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 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:02 AM CET - Jan,07 2003
  • Enhanced GameBoy expected - The new GameBoy will feature an internal light, allowing users to play games in dimly lit or dark areas. It's a feature GameBoy Advance owners have clamored for -- and the company has been criticized for ignoring -- since the machine's launch in June 2001. The machine should go on sale sometime around the end of March, with a retail price of roughly $90. The current GameBoy Advance (which sells for $70) will continue to be sold for a while longer, though Mike Wallace of UBS Warburg said he expects the company will eventually begin to phase those out. Nintendo did not return calls for comment.
  • Carmack blames ATI for Doom III alpha leak - An internal memo  from John Carmack, the creator of the Doom series of games, blames Canadian graphics company ATI for leaking the alpha of Doom III. In a memo to his employees, leaked on the Internal Memos site, he said: "ATI is more likely to be responsible than ever before. One employee from the company has been fired and the situation has been taken care of." He adds that the "investigation is over" and he has also had "a few words" with the owner of a web site called zelaron.com. According to the memo, someone at ATI posted a link to the game on the Zelaron site.
  • Deal puts Rambus in future PlayStation -  Sony and Toshiba have licensed technology from Rambus that likely will be incorporated into a future version of the PlayStation game console. The two Japanese giants have licensed "Yellowstone," a high-speed interface for connecting memory to microprocessors, and "Redwood," a chip-to-chip connection, from the processor designer, the companies said.  Both Yellowstone and Redwood would be used to enhance the broadband capabilities of "Cell," a complex microprocessor that will likely power an upcoming version of Sony's PlayStation. Cell, which is expected to come out in late 2004 or early 2005, substantially differs from current chips on the market.
  • Microsoft Unveils Software for CDMA Wireless - Microsoft said on Monday that it would make its software for mobile devices available for United States CDMA-based wireless networks, a widely used mobile phone system. The new releases of Microsoft's Smartphone and Pocket PC software for mobile phones and wireless-enabled handheld computers lets the software giant tap into a larger base of more than 100 million potential users as it seeks to expand its software beyond the desktop.
  • New Device Ready to Rival BlackBerry - HuneTec, a small South Korean company, has licensed the Palm OS operating system for use in messaging devices that will work on a wireless network used primarily by pagers, PalmSource said Monday. The personal communicators will offer always-on access to e-mail and other information, PalmSource said in a statement. HuneTec plans to start selling its ReFlex Two-way Personal Communicator (pictures), an oversized pager with a small keyboard, in the U.S. in September, a HuneTec spokesperson said.
  •  4 GB Microdrive by fall 2003 - Hitachi today announced plans to squeeze four gigabytes of data onto the 1-inch Microdrive, known as the world's smallest hard disk drive. With considerable advances in miniaturization technology thanks to the Pixie Dust concept originally developed by IBM, HGST engineers have overcome magnetic recording challenges associated with developing hard disk drives of this size, and expects the 4 GB Microdrive to be available in the Fall of 2003.
  • LSI Logic Announced the First Single-Chip Hard Disk Drive/DVD Recorder Processor -  LSI Logic Corporation today announced the industry's first single-chip hard disk drive (HDD) and DVD recorder processor, the DiMeNsion 8650 (DMN-8650), for use in dual-drive digital recorders. The new processor enables the time-shift of live TV, enhanced archiving to DVD disks, and full support for DV camcorders. In addition, the DMN-8650 delivers superior video quality and significantly reduces system-level costs and design complexity for consumer electronics manufacturers with its high level of integration.
  • Samsung i700 CDMA Pocket PC debuts - At the Consumer Electronics Show today, Samsung finally officially announced the development of the i700 - a Pocket PC Phone Edition device of which a version made for Spring was previously exposed courtesy of U.S. regulatory organ FCC. Likely to be sold through Sprint in the U.S., the i700, or SPH-i700 as the Sprint model name will be, marks Microsoft's entry into the CDMA market as the first officially announced Phone Edition device with CDMA support.
  • Mitsubishi ships world's first 4x DVD-R disc - Mitsubishi has announced the launch of what it claims to be the world's first 4x DVD-R data disc for video and data use. "Our new 4x DVD-R discs will offer superior compatibility, and most DVD-ROM drives, DVD players, and game computers should be able to use them," said MKM spokesman and CIO Shigeru Tamura. "We think these discs will serve as excellent media for recording video images and data backup. They can be used as library media, or they can act as media for distribution."
  • RACHAL - do you  hate heat from the PC? - RACHAL is a ventilation system for computers that prevents heat from dissipating into your working environment. Computer exhaust is vented directly into the cavity of the wall instead of the room which keeps your room cooler.
  • Want To Make Video Games? - "Looks like Levelord, of Ritual fame, and some folks at id, and Ensemble Studios have teamed together with Southern Methodist University to create a new school for people that want to work in the video games industry. It's called the Guildhall. Also a story about it at GameTutorials." (thanks Slashdot.org).
  • Age of Universe Revised, Again - In a study published today in the journal Science, a team of researchers says the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion years old. Most estimates in recent years have ranged between 10 billion and 15 billion years. The new estimates were made as part of a larger effort to understand how the universe is structured, and they agree with an increasingly solid case suggesting that 95 percent of the universe is controlled by so-called dark energy. /wow! :) I knew it ...Dark Vader?...:P/
  • Puzzling Ring of Stars Discovered Circling the Milky Way - Astronomers have discovered portions of what appears to be a giant, donut-shaped ring of previously unseen and surprisingly old stars surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy. If an entire ring exists, theorists might have to rethink details of how the galaxy formed.
  • DDR II - Sacrificing Latency - DDR (I) is approaching the end of its dominating role in the desktop space to be replaced by the second generation of double data rate memory starting at 400 MHz and using a conventional 64/72 bit parallel bus interface. Lower operating voltage, new features like on-die termination, off-chip driver calibration, Posted CAS and variable write latency sound intriguing but what is really lurking behind the new standard. We have seen claims of up to 72% power savings over DDR I and other miracle cures for any bandwidth issues faced by the PC industry. We have done the math ourselves found a few convenient errors in some of the manufacturer's descriptions of DDR II. Otherwise, DDR II looks very promising but who will benefit in the end?
  • Nvidia 42.01 Win9x/ME BETA Driver - Shortly after 42.01 for Wink/XP, there is the same beta driver for Win9/ME users (Mirror).
  • Serv-U 4.1.0.3 - Serv-U (download)  is a powerful, easy-to-use, award-winning FTP server created by Rob Beckers. An FTP server uses the FTP protocol to share files across the Internet. Serv-U is not only 100% compliant with the current FTP standard, but also includes numerous features unique to Serv-U that make it a perfect file sharing solution for virtually everyone.
  • IBM-Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 3.30 - This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data.
  • Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/D/8130)/810X Drivers - Realtek has released new&official LAN drivers (v4.51.5.05) as well as new ALC650 drivers (A3.37.2).

Comments from Terje Hposted - 07:43 AM CET - Jan,07 2003
From www.3dgpu.com regarding the Doom3 Leak. Update: Seems this is a fake memo, as Jim Dose, a programmer at id Software, posted this over at EvilAvatar: This is a hoax. John never sent any memo out and if he had, no one here would be sharing it because they'd be out of a job so fast it wouldn't be funny. It's not like we have 500 employees and couldn't trace where something like that would come from. Anyone who has the barest clue of how this company works would know John wouldn't be the one handling an "investigation", nor would he be the one sending out a memo.

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