After being accused of violating a patent, the huge software giant was once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. A US District Court gave them more cause for concern when it ruled that Microsoft had in fact infringed the patent and so told it to stop selling the software the next month.
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Reviews From Across the Web – 04/09
September 4, 2009 – 9:44 am
A bit of a pick and mix day today without a major group of reviews in any single category so take your pick!
Cooler Master “Go Crazy” Contest
September 3, 2009 – 12:07 pm
Cooler Master continues to be impressed by the creativity of our team and fans across the globe with truly ingenious projects such as: starting up a car with a 500W power supply or building a 5-in-1 computing system or modding a CPU cooler into a Ferrari engine!
Reviews from Across the Web – 03/09
September 3, 2009 – 10:55 am
Today’s reviews round-up pretty much has everything: games, netbooks and graphics cards. What more could you want? A competition? Well, we have one of them too so make sure to check it out over at XSR.
HTC Hero White Unlocked and SIM Free At Clove
July 28, 2009 – 11:21 am
The HTC Hero has arrived at Clove and it’s unlocked and SIM free with a price tag of just £344.
AMD Delivers Its Most Powerful Professional 3D Graphics Card and ATI FirePro™ S400
July 28, 2009 – 11:07 am
AMD Delivers Its Most Powerful Professional 3D Graphics Card With Up To Four Times The Processing Power And More Memory Bandwidth Than Comparable Competing Solution.
Antec PSU Discovery: Peak Power vs. Continuous Power
July 22, 2009 – 1:06 pm
It has brought to Antec’s attention and now ours, thsat many brands are using misleading power efficiency labels which are not as you would expect. Antec, a global leader in the PC component market, always uses “Continuous Power” on all of their labelling. However other companies are not quite so honest…
Warnings Told About Quantum Computers Being the Future
May 26, 2009 – 10:25 am
Some of the worlds top boffins have been looking more closely into Quantum computers and not with great confidence; in fact they have gone so far as to say that they may not be the future of computing after all. One suhc boffin, David Gross at the Institute for Mathematical Physics, has publoshed a paper stating that quantum states are too complicated and entangled for usage in a computer.
EU Proposal Calls Future of Gaming into Question
May 18, 2009 – 9:53 am
The EU Commision has suggested that all games developers should provide a two year guarantee on their products which has caused uproar and questioning the future of gaming.
Google Experiments In Attempt to Change Search Engine
April 21, 2009 – 10:43 am
Google has announced two very experiment products that it hopes will radically change the way in which users of the popular search engine, search for pictures and news.