AMD reckons its new ATI Radeon E4690 GPU trebles the 3D performance of any of its embedded graphics chips to date

Quiet Sweden is bubbling over with righteous indignation following revelations that the judge in the Pirate Bay trial has various links with the Big Media Mafiaa.

A Swedish court has decided to send four blokes running the Pirate Bay P2P service to prison.

Angry residents in leafy Buckinghamshire were transformed into a seething mob, more menacing than a bunch of anticapitalist protestors at the sight of a Google Street View car snapping their homes.

Symantec confessed that it sent users of Norton Antivirus software into a frenzy by triggering their firewalls with an unsigned security patch.

PR coup de grace

Virtual ketchup

Wolrd of Warcraft sneaks into a demo by Intel; and the chip giant talks more about Atom. It all sounds eerily like Via.

For Coolermaster it's all about coolers, cases and PSUs and the outfit has refreshed parts of its line-up for this year's sweaty gadgetfest.

Intel's Sean Maloney hypes Wimax, outs P4 chipsets, straddles digital divide. Centrino 2 isn't here yet, but we're getting closer.

More detail on the big launches, including the big head to head between AMD's Puma platform and Intel's Centrino, and Intel's Atom chip.

The component-fest that is Computex is kicking off in Taipei, and the buzz this year is on WiMax, low cost notebooks and Nvidia's new GPU line.

So the graphics card company and the CPU giant are duking it out? Could be good for us, says AMD.