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• Who Designed This Crap? Tech Support, Need I Say More?*
  Friday 14 July 2006 – 04:38
  Tech support has a well deserved negative reputation. Read about a bad and a good tech support experience and then send in your own experiences.
• Reader Feedback on Tech Support Woes*
  Saturday 20 May 2006 – 10:00
  After Aaron McKenna recounted his poor experience of Dell technical support we received a flood of emails from disillusioned consumers. Some frustrating stories were told, some ironic. Not many told tales of receiving value for their money.
• Athlon64 Boards Found Lagging in Memory Support*
  Monday 12 January 2004 – 06:00
  We put all of our previously-tested Athlon64 mobos, in addition to new boards from Abit and Soyo, to memory-performance tests to see how they accomodated different memory modules from Corsair, Infineon and TakeMS. The results were nothing to write home about.
• New Firefox update adds security, Vista support*
  Friday 1 June 2007 – 01:34
  Mozilla released its third update to Firefox 2.0 this week. ...
• Blu-ray support a last minute switch, Microsoft says*
  Wednesday 28 September 2005 – 04:33
  In an exclusive interview with Tom's Hardware Guide, one of Microsoft's lead representatives on the DVD Forum Steering Committee said that decisions regarding whether his company and Intel would back and promote HD DVD as a high-definition video disc standard, were determined only within the last few days. Prior to some critical recent developments and announcements, both companies - which had proclaimed neutrality - may have been ready to back Blu-ray.
• CES 2007: Corel updates DVD Copy 5 with iPod, Vista support*
  Friday 5 January 2007 – 08:02
  Corel announced today a Vista update for DVD Copy 5, available free for those who own the Gold, Platinum, or Express version of the software. The update adds support for Zune, iPod, and TiVo connectivity, and also includes certification for Windows Vista.
• Intel's Strike Force: 19 DDR-Motherboards With 845 Chipset and DDR-Support*
  Monday 18 March 2002 – 06:00
  Bending to industry pressure, Intel added DDR support for the 845 chipset - and the long desired alternative to RDRAM was born. Due to Intel's extensive experience in the chipset sector, most people will prefer the 845 chipset to other solutions, and its availability is also widespread. We put a total of 19 motherboards to the test in order to give you well-founded advice.
• Quick View: SanDisk SD Wi-Fi card w/ Zire 71 support*
  Friday 25 June 2004 – 01:05
  It took eight months, and two backpedals on schedule and supported OSes, but SanDisk finally has added PalmOS support to its SD 802.11b card. The good news is that it works. The bad...well, you'd best read our Quick View to find out the whole story.
• New Blu-ray member Warner Bros. would support iHD layer, oppose mandatory managed copy*
  Saturday 29 October 2005 – 12:26
  For Warner Home Video to become included as a board member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, along with its continuing membership in the HD DVD Promotions Group, certain demands by Warner had to be met, and were. One is a tighter stance on managed copy, which may jeopardize HP's future membership in that body.
• AMD HD 3800 To Support DX 10.1*
  Monday 29 October 2007 – 02:06 in Graphics
  Not to be outdone by today's Nvidia 8800GT launch, AMD spoke with us about the two ATI HD 3800 series graphics processors it will announced on November 15th.