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In an article titled "Could this chip have prevented the TJX breach?", Ross Kerber reports for the Boston Globe on an interview with TJX vice chairman Donald G. Campbell who is "urging banks and other retailers to embrace a multibillion-dollar technology that uses a tiny computer chip to stop criminals

Portable USB sound cards aren’t exactly popular, but then again they’re pretty useful if you need something better compared to an ordinary onboard audio chip for your entertainment needs. Creative will be introducing the Sound Blaster X-Fi Go!

According to the most recent details regarding NVIDIA’s upcoming graphics products, the Santa Clara-based chip maker is planning to release its very first 40nm GPUs, even before competitor AMD has a chance of delivering its own 40nm-based solutions.

In the Democratic debates, Joe Biden famously dismissed Rudy Giuliani with: “There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11...there’s nothing else." Now, Biden may have the chance to do the same for his Senate friend as John McCain's campaign reflexively parrots POW

APACS issued a press release today responding to an earlier CPP release titled "Forecast is hot for fraud this Bank Holiday". APACS says that in the release "PP offers incorrect information when claiming that Spain and France are “… the top spots where Brits fall victim to card theft”.

According to recent report credit card fraud levels resulted in costs of over half a billion pounds last year, with crime levels in relation to credit card fraud rocketing. The data comes from a recently released report, and officials state that part of the reason for the rise is that cardholders’ details are being stolen or cloned in destinations abroad where chip and pin in not in use.

Evan Schuman of StoreFrontBackTalk reminds us that credit card compromises that result in fraudulent ATM use can mean only one thing: they had access to the cardholder’s PIN.  In reference to the recent indictment he reminds us about such details. But the indictment casually mentions a potentially very serious fact.

I generally try to stay on top of things when it comes to the components in my gaming rig. I usually try to buy a new graphics card once, maybe twice a year, and generally don’t go for the top-of-the-line card. Despite generally being up-to-date, I really haven’t considered purchasing a separate physics card, even though they have been available for some time.

OK, I officially give up on the Asus Eee PC. There , that you would need a whole wiki to find out the intricate difference between all of them. There is a new variant in town - the Asus Eee PC 900A that will be powered by Intel’s Atom processor compared to the Celeron chip in older 900 models.

Intel has unveiled a new family of microprocessors which it says will be initially targeted at the graphics card for the personal computer. Code-named Larrabee, it will feature between 16 and 48 cores instead of the single and dual cores commonly found in current generation of processors.