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- MS Shows New Wireless Platform - Microsoft officially unveiled
its newest platform Tuesday for wireless communicator devices, which blend the
functionality of wireless telephony and handhelds. In addition, the company also announced
that Hewlett-Packard had agreed to release the first device, the HP Jornada 928 Wireless
Digital Assistant, based on the Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition platform. The color device
will support next-generation GPRS wireless communications, the company said.
- MVQ streaming may blow away MPEG-4 - Finnish developer Oplayo
says its Java-based compression technology is up to ten times faster
than MPEG-4 for delivering audio and video to mobile devices.
- PirateVideo site closed - Taiwanese attempt to run an online
video on demand service without the permission of the Hollywood film studios has been shut down. Dubbed a
"pirate" site by Hollywood, Movie88.com offered access to a huge library of
films for just $1 each.
- BSA informant gets £1000s for piracy tip-off - An industry
snitch has received
a tip-off fee running into thousands of pounds after informing on Baines & Ernst
Financial Management for using unlicensed software.
- David Duchovny In The X-Files Finale - David Duchovny will reprise his role as FBI
Agent Fox Mulder when he stars in the two-hour series finale of THE X-FILES Sunday May 19
(8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
- XBox Controllers Incompatible?! - It's maybe a rumor but NCV's
sources from Microsoft's X-Box division and independent developers sent a number of
e-mails to NCS yesterday after they posted their little FAQ. Unfortunately, Microsoft
appears to have mandated that USA XBox software titles not
recognize any controllers from other territories. Japanese controllers won't work with
USA XBox software. However seems this doesn't mean all peripherals will be region encoded.
Apparently Joypads will work on both sides of the pond. (thanks SlashDot)
- WineX Or How Linux Learns DirectX 8 - Transgaming Technologies -
a Canada based company - is developing an API called WineX
that ensures compatibility of DirectX 8 games in a Linux environment.
- FujiFilm FinePix 2800Z 2.0MegaPixel Digital Camera Review -
Retailing for around $790CDN the 2800 is a mid-level 2 Megapixel
camera useful for images up to 1600x1200 pixels in resolution. The camera can also
take small movies (90sec with 16MB card) with sound and be used for video conferencing.
- Hercules Game Theater XP Review - The
Hercules Game Theater XP is a real sound station including both a PCI sound card and a
powerful external rack, the Game Theater XP is the most powerful, innovative and
easy-to-use solution ever offered to gamers Multiple USB and game port accessible on the
front panel, lets players plug in several game peripherals simultaneously for multi player
gaming Connect joysticks, wheels or gamepads. We took a look at this Hardcore Gamers
dream.
- VIA Launches The KT333 Chipset - VIA Technologies today announced the launch of
the VIA Apollo KT333, the first chipset to support new ultra fast DDR333 memory conforming
to the JEDEC specification on the Socket A processor platform. Check coverage at AnandTech,
ViaHW, HardOCP,
AMDDB,
TechReport,
X-BitLabs
- Prestonia Xeon 2.0 GHz vs. Athlon MP 1900+ - GamePC has
posted a comparison of two of the fastest consumer-level multiprocessing
chips on the planet, Intel's "Prestonia" Xeon 2.0 GHz right alongside AMD's top
of the line Athlon MP 1900+.
- Mobility Radeon 7500 Review - Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a review
of the Mobility Radeon 7500 GPU.
- ATi Radeon AIW 8500dv Review - 3dXtreme has posted a review of eVGA Geforce4
MX 440 video card.
- Coolermaster HHC 001 HeatPipe Review - The
HHC-001 is the second CPU-Cooler from Coolermaster with a HeatPipe because the first
version was not good enough. At the moment Coolermaster is the only manufacturer who
produces such a System for Desktop Computers. In many laptops HeatPipes are already used
for cooling.
- Vantec Rounded IDE Cable Review - IDE
cables are included with your motherboard, the flat ones, don't look good, restrict
airflow and are hard to use. Rounded cables on the other hand are much easier to use than
the normal flat cables and besides the practical part, they look a lot better too. Another
important factor they carry, is that they do not interfere with the airflow in your case
like normal cables do.
- KingMax PC2700 vs. OCZ PC3000 - I am not a geek has taken a look at two sticks of 256MB DDR SDRAM which are very popular
amoung overclockers. The KingMax is true PC2700, and the OCZ PC3000 is overclocked.
- Zend Encoder 2.0 - Zend today unveiled the new face of PHP
encoding with the new Zend Encoder 2.0. Our latest PHP encoder includes the features you
asked for most such as a brand new user interface, project management capabilities and
seamless integration with the new Zend Studio 2.0
- DriverSpyNT 1.14 - DriverSpyNT
is an advanced I/O request packet (IRP) monitoring tool for Windows NT/2k/XP. DriverSpyNT
can monitor and display IRPs sent to any device on the system. Additionally, it has the
powerful feature of displaying the input and output buffers of device I/O control
requests. These features make DriverSpyNT an instrumental tool for debugging device
drivers, discovery of undocumented IOCTLs, and learning more about the NT I/O subsystem.
- LogonStudio 0.96 - Stardock's LogonStudio is a free program that allows users to easily
customize new logon screens for Windows XP. Rather than requiring a resource hacker and
downloads of .EXE files, LogonStudio uses a scripting language to allow anyone to create
customized .LOGONXP files (archived in ZIP format) that can be sent to other users.
- LimeWire v2.2.1 - LimeWire is
compatible with the Gnutella file-sharing protocol and can connect with anyone else
running Gnutella-compatible software. At startup, the LimeWire program will connect, via
the internet, to the LimeWire Gateway, a specialized intelligent Gnutella router, at
startup to maximize the user's viewable network space.
- WfpAdmin 0.99 Beta - Take
control of Windows File Protection with this Windows 2000/XP utility that allows for
dynamic disabling of WFP and configuration of system file checker settings.
- Matrox Black Border Patches - Matrox has released a patch (Win98
/ Win2k) for the G450 eTV series. The patch fixes
a problems with the TV out mode and the DualHead feature.
- Video Blaster WebCam 3 Drivers - This release includes updated drivers setup and installer and is WHQL certified. It has been
tested on Video Blaster WebCam 3 USB and Video Blaster WebCam Plus cameras. It works for
all Windows OSes except Windows 95.
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