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(hx) 04:31 AM CEST - Sep,25 2002
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- Despite console market share, all is not lost for PC gaming -
Most games are purchased for the living room console rather than the bedroom
computer. According to NPD Techworld, a research firm, PC game sales last
year hit 65.3 million units, up 3.6 percent from the previous year. But 110
million console games were sold during the same period, and sales for the
category rose 9 percent. That means that consoles have already grabbed about
two-thirds of the digital gaming market, and are snatching at the rest.
- UT2003 Demo Downloaded 1.2 Million Times - Epic is claiming that
the UT2003 demo has been downloaded by nearly 1.2 million people! Wow.
- Microsoft Buys Rare for $375 Million Cash - Software giant
Microsoft on Tuesday said it has
acquired British video game developer Rare Ltd. for $375 million in cash
to bolster its internal game development.
- Miss America Speaks Up - With the there-she-is moment having
passed,
the new Miss America, ERIKA HAROLD, looked back to an incident that
happened when she was in ninth grade and involved racial and sexual harassment
and, she said, death threats.
- CNN-ABC News Merger? - AOL Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co.
have held talks
about merging their CNN and ABC News divisions into "a stand-alone news
powerhouse," the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.
- Peter Gabriel album preview deployed in MS audio push - Microsoft
today
announced that Peter Gabriel's new album Up would be the first ever to be
made
available via digital download.
- Microsoft to Pilot Xbox Live in Europe in November - U.S. software
giant Microsoft said on Tuesday its highly-touted online gaming platform Xbox
Live will
begin its pilot in select European countries in November with a commercial
launch in March.
- Sony Ericsson Points Camera Phone at Fashion Ramps - Sony Ericsson
Mobile Communications USA Inc. pushed to capture the limelight near the end of
New York fashion week
by lending its camera phone to one of the many designers showing their
stuff.
- HBH-60 BT headset from Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson's Bluetooth
headset department is at it again; the
new 22g
HBH-60 headset will be out later this year. Also new is the HPR-20, a
portable music player add-on.
- Nokia and Ericsson triple the calling capacity - Nokia and Ericsson
said Tuesday they've each
separately reached milestones for cell phone equipment that uses wideband-CDMA,
the cell phone standard expected to dominate its rivals by 2005.
Wideband-CDMA (w-CDMA) triples the calling capacity of any cell phone
network. It also creates a wireless Web with download speeds that are seven
times faster than dial-up Web services such as America Online. It's expected
to dominate the world stage because any wireless carrier, regardless of the
type of cell phone network it has, can upgrade to w-CDMA, which is not the
case for rival cell phone standards like GPRS.
- New chip will bring GPS to all - Motorola is
unveiling
a global positioning system chip it says is the first GPS satellite sensor
small enough and cheap enough for practical use in consumer-electronics
devices such as cell phones and notebook computers.
- AMD notebook chips put heat on Intel - AMD is releasing the
Athlon
2000+ and 1900+, two new notebook chips which narrow the performance gap
with rival Intel--and are substantially cheaper. Its new mobile CPUs
cost $345 and $239 in 1,000 units - Intel's top-of-the line mainstream mobile
processor, a 2.2GHz jockey, launched last week, is an eye-watering $562.
- LAN Camera Technology Offers New View - Camera technology that can
be connected to your network offers a variety of possible applications. While
the technology is still some what new, the possible ways that this technology
can be used are only limited by your imagination and of course the capablities
of the camera. The concept is a good one, but
do these cameras deliver the goods?
- Hercules Muse 5.1 PCI Soundcard Review - Tweakers Australia have
posted their
review of the Hercules MUSE 5.1 DVD PCI. This card sits at the bottom end
of the price bracket when it comes to soundcards for the PC but that does not
mean it is lacking in features. Take a trip with us into the wonderful world
of Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.
- Leadtek WinFast K7N415DA nForce Motherboard Review - Tech PC have
just posted a
review of the Leadtek WinFast K7N415DA nForce Motherboard on the Tech PC
Website.
- NVIDIA NV28 And NV18 First Review -
Darkcrow.co.kr have published
the first review for Nvidia's new NV28 and NV18 graphics cards.
- Hard Drive Shootout - X-Bit Labs have posted an
IDE Hard-Drive Shootout which pits the latest and greatest drives against
each other.
- TYAN Tachyon G9000 Graphics Card - X-bit labs reviewed the so
long-awaited
RV250 aka RADEON 9000/RADEON PRO represented by TYAN Tachyon G9000. The
chip is based on R200 (RADEON 8500) that has already won very good reputation.
However, ATI engineers had to sacrifice a bit of performance for the sake of
lowering the product's price. Find out if the game is worth the candle!
- Intel's 2.5GHz/400MHz Pentium4 Overclocking - So basically, history
has taught us that when a new stepping comes out the chip usually has better
potential for quality and is generally more overclockable. Another reason why
we were keen to
lay our hands on the new 2.50GHz is that is has a 400MHz bus rating, not
533MHz that the 2.53GHz model does.
- GeForce FAQ returns from the grave - A
popular
unofficial Nvidia technical resource which disappeared when cybersquatters
pounced on its
URL is back from the grave.
- DDR RAM Guide (updated) - With the release of KT-400 chipset,
DDR-400 modules will be the hot pick of the month. Thus Corsair has release a
new wave of XMS modules. From their PDF, the newly released XMS-3200 is in
line with JEDEC's DDR-333 speed. (Overclockers do not give a toss about it.)
Corsair advertised that the XMS-3200 is guaranteed to run at 400 MHz with
2-3-3 1T setting.
Overclockers New Zealand will find out if the claim is true or not in the
following benchmark section.
- Overclocking DDR Memory: Truths and Misconceptions A Buyers Guide -
When purchasing memory
you have to find the perfect balance of everything if you want your
components to be running at their full potential. This is called the sweet
spot. Both AMD and Intel machines have a sweet spot where you have the perfect
balance of memory bandwidth as well as CPU speed.
- 40.52 vs. 40.41 vs 30.82 Denotators comparison - Chaps at
SavageNews have
manage to test the latest NVIDIA Detonator Driver 40.52 against 40.41 and
30.82 (WindowsXP). The results (3D Marks 2001):
v30.82 - 9997, v40.41 - 10316,
v40.52 - 10595.
- Final Fantasy XI Movie Trailer - Icrontic.com has posted
a new trailer out for the opening sequence of Final Fantasy XI.
- Ad-aware referencefile 042-24-09-2002 -
Latest
referencefile for Ad-aware, a free multi spyware removal utility.
With this reffile (042-24-09-2002), the detection+removal of Xupiter ToolBar,
HuntBar,CoPilot, CnsMin(Chinese Keywords) some new browser Hijackers and some
new versions of previous targets have been added to Ad-aware.
- Winsonar 2002 Freeware Edition 2.01.12 -
Winsonar 2002 (download)
is a Freeware program specifically designed for process monitoring purposes:
it detects new processes that permanently install into memory while system is
working. Windows (Tm) has a built-in task monitor, but the user will not be
prompted for new-installed tasks and even using the task monitor he won't able
to distinguish normally running modules from new-added ones. The basic idea is
that if the user could know a new program permanently installed into memory,
he could readily scan it using an updated antivirus program: viruses couldn't
really hide for a long time before being detected.
- Tiny Personal Firewall 3.08 -
Tiny Personal Firewall represents smart, easy-to-use personal security
technology that fully protects personal computers against hackers. It is built
on the proven WinRoute Pro, ICSA certified security technology.
- Mandrake Linux 9.0 Released -
Mandrake Linux 9.0 has been released! :
Download CD 1 /
Download CD 2 /
Download CD 3
- News Interceptor 1.01 -
This version corrects to a major problem of communication with our server
which several users had with the preceding versions. A debug option was also
added in order to find the problems more easily.
- Yahoo! Messenger 5.5.0.1232 -
Yahoo! Messenger has been updated to version 5.5.0.1232.
- Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB Catalyst Driver Version 7.77 - This issue
affects RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB using CATALYST™ 02.2 and CATALYST™ 02.3 under
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The system may
lock up or display corruption in certain scenes when playing the following
Direct3D games: Battlefield 1942, Mafia, The Thing. To resolve this issue
install the
appropriate display driver for your OS.
- nVidia Dentonator Drivers 40.52 BETA - Warp2Search has posted
new Nvidia Dentonator Drivers 40.52 for Windows 9x and 2000/XP (mirror1
/
mirror2).
Updated (Sep 25, 8:30am), sorry I missed a few goodies last night...
- Daemon Tools 3.20 -
Daemon
Tools is an application for advanced copy protection emulation with an
implemented virtual DVD ROM drive. Means it helps you to play copies of nearly
every CD available.
This new version should solve all problems with the latest version of
ProtectCD 5c used in Port Royalec Patch 1.3 together with the updated MDS-File
for Port Royale you can
download here. The updated MDS-File is already out for a few days and it
seemed to work for most people but as VOB blacklisted DAEMON Tools in the
latest ProtectCD 5c version we also needed to update DAEMON Tools again.
- KaZaA Lite 2.0.0 -
KaZaA Lite will show you how to install KaZaA Lite without all the spyware
that comes with KaZaA, no SpyWare, no Adware, and shit like that :)
- PHP Nuke 6.0 -
This version has too many changes to be mentioned, so I want to recommend
you to read CHANGES text file included on the package.
PHP-Nuke 6.0 offers a
true themeable system with high customization for your site, automatic
installation process, broadcast messages, webmail and journal modules added, a
lot of cosmetic changes, docens of bugs fixed, more options for registered
users, more options on backend file... etc... etc..
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