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| (hx) 02:40 AM CET - Jan,08 2003 |
- New GameBoy Advance Details - At a press conference in Tokyo,
Nintendo of Japan has confirmed plans to release a revised version of its
highly successful handheld,
called Game Boy Advance SP. According to a Reuters report, the Game Boy
Advance SP will be released in Japan next month, and it will debut in the US
and Europe in late March. The revised device is expected to retail for around
$100 in the US. (GameSpy
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- Group ditches bid to crack Xbox code - A computing project has
abandoned its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox
video game console. An update on the
home page for The Neo
Project says the group is no longer working on the Xbox "due to legal
reasons." Project founder Mike Curry said in an e-mail interview that he
couldn't elaborate. "We cannot comment on anything that has happened in the
last 24 hours; we can only say that we can no longer participate in the Xbox
challenge," he said.
- Lirva worm attaches to Avril Lavigne -
Lirva
(w32.Lirva@mm), also known as Naith, is a mass-mailing worm that is
UPX-compressed to a file size of 32,766 and arrives via e-mail either
announcing a new Microsoft patch or offering fan access to Avril Lavigne. Once
active, Lirva will attempt to e-mail copies of itself to all contacts on an
infected system, shut down all antivirus and firewall programs, and launch a
Web browser to open the Avril Lavigne Web site on an infected user's desktop.
- Microsoft Relaxes Licensing for Digital Media - Microsoft
will license the technology behind its digital media streaming software at
lower prices and across a wider range of platforms, the world's largest
software maker said on Tuesday.
The new licensing plan for Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series, which sends
and receives audio and visual content across the Internet, will allow
developers to create software that will run on various devices and on
non-Windows-based computers, opening up a wider market for Microsoft's
streaming standard.
- S3 Graphics Launches All New DeltaChrome - S3 Graphics Inc.
revealed details of the completely new DeltaChrome display core featuring
full hardware support for the newly released Microsoft DirectX 9.0 application
interface using Microsoft's HLSL (high level shader language). Targeted
squarely at the top position in mobile and desktop graphics with high
resolution connectivity for consumer and professional requirements,
DeltaChrome brings exciting new features and unparalleled Hi-Def image quality
and performance for 3D and video.
- Shuttle introduces nForce2-based mini-barebones - Shuttle, a
Taiwanese motherboard maker, on January 6 launched an
Nvidia nForce2-based mini-barebones system for the Advanced Micro Devices
(AMD)-platform. With rising demand and expanding product lines, Shuttle
predicts its will ship 500,000 mini-barebone systems this year, up from
250,000 units in 2002.
- Apple to Boost FireWire Speed? - Apple may be planning to announce
FireWire2, or FireWire 800, a new high-speed 800-megabits-per-second
FireWire standard, at the Macworld Conference & Expo opening here Tuesday. The
hint surfaced when hard-drive vendor SmartDisk--several hours after announcing
its introduction of desktop drives that connect to Apple systems using the new
800-mbps FireWire standard--asked that the news be "killed due to premature
release."
- Notebook Comparison -
X-bit
labs compares the features and performance of the Compaq Presario 2810T
and the Toshiba Satellite 1900-703.
- Hypersonic Sonic Aviator 3.06GHz Pentium 4 Notebook - With
nosebleed speed provided by a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 processor on a 533MHz front
side bus, the Hypersonic Sonic Aviator boasts specifications that would make
most desktop machines jealous. Is the machine worthy of a place on your desk?
Let's find out as we take a look at the machine.
- Sony Playstation Case Mod - GideonTech.com has
a new
guide, aimed at making use of that old Playstation you have sitting in the
corner. Instead of using it as a paper weight, shove it into a case.
- NVDVD 2.27 - NVIDIA has updated the
trial
version of their DVD to 2.27 (download).
This new version features improved VCD playback, improved WinXP Fast User
Switch mode, improved default color control settings for Hardware overlay and
VMR modes, fixed region problems that occurred after installing new DVD-ROM
drives and fixed problem with left/right/sub speaker configuration downmixing.
- GSpot v2.1 Build 030105 -
GSpot (download)
determine what codec a video/audio file uses and what codec your system will
use to play it. Identifies MPEG (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov), RealMedia (.rm),
Windows Media (.wma / .asf), Flash (.swf) and others; will attempt a
DirectShow render those (and any other) file, and report either the error or
detailed results.
- Windows Media Player 9 Final (build 2980) - Enjoy fast and flexible
music and video playback with
Windows Media Player 9 Series. Over 120 new features including Fast
Streaming for instant-on playback, and Mini-player mode make this the best
player yet. The latest version for
Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 (13.6MB), and best experienced with
Windows XP (10MB). You can also download
Windows Media Encoder 9 Final (9.7Mb)
- Creative Jukebox 3 Drivers (01/07/2003) - Creative has released
the latest standalone drivers for the NOMAD Jukebox 3.
- Sigma Designs REALmagic Hollywood Plus Driver v2.41 - Sigma have
released
a
new driver for REALmagic Hollywood Plus (hardware MPEG decoder card).
- NVIDIA Stereo3D driver 41.09 - Guru3D has just
added a set of patched nVidia Stereo3D drivers into their file-section.
This is a patched nVidia Stereo3D driver for all Detonator driver`s up to
v41.09. This revolutionary patched driver enables real stereoscopic 3D
high-res pageflipped viewing of all DirectX based 3D games like Tomb Raider or
Flight Simulator with shutterglasses like our ingenous AnotherEye.
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