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• Intel touts quad-core for gaming, again
  Thursday 8 March 2007 – 03:53
  At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Intel is repeating a mantra that it has said for several months - quad-core gaming is just around the corner. At the company booth in the Moscone Convention Centre Expo Hall, representatives told TG Daily that extra processor cores could allow for more realistic physics and particle effects. The cores could also make computer-controlled enemies smarter by enhancing artificial intelligence.
• Not again! BlackBerry maker under fire from Visto for alleged patent infringement
  Monday 1 May 2006 – 11:49
  The outcome some analysts dreaded - that Research in Motion, Ltd.'s settlement with NTP might compel other companies waiting in the wings to make similar lawsuits - is apparently coming to fruition. Today, Visto, a patent holder for intellectual property related to service platforms for cellular and wireless carriers, announced its filing of a suit in US Federal Court seeking infringement penalties and damages.
• Blu-ray edges out HD DVD yet again
  Saturday 21 April 2007 – 03:11
  More disappointing news for HD DVD came today with the results of Nielsen Video Scan's sales data for high definition DVDs. ...
• LCD panel prices on the increase again
  Saturday 21 April 2007 – 03:09
  LCD panels are rebounding, which not only means tighter margins for monitor makers but also sets the stage for the transition to larger desktop and notebook LCDs for the mass market. ...
• Windows Longhorn slips again, becomes megaproject
  Wednesday 26 June 2002 – 08:20
  Longhorn, once upon a time the intermediate point release on the way from Windows XP to Blackcomb, the real big one, is now not-a-point-release, but is instead "a radically new version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, which, if all goes well, will come out sometime after 2005," John Lettice writes.

• Gigabyte With NVIDIA Again: Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra*
  Thursday 15 January 2004 – 06:00
  After more than a yearlong hiatus, Gigabyte has begun to offer cards again based on NVIDIA's graphics processor. Gigabyte's latest addition to an entire NVIDIA card family it plans to launch is the Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, so that now Gigabyte's roster includes cards powered by Ati as well as NVIDIA graphics processors. We see what, if anything, is special about Gigabyte's GeForce FX 5950 Ultra.
• Mobo Makers Try Again with Intel's 925X and 915P Chipsets*
  Tuesday 10 August 2004 – 07:00
  Heat problems associated with the 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 mired our first pre-retail launch tests of Intel's Socket 775 with DDR2 memory. Now that board makers have had over six weeks to work the kinks out, we look again at how mobos take the heat from Intel's 925X and 915P chipsets.
• University of Missouri gets hacked, again*
  Thursday 10 May 2007 – 01:55
  More than 22,000 students are affected by a hacker's entry into the University of Missouri's computer database, an announcement made even more disturbing by the fact that the same thing happened at the school just a few months ago. ...
• VoIP is Dead... Again*
  Wednesday 13 September 2006 – 04:58
  The view from the Autumn VON show this week in Boston is that VoIP's time as a profitable market has passed...again.
• What's causing Dell XPS 700 shipments to be delayed again, to October?*
  Friday 4 August 2006 – 10:59
  Although Dell originally announced its Pentium D 900 series-based XPS 700 system last May, few - if any - customers who purchased this system have actually seen it shipped to them. And most of those customers, who have now been offered upgrades to the improved, Core 2 Duo or Extreme-based model, have been told their systems will ship in mid-October, if not later. What's really going on?