NEWS, ETC.
16 - 30 November 2000
11/30/00 Transmeta,
NEC Recall 300 Notebooks With Crusoe Processor
11/30/00 Move
Over PCs - Internet Appliances to Gain Ground. We'll
see...
11/30/00 Shuttle
Ready for Latest Construction Job. Nice simulated picture.
11/30/00 Surprising
Jump in Q3 Wafer Capacity Could Spell Trouble. Skip
this one if you are easily bored.
11/30/00 Did
Netscape Jump the Gun With New Browser?
11/30/00 3dfx
Voodoo 5 Graphics Cards Incompatible with Pentium 4 Motherboards
11/30/00 Soyo
Announces DDR Memory Motherboards for AMD and Intel CPUs
11/30/00 VIA
Introduces 650MHz & 667MHz Versions of the VIA Cyrix III Processor. These
are Socket 370 processors.
11/30/00 Wall
Street Abandons PC Stocks
11/30/00 Hubble
Rings a Black Hole
11/30/00 AMD
Prepares Assault on Workstation, Server Segments
11/30/00 Another
Front in the Digital-Music Battle
11/29/00 Best
Buy Stores Recalling Pentium 4 Machines. Excessive
heat and inadequate performance... More here.
11/29/00 1.7GHz
Athlon - too hot to trot?
11/29/00 MTX
Virus Gaining Speed in Unusual Ways. Virus blocks
users from anti-virus Websites.
11/29/00 Technology
Spruces up Times Square
11/28/00 Ready
for a Storage Revolution? Constellation
3D's new storage tech will pack 100GB on a DVD-sized optical disk and
10GB on a credit card-sized drive. C3D's
web site.
11/28/00 Countdown
Begins for Shuttle Space Station Mission. To
add solar power wings larger than the wings on a 747. A new "star" in
the sky...
11/28/00 NVIDIA
Licenses Breakthrough 3D Technology to Microsoft
11/28/00 FCC
Activates New Slamming Rules. This
has happened to my company without my authorization. I didn't
pay the perpetrators a dime and told them to take it to court if they
didn't like it. They didn't.
11/28/00 Microsoft
Announces the Next Version of FrontPage. Now in Beta
2. To be available mid 2001.
11/28/00 Top
5 CD-RW drives. Plunging prices. A little old,
but news, etc. worthy.
11/27/00 Signed
Code: Security or Censorship?
Depending on Microsoft's approach, code signing could secure not only the desktop,
but the software giant's control over it as well.
11/27/00 More
People Using the Web as a Doctor
11/27/00 Microsoft
Asks Court To Overrule Breakup Order
11/27/00 Interactive
TV Puts Couch Potatoes to Work
11/27/00 E-tailers
Beat Out Retailers in Customer Satisfaction Survey
11/27/00 P4
is on a Par With PIII and Athlon in Some Tests
11/27/00 Death
of the Post-PC Era. Good...
I'm getting tired of the recent back to the mainframe mentality. The
bigger "they" get, the more "they" want to centralize,
control, and thereby profit more from everything.
11/27/00 Plastic
Microchips. More here.
11/24/00 International
Undersea Internet Cable Damaged. In case you were wondering
why some web sites in the Pacific have been slow... More detail here.
11/24/00 Security
Holes Found in Windows Media Player
11/24/00 Home
Servers: The New Data Butlers
11/24/00 Desktops
Are Becoming Studios
11/24/00 Is
Windows Now Playing Catchup to Linux?
11/23/00 The
World's Fastest Graphics Out in January. More here.
11/23/00 Interview
with VIA
11/23/00 Canon
Develops Paper-thin Digital Display
11/23/00 DOD
Remains Wired to a Future Net
11/23/00 Web
Voting System Could Be Built For $250 Million
11/23/00 If
You Use Napster, You're Being Watched
11/23/00 Interactive
TV Brings New Tricks to the Old Box. Microsoft, AOL rally
to lure couch potatoes to surf along.
11/23/00 Rambus
Orders Lagging for Pentium 4 Systems
11/23/00 Satellite
Radio Prepares to Blast Off
11/22/00 Itanium
Pilot Progra Takes Off. Experimental
systems with Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip will be available to selected
participants in early 2001.
11/22/00 Techie's
Napster-Like Idea Blasted Off
11/22/00 Guinness
Sets Own World Record in Advertisement for New Web Site
11/22/00 Clothes
Get Smarter Than the Wearer
11/22/00 E-Commerce
Benefits from Surfers at Work
11/21/00 Gigabyte Announces GA-ATX Socket
423, Pentium 4 Motherboard With Intel 850 Chipset. Specifications...
11/21/00 Pentium
4 Desktops
11/21/00 Sony
Unveils Prototype Humanoid Robot. More here. A
Picture of Honda's "Tin Man"...
11/21/00 Compaq
Delivers Pentium 4 Desktops and Workstations
11/21/00 Intel
Releases AGP 8X Spec For Public Comment
11/21/00 Pentium
4: New Chip, Old Problems. Expecting the Pentium 4 to
be everything you want it to be? Prepare for a few disapointments...
11/21/00 Pentium
4 Fails Business Test
11/21/00 MSI
Launches 850 Pro Pentium 4 Motherboard With Intel 850 Chipset.
11/21/00 AMD
to Give Away Development Workstations... containing the latest
AMD Athlon processor with DDR memory and Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
development toolset complimented by the Visual C++ 6.0 Processor Pack.
11/20/00 Intel
Introduces The Pentium 4 Processor. The
only Pentium 4 motherboard I can find out there is the Intel D850GB. The
P4 uses a new socket, Socket423, instead of the Socket370 used by most
PentiumII/III/Cleron processors and motherboards. It will also
require new memory (Rambus) and a new, Pentium 4 compatible power supply.
11/20/00 Intel's
Future Rides with Pentium 4 Chip
11/20/00 Intel's
New Pentium 4 Processor. Lot's
of nitty gritty.
11/20/00 Tokyo
Retailers Jump the Gun on Pentium 4
11/18/00 The
Week in Review: Slugfest at Comdex
11/18/00 Semiconductor
Alert! Commentary & analysis of week's chip
news, Nov.13-17
11/18/00 TI
Demos Interoperability of New V.92 MODEM Recommendation. The
V.92 key features:
Receive incoming phone calls during a MODEM session
Fast reconnect
Upstream speeds up to 48Kbps
11/18/00 Rambus
May Drag Ramp of Pentium 4
11/18/00 OEMs
Pleased With Pentium 4
11/16/00 Will
USB or FireWire Connect With Consumers?
11/16/00 DVD
Rewritable Drives Battle it Out at Comdex
11/16/00 Motherboards
at COMDEX
11/16/00 Burning
Problem. All the world's oil could be used without wrecking
the climate says a leading climate analyst.
11/16/00 Dallas
One of First U.S. Cities to Merge Internet, Phones
11/16/00 Comdex
Light on Tangible Products
11/16/00 Yahoo,
MSN Instant Messaging Services Growing Fast
11/16/00 Tech-savvy
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