Archive for April, 2008
Serious bugs in GTA 4: PS3 owners plagued
It seems that there are some serious bugs in GTA 4 and its affecting PS3 owners the most.
People mailed the INQ to report that their copies of GTA 4 on PS3 cannot be installed to the hard-drive on their consoles, even after a factory reset and reformat of the device. Other users have reported crashes [...]
New entry-level GeForce 9 GPU from Nvidia
Nvidia has tacitly confirmed speculation about the specifications of its upcoming GeForce 9600 GSO graphics card by launching the thing.
As expected, the GSO connects to 384MB of graphics memory over a 192-bit bus. The Ram runs at 800MHz, the GPU itself at 550MHz, though the chip’s 96 unified shaders are clocked at 1375MHz.
That, said, Nvidia [...]
Ballmer hints at Win XP reprieve
Windows XP could yet be reprieved from end-of-life, if enough customers demand it, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today.
Speaking at a news conference in Belgium Ballmer said: “XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies we can always wake up smarter but right now we have a plan for end-of-life [...]
Unsafe browsers will be blocked says Papal
PayPal is seriously considering blocking some browsers from accessing its site, according to a paper (PDF) available to shareholders.
Titled “A Practical Approach to Managing Phishing,” the paper admits that there’s no one silver bullet to prevent fraudsters from making money on the Internet. However, authors Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer, and Dan [...]
Vista update makes USB devices useless
Microsoft has admitted it is investigating reports that a recent Windows Vista security update causes havoc with some USB devices, but the software giant is yet to provide a fix for the cock-up.
The Windows Vista SP1 pre-requisite KB938371 update was released last week, but some unfortunate Vista customers have claimed that their USB mice and [...]