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(hx) 02:23 AM CEST - Jun,21 2002
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- Verizon & Microsoft team up to deliver DSL - Verizon and
Microsoft are teaming
up to deliver innovative, high-speed, digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access
and services that can be offered across the country over Verizon's 34 million DSL-capable
access lines. The agreement expands upon the companies' existing relationships in the
wireless and online information services arenas and furthers their commitment to providing
a superior broadband experience to customers nationwide.
- Surprise asteroid nearly hits home - The space rock missed
our planet Friday by only 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-third the distance to
the moon, making the near collision one of the closest ever recorded. Cruising at 6.2
miles (10 km) per second, the big boulder could have unleashed some major firepower had it
struck, according to the NEO (Near Earth Objects) Information Center in Leicester,
England. The destructive force might have been comparable to an asteroid or comet that
exploded over Siberia in 1908, which flattened 77 square miles (2,000 square km) of trees,
according to the NEO.
- IBM joins DVD6C in licensing DVD patents - The DVD6C Licensing
Agency today announced that IBM had joined its worldwide joint licensing
program for DVD-Video players, DVD-ROM drives, DVD decoders and DVD-Video and DVD-ROM
discs.
- Samsung's New Phone Takes AIM - Samsung Telecommunications
America said Wednesday that it is integrating America Online's instant message service into its new cellular phone, allowing users to
check the availability of online "buddies" and send and receive messages without
uttering a word. America Online's AIM service will be integrated into Samsung's new
SGH-r225M phone, which will be available to U.S. consumers later this month. The SGH-r225M
is the latest offering from Samsung featuring a range of personalization options such as
allowing users to assign colors to incoming calls from selected numbers.
- Intel desktop CPUs through to Q2 2003 - Although executives at
the firm have repeatedly said that it will have a 3GHz processor by the end of the year, the latest roadmaps
still peg the chip at 2.80GHz. We'd expect that to change as the engineers tweak the
architecture, however. By the third quarter, Intel will have completely phased out the .18
Pentium 4 with only 256K of cache, while the last P4 at the 130 nanometer level and with
only 256K of cache, at 1.80GHz, will disappear during the third calendar quarter.
- ATi RADEON R250 and R300 presentations - Reactor Critical have
posted the PowerPoint presentations
of ATi's R250 and R300. This way, R300 will become the first graphics accelerator
compliant with DirectX9. To commemorate this fact R300 family will be called RADEON 9xxx.
According to XBitLabs, the launch is scheduled for August 10.
- Microsoft Producer 1.1 for PowerPoint - Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002 is an add-in for Microsoft
PowerPointr 2002 that makes it easy for knowledge workers and enterprise media
professionals to capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images. Use
Microsoft Producer to create engaging and effective rich-media presentations for viewing
on demand in a Web browser.
- MilkDrop v1.03 - MilkDrop is a Winamp
visualization plug-in that uses 3D graphics hardware, combined with iterative image-based
rendering techniques, to create a visual journey through sound.
- HyperSnap-DX v4.51.01 - HyperSnap-DX
4 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens from
standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and
Glide mode game.
- Asus PC Probe v2.16.09 - The
ASUS PC Probe is a simple utility that monitors vital information in the computer such
as fan rototations, voltages and temperature. Additionally, it gives system information
such as hard disk space, memory usage, CPU type and processor speed.
- Official ATI D3D Driver Update For Catalyst - ATI has released a
new Direct3D driver library file (WinXP
/ Win2k
/ Win9x/ME).
- SiS AGP Driver 1.10 - SiS has released a new AGP driver (6.2MB) for the
following chipsets: SiS630, SiS730, SiS735 , SiS733, SiS635, SiS633, SiS645 , SiS650 ,
SiS740 , SiS745.
- ASUS Tweak Utility v3.62 - Asus have released a new version (v3.62) of their Asus Tweak Utility.
- ASUS 1006 BIOSes - Asus have released some new
BIOS files for Asus Bios P4S333-M/FX/VF series.
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