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 Saturday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 05:24 PM CET - Dec,13 2003
  • Flaws Found in Sony Digicams - More than 100 of Sony's high-end and high-price Qualia digital still cameras have been hit by at least one of three problems, the company says. The most common problem, which affected 133 cameras, Sony says, was a software bug that meant the flash unit sometimes failed to fire. The problem occurred when a second flash photo was attempted exactly 30 seconds after the first one. If the second photo is attempted at any other time difference after the first picture the flash fires normally, says Yoshikazu Ochiai, a spokesperson for Sony in Tokyo.
  • China's market logic presents the pirate DVD player - China's vast market in pirated movies is well known. Police seize more than 50 million discs a year, and this year busted 10 big underground optical disc factories and dozens of mastering studios. But China is still flooded with pirate DVDs that supply about 90 per cent of total demand and rob the US film industry of millions in royalties. Now the world's electronics industry is about to face competition from Chinese brands of video disc players that have risen on the back of the pirate market. As any foreign visitor who has stocked up on China's cheap pirate copies will relate, the discs do not always play when you put them on your machine at home. Enter the caoqiang jiuchuo or "super-correcting" Chinese model of DVD player. Developed by the Jiangsu Shinco Electronic Group and selling for about half the cost of brands such as Philips and Sony, it is designed to cope with the poor quality of pirated video discs.
  • Canada OKs P2P music downloads - Canada's copyright agency has OK'd the downloading of copyrighted music from Peer to Peer networks - for now, at least - slapping a small tax onto MP3 music players. The Copyright Board of Canada declined to extend existing levies on blank audio and CD recordable media to DVD recordables, or to removable memory, such as Compact Flash or MMC cards. While uploading and distributing copyrighted music remains illegal, Canada's simple solution provides copyright holders with some compensation through existing royalty distribution channels.
  • Microsoft to Remove Swastikas from Office  - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that its latest version of Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it would offer tools to remove and replace (download removal tool) the offending characters from the program. The swastika, which was made infamous by Nazi Germany, was included in Microsoft's "Bookshelf Symbol 7" font.
  • Microsoft wants non-standard media for Xbox 2? -  A job advertisement posted on Microsoft's careers website suggests that the company may be considering moving to a proprietary disc format for its next console, in an effort to make piracy on the device more difficult. According to the ad, Microsoft's Xbox team is seeking an engineer "to manage the design and development of the Xbox Game Disc for the next generation Xbox console", with the job description going on to mention anti-piracy as the first in a list of key factors for the new game disc specification.
  • TI Preps Power-Saving Phone Chips - Texas Instruments plans to release samples of its latest OMAP chip, which will be the company's first 90-nanometer chip, in the first quarter of 2004. The OMAP 1710 will run 10 percent faster than its OMAP 1610 predecessor and consume 50 percent less power, taking advantage of the drop in power consumption afforded by a process technology jump, TI says. The OMAP product line is designed for cell phones and other mobile devices.
  • Intel's 'Prescott' chip to keep Pentium 4 name - Intel will upgrade its flagship PC chip in the beginning of the year, but it will keep the current name. "Prescott," the code name for an optimized version of the Pentium 4, will continue to be sold under the Pentium 4 name, according to sources close to the company. Prescott chips will contain 13 new instructions to improve multimedia performance and run at higher speeds than existing Pentium 4s.
  • Creative Labs Europe Disclosed RADEON Lineup Details - One of the most successful retailers of all time and also the inventor of Sound Blaster is now offering RADEON 9800 XT 256MB, RADEON 9600 256MB and RADEON 9200 SE 128MB graphics cards at different-price points. The graphics cards cost $575 (470 Euro), $150 (123 Euro) and $67 ($55) in that order.
  • Radeon 9800SE and Geforce 5900XT do battle at 205 Euros - The introduction of these two cards -- which will obviously be available through many ATI and Nvidia partners - will make life difficult for the existing Radeon 9600XT and Geforce FX 5700 Ultra. These are still priced at the same level as their new big brothers, the 9800SE and 5900XT.
  • AMD Microprocessor Plans for 2004 - Sources close to AMD unveiled some of the company’s plans concerning next year desktop central processing unit products. As anticipated, the company will continue to use Socket 754 and 940 form-factors till some point, but will also bring 939-pin 64-bit processors with faster bus: ClawHammer 940-pin 1MB L2 cache (0.13), ClawHammer 939-pin 1MB L2 cache (0.13 micron), Newcastle 939-pin 512KB L2 cache (0.13 micron), Winchester 939-pin 512KB L2 cache (90nm), San Diego 939-pin 1MB L2 cache (90nm), ClawHammer 754-pin 1MB L2 cache (0.13), Newcastle 754-pin 512KB L2 cache (0.13), Paris 754-pin 256KB L2 cache (0.13 micron), Barton 462-pin 512KB L2 cache (0.13 micron). AMD Athlon 64 4000+ and AMD Athlon 64 4200+ slated to come in the Q4 2004 and the Q1 2005 respectively will be intended only for Socket 939 platform. To serve the lowest-end of the market, AMD introduces Socket 754 Athlon XP processors with 256KB of level-two cache in 2800+, 3000+ and 3200+ version in Q3 2004, Q4 2004 and Q1 2005 respectively.
  • The Fastest Graphics Cards of 2003 - This review will help you to choose between 9 premier graphics cards based on VPUs and GPUs from ATI and NVIDIA in 16 benchmarks representing performance in past, present and upcoming 3D games.
  • Crucial RADEON 9800 Pro 256MB - OK, so what is the price of this board from Crucial? It is available on the company's website for $469.99. That would have been competitive a few months ago, but now it's easy to find on PriceGrabber 256 MB 5900 Ultras and even 5950s for cheaper than that! That makes it hard to recommend this card; however, for a die hard ATI and/or Crucial fan, the flagship board from Crucial would make a great choice. Keep in mind some of the higher cost of this card is probably due to the inclusion of DDR2 instead of the more commonly used first generation DDR spec.
  • The BFG Asylum GeForce FX 5700 Ultra - BFG is a relatively new graphics card company that has opted to offer NVIDIA based video cards. "Built by gamers" and with former team members from Visiontek, the company is taking a different approach to the market, offering lifetime warranties and free 24x7 technical support for all of their products. Instead of focusing on overly flashy packaging, with countless copies of yesterday's gaming titles, the company aims to win new customers over by letting them know that they stand behind their products 100%.
  • Asus Radeon A9600XT review -The software package that comes with the Asus Radeon A9600XT is also quite impressive, including; PowerDirector, AsusDVD, Ulead Cool 3D, UleadExpress SE 4.0, Asus Medi@ Show SE 2.0, a six game demo CD and two full versions games (Battle Engine Aquaila and Gun Metal). Oh, I almost forgot to mention that the Asus Radeon A9600XT also comes with a Half Life 2 coupon that will allow you to download the full game via ATi's website when it's released! Not too shabby at all!
  • Seasonic Super Tornado 400W Power Supply  - PCStats has posted a review of Seasonic Super Tornado 400W Power Supply.
  • Chenbro Xpider Gaming Case review - It is available in four wild colors including; Orange, Silver, Green, and Blue. The flexibility this case offers is great and it remains an at an awesome budget price of approximately $58 USD.
  • Changes to Functionality in Windows XP SP2 - This document (download) specifically focuses on the changes between earlier versions of Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 2 and reflects Microsoft’s early thinking about Service Pack 2 and its implications for developers.
  • Internet Explorer on Longhorn 4051 First Look - The chaps over at OSNews have been checking out the new build of Internet Explorer that comes with Windows Longhorn 4051. In related new, Quentin Clark provides an overview of WinFS.
  • TVTool 9.5.5 (SHW) - TVTool 9.5 introduces a number of new features, improvements and important bug fixes. Especially the infrared part has been changed a lot. With the new options TVTool supports more remote controls than the leading IR program from a competitor.
  • Ahead's Nero v6.3.0.0 (SHW) - Ahead Nero (download) is a flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use application designed to write both data and CD audio to CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO 9660 images as well as ISO mode 1 and XA mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc recording in addition to overburning (if supported by hardware. The new version features an unlimited MP3 encoding and OGG vorbis encoding/decoding (only for US customers and requires online registration within 90 days), significant usability improvements, AMD64bit support and Hyperthreading support. You can also grab new versions of  Nero InCD 4.1.0.0, Nero Media Player 1.4.0.16, NeroMIX 1.4.0.16 and NeroVision Express 2.1.0.3.
  • Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.5.3 - The Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition software package provides support for high-performance Serial ATA RAID 0 arrays and redundant RAID 1 arrays on select IntelR 865 and 875 chipset-based platforms using Windows XP or Windows 2000.
  • Dell Radeon Catalyst Drivers 7.96 WHQL - Station-Drivers have posted a new set of Radeon Drivers from Dell version 7.9.6 (6.14.10.6396  for WinXP).

Comments from v1mposted - 10:10 PM CET - Dec,13 2003
Swastikas in Microsoft Office? Heh, figures. But seriously, that's the least of your problems if you're depending on Microsoft for your software.

Comments from Kposted - 02:25 AM CET - Dec,14 2003
Swastikas were NOT created by nazis, the symbol represent one of the most ancient "lucky charm" (Natural History magazine, Jan. 1980) and has its roots in the ancient mesopotamic and iranian civilizations... the fact that a crazy chancellor chose this particular symbol as his own, well that happens... It might have been just a coincidence that it was found in a M$ product??? Who knows ;)!!!

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