The OnLive streaming cloud-based gaming service is in talks with both Sony and Microsoft about bring its technology to the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. This revelation comes from an interview at Computer and Video Games with OnLive vice president of engineering Joe Bentley who states, “Absolutely, they would make great consoles. Our controller is a hybrid between a PS3 controller and an Xbox controller. It’s all compatible, it would just work. There are OnLive guys chatting , but we’ll see where it goes.

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Appearing on CNBC on Monday, Nader explained that he wants to see Cisco pay a one-time dividend of $1 a share, as well as increase its annual dividend from 24 cents to as much as 50 cents a share. Cisco and its CEO John Chambers have been slammed by Ralph Nader.

“Cisco is sitting on $43.5 billion in cash, they are not about to make more acquisitions — they have said that they are going to go back to their core business,” he explained.

Nader, who is himself a Cisco shareholder, even drew an analogy with conservative attitudes towards government tax dollars. Read more…

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A couple of weeks back, we took a look at AMD’s Llano mobile platform and we came away impressed. In the mobile space, Llano offers a capable quad-core CPU, with excellent DX11-class integrated graphics, in a very low power-envelope. Those things translate into good performance and solid battery life in a notebook, two highly desirable traits of mobile system.

AMD is now ready with Llano-based products for the desktop. On the desktop, Llano offers similar things. In fact, the underlying technology is identical. But the desktop landscape is very different. Desktops aren’t constrained by the limited form-factors and thermal requirements of mobile systems, and as such, Llano has to compete with a much broader range of options.

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A supercharged Chevrolet Corvette may have been all the hotness back in 1996, but times and tastes change and now people are all about the electric boogaloo. Today we get to witness one modern man’s transition into this brave new world, a Wayne Bickley from California, who has gutted his crow-black ’96 Corvette and replaced the messy internal combustion setup with a set of 18 XS Power XP1000 batteries, a DC electric motor, and his own clutchless six-speed transmission. The end result doesn’t really look much different, but its 20-mile “spirited driving” range and 85mph top speed will surely feel different and it does also sound very much like something from the the future. Read more…

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The Common Weakness Scoring System (CWSS) is intended to give developers and customers a better idea of which weaknesses should be accorded the highest priority. A buffer overflow discovered during a code audit is, for example, assigned a lower CWSS score if the data used to trigger the overflow is not derived from user input. Memory leaks which lead to crashes are given an even lower score.

A comparable system for classifying vulnerabilities already exists in the form of the relatively venerable Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Factors used to calculate a vulnerability’s CVSS score include basic metrics, local or remote exploitability, the trustworthiness of the discoverer, temporal metrics and the availability of an exploit.

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We first heard of Fusion years ago when AMD and ATI still had separate names. It was announced as a technology that would revolutionize the PC and notebook market as there would be a marriage between the CPU and GPU in a single die. Knowing the power behind ATI cards and the affordability of the AMD processors, this was something that was much anticipated by the PC world. It wasn’t until the 2011 CES that we were able to get a taste of this technology and see it in action. Then, in March, we were able to get our hands on the first Fusion products. They didn’t disappoint.

Those first products were the “Brazos” boards.

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