October 20th, 2004 – KingFish
Intel is developing an optical interconnect technology to replace copper ribbons in laptop computers and servers that should be ready for commercialization within three to five years, says Justin Rattner, Intel senior fellow and director of the company's systems technology labs.
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October 19th, 2004 – KingFish
Dell will announce within weeks a plan to build a new manufacturing plant in the United States, as other PC makers continue to send such work overseas, CEO Kevin Rollins said Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview with CNET News.com.
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October 19th, 2004 – KingFish
NEC has succeeded in reducing the size of a prototype direct methanol fuel cell for use with notebook PCs but says it is unlikely to see commercialization until at least two years later than previously forecast.
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October 19th, 2004 – KingFish
U.S. voting-security advocates are bracing for e-voting problems in the upcoming general election that could rival those in Florida during the 2000 presidential race.
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October 19th, 2004 – KingFish
If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search.
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October 19th, 2004 – KingFish
Just in time for holiday shopping, Apple released on Tuesday a new line of its entry-level iBook notebook computers.
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October 19th, 2004 – MediaMan
Short-Media takes a look at AMD's newest Athlon 64 4000+ processor and how it stacks up against the competition.
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October 19th, 2004 – Omega65
[url=http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2248]Anandtech[/url] Reviews the spankin new Nvidia Nforce4 chipset. It will be available in three flavors, Nforce4, Nforce4 Ultra & Nforce 4 SLI!
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October 19th, 2004 – MediaMan
Short-Media takes a look at AMD\'s newest Athlon 64 4000+ processor and how it stacks up against the competition.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Anandtech has an update of VIA's plans for their upcoming chipsets.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Microsoft is building on its 2002 buy of Danish business application developer Navision A/S with the release this week of its first major product built on the Navision software suite.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Setting the stage for what it hopes will be a "breakout year" for its server operating systems, Microsoft this week announced it will ship the first Release Candidate of its Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2003 by year's end as well as a SDK (software development kit) for the High Performance Computing version of Windows Server in November.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
As long lines gathered at polls, early voters at nine of Broward County's 14 sites ran into computer-generated problems on Monday. Gisela Salas, of the Broward Elections Office, said workers had problems connecting with a live database that is used to verify that a voter is properly registered in the county.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has been confirmed as the pre-show keynote speaker at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. According to media reports, Gates could bring a late Christmas gift to Las Vegas: A new Xbox.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Intel provided system builders with a comprehensive update about its desktop, mobile and enterprise product lines for 2005 and 2006. According to documents seen by THG, Intel will launch its first dual-core desktop processor in the third quarter of next year; a mobile dual-core will follow in the first quarter of 2006.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
If technology that transmits Internet traffic across power lines can make it in New York City, it can make it anywhere.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Intel cut the prices of its premier mobile chips by up to a third on Sunday, as it prepares for the holiday season.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Job trimming at technology companies took off during the past three months, according to a new report.
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October 18th, 2004 – KingFish
Antivirus companies are perplexed by a spate of recent viruses that contain messages in which the writers threaten to attack them.
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October 18th, 2004 – Spinner
It would seem Microsoft are attempting to take MSN Messenger in a slightly new direction. Some features of the next major release of the popular IM client, [url=http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=24503&category=main&highlight=]version 7.0[/url], will be likely to sport some options and features that are only available to paying customers.
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October 18th, 2004 – Shorty
Vivendi Universal Games have just this moment announced that Half-Life 2, the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed PC titles in gaming history, will ship to retail outlets around the world in November. The Company confirmed that Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Software, has gone gold with a planned retail street date of November 16, 2004.
The countdown to the highly anticipated retail street date has begun around the world, as VU Games completes plans to ship localized versions of Half-Life 2 simultaneously in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese.
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