Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 04:37 AM CET - Dec,16 2003
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- Off-topic: Studio Warns Kung Fu Site - For the past three
years, Mark Pollard has been writing reviews and posting news on his website
Kung Fu Cinema. But while he's used to feedback from fellow fans of kung fu
movies,
Pollard was caught by surprise recently when he heard from a new correspondent
-- Miramax Film. In a letter drafted by its legal affairs department, the
studio demanded that Pollard stop selling copies of a Chinese film for which
it owns the distribution rights.
- Brother Updates Office Laser Printers - Brother International has
introduced a pair of midrange office laser printers, the HL-6050D and the
HL-6050DN. Aimed at office desktops and small workgroups, the new printers
provide up to 25 page per minute speed, built-in duplex capability, expandable
paper capacity, a wireless networking option, and more. Priced at $549, the
HL-6050D comes standard with USB 2.0 and parallel interfaces. The HL-6050DN
costs $699, and comes standard with a 10/100baseT Ethernet print server. An
internal 802.11b/g Ethernet print server is also available.
- Toshiba Creates World's Smallest Hard-Disk Drive -
Toshiba Corp has developed a hard-disk drive that measures 0.85 of an inch in
diameter, smaller than the record 1-inch HDD that Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies released in November, company sources said on December 13. The
drive, which is small enough to be used in mobile phones, can store up to two
hours of high-definition moving images and just under 60 hours of music. Its
tiny size will likely lead to the development of extremely small video
cameras.
- Java Wrist Watch with JBlend - In an report from the Tron
show K-Tai Impress highlights
Java based Wrist
Watches. Aplix develops the Mobile Java environment JBlend. The wrist
Watches running JBlend can have different uploadable applications. Aplix plans
to introduce the JBlend Java environment for wrist watches to Watch
manufactures in the future. WOW!
- T-Cube revelaed - At the TRON 2004 Show Japanese Personal Media
Company shows off
the T-Cube a pocket-size PC running T-Engine. T-Engine is somekind of OS
standardization project for networked computers in Japan that started in 2002.
Seems they want to build something that does not require to license Windows.
(thanks Mark)
- Bapco releases Sysmark 2004 - Benchmark consortium
Bapco has released the latest version of its PC performance testing suite.
Sysmark 2004 uses an "updated" range of commercial applications in its scoring
system, including Adobe's Acrobat 5.0.5, After Effects(R) 5.5, Photoshop 7.01
and Premiere 6.5; Discreet 3DS max 5.1; Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Flash
MX; Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 Series, Access 2002, Excel 2002, Outlook
2002, Word 2002, PowerPoint 2002 and IE 6.0; Network Associates McAfee
VirusScan 7.0; and WinZip 8.1.
- Hercules 3D Prophet 9800XT Classic 256MB review - After seeing what
ASUS has done with its 9800XT card and package,
Hercules' bundle seems meagre in comparison. There's only a coupon for
Half-Life 2, redeemable some time next year. There's not much else from a
gaming perspective. We expect a bundle jam-packed with goodies if we're
shelling out L375, really. The problem with the 3D Prophet 9800XT Classic, and
every other 9800XT card for that matter, is price. One can purchase a standard
128MB-equipped 9800 Pro that performs to within a few percent of an 9800XT for
L240.
- Arctic Silver 5 Extensive review - The Madshrimps let us know they
have tested Artic
Silver latest compound.
- Dlink's DI-624+ wireless router review - PyroPort let us know they
have posted
a review of Dlink's DI-624+ wireless router.
- The SiS, VIA and Intel Chipset comparison - In most benchmarks,
SiS' 655TX was able to outperform VIA's PT880 and its predecessor 655FX.
Assuming the lead in the odd category is VIA's PT880 chipset, which will grace
the first boards mid December. Intel's 875P remains an outstanding yet very
pricey option. Its biggest advantages lie in the manufacturer's solid
reputation and its integrated CSA network interface. SiS' 655TX is a lot
cheaper and offers the bottom-line best price/performance ratio in our
comparison.
- UnixWare 7.1.3 review -
If you
want to use a commercial Unix for x86 (and one not targeted by SCO – at
least not yet), then Solaris x86 is a very strong offering, with far more
enterprise applications available, is far less expensive, and leverages a much
larger install base than UnixWare.
- Winamp 5.0 Final - Nullsoft has released
the final version of Winamp 5.0. This new version features support for
classic Winamp 1.x/2.x/2.9x skins and Winamp 3 ("Modern") skins, Integrated
video, AVS, and Milkdrop support, CD ripping support (AAC@2x in free version,
MP3 at unlimited speeds in pro),
CD burning support (limited to 2x in free version), Support for playback of
AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams and much more. An article about this
new version can be found at
ZDNET.
- VisualBoy Advance 1.7 Final -
Visual Boy Advance (download)
is a Game Boy Advance and Game Boy emulator that runs with Windows systems.
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