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"I want my MTV" is being replaced with, "I want my Xbox," as Microsoft plans to unveil the second version of its Xbox video game console with a half-hour MTV television show hosted by "Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood next month. Although gaming enthusiasts still do not know the name of Microsoft...
When it comes to keeping bad stuff from entering computers, hardware protection devices work better than software solutions. "The software side of things still needs a lot of work," NSS Testing Labs CTO Bob Walder told TechNewsWorld. That is part of the findings from a rigorous battery of tests done...
Laptops are loveable computers. Their clamshell design resonates efficiency. Open up a unit and everything's there to fire up a computing session: display, keyboard and trackpad. Their size and weight makes them highly portable. There's no need to shackle yourself to a desk, especially if you have a...
Velocity Micro is set to become the first PC manufacturer to release a machine built around Intel's dual-core Pentium processor. The DCX line, announced yesterday, will use the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840, which runs at speeds of up to 4 Ghz, and will be available by the end of June. The DCX...
Fujitsu showcased its additions to the high-end server world today, the PrimeQuest 480 and PrimeQuest 440, built on Itanium 2 chips. The servers will be released in June with Red Hat Linux, but Fujitsu said it will offer a version running Novell/SuSE Linux as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Da...
A new architecture that uses micro-threading in DRAM cores may result in four-times faster performance for gaming applications, among other uses. The development, announced today by Rambus, a technology licensing company that specializes in high-speed chip interfaces, will increase memory subsystem ...
Hitachi said today that it is a step closer to releasing its version of next-generation storage technology: perpendicular recording, which allows for much more densely packed hard disk drives. Hitachi expects to release a 1-terabyte drive by the end of the year and said that a group of its employees...
Microsoft yesterday released its Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, providing system customers with security enhancements as well as reliability and performance improvements. Analysts said service pack releases are significant events for consumers under typical circumstances, but this Microsoft rel...
Intel's newest platform offering, code-named "Truland," is an evolutionary step in the established path toward dual-core processors and 64-bit architecture. Truland, which comprises five different 64-bit Intel Xeon processors MP (multiprocessor) and the Intel E8500 chipset -- codenamed Twin Castle -...
A new lithium-ion battery from Toshiba may hold promise for the future of electric vehicles. The electronics giant yesterday unveiled a battery that takes only a minute to recharge to 80 percent of its full strength, making it by far the fastest recharging lithium-ion battery available.
Toshiba and Elpida Memory both announced today high-performance DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips they claim achieve the fastest data transfer rate yet attained by any memory device. The second generation 512-megabit XDR (extreme data rate) DRAMs each have a peak operating speed of 3.2 Ghz, ...
Fabless semiconductor company Luxtera announced today that it has solved the longstanding problem of building advanced photonic interfaces into mass-produced silicon chips. The company claimed that, for the first time, it is possible to integrate high-speed optical fiber interfaces in silicon device...
The IBM supercomputer BlueGene/L has done it again, almost doubling its already world record-breaking speed to 183.5 teraflops -- or 183.5 trillion floating point calculations -- per second. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is building the computer to help simulate the condition o...
Continuing to cater to its core server audience, Dell announced new PowerEdge servers and management software aimed at small and midsize businesses, and also pledged support for the low-price servers and their 64-bit capabilities. Dell unveiled the PowerEdge 6800 and 6850 -- priced at about US$4,000...
In a marriage between two hot server technologies, IBM announced at the Server Blade Summit yesterday that it will bundle evaluation copies of VMWare's virtual infrastructure into its eServer BladeCenter shipments. Customers purchasing Big Blue's BladeCenter will receive six-month evaluation copies ...
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