Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:58 AM CEST - May,14 2002
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- Intel cuts Celeron prices - Intel sliced the price of
its 1.2GHz Celeron the most, lowering it $10, to bring the price to $69--a 13 percent
drop. Meanwhile, Intel reduced the price of its 1.3GHz Celeron by $10, bringing it to $74,
a 12 percent price cut. It also shaved $5 off the price of its 1.1GHz Celeron. The chip
now lists for $64, 7 percent lower than before.
- Big Xbox price cut expected soon - Microsoft has a press
conference scheduled for May 20, the first night of the E3 in Los Angeles, the game
industry's most important event of the year. The price cut will be
announced then, the sources said.
- DVD player contract prices for new Xbox machines may drop by 30%
- Taiwanese DVD-ROM makers are eyeing outsourcing opportunities as Microsoft is planning the launch of second-generation Xbox game consoles this
summer. The new game machine's cut-rate price, however, is likely to drive down contract
prices of its DVD drive by as much as 30%, local manufacturers reported.
- Nintendo to Launch Online for GameCube This Fall - Nintendo will
introduce an online element for its GameCube this fall, executives for its U.S.
subsidiary said on Monday, marking the company's cautious entry into the fledgling market
for online console games. Nintendo said it will offer dial-up and high-speed Internet
adapters for the GameCube in the fall at a suggested retail price of $34.95.
- The pen is mightier than copy-protection
- According to one German geek who sent the tip to technical magazine Chip.de,
a variety of copy-protection systems, including Cactus Data Shield and KeyAudio, which
also stop music CDs being played in CDRom drives, can be circumvented with a felt-tip pen.
- Vulnerability Is Discovered in Security for Smart Cards - Two
University of Cambridge computer security researchers plan to describe on Monday an
ingenious and inexpensive attack that employs a $30 camera flashgun and a microscope
to extract secret information contained in widely used smart cards.
- Kansas Teen Sentenced After Hackings - Kansas teenager has
pleaded guilty to
hacking the official Web site of Stockton, Calif. and telling city officials he would
secure it if they gave him a laptop computer. Matthew Kroeker, 18, was sentenced to serve
two years probation and pay at least $18,000 restitution, his attorney Kevin Moriarty told
Newsbytes. Kroeker pleaded guilty to four felony counts of computer crime in Johnson
County District Court last week.
- Organic polymers would connect prosthesis to nerves - Researcher
Tobias Nyberg at Linköping University in Sweden is developing organic polymer
components structured to allow severed nerves to grow into them, enabling a connection
with electrodes in a prosthetic limb. Hehe it's scary ;)
- 3D Ultrasound Lets Parents 'Touch' Unborn Child - The e-Touch
software, developed by Novint Technologies Inc., a private Albuquerque, New Mexico-based
company, replicates the sensation of touch through a special stylus traced over the
ultrasound image of the unborn child. The software also helps enhance the 3D
picture, said Novint founder Tom Anderson.
- Nvidia and ATI to showcase new NV18 and RV250 chips at Computex Taipei in
June - According to the companies' roadmaps, both Nvidia and ATI said that they
will showcase NV18
and RV250-based chips at Computex Taipei early next month, and the chips will replace
the current GeForce4 MX440 and Radeon 7500 as the companies' mainstream products. Their
top-end products, the DirectX 9-supporting NV30 and R300 graphics cores, will not be
launched until the end of the third quarter at the earliest.
- Matrox Parhelia-512 pictures - Some pictures from the
presentation are available from
this japanese website.
- Hard Drive ATA100 vs. ATA133 - Tweakers Australia have posted a
brief but direct comparison between ATA100 and ATA133 (Ultra DMA modes 5 and 6)
with one of the original ATA133 drives - the Maxtor D740X-6L.
- Intel 845D tweaking guide - Using the usual chipset registers
that you always get from us. We bring you all the memory
and AGP tweaks that we can for all of you who don't have the options in your BIOS.
- Creative Audigy Testing Guide - Audigy testing guide
(129kb) from Creative for setup details of the soundcard. This guide shows you how to
configure the Audigy for a test run in Rightmark.
- CPUCooL 7.1.0 - CPUCooL version 7.1.0
has been released. What is CPUCool? CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan
speed, and voltages for many motherboards.
- WinAMP 3 Build 472 - A new build of the third beta version (changelog)
of the most famous mp3 player WinAMP3 has been released.
- Scout 2.0 RC2 - There is a new beta of CD- copy protection detector.
- Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 4.6 - The Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility was developed to enable
consumers the ability to identify and, in some circumstances, determine if their Intel
processor is operating at the correct and rated frequency intended by Intel.
- Adaptec USB 2.0 Driver v2.3 - Adaptec's USB 2.0 drivers allow your Adaptec USB2connect and
DuoConnect products to work with USB 2.0 devices at speeds up to 480 megabits per second.
Supported operating systems: Adaptec's USB 2.0 drivers support Microsoft Windows® 98
Second Edition,Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition and Windows XP operating systems.
- Omega Drivers For Win9x/ME v2.4.31 - This are Omega's
"optimized" drivers for the ATI Radeon family of video cards, optimized for
games and not benchmarks. Install them only @ your own risk.
- NVIDIA Detonators v29.40 and 29.41 leaked - Warp2Search
have posted some new
Nvidia Detonator beta drivers for Windows 9x/ME and 2000/XP.
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