Low-Power Gaming: AMD's E-350 Vs. Intel Atom D525 And Ion 2
Low-power PC platforms are obviously not built for gaming, but we punish two AMD and Intel systems with popular 3D titles anyway. The results don't shock and awe, but sometimes pleasantly surprise.
Yes, we know that low-power nettops and notebooks with integrated graphics aren’t made for gaming.
We’re certainly not suggesting you go out and buy a n...
BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Lacks All the Right Moves
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is a good-looking piece of hardware.
Like the proto-humans in 2001: A Space Odyssey, you’ll be eager to touch the monolithic object’s black, buttonless visage. But once you do, things get a little more complicated.
The PlayBook’s design exudes the same sense of finely honed “business chic” that Research in Motion has perfected in its BlackBerry smartphones. But the PlayBook’s software suffers from several missteps and oversights, especially in the drought of useful apps — the very things that have made tablets such a hit — and the lackluster performance of Adobe’s ...
U.S. Seizes Control of 'Coreflood' BotNet
Updated 4:30 p.m. with information about the late-afternoon filing from the government, and with comment from EFF.
In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of private computers, and deliver a command to those computers to disable the malicious software.
The request, filed Tuesday under seal in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, sought a temporary restraining order to allow the nonprofit Internet Systems Consortium, or ISC, to swap out command-and-control...