Tom's Hardware Guide has posted their coverage from the CES 2003
Intel on Tuesday reported better-than-expected earnings for its fourth quarter, thanks in part to stronger sales of high-end processors for PCs and servers.
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Hardware Analysis has posted a new article: AMD Fab 30 facility visit and more
Intuit has added an uninstaller feature for those users who are worried about the long-term effects of the Macrovision SafeCast/C-Dilla DRM software on their systems.
"As of today, we're going to give them an uninstaller," said Scott Gulbransen, director of corporate communications for the company. "We listened to that issue."
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"As of today, we're going to give them an uninstaller," said Scott Gulbransen, director of corporate communications for the company. "We listened to that issue."
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The Internet's long-held promise of offering every movie ever made is facing a threat far more powerful than any studio chief, box-office star or pitbull uber-agent: the Hollywood contract.
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Unlike its relatively sparse sibling, which appears much like an erector set on steroids, the ER-2 is a fully realized robot, encased in a hard-shell cladding. The ER2 includes wireless networking that allows it to be controlled from afar, an object recognition system that lets it maneuver around obstacles, and a gripper arm that allows it to carry things from place to place.
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Steve Bink send words that the domain WindowsXP.nu has been transferred to Microsoft
VR-Zone has posted news about a Hyper-Threading adapter for non-HT P4 boards
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted their coverage from the CES 2003
Messages posted on Internet newsgroups and other online forums complain about the company's use of product activation, with many users saying they've decided to switch from TurboTax to one of its competitors. "I've used this program for many years, and it is an excellent tax program, but the new activation scheme makes it a poor choice now for me," says a post on Amazon.com (the site invites consumers to rate the products it sells).
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Al Zollar is leaving his post as general manager of IBM's Lotus Software division to head the company's iSeries division, IBM officials confirmed this morning.
Zollar, the first IBM executive to run Lotus, will be replaced by Ambuj Goyal, currently general manager for solutions and strategy at IBM's Software Group.
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Zollar, the first IBM executive to run Lotus, will be replaced by Ambuj Goyal, currently general manager for solutions and strategy at IBM's Software Group.
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In the latest move to court consumer electronics manufacturers, RealNetworks on Thursday is introducing content security technology that supports disparate digital media delivery standards, including MPEG-4 and MP3.
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Printer maker Lexmark has found an unusual weapon to thwart rivals from selling replacement toner cartridges: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
A federal judge in Kentucky has scheduled a hearing for Thursday in the case, which Lexmark filed against Static Control Components in an effort to slam the brakes on the toner cartridge remanufacturing industry. Lexmark is the No. 2 printer maker in the United States, behind Hewlett-Packard, and manufactures printers under the Dell Computer brand.
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A federal judge in Kentucky has scheduled a hearing for Thursday in the case, which Lexmark filed against Static Control Components in an effort to slam the brakes on the toner cartridge remanufacturing industry. Lexmark is the No. 2 printer maker in the United States, behind Hewlett-Packard, and manufactures printers under the Dell Computer brand.
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Intel on Tuesday announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.
The new chip family, which includes the processor formerly known by the code name Banias, was designed to help manufacturers build notebooks that use less power and offer extended battery life, along with better wireless networking capabilities.
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The new chip family, which includes the processor formerly known by the code name Banias, was designed to help manufacturers build notebooks that use less power and offer extended battery life, along with better wireless networking capabilities.
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IF "DVD Jon" Lech Johansen, creator of the DeCSS DVD descrambling program, had been tried in a U.S. court instead of in Norway, he may have been found in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But a bill reintroduced in the U.S. Congress would allow consumers to defeat anticopying measures on digital content in some cases.
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Consumers are prompting a new trend in mobile computing: the "desknote."
By taking home large numbers of notebooks based on Intel Pentium 4 desktop processors over the holidays consumers have legitimized a trend toward larger, more powerful notebooks that offer somewhat lower prices than more traditional laptops. Many industry observers had dismissed these so-called desknotes as a flash in the pan when it began early last year.
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By taking home large numbers of notebooks based on Intel Pentium 4 desktop processors over the holidays consumers have legitimized a trend toward larger, more powerful notebooks that offer somewhat lower prices than more traditional laptops. Many industry observers had dismissed these so-called desknotes as a flash in the pan when it began early last year.
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IBM will help Advanced Micro Devices develop future chip technologies, the companies announced Wednesday, an alliance that will better insulate AMD from the growing risks of making processors.
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PC Mag has posted their CES preview
Thanks Mark for this one. The Inquirer reports that AMI introduces "trusted computing" Palladium BIOS
Hot Hardware has posted a screenshot today of an Abit IT7 MAX2 v2.0 hitting a 220MHz (880MHZ effective) FSB.
A new version of Microsoft's Exchange communications software has entered a second round of testing, the company said Monday.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company said the new version, code-named Titanium, will be called Exchange Server 2003. Microsoft plans to release Exchange Server 2003 and the next version of its Outlook e-mail software, code-named Outlook 11, around midyear.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based company said the new version, code-named Titanium, will be called Exchange Server 2003. Microsoft plans to release Exchange Server 2003 and the next version of its Outlook e-mail software, code-named Outlook 11, around midyear.
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SubZeroTech has posted a new article "Shoebox Computer".
Dan's Data has finished a new column.
NeoWin has posted a news story on AOL's new SMS service
Digital Silence takes a look back at 2002 with an eye towards technology.
The next major upgrade to Adobe's industry-leading graphics editing software, Photoshop, is set to ship in the fourth quarter of 2003.
This year will see the release of Photoshop 8.0, code-named "Dark Matter," and ImageReady 8.0, code-named "Taconite." ImageReady will remain a standalone application.
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This year will see the release of Photoshop 8.0, code-named "Dark Matter," and ImageReady 8.0, code-named "Taconite." ImageReady will remain a standalone application.
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There may be no escape from DRM, as manufacturers of compact hard drives, destined for personal multimedia devices, bow to corporate wishes.
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VR-Zone has some info on the latest Triplex GeForce4 Ti 4800SE Deluxe based on the GeForce4 Ti4800SE GPU (NV28 core).
Celsius Tech, a new website dedicated to hardware and software reviews has been launched today
The site is dedicated to posting news from other sites to provide a complete round up of hardware and software reviews from websites around the world.Check it out
David Morgenstern continues to trumpet his solution for the doldrums faced by the hard drive industry -- the growth of personal video recorders. In this column, readers take issue with his views.
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OC Workbench has posted pictures of the new Gigabyte MayaII Radeon 9500Pro 128M video card
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted an article on HyperThreading in games. Thanks APK.
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted an article on HyperThreading
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP. has developed a more powerful semiconductor laser that should pave the way for 16X DVD writers to be commercially available from 2004.
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Dan's Data has put up another I/O letters columns.
I'd like to wish everyone here a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2003.
Hexus has posted a WaterCooling article
X-bit labs has posted an article called "DDR II: Memory of the Future".
Viper's Lair has posted a new editorial: What I would have like for the Holidays
NeoWin has posted a news story on Quake II Evolved
LONDON--In the days before Christmas the amount of spam e-mail being sent and received looks set to soar as marketing machines and e-greetings firms go into seasonal overdrive.
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X-bit labs has posted a monthly memory market overview.
NeoWin send words that Creative chooses ATI for Blaster 5
Starting this week, the company's Sniffer Wireless protocol analyzer will be able to trouble-shoot both 802.11b and 802.11a networks.
Previously, the Sniffer Wireless line of wireless security management products supported only 802.11b networks, which offer data transfer rates of up to 11M bps. 802.11a offers rates of up to 54M bps.
Corporate customers have indicated plans to mix and match the networks and had been asking for security products that support both, officials said.
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Previously, the Sniffer Wireless line of wireless security management products supported only 802.11b networks, which offer data transfer rates of up to 11M bps. 802.11a offers rates of up to 54M bps.
Corporate customers have indicated plans to mix and match the networks and had been asking for security products that support both, officials said.
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Icegameware has posted an article: The trouble with PC Gaming today
The new tool, code-named Visual Studio Tools for Office, exploits the data-sharing capabilities of XML (Extended Markup Language) to help developers create Office-based applications. The enhancements are designed to let companies tailor Microsoft Word and Excel applications to their specific corporate processes and to link "islands of data," said Robert Green, lead product manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft.
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Think of a television screen rendered on a poster. Imagine monitors made of single sheets of flexible plastic. The images you're conjuring up are some of the futuristic technologies Xerox researchers are developing.
Scientists at the Xerox Research Center of Canada are working on semiconducting organic polymers that show promise for enabling the printing of electronic patterns on plastic substrates. Such materials could be alternatives to silicon transistors and lead to surprising applications.
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Scientists at the Xerox Research Center of Canada are working on semiconducting organic polymers that show promise for enabling the printing of electronic patterns on plastic substrates. Such materials could be alternatives to silicon transistors and lead to surprising applications.
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The PCS Phone by Hitachi P300 comes at a premium-$300 (street)-but if it indicates the quality of cell phones we can expect from the company in the future, we're in for some exciting new choices.
Hitachi has included features never seen before-you can have a light sensor control ringer volume, for example, and you can configure an LED to display distinctive color combinations for important callers.
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Hitachi has included features never seen before-you can have a light sensor control ringer volume, for example, and you can configure an LED to display distinctive color combinations for important callers.
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Worn out by endless pitches to enhance his manhood, rescue Ugandan bank accounts, and create a check with his computer, an IBM researcher has concluded that spammers must pay.
IBM researcher Scott E. Fahlman concludes in a recent IBM research paper that time literally equals money, and that telemarketers, charities, businesses, and even friends should be willing to pay for the privilege of bothering today's wired human.
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IBM researcher Scott E. Fahlman concludes in a recent IBM research paper that time literally equals money, and that telemarketers, charities, businesses, and even friends should be willing to pay for the privilege of bothering today's wired human.
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Storage administrators seeking an alternative to EMC Corp. for a high-end network-attached storage gateway to Fibre Channel disks will get a new choice next year from Hitachi Ltd. and Network Appliance Inc.
An as-yet unnamed product the two companies are developing will ship early next year and will connect Hitachi's midrange Thunder and high-end Lightning storage series behind NetApp's technology, executives from both firms said Wednesday.
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An as-yet unnamed product the two companies are developing will ship early next year and will connect Hitachi's midrange Thunder and high-end Lightning storage series behind NetApp's technology, executives from both firms said Wednesday.
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