PowerColor Unveils The Fastest Radeon HD 4890Powercolor’s PCS+ HD4890 feature card’s overclocking ability Taipei, Taiwan – April 24, 2009 – TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announced a powerful addition to the PowerColor HD4890 series: PCS+ HD4890. PowerColor’s Professional Cooling System PLUS or PCS+, delivers the ultimate overclocking ability with GDDR5 onboard memory, 950MHz core speed and 1100MHz effective memory speed with memory data transmission rates up to

DFI just announced that they will hold the first session of their global online overclocking competition during April to May of 2009. In addition to a handsome sum of money as prize and awards to the top three, the top ten candidates will also be honored as LANParty certified overclocker. Overclocking will be done on the Intel Core i7 920 and AMD Phenom II 940, so both AMD and Intel fans will be able to enter.

LANParty is holding a worldwide online OC contest which named “Project Europa”. Please see the press release for more details or you can find the event link below: http://lp.lanparty.com.tw/portal/CM/project_europa/

Beginning this June, NVIDIA will be introducing NVISION, the magazine that celebrates and examines the world of digital graphics in entertainment. If you sign up and pay for a year right now you will get your first issue free. Don't get used to it being free though as the year will still cost you $19.97 for 4 issues. Te magazine has 116 pages and almost no ads according to the subscription page. I guess that with NVISION 09 being canceled this was the second best thing, but NVISION 08 seemed like it had promise.

In every dynamically designed issue, we'll showcase the latest visual technology in videogames, film, art, special effects, and more. Published in association with NVIDIA, NVISION will show you how amazing visual effects are created, break news on the next wave of technology, and answer the question What's real and what isn't? Don't miss out!

Hot on the heels of Asus’ P30A introduction comes this, the K Series Domino Collection. Armed with a lengthy name and a knack for hitting the multimedia sweet spot, this new line contains the K40IJ and K40IN, both of which get powered by a Core 2 Duo T6400 or Core 2 Duo T4200 processor (or an AMD chip, if that’s your thing) and come loaded with Windows Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium or Linux.The line also includes Altec Lansing speakers with SRS Premium Sound, a high definition LCD panel up to 17.3″ in

The Blade Series Triple Channel Memory kit is the latest maximum-performance memory series designed specifically for the Intel Core i7 platform designed by OCZ. Read on to see what the new Blade heat spreader is all about and how this 6GB 2000MHz CL7 kit does against another 6GB 2000MHz CL8 kit!

A virtual world, but a real lawsuit. Taser International has sued Linden Labs, creator of the virtual world Second Life, for $75,000. The reason: in-world tasers. According to Bloomberg, Taser, which manufactures the well-known stun games, filed a 102-page complaint asserting that Linden Labs is damaging the company’s reputation and hurting its sales by allowing virtual weapons to be sold online under the Taser brand name. Massively got a look at the complaint, and put together a pretty detailed analysis of

Move over, McDonald’s; Apple is gaining on you!  On Thursday, the App Store reached one billion downloads. Apple thanked we consumers for the downloads, and now we’re on to the next billion, right? Palm can only hope that its upcoming App Catalog will be even slightly as successful. The fact that the Palm Pre will be exclusive to Sprint for quite some time is a negative, as is the CDMA technology behind the Pre. You have to bet that Palm has a GSM version in the works, though. About that promotional contest?

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that declining PC sales hurt revenue, as the software giant reported quarterly sales that fell for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company. The Redmond, Wash.-based company said sales fell 6% from a year earlier to $13.7 billion, missing analysts' expectations of $14.1 billion.

Results included charges totaling 6 cents per share for job cuts and investments that took place in the quarter. Without the charges, Microsoft earned 39 per share, in line with forecasts by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, which typically exclude one-time items. Microsoft said weakness in the global PC market negatively impacted its results. Still, shares of Microsoft rose 4% after hours, as the company performed roughly in-line with expectations. In the previous quarter, results came in well below forecasts, and Microsoft rescinded its prior outlook for 2009.

A few days after Yahoo announced it would lay off nearly 700 workers, Yahoo is shutting down GeoCities, which it acquired in 1999 for $4 billion. GeoCities is the latest casualty in Chief Executive Carol Bartz’s campaign to close duplicative and underperforming products. Last week, Yahoo announced the closing of Jumpcut, an online video-editing service, and FareChase, a travel Web site. During Yahoo’s earnings call on Tuesday, Bartz also mentioned the discontinuation of Yahoo Briefcase, My Web, Yahoo Audio Search,

Intel’s new Xeon 5500 series CPU launched earlier this year within Apple’s Mac Pro (of all systems), and has since filtered out to other computer makers and the retail market. Despite an overall contraction in demand for microprocessors, demand for this particular one has evidently remained strong. So strong, in fact, that Samsung Electronics is ramping up its 50 nanometer class production of DDR3 memory chips in response to increased demand stemming from the chip’s debut.According to Samsung, DDR3 enables OEMs