A distributed denial-of-service attack on one (yes, one) person yesterday left news media in a quandary. With no Twitter, and no Facebook either, how was the news to be obtained? Seriously, however, the outage was the result of attacks across several services aimed directly at a blogger named Cyxymu from the Eastern European country of Georgia. Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told C|Net:”It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his (Cyxymu) voice from being

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Processor @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums!

“When originally released, Phenom had a nick name of the black death. The TLB bug with the L3 cache caused serious stability and reliability problems and the only work around was to disable the L3 cache in the BIOS, removing any performance benefits the Phenom processor had over the Athlon X2 line. This, however, has thankfully now changed. BE stepping Phenoms removed this problem and since then a second generation Phenom II has emerged, which is one of the most impressive processors we have seen.

Today we have on display the Black Edition 955 clocked at 3.2GHz, AMDs fastest processor to date. Lets see just how well this baby performs compared to its 810 counterpart as well as Intels Core i7.”

It has been quite awhile since we’ve seen a new LCD from BenQ. Recently, the company has been focusing its efforts on notebooks and netbooks, but it’s good to see that the ole monitor hasn’t completely gone out the window. Just this week, the outfit introduced the new E Series of displays, with both of the introductory models (E2220HD and E2420HD) boasting Full HD panels. All told, both monitors feature no fewer than 11 connectors, including two HDMI, four USB, VGA, DVI and three audio ports. Clearly designed

We get the feeling that Newton Peripherals is onto something here. Just weeks after the company issued a few Bluetooth headsets designed to be adhered to a number of smartphones, the company is taking its stick-it-to-the-goods approach one step further. The all new MoGo Mouse is engineered to solve that “lame trackpad” problem so often associated with cramped netbook spaces, but the executive leaves a little to be desired.The MoGo Mouse for Netbooks measures five millimeters thick (0.2″), including the stick-on

Ever wonder what would happen if you texted some incomprehensible message to “911?” If you’re a resident of Black Hawk Co. in Iowa, you’ll probably get some attention–pronto! This week, an emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa became the first call center in the United States to accept and welcome emergency text messages sent to “911.”Not shockingly, call centers nationwide are now looking into what it’ll take to follow suit, and it honestly, it’s about time. Texting has

The green bandwagon is as hot as ever, but usually we see companies blowing lots of hot air rather than actually doing anything to benefit Mother Earth. Not so with Samsung, which has just introduced what’s very likely the world’s most eco-friendly cell phone. Cleverly called the Reclaim, this device is made from 80 percent recyclable materials, and a portion of the purchase price from each one goes directly to benefit The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre program.The Reclaim’s outer shell is constructed from

Pentax’s latest camera is ready to jump in the pool with you. The new Optio WS80 is a waterproof and dustproof model that features a 10 megapixel sensor and a 5x internal optical zoom lens. This palm-sized camera measures less than an inch thick. You’ll also find a 2.7 inch LCD with 230,000 dot resolution on the Optio WS80. In addition to capturing still photos at depths up to five feet, the Optio WS80 can also record high resolution, HD video up to 720p at a full 30 frames per second. Other features include

TiVo users now have more content options than ever before. Starting today, TiVo is making hundreds of free Web videos available to TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL subscribers. In addition to the new channels from outlets such as CBS, FOX, Oprah, and G4, any video podcast provider can now publish video content to TiVo DVRs using RSS and H.264 video. The new podcast channels are part of TiVo’s suite of free Web videos. Users have the option of watching videos instantly or setting a Season Pass recording

iBUYPOWER Launches Chimera Killer Special Edition Gaming PC New gaming rigs are designed to provide online PC gamers with an edge over their competition El Monte, CA – August 6, 2009 – iBUYPOWER, leading innovator in gaming PCs, is excited to announce two new Chimera Killer Special Edition Gaming PCs, optimized for online gaming. Built in iBUYPOWER’s signature Chimera “Inferno” case, the Killer Edition Systems feature the innovative Killer Xeno Pro gaming network card, and the latest gaming technology to create

Dictionaries are supposed to contain words, and a complete dictionary will contain even those words deemed somewhat on the racy side, such as this one. While it seemed at first that Apple didn’t seem to understand that, at least in this case, there is more to the story than initially thought. Ninjawords is an iPhone dictionary app. Here’s how it’s described. Ninjawords is the simple, fast and deadly dictionary for the iPhone. Ninjas are three things: They’re smartThey’re quickThey’re deadly accurateNinjawords