Hexus.net has a comparative review between two Shuttle Small Form Factor PCs; the SB75G2 and the ST62K Zen. Both offer lots of modern day features with the ST62K Zen sporting onboard video in the form of an ATI Radeon 9100…
Read more Pair of SFFs Compared
New Hampshire U.S. Senator John Sununu is planning on introducing a bill next week that would exempt most Voice over Internet Protocol services from regulation and taxes according to InfoWorld. This would, of course, make companies such as Vonage and…
Read more VoIP Bill in the Works
Infineon Technologies, one of the larger DRAM manufacturers, is cutting back on its production of DDR SDRAM by 50% this month according to DigiTimes. They give a variety of reasons including giving production space to other IC products, but with…
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Sharp has released its Linux PDA; the Zaurus SL-6000. It features an Intel X-Scale 400MHz processors, built-in 802.11b, and CF and SD/MMC slots but it comes in at a whopping $700 price-point, which should be ok with the corporate customers…
Read more Linux PDA Launched
Microsoft is paying out $700 million to Sun so they can settle their antitrust lawsuit and $900 million to settle other patent issues according to this Microsoft press release. These payouts came out of nowhere but they aren’t entirely surprising…
Read more Sun's Payday Courtesy of Microsoft
AMD’s recent launch of the Athlon 64 2800+ at the $178(per 1,000 cpus) price point may just drive sales of motherboards that support the chip according to DigiTimes. Lower prices can make system building somewhat cheaper of course so here’s…
Read more Low(er) Cost 64-bit for the Masses
NVIDIA has a few video clips displaying some of the neat effects their upcoming NV40 graphics processing unit is capable of. Impressive effects, here’s to hoping games and programs make use of them although there’s always a long wait time…
Read more NV40 In Action
With Microsoft busy trying to patch up security in their popular Windows XP operating system their next generation OS’, Longhorn, beta may be pushed to next year according to CNET News. While Longhorn is highly anticipated it’s good to see…
Read more XP Security Pushes Back Longhorn
April Fool’s Day keeps on rolling with Google stating that their new email service, GMail, is in fact not a hoax according to Forbes. 1GB of email storage seems excessive but if their “ad-sense” technology nets them revenue from advertisers…
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Tadpole Computers is set to release a notebook computer based on AMD’s Opteron processor according to ITworld. The company specializes in high-end notebooks aimed at professionals that need mobile Linux and Solaris OS capable machines. ETA: June 2004…
Read more Opteron Notebook on the Way
Xbit labs has some rumors from a Frech hardware site that believes AMD will take on a naming scheme similar to one Intel is adopting. Intel has changed its naming scheme to denote CPU family and how far up the…
Read more AMD May Match Intel's Naming Scheme
