Intel has launched a new wireless chip for their Centrino mobile package. The Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG supports both 802.11b and g connections allowing for close to five times faster wireless network throughput with g access points over the old b…
Read more Centrino Gets "G"
PC World has some news on the Nokia 6620, the company’s first smart phone in the Americas. The phone can take advantage of EDGE cell networks which are capable of high speed data transfers as well as GSM and GPRS…
The Washington Post’s Leslie Walker has some ideas on what the coming year might mean for appliances based on what she saw at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show….
Read more 2004 the Year of Appliance Networking?
CNET News wrote up an article covering the delay of Intel’s “Dothan” mobile chip and has information on their Prescott CPU. Dothan is created using a 90-nanometer process which promises energy savings and faster clock speeds. ETA: Q2 2004…
Read more Intel Delays Mobile Chips
TechIMO has pulled together a nice list of technologies and hardware that should make a splash in the next 11 months. Topics from CPUs, sound-cards, and PCI Express are covered….
Read more A Look Ahead
IBM has sold an AMD Opteron based, 128 processor, supercomputer to the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb. Reuter’s news feed has a few more details….
Read more IBM Sells AMD Based Supercomputer
CNET News is reporting on one of the larger “coalitions” of ISPs and Telecom companies working together to try and combat spam. A welcome bit of news if they can succeed in lowering the volume of spam before it reaches…
Read more Companies Band Together to Combat Spam
Intel has released their “IA-32 Execution Layer” which emulates 32-bit applications somewhat faster than their previous methods on their 64-bit only Itanium processors. CRN covers the story here….
Read more Intel Releases Itanium 32-bit Emulator
internetnews.com has some insight on what to expect from Microsoft when they release their next set of patches for their various operating systems….
Read more MS Patches on the Way
If you’re planning to upgrade your computer in the coming months or year AnandTech has a roadmap that might make your upgrade decisions easier, if you’re going th AMD route….
Read more AMD CPU Roadmap
Western Digital has crammed a number of features into its Media Center, an external hard drive with a built-in 8-in-1 memory card reader and USB 2.0/Firewire connections. PCWorld has more on it. ETA: Late January 2004…
Read more WD's Media Center
