Sapphire Joins the Graphics Memory Wars
Those not doing intense gaming can, these days, get by with onboard graphics solutions, eschewing the extra heat production, and power consumption, of the external graphics card. These days, it is nothing to have 1 GB of video buffer memory on a PCIe card, though only the newest, most complex games will actually need the memory [...]

Should Wireless Companies Have to Pay Artists for Ringtones?
The United States District Court, Southern District of New York says yes. Strangely, AT&T and the Electronic Frontier Foundation say no. As the article on Ars Technica states, it is very odd indeed when the EFF and AT&T agree upon anything. On Wednesday EFF called the move “outlandish” and “a ploy to squeeze more money out [...]

Stompin' Tom Connors immortalized with new stamp

ALBERTON Stamp collector Rene Richard could barely contain his excitement Thursday during Canada Post's official launch of the Stompin' Tom Connors postage stamp.

ZDNet – Not Shrinking, Repurposing!
When, a couple of weeks ago, the ExtremeTech site announced it would no longer be a functional site, but simply an archive of old stuff, I was thinking that Ziff Davis was on the shrink, due to the recession. I was sure that this was another company that was slowly but surely dying away, from [...]

Immigrants in US are asking for money from home

For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala.

Comparing Software With Guns
Guns are legal in many different forms depending on where you live. Guns can be used both in legal and illegal ways. If I choose to use a gun to go hunting, it’s considered legal. Obviously if I choose to shoot somebody with a gun, it is illegal. So I as a person would be [...]