Nvidia Corp. and ATI Technologies moved further ahead in the mobile graphics space, adapting their desktop graphics cores for use in notebook PCs.
Nvidia shifted its GeForceFX 5200 and 5600 cores into the mobile market, improving the video core while using new power-management techniques to reduce power consumption. ATI, meanwhile, is expected to announce its Mobiliity Radeon 9600.
Both of the Nvidia and ATI announcements capitalize on the sudden interest in notebook applications, prompted by the launches of the Intel Centrino and the AMD Athlon XP-M processors on Wednesday.
Nvidia has also succeeded into pushing its GeForceFX into the high-end and mainstream segments in both the desktop and notebook markets in just over 100 days.
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Microsoft has added webcam functionality to its MSN Messenger 5.0 client, allowing users to stream and view live video via instant messages.
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HotHardware has posted an Intel Centrino Launch Coverage
Sudhian has posted a new article: Could Higher End Audio Equipment End the MP3 Conflict?
Dell Computer appears to be playing both sides in the mobile wireless arena, supporting both Intel's Centrino as well as new wireless options.
Dell's new D-Series Latitude notebooks have been advertised as "Centrino" devices, meaning that they use Intel's PRO Wireless component. Intel's marketing program will foot part of the advertising bill for OEMs who design machines using all three of the Centrino components: the Banias processor, an Intel chipset, and the
PRO Wireless or 'Calexico" wireless component, which only supports 802.11b.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday is adding to the noise this week in the mobile computing space by unveiling 12 new mobile chips, including five in the increasingly competitive thin-and-light
notebook space.
During a week in which Intel Corp. is launching its much-talked-about Centrino mobile platform, AMD is adding to its mobile portfolio with processors it said will give it more ammunition against Intel.
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HotHardware has posted some NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra Benchmarks
D-Link's 900+ is among the first of a new breed of access points that
can double as a repeater. However, Wireless Supersite Editor Ross
Rubin warns, you may have to repeat your story to tech support a few
times to survive its big MAC attack.
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AMD will target users of Windows NT 4.0 with its 64bit Opteron processor, due for release on 22 April. The strategy highlights the diverse approaches of AMD, which is encouraging firms to make a gradual move from 32bit to 64bit worlds, and its larger rival Intel, which expects firms to make a sharper change because its 64bit Itanium processors slow the performance of 32bit applications.
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Forecasting is hard-especially when it's about the future. IBM is proposing to change all that with three new autonomic software technologies that it planned to unveil today and demonstrate at next week's CeBit trade show, in Hannover, Germany.
The three technologies - Adaptive Forecasting, On-line Capacity Planning and Rapid Reconfiguration - are designed to predict sudden increases in workload and to respond by bringing on additional server capacity and dynamically reconfiguring DB2 database parameters.
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There's a lot of news about Sun Microsystems, these days. A court has ordered Microsoft to include Sun's version of Java in Windows XP (although that ruling has been stayed pending a decision on Microsoft's appeal). Sun recently announced that 1 million developers have downloaded its 2-year-old peer-to-peer networking
software-dubbed JXTA (for the word juxtapose)-and that many applications are using the software. And the company's software strategy has been shifting, lately. Sun just unveiled its Project Orion strategy, which brings the company's software offerings together into one scheduled quarterly release of an integrated system with a uniform licensing policy. We discussed Sun's initiatives with CTO John Fowler, one of the key drivers behind technologies such as
Java and Solaris.
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Sudhian Media has published a new editorial: The Computer Closet
Digital broadcaster Pseudo.com plans to release a weekly TV show hosted by rap star Ice-T on the Internet file-sharing network Kazaa, in attempts to start a new model of advertising-supported television.
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Readers read the riot act to David Morgenstern over his recent column bemoaning the limitations of the CD format.
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The Six/Four System is peer-to-peer technology that makes it possible to carry out almost any Internet activity securely and-more importantly, for all sorts of reasons-anonymously. The Hactivismo system, or anything based on it, just may become the Internet's next killer app.
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Sudhian Media has posted an article on Flash
Dan's Data has posted more letters
Microsoft's SPOT promises that your watch won't be your grandfather's clock, Wireless Supersite Editor Ross Rubin notes, but its network is conveniently carrier-free.
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First he received a patent for 1-Click e-commerce. Now he has one for e-mail discussion groups. Last Tuesday, February, 25, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a new patent to Jeff Bezos, the CEO of online retailer Amazon.com, granting him exclusive rights to "a method and system for conducting an electronic discussion relating to a topic. As was the case when he and three other Amazon executives patented the company's 1-Click ordering system, Bezos has gained control of a technology that may not seem particularly innovative to the everyday Internet user.
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After years of working to establish the smart phone as a viable platform, MicrosoftCorp. and Symbian Ltd. seem to be garnering enough support to conduct an old-fashioned operating system war in a new frontier.
While some industry experts say competition in the space encourages innovation and carrier adoption, others say multiple standards in the space complicate the environment for third-party software developers. In addition, some fear competition could spur the kind of tactics found unti-competitive in the desktop operating system environment.
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Our collection of personal digital content keeps growing as does that
stack of peripherals. Networking industry veteran Michael Krieger,
now vice president of Ziff Davis Media's Market Experts Group, thinks
he may have spied a solution at the recent CES extravaganza.
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Dan's Data has posted more letters
Now that the floppy drive is on the way out, Storage Supersite Editor David Morgenstern hopes CD storage will soon follow suit.
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Sony said on Monday it would start sales next month of the world's first DVD recorder that uses blue laser light and can pack a two-hour high-definition TV program onto a single disc.
It won't be cheap, with a retail list price of 450,000 yen ($3,800) while low-end DVD recorders using conventional red lasers go for as little as 50,000 to 70,000 yen.
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Dan's Data letters #33 is up.
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted some CeBIT Product News
The Intermec 760 Color Mobile Computer, a Pocket PC 2002 PDA, costs a whopping $3,650 (street). Then again, this rugged device comes fully loaded with a 2-D bar code scanner, Bluetooth for wireless personal area networking, 802.11b for LAN communications, and GSM/GPRS capability with T-Mobile service for WAN communications (CDMA/1xRTT support is coming shortly). A bare-bones version without the scanner and wireless connectivity costs $1,850. Rather than pay the princely single-unit prices, most buyers purchase in volume. For quantities of 1,000 or more, the unit price varies from $1,595 to $1,995, depending on options. For mobile data collection and reporting, the Intermec 760 Color Mobile Computer is a versatile PDA.
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Sudhian Media has posted a new editorial: The Future of the HTPC
NeoWin send some news on the DX9 SDK Release 2:
Designtechnica gives an in depth look at how plasma televisions operate and how they are different than traditional CRT televisions.
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Hidden Power-Saving Features Bolster Banias
Like much of the group that made it popular, IM (instant messaging) is a high-potential teenager going through an identity crisis, according to Microsoft product unit manager David Gurle.
Speaking at the Instant Messaging Planet Spring 2003 Conference and Expo here Tuesday, Gurle told attendees that IM is often misunderstood, and that for its true potential to be realized, service providers will have to undergo a tremendous shift in their business models.
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CNET News has posted a special report on Spyware
PC Stats has posted a new article: Blown and Leaking Motherboard Capacitors - A Serious Problem?
Hexus has posted two IDF Day 3 articles
KeynoteThe Communication sector is another important sector for Intel. This sector has seen massive growth within the last few years - this includes VDSl, DSL, and xDSL to the home. With some companies installing fibre right to peoples homes. There has also been a relative adoption of WiFi in to the home.
Read morePCI-ExpressAnother year another evolution, we have heard a lot about PCI-X recently, and it appears that this technology will become redundant a lot quicker than initially was suspected.
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Connectix Corp., which this week sold its client and server Virtual Machine technology to Microsoft Corp., is evaluating its future given that it is now left with just two products that are heading toward obsolescence.
In an interview with eWEEK on Wednesday afternoon, Roy McDonald, the CEO and president of Connectix, said his firm has developed Macintosh technologies since the launch of its first product in January 1989.
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Tom's Hardware Guide has posted day 3 of their IDF coverage
Computerbase has posted some benchmarks on a Intel Springdale's system
Developers, analysts and the media have descended upon sunny San Jose, Calif. , this week for Intel's biannual review of its products and partnerships. And Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is here as well, demonstrating some of its long-awaited 64-bit products and outlining its mobile strategy at briefings down the street from the San Jose Convention Center , site of the Intel Developer Forum.
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Intel's "Prescott" processor could scale up to 5-GHz, Intel executives said this afternoon.
In a small presentation providing an overview of the new processor here, Intel executives unveiled the 15 new instructions found within the processor, which a senior Intel executive had declined to comment upon earlier on Wednesday.
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Tom's Hardware Guide has posted Day 2 fo their IDF coverage
Dan's Data has posted more letters
Hardware Analysis has posted AMD Athlon-64 Benchmarks
Hexus has posted part 2 of their IDF coverage
NeoWin reports that Office 11 Beta 2 has been released to MSDN universal subscribers
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a coverage from the IDF
Tom's Hardware Guide has posted an article on 3DMark 2003
Hexus has posted part 1 of their IDF 03 coverage
Phoenix Technologies Inc., a leading BIOS manufacturer for more than two decades, is branching out with a plan to create a secure applications layer between the BIOS and the operating system in PCs, servers and mobile devices.
Dubbed the Phoenix Core Managed Environment, or cME, the technology is designed to be built into a protected area of the computer's hard drive, according to officials with the San Jose, Calif., company."
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OC Workbench has posted pictures from the new ASROCK K7S8X SiS 746FX Mainboard
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