your source for quality tutorial, guides, tweaks and programming info http://www.helpedia.com/ According to Net Security, more than a third of US employees ignore their companies' IT policies. JOhn Pironti, member of ISACA’s Education Board, said that the most often broken pol... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Study.reveals.employees.ignore.IT.policies-news183.html Microsoft has announced that it will release next month an updated version of Windows XP to OEMs. The updated version of Windows XP will contain Service Pack 2c and will resolve the shortage of product keys caused by the unexpected longevity of ... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Microsoft.to.release.new.version.of.Windows.XP-news182.html The memory standard association JEDEC has completed the development and publication of the DDR3 standard. The association hopes DDR3 will be accepted by companies due to its improvements in performance and reduced power consumption, compared to ... http://www.helpedia.com/news/JEDEC.approves.DDR.RAM.standard-news181.html Microsoft has purchased Aquantive for around $6 billion, paying $66.50 for each share, at a moment when the usual price on NASDAQ was $35.87. Aquantive is based in Seattle and owns the Avenue A and Razorfish solutions. Microsoft chief St... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Microsoft.buys.Aquantive.for.billion.-news180.html The Mozilla Foundation has released an alpha build of its upcoming FireFox 3.0, with the code name Gran Paradiso. This alpha has the mark 3.0b4, and it is being distributed to web designers and developers, so that they can check to see if al... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Firefox.Alpha.released-news179.html PlayStation 3 will receive new features with the next firmware upgrade, version 1.60. The system update will give users the the ability to download files from the PlayStation Network in the background. Right now, PS3 stops any activity and stays... http://www.helpedia.com/news/PS.Firmware.to.add.more.features-news178.html U.S. Representative Rick Boucher has proposed a new bill in the Congress that aims to allow consumers to copy and safely play digital material that they legally own, and to protect user rights for consumers of copyright material. The bill also aims to p... http://www.helpedia.com/news/FAIR.USE.Act.may.limit.DCMA.restrictions-news177.html After a first announcement in January, AMD has released the final DTX case format specifications. DTX motherboards are designed to fit inside ATX cases and DTX cases will support mini-ITX motherboards, allowing full backwards compatibility. ... http://www.helpedia.com/news/AMD.releases.final.specs.for.DTX.format-news176.html Viacom has requested YouTube to remove almost 100.000 unauthorized video clips from the site after licensing negotiations have failed. "It has become clear that YouTube is unwilling to come to a fair market agreement that would make Viacom conte... http://www.helpedia.com/news/YouTube.asked.to.remove.Viacom.videos-news175.html The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has started a lawsuit against the Russian online music site, AllOfMP3.com for $1.6 trillion. Although it has been known that the RIAA intended to sue Mediaservices, which owns AllofMP3.com... http://www.helpedia.com/news/RIAA.sues.AllOfMP.com.for.trillion-news174.html German Technology outfit Siemens claims to have set a new speed record for electrical processing of data through a fibre-optic cable. Siemens has managed to process data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second on a 100 mi... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Siemens.breaks.network.speed.record-news173.html A Hong Kong Court of Appeal has upheld the landmark conviction of P2P uploader Chan Nai-ming, a person convicted for uploading files using the BitTorrent protocol. He would be the first person convicted for beeing a P2P uploader, the people b... http://www.helpedia.com/news/P.P.Uploader.jailed.for.piracy-news172.html According to research done by American Technology Research analyst Paul-Jon McNealy, Sony's launch weekend had between 125,000 to 175,000 units available for the North American market, well below the expected shipment volume. Sony originally pl... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Sony.PlayStation.shipments.are.lower.than.expected-news171.html Wikipedia has been unblocked in China after being banned more than a year. The subdomain zh.wikipedia.org that contains the Chinese language version of Wikipedia is again fully accessible to users. Before beeing banned in late 2005, Wikipedi... http://www.helpedia.com/news/China.Lifts.Ban.on.Wikipedia-news170.html Microsoft is expected to release six new security updates for Windows next week. 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The HD DVD-R discs can hold 15 GB of data or video and should already be on shelves. Memorex states that with ... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Memorex.ships.HD.DVD.media-news159.html According to a report by Bank of America, Dell has ordered 2 million systems with AMD processors from their suppliers - 1.2 million desktops and 800,000 notebooks.The ... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Dell.Orderes.Million.AMD.Based.Desktops.And.Laptops-news158.html Intel has released drivers for the company’s G965 express family of chipsets under a tri-open source license to the OSS community. The open source drivers have been released under the X.org MIT License, the Mesa MIT License and the GPL v2 license... http://www.helpedia.com/news/Intel.Releases.Open.Source.Drivers.For.GMA.Video.Cards-news157.html RIAA has filed another lawsuit in its crusade against peer-to-peer file sharing networks, this time targeting the popular LimeWire network. 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