Archives for July 3rd, 2008

NVIDIA Admits to Faulty Notebook GPU’s & MCP’s

NVIDIA announced today that they will be taking a $150 million hit in order to repair faulty graphical processing units (GPU) and media communications processors (MCP).

July 3rd, 2008
NVIDIA Admits to Faulty Notebook GPU’s & MCP’s

Google Maps with Voice (Experimental) on Your BlackBerry

If you own a BlackBerry 8110, 8120, or 8130, you can now use your device in a whole new way. Google has recently launched Google Maps with voice search that will work with the aforementioned devices.

July 3rd, 2008
Google Maps with Voice (Experimental) on Your BlackBerry

Ask.com Chooses Microsoft for Online Map Provider

In a somewhat interesting move Ask.com ditched their own mapping service today, and has teamed up with Microsoft to use their Virtual Earth service. The switchover has already been made, and you can see the new service up and running over at Ask City. Most people, however, probably won't notice the switch since nothing feels any different than it did.

July 3rd, 2008
Ask.com Chooses Microsoft for Online Map Provider

Firefox & Opera Users are the Most Apt to Update

Web browsers are probably among the most updated applications because of how important they are in our daily lives, and also because of how vulnerable they can make us to outside attacks. For example, Firefox 2 has had about 15 different versions since its release in October 2006, and all but three addressed security issues.

July 3rd, 2008
Firefox & Opera Users are the Most Apt to Update

Judge Says Google Has to Handover All YouTube User Data

There's bad news today for privacy advocates with Wired.com reporting that a judge is ordering YouTube to provide Viacom with the hsitory of all of their users.

July 3rd, 2008
Judge Says Google Has to Handover All YouTube User Data

Google Talk for iPhone Works Well in Firefox/Opera Sidebar

The long-awaited Google Talk for iPhone is finally available, and it's not in the form of an iPhone application. Instead, it's simply a browser app which makes us wonder why it took Google over a year to make something for the iPhone.

July 3rd, 2008
Google Talk for iPhone Works Well in Firefox/Opera Sidebar

Daily Downloads: Flash, Skitch, and More

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).

July 3rd, 2008
Daily Downloads: Flash, Skitch, and More

CyberNotes: Assign Driver Letters to Folders in Windows

On your computer there are probably just a handful of folders that you access everyday, and wouldn't it be nice to make them even easier to access? One way to do that is to assign your most used folders to drive letters on your Windows machine, which puts them just a click away from your mouse.

July 3rd, 2008
CyberNotes: Assign Driver Letters to Folders in Windows