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 Nightly Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 03:19 AM CEST - Apr,09 2003
  • Windows 2003 shows performance boost - Tests of final code show Microsoft's latest operating system is appreciably faster than its predecessor. File serving is an average 20 per cent faster with WS 2003 than with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and the product's integrated IIS 6.0 Web server shows an 11 per cent improvement over previous versions, as well as better security.
  • Windows key leak threatens mass piracy - A key code for installing Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet, a loss that could lead to widespread piracy of the software. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed the leak late Monday and said Microsoft was investigating the matter. The code key leak comes more than two weeks before the software's scheduled release on April 24.  The leaked code appears to be from a Microsoft corporate customer subscribing to one of the company's volume-licensing programs, the spokeswoman said. Rumors circulating on enthusiast Web sites, such as Neowin and WinBeta, identified the leak as a 3-in-1 code, meaning that it would work with three different versions of Windows Server 2003.
  • Spyware: It's Lurking on Your Machine - Xupiter is an advertising and marketing program that launches pop-up ads. It adds bookmarks to your browser's menu. And, as Heatherington discovered, it hijacks your browser's home page. More disturbing, to serve ads and sites tailored for you, Xupiter transmits information about your PC and your surfing habits to xupiter.com; hence Heatherington's suspicious traffic.
  • Wired oven keeps food cool - Imagine being able to leave a meal in the fridge for the day but then send a command over the internet to cook it so that it is ready when you get home. The oven can be controlled over the net using power lines. A US company called Tonight's Menu Intelligent Ovens (TMIO) has come up with a refrigerated microwave that can be controlled over the net or by mobile phone.
  • Bullet Time was just the beginning. F/x guru John Gaeta reinvents cinematography with The Matrix Reloaded - check it out! ~ I'm totally pumped to see what they do now.
  • Maya 5 with Quadro FX Smashes Rendering Barrier - Alias Wavefrontt, an SGI company, revealed today an innovative new Hardware rendering capability in its recently announced Maya 5 software. With Maya 5, customers can produce broadcast quality images up to 20 times faster than ever before possible. Now artists can benefit from advances in programmable shading technology to render a range of resolutions and quality, which stand up to even high definition scrutiny.
  • Nvidia to debut NV35 at E3? - Scroll down the page to Nvidia's entry and you'll see it sports a 'First Looks' logo. According to the site, that means "this exhibitor plans on debuting one or more products at their E3booth".  A sign, we wonder, that the company plans to announce its NV35 chip, the follow-up to the NV30, aka GeForce FX 5800, at the show? (thanks TheRegister).
  • ATI Lenghtens Product Cycle To 24 Months - ATI, now with an estimated 19% of the market, and Nvidia, with 32%, are the only major specialized makers of graphics chips to survive. Intel holds a 28% share of the graphics-chips markets, and two smaller rivals own single-digit bites. That has given ATI the leeway to make a surprising decision: On Mar. 31, it confirmed that it will lengthen its product cycle to 24 months.
  • Sony Boosts Blue Laser Storage - Sony has announced development of a blue-laser based optical disc system for data storage and says it should be available by the end of this year. The system, which has yet to be named, is technically similar to the Blu-ray Disc format that was developed by a consortium of nine companies led by Sony, although it is incompatible. The data storage technology was announced Tuesday by Sony and is on display at the AIIM storage and content management conference in New York this week.
  • Pioneer unveils world's first multiple drive professional DVD-Video recorder - Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. strengthens its leadership role in DVD technology with the unveiling of its PRV-LX1 professional DVD-Video recorder at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Conference 2003 in Las Vegas. Building on the success of the PRV-9000 DVD-Video recorder launched at NAB 2002, the PRV-LX1 is a stand-alone unit with a significantly expanded feature set targeted at professional video users. A base PRV-LX1 is equipped with a standard DVD-R/RW recordable drive and 120GB internal hard disk drive. The PRV-LX1 is expected to begin shipping in June 2003 with a list price of US,995. The optional second DVD-R/RW drive will also be available at a list price of US5.
  • Fujitsu Labs develops miniature non-contact authentication system - Fujitsu Labs developed a new miniature non-contact biometric authentication system that reads blood vessel patterns. contact authentication system . The device includes a miniature sensor for reading blood vessel pattern and authentication software (as you know, human blood vessel patterns are unique and constant over time). According to the company, the precision is rather high: <1% of mistakes and 0.5% wrong authentications.
  • Acer unveils world's first Centrino-based Tablet PC - Acer's second Tablet PC - the TravelMate C110 - became the world's first Centrino-based Tablet PC at its announcement yesterday.
  • Acer AL707 announces new 17" monitor - Acer AL707 supports 1280x1024 (SXGA) at 0.264mm dot pitch; features 250cd/m2 brightness, 500:1 contrast, 20ms response time. Viewing angles are 125° vertical and 150° horizontal, line scan is 31-80kHz, frame scan - 55-75Hz. The model has analog connector and consumes up to 45W. Measured 407x173x434mm, the monitor weighs 5.8kg. According to provisional data, in Japan Acer AL707 will cost about $420.
  • Cell Phones Get Sports Reports - Up-to-the-minute sports scores should start showing up on U.S. cell-phone screens within the next month as information services from sports broadcaster ESPN go live on wireless mobile networks, according to UIEvolution, which makes the platform that will run the services. ESPN already has deals with U.S. mobile operators to deliver the services, Ruff said. He estimates the monthly customer fee will be in the range of $3 to $5.
  • First miniSD Card phone coming up - SanDisk today announced that it will supply miniSD cards for the first mobile phones that include a miniSD slot. Introduced by NTT DoCoMo earlier this week, 16 MB SanDisk miniSD cards will be bundled with certain editions of the NTT DoCoMo i-mode 505i series featuring a miniSD slot. SanDisk expects to start shipments of miniSD cards in the current quarter to several Japanese vendors that will bundle them in their 505i models supplied to NTT DoCoMo. At retail, SanDisk will initially offer miniSD cards in 32 and 64 MB capacities, with 128 MB available later this year and 256 MB available early next year. The miniSD cards will use SanDisk's NAND flash and SD controller technology. Suggested retail pricing for the 32 MB miniSD card is approximately 2800 JPY. Prices on higher capacities have not been set. (thanks InfoSyncWorld)
  • First Megapixel Camera Phones Debut - NTT DoCoMo will put the first handsets with megapixel-class image sensors on sale in the Japanese market within the next three months, it said Tuesday, while J-Phone said it plans to launch a similar handset in the middle of May. The three handsets are part of NTT DoCoMo's 505i range of cellular telephones, launched on Tuesday. Embedded cameras are standard across the entire range and resolution ranges from 310,000 pixels at the low end to 1.2 million pixels on the Fujitsu and Sony handsets.
  • Sony releases the VAIO bio Z and the VAIO bio U soon - According to Newsware.ws, The bio Z and the bio U will be released at spring this year. You can use the bio Z and the bio U in a lot of ways, it has a very nice shape and its easy to handle with. The multiple controller side and the groove of the base were adopted in order to raise the impression for the bio U. The Sony president thinks this should be a new market. The bio U uses a mobile Celeron 600AMHz processor and a nice ATI Mobility Radeon 16MB graphics card that has a screen area of 1024 E 768. For memory it will have DDR266 256MB..
  • EPoX releases new 800MHz FSB motherboards - EPoX released a new motherboard series - 845PE/GE – supporting 800MHz FSB. PE-based: EP-4PEA800, EP-4PEA800I; GE-based: EP-4GEA800, EP-4GEA800I, EP-4GEM800I.
  • Pentium 4 3.0GHz and Canterwood Benchmarks Revealed! - Both systems equipped with 1GB of PC3200 memory, a powerful graphics card (RADEON 9800 PRO or GeForce FX 5800 Ultra or something else?), a couple of fast HDDs in RAID massive performed extremely fast, just take a look at the results
  • First KT600 board specifications - AMDBoard let us know that Legend QDI announced first KT600 board! The first known VIA KT600 motherboard is coming from QDI and we are proud to have the short specs here: QDI K7V600-6A, QDI K7V600-F, QDI K7V600-L Chipet VIA KT600 (north) & VT 8237 (south) FSB 200/266/333/400MHz - 3 x DDR400/333 DIMMs, 5 x PCIs - 1 x CNR - AGP 8X - ATA 133 - Serial ATA, 8 USB v2.0 Ports. Availability: May 03. They promise more details&pictures soon.
  • New AMD Barebone from Acorp - AMDBoard has the specifications of the latest AMD based-barebone coming from Acorp. The CFI-S76 SFF barebone has a sober aluminum look and uses a SiS740 chipset with integrated 2D/3D graphics, video accelerator, MPEG1 encoder, USB 2.0, IEEE1394 and much more....
  • Samsung's 240T 24 Inch Widescreen Display Review - The Syncmaster 240T isn't necessarily "new", as it's been on the market for quite a long time. Nevertheless, this is a monitor GamePC have gotten many requests to review, and they have finally gotten around to giving a thorough review of this LCD panel. With 24 inches of widescreen LCD display area, digital connectivity, picture in picture, and an included remote control, the Syncmaster 240T really has no competition in the high-end LCD space.
  • Game Park GP32 Gamepad Review - You'll notice that it doesn't come with any games or media. You'll need to purchase a SmartMedia card (128Mb costs just under L30 if you know where to look), or a boxed game. The problem with boxed GP32 games is the somewhat heavy use of Korean. This restricts the appeal of the boxed games somewhat, but fear not - there's plenty more reasons to get one of these things.
  • D-Link's DVC-1000 i2eye Videophone Review - LittleWhiteDog just published an exclusive review of D-Link's DVC-1000 i2eye Videophone. Recently on display at CES2003, the DVC-1000 is a broadband videophone designed to be connected to your television, allowing you the ability to video conference from the comfort of your couch to anyone in the world. No PC is required and there are no phone charges or long distance fees incurred. Are we finally one step closer to living the Jetsons' lifestyle?
  • Watercooled GeForceFX - How about 550/1100 perfectly stable, at 30degreesC? (as opposed to the default of 500/1000 at 60ish?) this is one gorgeous looking cooler, and they have designed it to have the performance to match.
  • Athlon XP OC Database Updated - VR-Zone has updated their Athlon XP Thoroughbred Overclocking Database. The craze for XP 1700+ based on T'Bred "B" core continues as more people are getting that cheap chip to overclock for another 1Ghz at least. If you possess the magical XP1700+ DLT3C UPMW batch, you can be looking for even more impressive overclock out of it. Barton 2500+ overclocks nicely too with most attaining 2.5Ghz on air.
  • Quick Guide to Privacy in Windows XP - Windows XP made some advances in stability from its older Windows 9x client-base but this did not go without Microsoft wanting some sort of feedback on how the newer OS was going to be used in the field. Microsoft didn't stop with Windows Millennium when it came to PC Health and Help Centers, there are plenty of these hidden away in XP that at first glance look harmless, they are in fact -yet many users simply don't know the extent of Windows XP's "call home" features out of the box.
    Intel intros Pentium 4 hyperthreading bug tool -     Thread Checker 1.0 will track down threading problems in hours compared to what Intel said would otherwise take days or weeks. It works by finding particular lines of code causing threading bugs and then categorises them showing different types of information relating to the problem. The tool will become available this quarter for Windows XP Pro and Windows 200 systems and costs $1,198 for a single user licence.
  • MSN Messenger 5.0.0544  - MSN Messenger (WinXP ~ Win2k/NT ~ Win98/ME) is an instant messaging program that lets you send instant messages with cool emoticons, send pictures and other files to your friends, call a phone anywhere in the world from your computer.
  • DVD Shrink Released - DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD disks. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disk. DVD Shrink does not burn DVDs! The output from DVD Shrink is saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn to a DVD-R using separate burning software, such as the software provided with your DVD-R drive.
  • MyIE2 0.7.829 beta - MyIE2 is a powerful multi-page browser based on the IE core (IE5.x or IE 6.0 required). It can open multiple web pages in just one window. And it only takes a little system resource when surfing with a greatly integrated user interface.
  • Opera 7.10 beta 3 - Opera has been hailed as the fastest browser on earth by users and press worldwide. Opera uses less memory and less space on your hard drive than competing browser applications, making you more productive on the Web. Opera 7.1 is going final soon. Now you can download beta 3.
  • HijackThis 1.93 - HijackThis, a general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked!, but expanded with almost a dozen other checks against hijacker tricks. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. As a result, false positives are imminent and unless you are sure what you're doing, you should always consult with knowledgable folks (e.g. the forums) before deleting anything.
  • Uxtheme.dll patch for Windows Server 2003 - Windows Server 2003 is shipped default with the themes service disabled. Neowin made an article enabling these services (Uxtheme.dll) and more.
  • K-Lite Codec Pack 2.02 FINAL - The Final Builds of K-Lite Codec Pack 2.02 are available. Release notes: "The TFM Audio Filter and the Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher are not fully compatable. It is recommended not to install both of them. Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher can be used to switch between two audio streams in a video file that has two audio streams. Those are not very common. TFM Audio Filter can be used to amplify the sound of a video file. It also has an equalizer. Vobsub is a tool for displaying subtitles. FourCC Code Changer is a program for changing the FourCC code of a video file. The FourCC code is used to identify which codec should be used to decode the file. This tool is for expert users only. GSpot is a tool that can tell you exactly which codecs are needed to play a certain video file. This is very helpfull when you have troubles playing a video file."
  • QuickTime Alternative 1.00 Final - QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime (.mov .qt) files. This way there is no need to install the offical QuickTime player. As a bonus, Internet Explorer will play all QuickTime movies that are embedded in a webpage.
  • PowerStrip beta 3.40.383 - PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest SiS Xabre. It's the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP.
  • Creative Disc Detector Patch - This is a driver update for the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum for users running Windows XP.  This patch is for products bundled with Creative Disc Detector. When Disc Detector is installed in your computer, the Autorun or Autoplay feature in Windows may become disabled. Download this patch only if the Autorun or Autoplay feature is disabled; there is no need to download it otherwise.
  • Intel Pro 100 / 1000 WHQL NIC Drivers - This driver release (Intel Pro 100 / Intel Pro 1000)  is WHQL certified and a multilanguage release. This pack includes 10,100 and gigabit adapter base drivers and PROSet for Intel PRO network adapters for Win2k/XP. This software may also apply to 8255x, 82562, and 8254x Intel Ethernet controllers
  • Realtek ALC Drivers  - Realtek released driver version 3.42 for their ALC-Series soundchips.

Comments from NOTHINGposted - 08:19 PM CEST - Apr,09 2003
Wow...! News galore!

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