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 Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 02:55 AM CET - Jan,23 2002
  • Europe foots the Xbox bill for Microsoft  - The latest company to catch flak over this attitude is Microsoft, whose Xbox is (finally) launching in our neck of the woods on March 14th at a price of L299 / €479, compared to the US list price of $299 (L210 / €340) and the recently announced Japanese launch at Y34,800 (L185 / €300).   This means that Europeans will be paying significantly more for their Xboxes /WTF?! :(/, despite the fact that Microsoft has a dedicated factory pumping out the consoles in Hungary, a country not renowned for its high labour costs.
  • Anthrax researchers want your PC - Individuals can participate in the project by downloading a screensaver at Intel's Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program and donating their PC's spare resources to build a virtual supercomputer capable of analyzing billions of molecules in a fraction of the time it would take in a laboratory, the group said.
  • Accused Ebay Hacker To Defend Himself From Jail -  22-year-old computer expert accused of hacking into Ebay  and other companies has fired his lawyer and will represent himself in court, his father said today.
  • Kimble/Schmitz deported - Kim Schmitz, the founder of a group that made unsubstantiated claims to have hacked a Sudanese bank with bin Laden accounts, faces insider dealing charges in Germany after his fast-track deportation from Thailand.
  • Intel Unveils Seven New Mobile Chips, Completes Transition - Intel Corp. has announced seven new mobile processors built on its new 0.13 micron manufacturing process. The company's entire mobile product line now has been upgraded from the previous technology, which used the 0.18 micron process.
  • Netscape Sues Microsoft - Netscape Communications, a division of AOL Time Warner, filed suit against Microsoft on Tuesday, claiming that the software giant's business practices have harmed it.
  • Philips joins copy protected CD fracas - Philips, the Dutch company which co-created the Compact Disc format along with Sony almost 20 years ago, is standing defiantly against the industry's use of copy-protected CDs.
  • Sybase unveils new software - Sybase unveiled its Business Process Integrator Suite, which features both integration and "business process" software. Integration software enables companies to link their business software together so they can communicate. Business process software allows companies to choreograph how an e-commerce site functions and how information is passed through computing systems to complete a transaction.
  • DVD players ready for a makeover - The market is getting so competitive and profit margins are thinning so quickly that companies are starting to combine DVD playback with other features.
  • ATI ships Radeon 7500 All-In-Wonder (in North America) - ATI is shipping the All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500 in North America. Carrying a list price of $199, the multimedia graphics card is choc-ful of PC-on-TV features.
  • Global Win YCC-61F1 Case Review - HardwareExtreme has posted a review of  top end server case called the YCC-61F1.
  • Logitech Cordless Freedom Optical Review - Cordless devices yield many benefits for users, such as freedom from tangled cables and increased comfort while using the computer. Throughout the years many keyboard and mouse packages have been introduced. Logitech has broken the ice and released their Cordless Freedom Optical package. This combo includes the Logitech Cordless Desktop Navigator Keyboard and the Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical.
  • ATI vs NVIDIA - It goes without saying that ATI and Nvidia are locked in a battle for the desktops, notebooks, game consoles, TV tuners, and hearts of consumers. As in any good fight, sometimes it's not the combatants that decide the contest, but a bystander taking an interest in the outcome. Whether it's an OEM partner, software developer, or even CPU vendor, the idea is to not take a pummeling while a third party holds your arms behind your back.
  • Geforce 4 MX Specs - Guys at Reactor Critical has posted some specifications about the Geforce 4 MX: 0.15 micron. 2 rendering pipelines, 2 TMUs each. Various core-clokings from 250 to 300 MHz depending on the version of the GPU. According to several sources, the clockings will be as follows: GeForce4 MX420 - 250 MHz. GeForce4 MX440 - 275 MHz. GeForce4 MX460 - 300 MHz.
  • Network Cards & Overclocking - PC Stats has posted an article about how Network Cards (NIC's) handle overclocking, and if they might be the thing that's holding you back from getting higher speeds. As you already know, every peripheral in the PCI slots of your computer is linked to the FSB, and when you're going past 133 MHz (with most boards) you're going to be running the PCI bus out of sync. This means the PCI cards will no longer running at their specified speeds - they willl be running faster then the are supposed to.
  • Duron 1300 vs. Celeron 1300 - Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a comparison review between the AMD Duron 1.3GHz and the Intel Celeron 1.3GHz CPUs.
  • Microsoft Begins DirectX 9.0 Beta - Beta testers have begun to receive word of the impending first beta release of DirectX 9.0, the multimedia foundation behind Windows. DirectX 9 first made headlines at Meltdown 2001 last summer and is expected to feature advanced pixel shading and gamma correction.
  • XP Hotfixes veryfier - Microsoft has released a command-line tool that easily enumerates all of the installed fixes by Microsoft Knowledge Base article number. Customers can then confirm that they have installed the appropriate set of fixes before using a valuable support incident and potentially experiencing unplanned down time. Download Q282784_WXP_SP1_x86_ENU.exe (185kb, WinXP home&professional),   Q282784_WXP_SP1_ia64_ENU.exe (309kb WinXP 64-bit).
  • Cool Desk v.3.85 - Cool Desk is a virtual desktop manager. Ever wish to have several screens on your computer? Cool Desk creates up to 9 virtual desktops and allows you to have different windows in each of them.
  • WinOnCD 5 SP1 - The first service pack for the popular CD mastering program WinOnCD 5 has been released.
  • GeForce Tweaking mania - Download: RivaTuner 2.0 Release Candidate 9 & GeForce Tweak Utility 3.1.2 (3.2t16), NVmax 4.00.15 Alpha 2.1
  • ATI BIOS Editor RadEdit v0.99 - This is the first universal bios editor for Radeon-based videocards. This program let you modify clock speeds and BIOS fonts for any videocard based on R100, RV100, RV200, R200 chips.
  • Inno3D Savage2000 AGP Drivers -  InnoVision has released new Inno3D Savage2000 AGP drivers for Windows XP.
  • Windows XP Driver Updates - Go baby go :) Microsoft has released some new WHQL drivers for WinXP: Ati Technologies Inc. Display Driver Version 6.13.10.6014, Realtek Net Driver Version 5.397.0104.2002, Creative Media Driver Released on November 15 2001 and Epson Printer Driver Version5.20.00.00.
  • D-Link DI-704 Firmware -  D-Link have released an updated firmware v257b3 for their DI-704. This update supports packet filtering.
  • Detonator 27.10 for Win2K/XP - Warp2Search has Detonators 27.10, the first driver release for the GeForce4 cards!

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