Exclusive first look: AMD's blistering budget 690 chipset

AMD claims that its first foray into the chipset market has the best integrated GPU for running Vista's Aero theme - and it may have a point. The AMD 690 chipset is the first fruit to be borne of the company's $5 billion purchase of graphics company ATi last year. Boards featuring the chipset are expected to retail for around ?50, in a clear attempt to significantly undercut comparatively featured Intel boards. ...more

Bluetooth data security threat revealed

'Serious flaws' have been discovered in some Bluetooth mobile phones that could enable data stored on them to be obtained without knowledge or consent. According to a report by UK-based security company A L Digital it is possible to gain access to the entire address book and calendar contents and, in an extreme case, 'the complete memory contents of some mobile phones can be accessed by a previously trusted (paired) device that has since been removed from the trusted list.' The report identifies two kinds of attack made possible by the vulnerability. ...more

Intel and HP collaborate on futurism

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Sony boss treads thin DRM line

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has spoken about his company's recent problems with copy protected CDs, saying that they demonstrate the difficulty of balancing the needs of artists and consumers. He clearly understands - at least now if not before - what Sony's customers want. 'Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn't be doing too much of that copy protection stuff,' he said at a CES press conference. ...more

Firefox 2 beta 1 sees light of day

Mozilla has released the first beta of version two of the popular Firefox browser. The beta features an anti-phishing tool that is turned on by default. In the same vein as Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 7, the technology checks URLs against a list of known phishing sites. ...more