Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
SATA IO to Simplify Power Delivery for eSATA Devices. External Serial ATA(eSATA) technology became the first interconnection for hard disk drives after SCSI that not only worked inside a personal computer, but also could connect external storage devices. Unfortunately, nowadays usage of eSATA is less convenient compared to certain USB ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Ubisoft has confirmed two days ago at CES in Las Vegas that it is going to use Philips' Ambx-technology in some of its major upcoming titles
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
As expected, ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, demonstrated its new ATI Radeon HD 3800 X2 graphics card at Consumer Electronics Show 2008. The new graphics card looks bulky, but it promises to demonstrate rather high performance.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Motherboard manufacturers ASUS and DFI are both working on BIOSes which will allow users to install quad-core Intel Penryn processors on motherboards equipped with an nForce 680i chipset – a feature which was labelled as being a major advantage of the new nForce 780i chipset.
Source: NordicHardware
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
TechConnect Magazine is reporting that NVIDIA’s upcoming 9600 GT, which will be the first card to be launched as part of the new GeForce 9 Series of graphics cards, will not feature DirectX 10.1.
Source: TechConnect Magazine
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
VIA Technologies, a firm which is probably best known for producing chipsets for AMD and Intel motherboards, has merged its CPU and chipset divisions to allow it to focus on supporting its own brand CPUs.
Source: DIGITIMES
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
GNOME 2.20 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalization and accessibility support. Based on Free and Open Source Software, GNOME provides all of the common tools computer users expect ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
KDE Project Ships Second Release Candidate for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Coenig"
With the second release candidate, the KDE project would like to collect feedback to ensure the quality of KDE 4.0.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
LG.Philips LCD, a leading innovator of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) technology, announced today that it will showcase its newest line-up of public displays at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 in Las Vegas. The company's public displays, which are designed for commercial and advertising use, range in size ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
AMD's RS780 and NVIDIA's MCP 78 IGP chipsets are scheduled to go head-to-head in the first quarter of 2008, however, performance of the MCP 78S is reportedly below that of the RS780, while the higher-end MCP 78U is causing issues due to its higher thermal dissipation giving AMD the advantage ...
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