops fans cooling down the graphic card, even though in full woking load. As a consequence 3D rendering ...
Cisco Announces New Ultra Fast Routing System10 March 2010, 5:00 am
Cisco unveiled yesterday new routing systems able to revolutionize the worldwide network edge: the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. According to the company, the new system is designed to serve as the foundation for the next generation internet, and should support for the next decade and beyond the fast growing demand linked to online video streaming/download, mobile devices and new online services. Figures are simply impressive, and its price 90,000 USD per unit might not be a limiting factor for ...
Blu-ray Drives Never Been Cheaper9 March 2010, 11:10 pm
Digitimes announced that the price of Blu-ray drives dramatically dropped over the past weeks, reaching a price range of 70 to 80 USD. It remains more expensive than the DVD burner drive; however it could help computer companies to integrate such optical drive more often in their models, of course for Apple one would need a slot-in unit for all hardware models but the Mac Pro. This will take time as the website considers that the current price of BD movies is too high to efficiently compete with...
Games on Mac: A True Comeback?9 March 2010, 8:22 am
The Mac community of gamers is getting excited as Valve, the famous game editor on Windows (for Half-life and counter-strike for examples) started a "teasing" campaign as the company will release games on Mac OS X in a near future. It seems quite clear now that Valve will be porting "Portal" on Mac OS X. however, do not rush as the expected release date should be at the end of the year. For Mac gamer, as well as Mac users, this is good news, and might indicate that beside the market for iPhone g...
Intel: people do not really need powerful graphics chips9 March 2010, 5:00 am
Hardly a week goes by without us criticizing the bad performances of the graphics chips of Intel that the foundery has now the bad idea to directly install next to the processor, removing any chance to be able to doing without it. In an interview, an senior executive of Intel justified the poor performance of these chips by declaring that the customers do not need powerful graphics chips. For him, people who play 3D games requiring a lot of power are a small minority.He even declared, an ob...
A SSD To Optimize HD-based RAID Volume9 March 2010, 5:00 am
If SSDs are clearly offering higher performance levels than disc-based HD, it is also clear than they remain too expensive for being true competitors when it comes to save large amount of data. LSI just introduced a new solution aiming to get the best from both storage technologies with new software coming bundled with their MegaRAID card. They use a SSD connected to the RAID card in addition to the standard HDs. The SSD works as a large cache to speed up reading and writing modes, but...
Macs To Be More Expensive In Europe And In The Rest Of The World BESIDE USA!?8 March 2010, 11:08 pm
This is a rather hot topic, as many EU customers are already complaining about the higher price of Mac on this side of the Atlantic, when compared to USA; especially considering that we are closer to the assembling lines located in China... The way our Mac get more expensive might not only be associated with the weird way Apple is calculating the USD/EURO rate, but also the distribution channel: Apple sells hardware to its Apple Europe subsidiary in USD. Apple Europe resells in EURO (or P...
Local APR Getting More And More Upset Against Apple And Its Policies8 March 2010, 11:03 pm
Over the last past years, we have already been reporting about the tension between Apple and its APR (Apple Premium Resellers). They have been supporting Apple during the crisis ranging from mid-90 to 2002, and they did not really benefit from the "re-birth" of Apple. Cupertino has been reducing margins of APR years after years, making also distribution channel more complicated and defining rules and policies for presenting products in shops, etc. The success of the online Apple Store has been t...
A Trojan horse in a battery charger8 March 2010, 5:00 pm
A Trojan horse (Windows) was detected in the software accompanying a USB Energizer DUO charger of batteries. It opens a port on the affected PC that makes it possible to be able to reach it easily from outside. Even though it is impossible not to throw the stone at the company that did not make any elementary checks before offering its software, there are others, and Apple springs to mind, who already know about this kind of mishap. In 2006 a small series of iPod had been put on the market ...

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