Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:05 AM CEST - Jul,30 2003
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- Sony Hand-Held PlayStation Offers Wireless Network - Sony said on
Tuesday
its new hand-held PlayStation console would be equipped with a wireless
network system which allows users within a close area to play games together
and download game characters. PSP is scheduled to debut in the fourth quarter
of 2004.
- 'Point-and-connect' links for wireless devices - Linking devices
via a wireless network could be considerably simplified using a
"point-and-connect" technology being developed by Sony. The camera-based
system, developed by researchers at Sony's Interaction Laboratory in Tokyo,
Japan,
lets users instantly transfer data from a laptop or handheld computer to a
device in close proximity connected to the same wireless network.
- Hackers pounce on latest Microsoft flaw -
Hackers have moved quickly to exploit the critical flaw in Microsoft's
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
interface.
Workable exploit code is now in circulation on hacking mailing lists.
Earlier versions were ineffective but the latest code seems to be working.
Microsoft released a
patch for the critical flaw on 16 July. The vulnerability involves
the RPC protocol, which deals with inter-computer communications. Microsoft
warned that, under certain circumstances, the RPC might not properly check
messages sent to the PC. If you didn't upgrade yet, I strongly recommend
you to upgrade your immediately!
- RIAA prepares hundreds of lawsuits - The Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) will file the first lawsuits against alleged
file swappers by the end of August. Rather than press one or two token cases,
the RIAA plans to sue hundreds of people unless they settle out of court, it
said. Over the past few weeks,
the RIAA has sent nearly 1,000 subpoenas to internet service providers and
universities to obtain the identities of suspected file traders.
- AUO chairman Lee: Global LCD TV market to take off in 2005 - The
realization of sixth- or seventh-generation (7G) TFT LCD line production,
which will greatly expand large-size panel capacity, will be the major driving
force behind the take-off of the global LCD TV market and will most likely
take place in 2005,
commented AU Optronics (AUO) chairman and CEO Kuen-yao Lee.
- AMD drops chip prices -
AMD lopped as much as 31 percent off its list prices for Athlon XP-M
processors and reduced prices on a handful of Opteron server chips by as
much as 35 percent. The Opteron cuts, the first for the chip line, follow
recent reductions by Intel on the price of its Xeon server chip. AMD lowered
the price of the Opteron 144, its top Opteron chip for single-processor
workstations and servers, by 35 percent, cutting it from $669 to $438. AMD
trimmed the price of its top Opteron for dual-processor machines, the Opteron
244, by 13 percent, taking it from $794 to $690. The company also
lowered prices on its Opteron 142, Opteron 240 and Opteron 242 models by
between 10 percent and 34 percent. The chips now sell for $292, $256 and $455,
respectively.
- Intel to begin 848P chipset shipments in mid-August - Intel
will begin shipping its first batch of 848P chipsets to motherboard makers
from August 11-22, according to Taiwan-based motherboard makers.
- ATI brings Radeon 9800, 9600 to FireGL line - The
T2-128 ships with 128MB of DDR and is based on the FGL 9600, aka the
Radeon 9600 Pro - ie. its got four parallel rendering pipelines and two
parallel geometry pipelines. It too offers dual display support, but through a
single DVI-I connector and a VGA port.
- Samsung selects Ulead digital media software for its camcorder lineup -
Samsung Electronics has selected a software package provided by
Taiwan-based Ulead Systems to bundle with Samsung's lineup of camcorders
worldwide,
according to a press release from Ulead today.
- Dell Inspiron 5150 Review -
PCMag looked at the Dell Inspiron 5150 ($2,129 direct)-the first notebook
they could acquire with a 3.06-GHz Mobile P4. Of the three available new
chipsets that Intel introduced with the processor, the Inspiron 5150 uses the
one most interesting to power users: the 852PM. This supports a 533-MHz FSB,
up to 2GB of 333-MHz DDR SDRAM, and external AGP 4X graphics (paired in our
unit with the robust 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 solution).
- P707 Photo Jetprinter Review - The sticker price on
the Lexmark P707 Photo Jetprinter ($100 street) immediately makes you
wonder whether you can really get true photo-quality output-or something close
to it-from a printer that costs so little. The answer is yes, but you'll have
to wait for it. In fact, you can watch almost a full episode of your favorite
TV sitcom in the roughly 25 minutes an 8- by 10-inch photo takes to print at
best quality. The P707 is dressed in industrial-design tones of dark grays and
black, surprisingly compact, and, at 4.5 pounds, light. Four memory-card slots
on the right-hand side simplify the transfer of photos to your computer from
most memory cards, including Type I and II CompactFlash, IBM Microdrives,
MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital, SmartMedia, and Sony Memory Sticks. Note,
however, that you cannot print from a memory card without connecting to a
computer.
- Xoxide 12in Dual Blue CCFL Kit Review -
"This particular pair of cathodes it nothing to wet your pants over, but
at the same time it's a fine product that generally works as advertised
(except for the mysterious blink mode function). Aside from knocking a buck or
two off the sticker price and extending the sound box wire for external
placement there's not much I'd change. They're bright and they look cool,
which is why you'd buy them in the first place. The ability to mix and match
colors to your preference is even more food for thought."
- Rechargeable Batteries - Yes or No? -
Slashdot.org has an interesting thread on "What Batteries are the best".
- PuTTY for the Sony Ericsson P800 - Currently this is not a really
usable product. This is mainly because you are
a bit limited in input
on the P800. Things like ctrl and esc doesn't work yet. If you have any
smart idea how to implement this (In the UI). Please drop him a mail.
- KDE 3.1.3 (Linux) - KDE
v3.1.3 is a powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment for Unix
workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and
outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix
operating system.
- Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 -
Mozilla
Firebird is a speedy, full-featured browser for Microsoft Windows that
makes browsing more efficient than ever before.
- MultiEx Commander DLL - Xentax announced the release of the
MultiEx DLL. MultiEx Commander is a tool designed to load and extract data
from a wide number of popular game archive formats. The DLL release now allows
developers to integrate that functionality into their own programs.
- CPU RightMark 2003B (0.3) -
The CPU
RightMark (CPU RM) benchmark is meant for objective performance
measurement of modern and future CPUs in various computational tasks such as
computational modeling of physical processes and solving of 3D graphics
problems. The emphasis is placed on testing under the load of a CPU-RAM link
and FPU/SIMD units.
- NVClock 0.7 - NVClock
is a small utility that allows users to overclock NVIDIA based video cards
running on the Linux platform.
- NVIDIA Linux Drivers 1.0-4496 (IA32 => Standard) -
The NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set brings both accelerated 2D
functionality and high performance OpenGL support to Linux x86 with the use of
NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs).
- Official nForce Drivers v2.45 - WHQL
certified kit for nForce and nForce2
is now available for download /direct links ->
International 24MB ~
English 10MB / The package includes support for nForce2 400
and nForce2 Ultra 400, EAX fixes and compatibility improvements in Operation
Flashpoint, Neverwinter Nights, The Matrix Reloaded, Grand Theft Auto:
ViceCity, Mafia, Battlefield 1942, Updated audicontrol panel and 3D
audiperformance improvements.
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