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Before were get into today's dose of tech news, an email in the old newsbox today letting us know that forums admin Geo and his girlfriend Angela were married on Saturday. Good luck to you both, and best wishes from OCAU.
On with the news! It seems that St George is the latest bank to be targeted by scammers. "Recently some St.George customers have been emailed requesting that they update their Internet bank account details. You may have received one of these emails. The emails encourage people to click on a website link that takes them to a look-a-like St.George Internet Banking logon page, where they are asked to enter their Internet Banking logon details. The emails and website are fraudulent and you should ignore any emails which request that you enter your account details." Lets be careful out there, people! Thanks to Michael.
Some news from Iroquois : AMD revives Duron line, a 1.6GHz Duron overclocked to 2.3GHz, a 2.4GHz P4 overclocked to 3.6GHz and The Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness.
A tale of broadband charges woe from Sniper, also the Phantom Console. Fact? Fiction? Marketing hype? The best thing since sliced bread? Might have to wait and see.
Some info here on watercooling Radeon 9800 cards. Thanks Tempus.
Have you had a crack at optimising your motherboard BIOS? Dazed and confused by all the options and settings? Adrian's Rojak Pot have released an updated version of their BIOS optimisation guide, now at version 8.0. While you're there, budding graphics artists may want to check out their T-Shirt design competition.
PCstats have a preview of ATI's new Radeon 9100 IGP chipset, for Pentium 4 CPUs. Haven't heard too much about ATI motherboard chipsets. Interesting read. PCstats have also released a beginner's guides to assembling your own PC. Yes, it's basic, but we all had to start somewhere.
Symantec set to introduce product activation. Yay. More information here and here. Thanks to Shonky man and Tekka.
Avid newshound Tekka has sent in some more interesting info. Anandtech's Price Guides August 2003 - CPUs, Motherboards, Memory and Video Cards. Next-gen DVD-R mobile drive by Toshiba. Microsoft to debut MSN Premium. Intel 'may be guilty' of over hyping Wi-Fi. China to form anti-spam task force. Intel adds $375m to Asia-Pacific investment tally. IBM finds ally for supercomputer-on-a-chip. School's out for Microsoft Office. Japan's goal - robots that think like a child. Microsoft slashes Office prices, and Webcasters slap RIAA with antitrust suit.
Beyond3D have interviewed PowerVR's John Metcalfe, about the PowerVR Series 5 chip, MBX, and the price of Halibut. Actually, there may be no mention of Halibut. Read the article here to find out!
Some good downloads to distract you from your work, or study .. or procrastination. Some classic games from Blizzard and Halflife 2D. Thanks to Andrew and elvis.
Finally, my favourite bit of news in the newsbox today .... September 19 is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day". I'm really looking forward to this. I have a parrot already picked out. Yarrrrrr, me hearties! Time to raise the Jolly Roger and swab the poop deck! Thanks Trojan.
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