ATI Driver Mistakenly Flagged as Hack Attack
	Last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder officials said that three of their computers were hacked and information of about 9,000 students and 500 employees was put in danger. According to various reports, the university administrators spotted the attack only when the computers restarted themselves without any reason. After further investigation, it has been discovered that the systems contained some sort of spyware which ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tricky Technology: Your GPS Can Have You Killed
	If you're one of the drivers that heavily rely on the brainless electronic map called GPS, you should reconsider your options, because the little devil can have you killed. This was the case of an American bus driver who paid too much attention to the device and forgot about common sense. Although the device was set to bus-driving mode, it indicated the driver a route through a footpath bridge that was not able to provide ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 11:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fix Included: Nvidia's SATA Drivers Give Windows Users the Chills
	Nvidia's SATA driver is reportedly giving Windows users a hard time since enabling the so-called "performance" driver leads to multiple system crashes that fall out of any logic. The issue has been reported even on Nvidia's support forums, but the chip giant never felt like replying. One of the complaining users claim that he installed Windows XP, added the necessary drivers, then went back to his mundane c ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

If You Think SP1 Fixed Windows Vista, Think Again
	If you think that the first service pack for Windows Vista has managed to fix what was broken with the latest Windows client, think again. The same problems that were initially associated with the gold version of Vista have survived and moved on as the legacy of SP1. At the end of its first year of availability on the market, Vista had passed the 100 million sold license milestone, and according to ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 08:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Creative Labs Open-Sources the X-Fi Soundblaster Specifications
	Creative Labs has recently provided open source driver developers with documentation and sample code for the Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card released back in August 2005. The main reason for divulging the technical specifications is the fact that the company has not managed yet to fully develop open-source drivers. Prior to the event, Creative refused to release the sound blaster's technical sheet and attempted to develop ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 11:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Jokes on Blond Women Spur Discrimination
	All blondes are stupid, but really stupid and driving should be forbidden for women, isn't it? Despite the benign appearance, jokes on blondes and women drivers can lead to approving misogynism, as found by a new research led by Western Carolina University psychology professor Thomas E. Ford and to be published in February in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. "Sexist humor is not simply benign amusement. It can affe ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Releases New Open-Source Linux Driver
	The RadeonHD driver has been released yesterday and it's being hosted on FreeDesktop.org. This new driver is the result of AMD's cooperation with Novell, supporting the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) group. Although it has a lot of improvements, there's still much work to be done. The RadeonHD driver is mainly written by the Novell/S ... [read more >>]
	18 September 2007, 04:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.41.7 Display Driver Released
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release is a bit special, as it is recommended to be used exclusively on ATI Radeon HD 2000 family. Moreover, AMD suggests to distributors to use the previous version (8.40.4) for distribution packages. Now the good news: this v ... [read more >>]
	13 September 2007, 02:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Get the Best Performance from Google Earth
	In order to obtain the best results from Google Earth, the downloadable application which shows high-resolution satellite photos, you have to update your graphic cards driver to the latest version. If you're currently using a Mac OS X, you can do this entire process in a matter of seconds, using the powerful features offered by the Apple systems. "For improving the performance and compatibility of Google Earth on your M ... [read more >>]
	11 September 2007, 09:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Accuses Nvidia of Cheating
	Benchmarking is one of the most widely used methods of testing out the relative performance of one or another hardware component and establishing which company makes the best products from a given price and functionality range. Or at least that's how it is supposed to be as there were a number of flawed benchmarks in the past that were optimized for certain class of hardware products while clearly reducing the performance and thus the ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Issues with ATI Graphics Cards
	As I said yesterday, in order to obtain best results from Google Earth you need to have at least a 32 MB graphics card. But somehow, even if you own a more powerful hardware device, you encounter problems with the mapping tool. So, how can we fix th ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nvidia Graphics Cards and Windows Vista Just Don't Mix
	Nvidia graphic cards and Windows Vista simply do not mix. Nvidia has been constantly hammering away at its graphics drivers for Vista, but it only managed to increase the volume of problems instead of providing resolves. One of the issues that plagued Vista following the general consumer launch in January is the lack of drivers designed to make hardware products from the environment built around the Windows platform to integrate seamlessly ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Integrated Graphics Receive a Performance Boost
	There is finally good news for those unlucky computer users that decided to save a few dollars and make do with the integrated graphics solution from Intel's chipsets. Low end graphics as the integrated solutions are, the latest Intel products from this category proved to be even slower and poorer performing than the cheapest discrete video card on the market. And that after Intel said aloud for everyone to hear that the graphics inte ... [read more >>]
	18 August 2007, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.40.4 Display Driver Released
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release brings new features such as: TV Out Functionality and Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition. The TV out functionality was made available under Linux OS for all ATI video cards that support TV Out (composite, component vi ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 02:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell Needs Better Linux Drivers
	Dell Inc. has recently started gaining some popularity as a company very fond of the Linux operating systems. The story started with Dell's nice initiative of answering the users who demanded some Linux-based products on IdeaStorm forum. At that time, Dell announced the f ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Motherboard Producers Unhappy With Intel
	Intel is using a tried and true approach to the entry and middle level mainboard market. While Intel does not produce too many motherboards, it does produce some of the chipsets required to run these motherboards and always those chipsets were much better than anything else competitors could offer. For those users who want a fast processor and a good chipset, but are not really interested in the gaming side of the computer in ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 10:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"Smart" Traffic Sign Stops Collisions
	Traffic boxes located beside major freeways are already monitoring traffic at the busiest intersections on the road network, but could become even smarter, able to prevent collisions at traffic intersections that lack traffic signals. The "smart" traffic signs are a project of researchers from the Transportation Research Institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and are now being tested at a four-way, ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 08:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GPS Guides Truck Driver into Tree
	GPS receivers have become widely used in recent years, using satellite signals in navigating airplanes, ships and automobiles and in using cell phones, mining, surveying and even transferring money, but even the most expensive piece of technology can't function in case of massive human stupidity. A German truck driver was trying to deliver the cargo to a factory in Switzerland and since he didn't know his way around the indus ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New ATI Video Driver Brings Back Fedora 7 Support
	A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was just released a few minutes ago for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. I think many users have been waiting for this, as this new version brings back support for the Fedora 7 Linux distribution! ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.38.6 Display Driver Released
	The ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 operating systems. Issues resolved in this release: • Moving a video window between two monitors in a big desktop configuration no longer crashes the Xserver; • ... [read more >>]
	26 June 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LinuxCertified Announces the Linux Device Driver Development Course
	LinuxCertified is a provider of Open-Source Products, Training and Services. They sell pre-installed Linux Laptops. They also offer training in Linux and other Open-Source software. Recently, LinuxCertified has announced the Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from July 30th to August 1st. It seems that the course would deal with some issues related to the development and testing of the Linux device ... [read more >>]
	22 June 2007, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Printer Driver Available for All Linux Distributions
	A single printer driver for all the Linux distributions existing today. Even though this may seem part of a Sci-Fi movie scenario, it is as true as possible thanks to the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation has last week announced the availability of a Linux Standard Base Driver Development Kit (LSB DDK). As Jim Zemlin, Foundation' ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 05:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First R500 Open Source Driver Released
	Jerome Glisse, member of the R500 team, has just announced the availability of the first open-source Xorg driver for the ATI Radeon X1000 "R500" series. The driver is still a bit primitive and lacks proper initialization and setup of the video modes for the r520 and r580 series (X1800 and higher and even some X1600). However, this is its first release and the developers’ team who have worked on it expect others to get involved t ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NVIDIA 100.14.09 Linux Display Driver Released
	The San Thomas, Santa Clara- based NVIDIA Corporation is one of the most well known producers of GPU technologies for video cards, graphic cards, workstations, desktop computers, handhelds and other similar stuff. Some of NVIDIA's most popular product lines would be the GeForce series, the Quadro series as well as the nForce series. Another aspect NVIDIA is known for is that it does not provide the documentation for their hardware ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2007, 08:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Driver Passwords and Codes (GameBoy Color)
	The game was designed to look like '60s and '70s car chase movies. The music, the character design in the cut scenes, the cars (with flying hubcaps), everything is inspired from movies such as Bullitt and even TV shows such as Starsky and Hutch. The game also features a Director' ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2007, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.37.6 Display Driver Released
	The ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces the Catalyst Control Center version 1.0. The Catalyst Control Center software provides a 3D aspect page which allows one to make adjustments in 3D applications such as graphic-design applications, games and CAD applications. ... [read more >>]
	01 June 2007, 02:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI/AMD 8.36.5 Display Driver Released
	The ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. The biggest feature of this release is the support for Linux Kernel 2.6.20. Also, the AMD Catalyst Control Centre now features localization in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dut ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 02:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Replacing Device Manager
	Installing an Operating System can prove to many PC users, but not only, to be a pain in the neck. And that is because in this neverending upgrade of hardware your OS, mostly if it is older, might lack information about your recently installed hardware. After completing the installation of your hardware, your OS will show in system tray a small icon that pops a menu about identifying this new device. If the device is known the OS will auto ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2007, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista WaveRT. NOT.
	Native Instruments (NI) is a world-famous brand among music producers, be them producers and sound engineers or even artists themselves; they (NI) offer a very broad range of sound technology applications from the smallest to the biggest, covering almost any need one might have (sound-related, obviously). Software and even hardware like Guitar Rig/Kontrol, Traktor, Kore and so many more, are well-known and respected in the industry so once ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gameloft Buys Driver Franchise for Mobile Games
	Gameloft, one of the leading publishers and developer of video games for mobile phones, announced recently that effective April 1, 2007, Gameloft will have exclusive rights to create mobile games based on Ubisoft's best-selling Driver franchise. "We are ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2007, 04:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia