China will hold talks concerning their tax on imported microchips from the U.S. according to this InfoWorld article. A dilemma to be sure, hopefully there will be a compromise as WTO actions take many years to play out….
Read more China Chip Powwow
March 2004
eWeek has a cautionary tale concerning distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks with the message that your small website can become a target as well just like big name companies. They offer up a few tips on how to protect…
Read more Target of a Flood
CNET News has info on Microsoft’s planned price-cut on its Xbox gaming console. The rumors were true so expect a $30 price drop to $149 in the US beginning tommorrow….
Read more Xbox Price Drop Official
The Age brings us warnings of a growing problem that may top Spam on sheer annoyance, Spim. Yes Instant Messaging can be used to spread advertisements just like its email counterpart but this threat is just a bit hyped since…
Read more SPIM Attacks
vnunet.com has a bit on Seagate’s Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording technology which could boost the capacity of magnet storage drives (hard drives to you and me) to insane proportions. They think their technology can scale to 50Tb per square inch…
Read more Seagate's Big Storage Idea
Marcin Wichary has spent a good deal of time compiling a “GUIde” to the many different desktop OS’ of the past and present. It’s quite the trip down memory lane, although not a complete one, I’m sure over time most…
Read more GUI Desktop Guide
Reuters has coverage of NASA’s successful test flight of a ramjet equipped air vehicle. The jet was able to propel the craft to 5,000 miles per hour which has to be some sort of record for non-rocket powered flight. Check…
Read more Ramjet Gets Up To Speed
Channel Times has the specs on ASUS’s upcoming WL-HDD, a wireless external hard drive enclosure. The device is a bit limited since it only supports 2.5″ “laptop” drives instead of the usual 3.5″ desktop ones but its connectivity features and…
Read more ASUS Wireless Hard Drive Case
1up.com has got some footage of the first game for Sony’s upcoming gaming portable, the PSP, as well as coverage of other Sony related stuff at this year’s Gaming Developers Conference. The game is probably being emulated as there was…
Read more PSP in Action
Kikizo Games has a few screenshots, from the Game Developers Conference, of technology demos that will be indicative, or so they say, of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox2 gaming consoles. Very impressive technology being showcased which will lead to some immersive game…
Read more MS GDC Showing
ZDNet has news on a meeting of UN member nations concerning the internet. They’ve all decided that smaller and poorer countries should have influence on how the internet should be managed (presumably top level domains and the like) but they…
Read more UN Net Summit
