NVidia to design new GPU for Sony

Graphics chip specialist NVidia has revealed that it has received a contract from electronics giant Sony to come up with a new graphics processor. Marv Burkett, NVidia's chief financial officer told financial analysts. 'We have new contracts with Sony to do some further designs'. ...more

Wi-Fi Alliance begins 802.11n certification

The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun testing wireless kit based on the draft 802.11n specification and announced that first products bearing the new Wi-Fi Certified logo (pictured) should begin appearing next month. The industry-sponsored organisation said last year that it would begin testing 802. ...more

Via locks up its StrongBox virtual drives

Via has thrown down the gauntlet to hackers with a $5,000 reward for the first successful breach of its new StrongBox technology. StrongBox is Via's real-time encryption technology that allows a user to create virtual drives of up to 4GB, and as many as 10. Using the Padlock hardware encryption enabled in its C7 processors, it applies government-standard algorithms SHA-1 and AES to lock down data when either the user decides to lock a StrongBox drive or the device is shut down. ...more

Shall I compare thee to spam e-mail?

Have you come back to work this Monday morning and found your inbox filled with spam? Does it also fill you with a sense of poetry... ...more

Google cast as Internet bully

Search King has taken out a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the company is penalising competitors. The search engine optimisation company claims that Google 'arbitrarily' reduced the ranking for Search King and its related sites, thereby reducing the value of the company and the service it provided to advertisers. The lawsuit brought by the president of Search King alleges that Google 'arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' Web sites, causing his business to suffer financially'. ...more