Using a combination of social engineering and malicious software, an innovative new way to get people to install malware on their computers has recently popped up, and it all starts with finding a flier on your car’s windshield stating that your car is illegally parked. The fliers are fake, but they prey on people’s fears by stating, “PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations. To view pictures with information about your parking preferences, go to website-redacted.” These

It’s no G1, but it’s not trying to be. Samsung’s Memoir (more formally known as the SGH-t929) has just launched, making it the first eight megapixel handset to come to T-Mobile. The cellphone / digital camera hybrid boasts a full touchscreen display enabled by the company’s TouchWiz user interface, 3G support, a photo widget for direct uploads to flickr, Kodak Gallery, Photobucket and Snapfish, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, MMS capabilities, built-in Assisted GPS navigation and turn-by-turn guidance. For handsfree

XFX recently released their own Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card, so if you are in the market for the flagship ATI graphics card look no further. The XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 looks to be built off the reference design, but we all know that has proven to be a solid solution. Check for it online in the days to come!

Offering 2.4 teraFLOPS of graphics horsepower, 1600 stream processors and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, the XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 is impossibly fast and exceptionally powerful. Specifically, dual TeraScale graphics engines work in tandom to deliver blazing frame rates for the gaming experience gamers have previously only envisioned. Add 1600 stream processors and 230 GB/sec of memory bandwidth of brute power, the XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 can tackle the most intense 3D games-including those experience-killers that feature artificial intelligence, physics operations and tessellation. Also included are unparalleled anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering for striking graphics and reach-out-and-touch-them realism. What does that really give you? The ability to max out the settings of your next-generation games. And, ATI CrossFireX technology with quad GPU support in dual mode offers superior scalability.

If the recent release of Intel’s X58 chipset has taught us anything, it’s that change can be good. In our first two forays with these new boards and Intel’s Core i7 processor, we’ve been firmly impressed by the performance gains seen over legacy Core 2 architectures, much less AMD’s recent advancements and new offerings. Now, with some time under our belts, we’re going to take a look at two new Intel X58 Express chipset based boards from ASUS and MSI that we’ve put through the test ringer. Focusing on the upper-tier

Steve Wozniak, the Segway-riding co-founder of Apple, has found himself deeply entangled in yet another company other than the Cupertino powerhouse that he helped build. Just 1.5 years after Woz decided to back a startup dubbed Hotswap, the technophile has decided to accept a new role at storage specialist Fusion-io. Said firm, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is expected to announce this week that Steve will become Fusion-io’s chief scientist. Granted, Mr. Wozniak is already a member of the company’s

Last year Time-Warner Cable began a metered use trial in Beaumont, TX, with tiered caps of 5 – 40GB. On Wednesday’s earnings call Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable operator would be expanding the experiment into additional cities this year. Time-Warner didn’t say which cities will be “lucky,” but TWC has to be thinking metered broadband will help get it some additional revenue. 2008 wasn’t a good year for TWC, with a net loss of $7.3 billion, or $7.52 per diluted common share compared to

While not nearly as intriguing as ASUS’ recent tie-up with Garmin, the outfit’s newest external optical drive is still a looker. The stylish External Slim SDRW-08D1S-U measures in at just 6.1- x 5.5- x 0.8-inches, arrives in black or white and burns both writable CDs and DVDs. The unit also comes bundled with a stand for those intent on showing it off, and ASUS has also tossed in a CyberLink-based burning program to handle those duties if you’re currently in need. As expected, the drive gets both data and power

Just yesterday Elemental Technologies released a second update to Badaboom Media Converter with release v1.1.1. This version fixes 12 bugs and also new features like FRAPS support for gamers that record demos and a new 960×540 resolution for Apple TV users. We take a look at the new version compared to v1.0 and see how the updates have helped the utility.

Just days after QNAP announced that its Turbo NAS devices would be gaining XDove Mail support, now it’s introducing an all new unit for storage junkies to swoon over. The TS-439 Pro Turbo NAS is admittedly aimed at business users, though there’s nothing in stone that says enthusiastic consumers can’t find a lot to love. The device features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, twin gigabit Ethernet jacks, five USB 2.0 sockets, two eSATA ports and support for RAID 0/1/5/6/5+spare configurations.The

Today, Google introduced Latitude, a new opt-in feature that lets smartphone and laptop users share their location with friends and allows those friends to share their locations in return. Once you and your friends have opted in to Latitude, you can see your friends' Google icon displayed on Google Maps. Pretty cool if it works.

Users in 27 countries will be able to broadcast their location to others constantly, using Google Latitude. Controls allow users to select who receives the information or to go offline at any time, Google said on its Web site.