There are some people whose opinions matter more than others. Take Vint Cerf, for instance. Cerf is often credited as being the “father of the Internet.” While that might not be a technically accurate statement, it is safe to say that he played a very significant role in shaping what would become the Internet as we know it today–and he is certainly one of only about a half dozen people or so who can potentially even lay claim to that title. In his current role as Vice President and Internet Evangelist for one

Addressing the never ending need for greater amounts of system memory, OCZ Technology today announced all new P45 Special 4GB modules, a module density optimized specifically for Intels latest chipset. Available in 8GB and 16GB kits these kits are sure to create a buzz. Not many people need 16GB of memory on a desktop, but if you want your friends to have penis envy this is the way to do it. No word on pricing, but for those that need 16GB that shouldn't matter.

Ideal for workstations with 64-bit operating systems, the OCZ 8GB/16GB solutions allow users to take advantage of high density memory configurations when working with memory intensive design and multimedia applications. Graphic designers, CAD engineers, and music and video editing professionals will benefit from increased memory resources. OCZs ultra high density solutions enable Vista users to maximize the performance, while providing large amounts of memory to facilitate smooth game play for the latest DirectX-10 games.

Who decides which apps go up — and stay up — on the App Store? After all, something pretty useful like NetShare gets dropped from the App Store a couple of times (all right, all right, I know AT&T wouldn’t like it), while something totally frivolous like this app gets posted?The app was named “I am Rich.” The name is appropriate, because basically all it did was put the image below (sort of a faux diamond) on your iPhone screen (minus the text, of course). I say “was” because someone came to their senses

One of the key challenges of digital photography technology has been to try to capture images as well as the human eye does. While optics have made significant improvements in recent years, modest enhancements to the resolution density of the electronic sensors have kept the lofty goal of mimicking human perception as just a pipe dream. But scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have now made a breakthrough that might take a giant leap toward reproducing human-eye-like

One of the key challenges of digital photography technology has been to try to capture images as well as the human eye does. While optics have made significant improvements in recent years, modest enhancements to the resolution density of the electronic sensors have kept the lofty goal of mimicking human perception as just a pipe dream. But scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have now made a breakthrough that might take a giant leap toward reproducing human-eye-like

During the AMD CTO Summit they displayed a number of 790GX motherboards and now that the NDA has lifted I can show the pictures that I took of the motherboards. These four boards are all using the new 790GX and SB750 chipsets and wil be at retailers in the very near future.

Building on the momentum of the award-winning AMD 780G chipset, the AMD 790GX offers DirectX10 game compatibility, allowing casual gamers to enjoy advanced game performance, truly lifelike 3D graphics and dynamic interactivity in the latest game titles. Gamers looking to scale their performance with the addition of a discrete graphics card can achieve superior performance with ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology, harnessing the graphics power of both a discrete graphics card and the motherboard GPU in tandem. Performance players can scale even further with ATI CrossFireX graphics technology, powering multiple ATI Radeon discrete graphics cards, to further improve 3D performance. In addition, the AMD 790GX chipset is the third generation AMD chipset to feature AMD Overdrive, a simple user interface that brings performance tuning to the masses. With the latest AMD OverDrive feature, Advanced Clock Calibration, gamers can push the limits of their AMDPhenom Black Edition processors to extreme frequencies for added performance.

Who decides which apps go up — and stay up — on the App Store? After all, something pretty useful like NetShare gets dropped from the App Store a couple of times (all right, all right, I know AT&T wouldn’t like it), while something totally frivolous like this app gets posted?The app was named “I am Rich.” The name is appropriate, because basically all it did was put the image below (sort of a faux diamond) on your iPhone screen (minus the text, of course). I say “was” because someone came to their senses

Touchscreen technology isn’t really all that new, but the popularity of Apple’s iPhone has whetted the public’s appetite for putting their fingers on the screen and doing things. But the technology that makes tiny phone screens react to touch would be prohibitively expensive on a screen even as large a UMPC, never mind the typical desktop’s widescreen.  HP and Microsoft use a different technology to track the movements of your fingers on a screen, and HP is planning on offering multiple touchscreen products

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing federal privacy protections for e-mail and Internet usage. The alert from the EFF is not just to sound a general warning, but it also takes the form of an Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, filed with the federal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking for the court’s legal finding to be overturned. In the recent case of “Justin Bunnell, Forrest Parker, Wes Parker

One of the key challenges of digital photography technology has been to try to capture images as well as the human eye does. While optics have made significant improvements in recent years, modest enhancements to the resolution density of the electronic sensors have kept the lofty goal of mimicking human perception as just a pipe dream. But scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have now made a breakthrough that might take a giant leap toward reproducing human-eye-like