Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:09 AM CEST - Jun,18 2003
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- Microsoft takes spam fight to court -
Microsoft said it filed 13 civil suits against U.S. defendants, accusing
them of spamming Microsoft customers with deceptive e-mail. It also filed two
suits in the U.K.
- Robots without a cause -
You don't need a key to get into the new Audi 2004 A8. You just wave your
hand in front of a tiny sensor consisting of 65,000 electrodes that scan your
fingerprints and the doors open. But they will do so only if you're the owner
of this L60,000 luxury automobile with its 12-speaker spatial sound system.
Otherwise it will sit there, locked against the world in smug perfection.
- Self-destruct files to secure DVDs, CDs - Sun Microsystems said
this week it
plans to roll out new software to protect copyrighted content stored on
mobile phones and smart cards. Meanwhile, Warner Music, a division of CNN's
parent company AOL Time Warner, released the new Steely Dan album "Everything
Must Go" on CD and DVD Audio, the latter being an encrypted, "rip-proof"
format.
- Nanotube chip could hold 10 gigabits - A computer memory chip
based on carbon nanotubes has passed a manufacturing milestone, according to
the US company developing the technology.
The prototype chip would store information using hundreds of billions of
nanotubes with a theoretical capacity of 10 gigabits of data, says
Nantero, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Once fully developed, the company
says nanoscale random access memory (NRAM) could hold more data that existing
types of RAM and would also be non-volatile, meaning data would not be lost
when the power is been turned off.
- AMD extends Athlon XP-M mobile line to 2800+ - AMD introduced
three new mobile Athlon XP-M chips today, taking the line to 2800+
performance and beefing up the chip?s low-voltage product family with 1900+
and 2000+ models. The 0.13 micron chips contain 512KB of on-die L2 cache and
support frontside bus speeds of up to 266MHz. The XP-M 2800+ costs $230, while
the low-voltage 1900+ and 2000+ cost $123 and $134, respectively.
- Iomega Unveils Multiformat DVD Burner - Iomega is taking
multiformat DVD burning a step further, unveiling this week the Super DVD
Drive, which combines all three rewritable DVD formats into one drive. The
internal drive can write to DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM and is slated for
release in August. An external USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 model is scheduled to
ship in September. Pricing will be announced upon release, but Iomega plans to
offer the drive at a price that's competitive with the dual-format drives
(which support DVD-RW and DVD+RW) currently flooding the market.
- Palm OS Wristwatch - Amazon are taking orders for a
new Palm OS Wrist Watch. It has an infra-red port, touch screen,
back-light, stylus and 2MB of RAM. Price is $US 295.00. (thanks
SlashDot.org)
- Polaroid PhotoMAX PDC 3350 Digital Camera - SubZeroTech has posted
a review on the Polaroid PhotoMAX PDC 3350 Digital Camera.
- Twinmos 1024MB Dual Channel PC3200 Kit - It's fair to say
Twinmos have not produced a kit capable of challenging Corsair or OCZ in the
realms of overclockability. However,
if you are
looking for some excellent value DDR400 memory, and have a board capable
of voltage adjustments you could do a lot worse than this Twinmos kit.
- Samsung SyncMaster 191N LCD Review - In the physical appearances,
the SyncMaster 191N certainly stands out from the crowd of competitive 19 inch
LCD monitors. One amazing feature which the
191N offers is the pivot feature which is still not very common in the
market of LCD monitors. The pivoting arm which is part of the base allows the
191N to be displayed with the view of portrait or landscape.
- Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 Pro - Extreme Overclocking has
posted
a review on the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 Pro Video Card.
- APK System Tools for Windows 2002 + + SR-4 FINAL BUILD -
Alexander Peter Kowalski send words that APK System Tools for Windows 2002 + +
SR-4 FINAL BUILD update is
now
available.
- The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter -
Microsoft is breaking new ground with Longhorn, successor to XP. The
upcoming WinFS file system will be the first to be context-dependent, and
promises to make long search times and wasted memory a thing of the past.
Today, THG compares it to FAT and NTFS.
- MP3Gain 1.2 beta -
MP3Gain analyzes
and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume.
- BSPlayer 0.86.497 -
BSplayer (download)
is a Windows R player that plays back all kinds of media files ( avi / mpg /
asf / wmv / wav / mp3.)
- Fresh UI 6.10 -
Fresh UI (download)
is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with
hundreds of useful hidden settings this software covers the customizing and
optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know.
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