Yahoo! has released an investor presentation that outlines the company’s long-term financial plan. According to their press release, this financial plan was generated before Yahoo! received a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft. You’ll forgive me if I have my doubts about that. Because unless Yahoo! cures cancer or has a secret unicorn farm somewhere, I can’t see how this projection of revenues is anything but wishful thinking. Wishing for a higher bid from Microsoft, that is.The presentation supports the unanimous

Many, many people have said that Windows XP is just fine, and while Vista’s great (DX10 comes to mind), it’s not necessary for most.  Can an outcry of public sentiment save XP?Windows Vista was supposed to be a shot in the arm for Microsoft, which had gone five years without a new desktop operating system. It hasn’t worked out that way. Instead, Vista sales have been slower than XP’s (when adjusted for market size) and there’s been a distinct lack of passion for the new OS. In Vista’s first year, InfoWorld

Kingston has just launched a family of 800MHz FB-DIMM memory modules, ranging in capacity from 512MB to 4GB, that are ideal for servers and high-performance workstations. Kingston is first rolling out industry standard ValueRAM FB-DIMMs, but has hinted that high-performance kits might be out in the near future. The kit with 2 x 2GB modules (KVR800D2D4F5K2/4G) offers a total memory density of 4GB with a MSRP of $260. Kingston is doing a $13 instant rebate on the kit right now which brings the price down to $247 plus shipping!

Today's dual XEON systems using the new 1600MHz front-side bus quad-core processors demand a robust memory solution to match processor bandwidth with
memory bandwidth,” said Louis Kaneshiro, senior technology manager, Kingston. “Our 800MHz FB-DIMMs deliver the blazing performance and reliability required
by high performance servers and workstations.” Delivering up to 25.6 GB/s bandwidth with four memory channels active, Kingston 800MHz FB-DIMMs match the
bandwidth needs of the latest XEON processors. The 2GB and 4GB 800MHz FB-DIMMs enable a flexible upgrade path while leaving plenty of headroom for future RAM expansion.

The battle between Microsoft and Apple may have caused Microsoft to lose some of its luster in the global brand rankings.  The Redmond giant has slipped from number 11 to number 59 over the past three years.”The effect of Apple’s ‘Hi, I’m a Mac’ advertising campaign may have taken its toll on Microsoft,” CoreBrand CEO James Gregory said in a statement. “The launch of a series of new products, following a long, relatively dormant period, will be closely watched to see if it will have a positive impact on

Limewire, the file sharing service where I’d be shocked, shocked I say to find pirated music, has launched a DRM-free digital music store offering half a million MP3s for as little as 27 cents per track. The good news? Pretty good sound quality and no restrictions. The bad news? You never heard of anybody on the list of artists.Users of the application will eventually see “buy” links alongside options to download songs for free from other users using BitTorrent or Gnutella technology. Those who don’t want to

The Rosewill R6XR8-BK ATX mid tower computer case is one of the latest cases from Rosewell and features a screw-less design with dual 120mm fans for good airflow. Legit Reviews takes a look at this black case to see if the beauty is only skin deep. Read on as we crack this case open to see if no tools are really required and to see what we think about the case after we install a system into it.

NVIDIA has finally taken the wraps of their latest desktop chipset, the nForce 790i SLI Ultra, and a brand new flagship graphics card dubbed the GeForce 9800 GX2.  We’ve taken a look at a pair of motherboards, one from ASUS and the other from EVGA, built around the new nForce 790i SLI Ultra chipset and have tested the dual-GPU powered GeForce 9800 GX2 as well.  Here’s a snip from the piece… “A new desktop chipset complete with a DDR3-based memory controller is here, along with a dual-GPU powered

Monday the Massachusetts Bankers Association (MBA) issued a press release announcing a major data breach at what Visa and MasterCard said was an unnamed “major retailer.”  The details were far worse than the original news, though.A security breach at an East Coast supermarket chain exposed more than 4 million card numbers and led to 1,800 cases of fraud, the Hannaford Bros. grocery chain announced Monday.Hannaford said credit and debit card numbers were stolen during the card authorization process and about

In an impromptu pre-IDF press briefing today, Intel disclosed a wealth of new information regarding its roadmap product efforts, upcoming multi-core processors and their associated platforms.  The discussion, chaired by the Senior VP of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, even covered additional detail of the company’s future play in the discrete GPU space, code-named Larrabee.  More details here in our full report.

Video: GeForce 9800 GX2 Overclocked and Tested @ TweaktownMSI RX3850 T2D512E-OC (AMD HD 3850 512 MByte – overclocked) @ Hard Tecs 4 UMSI GeForce 8800 GT Silent 512MB, MSI RADEON HD 3650 512MB @ Digit-Life Motherboards & Chipsets: Abit I-N73HD (nForce 630i) Motherboard @ CPU3DGigabyte X48-DS5 @ t-breakGigabyte MA790FX-DS5 Review @ OCC Processors: AMD’s Phenom processors @ The Tech Report Memory & Storage: Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250GB @ Bjorn3D Power: Cooler Master Stacker 830 SE & Real Power Pro