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 Monday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 02:07 AM CEST - May,06 2003
  • Handheld aimed at older gamers -  Tapwave, based in Mountain View, says it will introduce its Helix device later this year. Byron Connell, co-founder and senior vice president of marketing, said it is aimed primarily at older gamers who have outgrown Nintendo's GameBoy Advance and also want the basic functions of a handheld organizer. Tapwave will face stiff competition from Nintendo, which has a corner on the market for portable games, and from a variety of other handhelds that include gaming as a feature. Prime among those is Nokia's upcoming N-Gage Game Deck debuting this fall.
  • Microsoft Set to Debut Xbox Live Upgrade - Microsoft is aiming to raise the stakes in the $30 billion global video game industry and strengthen its foothold in living rooms with major changes to its Xbox Live online gaming service, industry sources said on Monday. As game makers prepare for the E3 in LA, Microsoft is readying a new version of Xbox Live with advanced community features such as voice chat and locater services that operate independently of games in progress, said sources with knowledge of the software company's plans. After the upgrades, the sources said, players will be able to turn on their Xboxes, see who among their friends is online, and engage them in voice chats in community settings that do not even require a game to be inside the console. Other add-ons coming soon to the console include the ability to use the Xbox as a sort of media center, to listen to digital music and watch videos in their living rooms.
  • Apple web music beats expectations - Apple Computer Inc. exceeded pundit expectations by selling more than 1 million songs in a one-week period on its online music store. Songs are 99 cents per download, and the Apple services have little copy protection, meaning users can keep the songs indefinitely and share them on as many as three MacIntosh computers, as well as an indefinite number of iPod portable music players.
  • Is That a Computer Chip in Your Carpet? - Researchers at Germany's Infineon Technologies have demonstrated how a self-organizing network of chips woven into large textile surfaces, such as carpets, could someday be used to monitor buildings, provide directions in an emergency, and more. At the company's Emerging Technology Lab in Munich, the research team showed how robust chips embedded into industrial fabrics in the form of a checkerboard are able to monitor temperature, pressure, vibration, and motion, Infineon said
  • On the Edge: Interplanetary Internet - IPN researchers have already assigned Internet addresses to all the planets, satellites, and spacecraft in our solar system. Scientists are hoping to launch a series of IPN-equipped satellites, possibly as soon as 2005. With one or more IPN-equipped satellites in orbit around Mars, we would have a two-planet IPN network
  • Microsoft launches Windows hardware Web site - Microsoft Corp. has created a new engineering Web site focused on hardware issues for Windows server and desktop products. The new site to be announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here Tuesday (May 6) will consist of specifications, white papers, tools and downloads for hardware engineers working on Windows-based PCs and servers or peripherals that link to them.
  • Dell recalls nearly 20,000 motherboards - Dell Computer has launched a service campaign to replace motherboards in nearly 20,000 Inspiron notebooks.  The Round Rock, Texas, company will replace the flawed motherboards inside nearly 20,000 Inspiron 2650 laptop models manufactured between the middle of November and the middle of December 2002, a company representative said Friday. The replacement program was introduced by Dell to remedy a bad component that could short out and render the notebook unable to power up, when turned on.
  • Adult content filter for MMS launched - The Irish software house, Telcotec has launched an adult content filter that can be plugged into MMSC's to provide a level of content filtering. People use picture phones to take pictures and send them to their friends and to get pictures from the internet. People who are concerned about the type of pictures their picture phones can receive will be able to protect themselves and their children from unwanted conte.
  • Nokia 6800 comes to Cingular Wireless - Cingular Wireless and Nokia today announced the availability of the Nokia 6800 messaging phone in Cingular's GSM/GPRS markets. The Nokia dual-band 850/1900 MHz 6800 messaging phone is designed with data and text messaging users in mind, with flip access to a full back-lit QWERTY keyboard. The mobile phone offers personal e-mail, personal information management (PIM) and rich-sounding polyphonic ringtones.
  • Gameloft unleashes Rayman 3 - It's a long way from being the darling of the Playstation platform to being one of the foremost champions of gaming on J2ME-enabled phones, but good old Rayman is holding up well. Following up on previous titles including Rayman 1 and 2, as well as Rayman Bowling and Rayman Golf, Rayman 3 for Nokia's 3650 and Sharp's GX-10 is now available from Gameloft. Rayman 3 is available now from the Gameloft web site for $3.99 USD for the Nokia 3650 and Sharp GX-10.
  • iRock 530 Review - The iRock 530 would be a great product 2 years ago, but the technology of MP3 players today has grown beyond what the iRock 530 offers. Use of USB 1.0, cheap feeling plastic in the housing and buttons, non-backlit display, and no support for ID3 Tags along with a price of $125 on the http://www.myirock.com site are negatives that outweigh the few positives.
  • Asustek releases SiS648FX-based motherboards - Asustek Computer on May 2 introduced its latest motherboard, the P4S800, for Intel's Pentium 4 platform.
  • VIA Chipsets Specifications Page featuring KT600 & VT8239 -  AMDboard is quietly releasing a complete VIA Socket A chipsets specifications page which include the latest datas for the VT8239 south bridge, and KT600, north bridge.
  • MSI FX5800 Ultra-TD8X Review - The box's design and the accessory pack are a good match for such an expensive card. The card itself is just a copy of the reference sample with MSI's logo. The card heats very much, the cooler works noisy in 3D and stands idle in 2D, that is why you should provide the proper ventilation.
  • Inno3D Tornado GeForce FX 5800 Card  - This card comes in a decent looking box with some great game bundles for the gamers. We have successfully overclocked the card to 500/1000Mhz core/memory clock reaching the speed of a GeForce FX 5800 Ultra card and also did some comparisons between the Detonator 43.45 and 43.51 WHQL drivers under 3DMark2003.
  • Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro Review - The performance of the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro was equally as impressive, clearly improving upon the Radeon 9700 Pro on many different levels and in every test, all the while maintaining a relatively quiet cooling solution, contrary to the shelved GeForce FX 5800 Ultra.
  • MSI vs. Shuttle vs. Saintsong  - Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a review on 3 mini-PCs. Three different mini-PCs with still more different designs. Shuttle's bare-bones SB52G2 is another offering from the XPC series and focuses on use as a mini-server. MSI aims for the business market, and Saintsong puts out a micro-PC.
  • CenDyne DVR-105 4x DVD-RW review  - CDRLabs.com has published a new review of the CenDyne DVR-105 DVD-recorder. "It's hard not to like CenDyne's new DVD writer. With its 4x DVD-R and 2x DVD-RW writing speeds, the DVR-105 is one of the fastest DVD-RW drives currently available. If you're willing to shell out the money for 4x DVD-R media, it will take you less than 15 minutes to burn an entire DVD. Of course, the drive's 2x DVD-RW writing speeds aren't nearly as fast, but they are a big improvement over what earlier DVD-R/RW drives offered."
  • EluminiX Illuminated Keyboard Review - Overall, 3DXtreme found the EluminiX illuminated keyboard to be a solid product and a very high quality keyboard. The illumination is great for late night surfing or gaming and just looks damn cool!
  • Wi-LAN Broadband Wireless Access Systems  - Some of such broadband solutions were announced at the press conference held by Wi-LAN Inc (the world-wide manufacturer of such systems) and Diamond Communications on April 21 in Moscow. The company presented two base systems certified in Russia: Ultima3 and Libra 3000.
  • Another Keyboard Cleaning Article - VoidedWarranty.com has written an article on how to clean your keyboard.
  • Memory Types Guide - EliteGuild has published a Memory Types Guide. If you've been to a store looking for memory, you probably found many different types. It isn't as simple as it was a few years ago when you had PC800, PC133, PC100, and PC700. To complicate things further, enthusiasts have given new names to types of memory as well (ie DDR266 for PC2100).
  • Paint Shop Pro 8.0 Review - Jasc Software's Paint Shop Pro 8.0 ($99 direct) improves and expands on what was already the best value in image-editing software. Paint Shop Pro offers a complete suite of image-editing and special-effects tools at a fraction of the price of the competing Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Version 8.0 sports a revamped and simplified user interface and adds several new features that make the product more competitive with Adobe Photoshop 7.0, including a script editor, support for JPEG 2000, and improved multilayer image tools.
  • Video Codec Comparison - The contestants: 3ivX D4 4.0.3, Dicas mpegable AVI 2.0.3, DivX3 in the form of SBC, DivX5.05, RealVideo9 based on HelixProducer 9.1 M6 Gold , WMV V9 (VCM beta1), XviD (Isibaar's development build dated 4/24). All codecs were tested in a 2 pass setup where this was applicable (3ivX and mpegable AVI only offer 1 pass encoding).
  • Installing WindowsXP - Building & Deploying an Image - Neowin.net has offers the full transcript (direct link) for all the Q&A's from the hour long session with Microsoft experts.
  • The Worm Game - Wohoo, Catch the Worm :P (Flash req.)
  • BlindWrite v4.4 - VSO Software has released an update of their popular 1:1 recording software, the Blindwrite Suite. The update enables users to make backups of SafeDisc 2.9x protected games and introduces a changed image format.
  • IsoBuster v1.4 - IsoBuster lets you explore a CD's File System while by-passing Windows.
  • WinRAR 3.20 Beta 5 - WinRAR (download ~ changelog) has been updated to version 3.20 beta 5.

Comments from JSoloposted - 05:01 AM CEST - May,06 2003
As a former Palm employee, let me tell you that Tapwave is filled with some complete losers. Luckily, Nintendo will kick their ass in every way.

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