Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

PhysX Driver that Works on all Capable GPUs to be out by August

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Reports by TG Daily suggest that NVIDIA could release a WHQL-certified stable release PhysX driver that supports all capable GPUs GeForce 8 series thru 9-series and GTX 200 series. The driver would expand driver-level support to all PhysX-based game titles including the likes of Ghost Recon 2: Advanced Warfighter, Warmonger ...

Sandisk CEO: ”Windows Vista not Optimized for SSDs”

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

During a conference of the company's second quarter earnings, the CEO Eli Harari of Sandisk, a significant player in the solid state drive (SSD) industry said that Windows Vista would present a special challenge for solid state drive (SSD) makers. Says Harari: "As soon as you get into Vista applications ...

Mozilla Firefox 3 Updated to 3.0.1

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Mozilla has released an update for their Firefox 3 web-browser. The update brings. Changes as condensed in the Release notes include: Fixed several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch. Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 ...

KDE 4.1 RC1 Release

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

On 15th July 2008, The KDE Community released KDE 4.1 Release Candidate, aimed at testers, community members and enthusiasts in order to identify bugs and regressions, so that 4.1 can replace KDE 3 for more end users. KDE 4.1 RC1 is available as binary packages for some platforms, and ...

AMD/ATI Tempts Game Developers with DirectX 10.1

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

With a market position resurrection in progress, AMD/ATI look to compete using a tried and tested tool for technological supremacy over its rival(s), developer-level optimizations for their games. Blizzard has been looking at implementing DirectX 10.1 with its future games. If that happens, it becomes a favorable scenario for AMD's ...

Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Clusters Scale at up to 85% Efficiency

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Microsoft announces that a Windows HPC Server 2008 beta-based system now ranks among the top 25 supercomputers of the world. They have also announced a release-candidate version of the operating system software available for download towards the end of June. The final release version of this software will be available ...

Bill Gates: Windows 7 May Ship Next Year

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said on Friday that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule indicated by the software maker. In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank, said: "Sometime ...

WHAT is Debian?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short.

Microsoft Updates Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 Test Builds

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Microsoft said on Thursday that it has released another updated test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. The company said that the new version, dubbed "Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2," has been released to about 15,000 beta testers. The code is not being made available publicly, Microsoft added. ...

New Drivers to Improve HD 3870 X2 Performance

Friday, January 25th, 2008

VR-Zone has learned that Radeon display driver 8.45 v1.3 will improve performance and compatibility on the Radeon HD 3870 X2 over the current 8.45 v1.0 driver. The current set of drivers is facing game performance issues so benchmarks on it are not reflective on the actual gaming performance of the ...