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Twenty-six years after .com was first unveiled to the world, officials have swept away tight rules governing website naming, opening up a entire world of personalised web address suffixes. Icann, the internet naming board, authorized one of the greatest changes within the web’s history on Monday, permitting the number of web suffixes to expand virtually with out limit. Currently there [...]

Do you work from home? If you work from home then you are indefinitely going to need a printer. Printers help you to complete everyday tasks. Depending on the personal purpose of the printer, you are likely to want one that is reliable, fast and cost effective with inks. For those who don’t work from home, you might be seeking a printer that can produce the best quality photo prints. You might have [...]

WEll CES 2011 is upon and as of tomorrow I will be attending again for my third year in a row… More updates, pictures and news to come tomorrow after going through the convention

Ever since DirectX 10 came out with Windows Vista, most gamers have upgraded (changed, rather) their OS to vista to experience games with DX10. Games look better on DX10 no doubt, but it is equally true that switching to DX10 sacrifices a lot of FPS (Frames Per Second). Now this difference may be little while playing on lower settings with highly capable graphic cards but as you increase the details [...]

You must be aware that contrast ratio and dynamic contrast ratio are two properties considered very important while buying a HDTV or a monitor. This article will tell you how important these properties really are and how much weightage they should be given while purchasing a HDTV or monitor. Meaning: To start with, let us define the two terms we are dealing with. When we say just contrast ratio, it [...]

Hello readers, I just got back home from one long night of waiting in line, in the sweltering desert heat of Las Vegas (yes even in the middle of the night you feel like you’re melting.) But it was all well worth it, as soon as I walked in I cracked open my Collector’s Edition of Starcraft II and I am currently anxiously waiting for it to finish installing. That’s all besides the [...]

Hello everyone, I happy to bring about a new feature to all of you loyal techgoo readers. “This Week In Games” We’ll cover what hot new games are coming out this week, and blast off with some opinions, and reviews for listed games later on in the week after their release. So let’s get to it. This week coming out we have of course Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, coming out 12 [...]

Nokia’s Q2 result  brought further sad news regarding the company’s performance in the highly competitive mobile phone market. It’s profits fell 40% to 227 million euros. Sales rose by 0.9% to 10 billion euros but the huge drop in profit as compared to Q2 2009 clearly shows that Nokia’s grip on the market, both smartphone and feature phone is loosening. Companies like Samsung, [...]

I had been using Mozilla Firefox for the past 3 or 4 years, and i loved it. It incomparably customizable with so many addons and plugins. It had weather forecast, news, music manager, an IE rendering engine as an alternative to IE, a .pdf opener, ad-blocker, and a whole lot more of addons which were soon replacing my other third party softwares. But a few weeks ago, i was finding the browser becoming [...]

The battle between Windows and Linux is infinite. The vast majority of the world still use Microsoft Windows as their operating system. This is because application developers and regular users have became familiar with the interface that MS Windows uses. But what about Linux? Linux was never close to the popularity that Windows had. Linux was portrayed as a complex OS that regular, non-nerd, users [...]