Monday News Round-up - 14 Movies On One CD - tech
(hx) 02:46 AM CEST - Apr,11 2006
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- AMD Athlon FX-60 vs. X2 3800+ - Game Performance Compared -
FX-60 results we're not exactly
mind blowing when compared to the cheaper X2 3800+.
- NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Lockup Issue Resolved -
The issues were present on cards
clocked as low as 20MHz above stock speeds
- ATI Radeon X1900 GT Leaked - ATI will release
a single-slot Radeon X1900 GT with
36 pixel shaders.
- ASUS Extreme N7600GT - Legion Hardware has
a
twelve page review of the ASUS Extreme N7600GT.
- Interactive VGA Charts 2006 Kickoff - Care about 3D graphics
performance?
THG has all-new Interactive VGA Charts 2006, now including benchmarks for
dual graphics setups and multiple visual settings.
- Eli Home Broadband Security Appliance -
The router not only has an integral
ADSL2+ modem but also sports an Ethernet port as well.
- Philips 230WP7NS 23inch WUXGA LCD Widescreen Monitor - This baby
has a display resolution of
1920W1200 pixels with a 16:10 screen aspect ratio.
- Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1310G notebook -
The badge says Intel Celeron M inside, rather than Pentium M. The
difference between the two is that the former has half the Level 2 cache, 1MB,
and does not feature SpeedStep power saving technology, which powers down
parts of the processor when it detects that it's not required
- Lite-On to take over BenQ's optical drive division -
The takeover is expected to be
completed "on or about" June 1.
- IBM Unveils Security For Chips -
SecureBlue is supposed to bring
encryption to just about anything from cell phones to PDAs and laptops.
- Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh -
The price of Intel Core Duo chips
is set to plummet on the 28th of May, and there's faster chips coming
along anyroadmap.
- 14 Movies On One CD? -
Euclid Discoveries says a full-length movie that requires 700 megabytes of
storage when compressed using MPEG-4 would use just 50 megabytes when
compressed with EuclidVision
- TDK ships 25GB recordable and re-writable Blu-ray media -
TDK Corporation announced that
it has begun shipping Blu-ray recordable media to retailers across the United
States.
- Cell Phone Industry Steps Closer to VoIP -
The cell phone conversation is not
dropped when the switch between cellular network and WiFi hotspot takes
place.
- HTC STAR100 Windows Mobile Smartphone - Nothing special so far - no
WiFi or anything else that would place it on top of other Windows Mobile
Smartphones. Except for one thing:
It's style!
- Startup Webaroo to put the 'Web on a Hard Drive'? -
You can search the Web without a
net connection of any kind, they claim.
- Google exploring new search technique -
Search giant works with Australian student on project designed to let
people view more info per search result.
- ForceWare 87.45 for Windows Vista -NVIDIA released
new alpha drivers.
- US Military Web Site Exposes Air Force One Defenses - Much to the
shock of the US Air Force,
the San Francisco Chronicle informed the Air Force about an Air Force base
web site that gave sensitive information about Air Force One. Information
included the following: Interior maps of the planes, information about the
anti-missle defenses on the Air Force one, and locations where terrorists
could potentially "detonate the tanks that supply oxygen to Air Force One's
medical facility."
- Ex-Gizmondo Exec Arrested For 'Grand Theft Auto'-
Sheriff's deputies have arrested the Swedish video game executive who
crashed in a rare Ferrari in Malibu in February, alleging that he didn't own
that car and others in his $3.5-million exotic car collection, authorities
said Sunday. Stefan Eriksson faces grand theft charges after detectives raided
his gated Bel-Air estate Friday night, spent six hours searching it and then
took him into custody Saturday night.
- Disney Releasing ABC Shows Free Online - Disney has decided that,
starting in May,
they will make several ABC TV shows available for free on the net.
- 72 More Hours for Jack Bauer -
24 star Kiefer Sutherland has signed a deal to stay with the Fox show for
three more years, through May 2009.
GAMING...
- SiN Steam FAQ -
Ritualistic has posted a FAQ for SiN 1 on Steam, offering a couple of tips
on things like automatically logging in a player, Soundblaster soundcard and
multiplayer issues, and the game hardlocking.
- Crysis to be PC Exclusive -
In an interview with C&VG, Crytek CEO, and President Cevat Yerli claims that
Crytek and its fancy new engine will not be showing up on any next gen consoles
in the near future.
- Project Gotham Racing 3 Expansion Dated - The long-awaited expansion pack
for Project Gotham Racing 3 racing on the Xbox360 has a date.
April 17 will be the day that new tracks and cars will be available for
download over XBox Live
- BF2142: High-Res Trailer - BF2S.com now has
a high
quality copy of this clip, running at a cool 800x600 pixels.
- FlatOut 2 video - Tiscali has new
FlatOut
2 video (35MB Xvid)
- Brothers In Arms 3 Images -
Playeron has posted scans from their own magazine of Brother in Arms 3.
- Brickfield BF2 Modlauncher v3.0 - The team behind the Brickfield mod
have released the latest version of their
Brickfield Modlauncher.
- Burnout Revenge Xbox 360 Update - The update allows people to use new
cars which means people who went to their local Xbox 360 retail kiosk to get
that special Xbox 360 branded Burnout Revenge car via their memory card can
finally use it in the game.
- Revolution to Feature 20 Launch Titles -
Gamesindustry.biz has an article up with quotes from Nintendo of America
senior VP George Harrison. Apparently two-thirds of the 20 Revolution launch
titles will come from 3rd parties.
- PlayStation 3 not playable to public at E3? -
It looks as
though the PS3 will be tightly restricted this year, leaving many punters
frustrated.
- Shockwave Quake III - Well, there is another Shockwave game that you
guys have got to check out as well,
Shockwave Quake III for your browser. There is also Half-Life, DOOM, Quake
and others.
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