Published February 28, 2004 · 0 comments

The Daily Camera has an article on the “Grey” album that has been causing quite the hubbub on message boards and blogs everywhere. Take one Jay Z album, mix in a Beatles album, throw in a few lawyers and you’ve…

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Published February 27, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has an article that focuses on the LCD’s rise to glory with analysts expecting monitors based on them to overtake CRT sales in the fourth quarter. With dropping prices and the usual benefits over CRTs it isn’t surprising…

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Published February 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Investor’s Business Daily did a bit of war-driving and is surprised to find that it’s downright easy to do. War-Driving is simple enough, drive around with a wireless capable laptop in tow and assorted accessories to search for open wireless…

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Published February 27, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World has some news on the continuing high capacity DVD format wars. The DVD Forum has approved the HD-DVD which is backed by the likes of Toshiba and NEC. Competing formats, such as Sony backed Blu-Ray, can still launch…

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Published February 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft is planning to release an updated Windows XP “Reloaded” operating system later this year. So far there isn’t much in the way of details on what this OS rehash will bring but it sounds like it will be XP…

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Published February 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Hitachi has created a complex device that is able to display a “3D” image. While the method sounds too unwieldy in most settings we can only hope they’ll learn something from their research and create a more mangeable system. EE…

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Published February 26, 2004 · 0 comments

mini-itx.com is running an article that show’s off one man’s cluster of mini-itx PCs. Clusters are the basis for quite a number of supercomputers with many machines pooling their resources for one goal. A neat endeavor overall….

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Published February 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Ars Technica takes an, as usual, indepth look at Intel’s Centrino processor. Since it is currently the most popular mobile processor out there it’s nice to see just what makes it a speedy little chip….

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Published February 26, 2004 · 0 comments

A team of researchers at Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory were able to create diamonds that were 50% harder than natural diamonds. There are sure to be useful applications for this but improving on nature’s work is most impressive. Reuters has…

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Published February 26, 2004 · 0 comments

internetnews.com has some info on Hitachi’s upcoming Ultrastar 10K300 hard drive. It will feature 300GB of storage capacity as well as a 10k rpm spin speed which will make it a peppy performer. Unfortunatly the drives will be marketed towards…

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Published February 25, 2004 · 0 comments

CNNMoney brings news on Sony’s delay of its mobile gaming system the PSP. It isn’t a total push-back since it will be shipping on time in Japan, it will only be delayed in North America and Europe which seems to…

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