Intel and a group of telecommunications companies are pushing for a wireless broadband standard called WiMAX. While it’s still in its infancy and other competing standards are sure to pop up WiMAX has attracted some of the larger telcos around…
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AMDZone has a few notes from AMD’s conference call yesterday which features some interesting tidbits in the Q&A section concerning future products and their move to newer manufacturing processes….
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NewsFactor has an article that takes a look at what the trends are with business PCs and attempts to piece together a rudimentary picture of how computing will change and what innovations will be introduced to the workstation in the…
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Nintendo has unveiled its newest portable gaming system called the Nintendo DS. What sets this apart from a gameboy is its two lcd screen and some other advanced features which Reuters covers here. ETA: Q4 2004…
NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, is set to study a rock the mission team has named Adirondack with some of its microscopic and spectrographic tools. Discovery News has some more information as well as a nifty animated slideshow of the rover’s…
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Wired’s 7th Annual Vaporware Awards recognizes all of the overhyped and much anticipated hardware, software, and gadgetry that was supposed to hit store shelves in 2003 but were delayed or in some cases, delayed for yet another year….
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Texas Instruments will launch a speedy 1GHz Digital Signal Processing chip this week. DSPs are used in hardware ranging from the low end of CD players and hard drives to high end networking equipment. CNET News has more on the…
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The Washington Post has an interesting piece on the two high definition audio formats, DVD-Audio and SACD, which just can’t seem to get any sales or general interest in them moving….
Read more High Definition Audio Going Nowhere
HardAvenue managed to get their hands on a Western Digital 74GB Raptor SerialATA hard drive. The drive’s platters spin at rate of 10,000rpm making it one of the faster consumer-friendly hard drives on the market….
Read more 74GB WD Raptor Review
With DDR2 prices up to twice that of current DDR memory chips, many motherboard makers are holding back on products that support the newer memory standard which is faster than DDR with lower power consumption. DigiTimes has more on the…
Read more DDR2 Won't be Mainstream Any Time Soon
Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running a story on Bell Labs software that will allow cell phone users to limit who can locate them using upcoming location-based services, hopefully removing some privacy concerns….
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