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Sprint PCS, Google to work together.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: MSNBC  Added by: Kim Heise

Whichever web based search engine that becomes the standard for cell phones/wireless products is going to be laughing all the way to the bank. Google and Sprint PCS have inked a deal to offer a partnership that allows PCS users to search the internet using Google's own web search engine.

Sprint PCS Group Monday said it had selected Google Inc. as the default search provider for its wireless Internet service.
THE DEAL WILL MAKE Google’s popular search technology available to Sprint’s 11.8 million wireless customers, enabling them to search about 1.3 billion Internet pages from wireless devices like cell phones.

Both companies declined to discuss the financial terms of the deal, although a Google spokesman said it was its largest wireless deal yet “by far.” Google, an award-winning search engine, has also recently announced deals with Handspring Inc.
and Vodafone Group Plc to provide wireless searches.

Google said that although the wireless search business does not currently generate the same revenue as searches conducted over PCs, it sees a lot of potential growth in wireless, and is encouraged by the popularity of wireless Internet devices in Japan and in other international markets.

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Iomega CEO Albertson quits.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: TechWeb  Added by: Kim Heise

It doesn't take a technology market watcher to understand why Iomega is feeling the pains in the current market conditions. If you consider how cheap CD-ROM recordables have become which now cost less than a 120MB Iomega ZIP drive and not to mention the price of recordable CDR media is substantially less than ZIP disks.

The price of hard drives have fallen to the point where users don't rely on removable storage medium as much as they used to as a mass storage solution.

Iomega Corp. (stock: IOM) president and chief executive officer Bruce Albertson has resigned amid differences with the computer storage company's board over strategic direction, the company said. Pending a review, several cost-cutting moves could soon be implemented, possibly resulting in restructuring charges and write-offs, Iomega said. The Roy, Utah, company, known for its popular portable Zip disk drives, said that a committee of the board comprised of two of Iomega's directors, Jonathan Huberman and Robert Berkowitz, will manage the company's affairs, while it searches for a new CEO.

Motorola, VoiceStream to Offer Communicator Device.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: Yahoo!  Added by: Kim Heise

I curious to learn how secure the two way instant messenger service is. Nothing is mentioned in the article but I hope that eventually the instant messenger services can be established securely from prying eyes.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (Reuters) - Wireless technology giant Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news) and said on Monday its V100 personal communicator, a mini, two-way messaging device and telephone, is now available in the United States through U.S. wireless service provider VoiceStream Wireless Corp. (NasdaqNM:VSTR - news)

The V.Series Personal Communicator Model 100, or V100, features a full keyboard and oversize display for text messaging, plus a wireless phone, Motorola said. It also will be offered with VoiceStream's new Ping Pong wireless Internet text messaging service, and have access to AOL Time Warner Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL - news) instant messenger service..

AT&T Installs Net Payphones In Airports.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: NewsBytes  Added by: Kim Heise

Just something to keep in mind while you wonder the airport hallways waiting for your connecting flight(s).

Coming soon to an airport terminal near you, a payphone that gives travelers high-speed access to the Internet and their e-mail - and even lets them talk, if they want to place a traditional voice phone call.

AT&T said its "Public Phone 2000i" will initially be available in major airports in the United States. A few of the new phones have already been installed in the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, Ga., and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.

More of the payphones will be installed later this year in Phoenix, Ariz., Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Newark, N.J., the company said.

NBC, Digital Convergence Team To Turn On CueTV.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: NewsBytes  Added by: Kim Heise

While this may seem like a good idea - I'm not convinced that there will be initially much demand for this new media format. Not sure how many users actually have TV signals routed through their computers to take advantage of this.

NBC and Digital Convergence Corp. have partnered to launch CueTV, a free technology that enables users to link TV with PC, the companies said.
The CueTV technology, developed by Digital Convergence, allows a television to become a remote control for a computer by sending an audio tone signal - or "cue" - embedded in TV programming, to a PC, which in turn pulls up a Web page related to what is on the TV screen.

The CueTV kit, consisting of a special cable and software, is being stocked at more than 7,000 Radio Shack retail locations. No set-top box or fees are required, the companies said.

NBC said the cues - the Digital Convergence ":c" icon in the corner of the TV screen accompanied by an audio tone - will air on NBC beginning May 24.

The network said it intends to expand the cues throughout the summer, allowing viewers to refer to both TV and PC for enhanced information on what is being telecast.

Nintendo GameCube be launched 3 days before Microsoft Xbox.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: Beta News  Added by: Kim Heise

The fall season is going to be heated even though the weather may be cooling down for the season. Expect Microsoft and Nintendo to be launching heavy marketing salvos at each other to gain the market share.

Sony is going to have to face a dual sided assault from both companies.

Wednesday's opening of E3 marked an important day for giants Nintendo and Microsoft, both announcing availability plans for their highly anticipated next-generation gaming consoles. Nintendo's GameCube will hit stores on November 5, with Microsoft's Xbox arriving on the 8th for $299 USD. GameCube pricing has not been officially announced, but the console is expected to run around $199 USD.

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Inside AMD's new Athlon 4 Palomino processor.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: Toms Hardware  Added by: Kim Heise

The first batch of AMD Athlon 4 CPU's will not be showing up in desktops for at least another couple of weeks but that does not stop AMD from releasing a low power version for laptops.

Thomas Pabst takes a closer look at the inner workings of AMD's new Athlon 4 processor and reminds us to be patient as a desktop version is not far away.

There is no reason to despair if you should be a die-hard desktop user, who doesn't care much for those little expensive mobile computers. In only a few weeks AMD will release the workstation Palomino's for SMP-operation and a few months later we'll finally be blessed with the normal desktop Palomino. Each of those processors will carry the name 'Athlon 4', making it easy to differentiate between the 'Thunderbird' (just 'Athlon') and 'Palomino'-core ('Athlon 4'). The difference between those different Athlon 4 versions will mainly be on validation level, while there won't be any architectural differences.

Mobile Athlon 4 needs to be validated for safe operation at low power consumption, Workstation Athlon 4 will have to be operating reliably in multi-processor configuration, while Desktop Athlon 4 has the lowest requirements, since it will operate with plenty of power and in single-CPU configuration only. You can imagine that Mobile Athlon 4 will reach the lowest possible clock speeds, Workstation Athlon 4 will reach higher clocks and Desktop Athlon 4 will be the fastest of the bunch.

Intel Dual Xeon DP Review.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: Hardware Analysis  Added by: Kim Heise

Hardware Analysis looks at Intel's new dual Xeon configuration based on the new Pentium 4 core. This is well worth reading if you are considering major upgrades to your company x86 server systems. Keep in mind AMD is rolling out new dual processor configurations within the next several weeks.

Intel’s new Xeon DP platform is an impressive performer, it bested our Pentium III Xeon platform of similar configuration by quite a margin. Its performance in the content creation/audio/video and streaming content benchmarks was impressive to say the least. Although some performance was lost in portions of the SPECviewperf benchmark, it still came out faster overall.

However with the upcoming introduction of the AMD 760MP chipset and the Athlon 4, AMD is set to have an answer to Intel’s Xeon DP architecture, which would otherwise have become the de-facto standard for x86 workstations. Although the Intel Xeon DP will be available at clockspeeds of up to 1.7GHz at introduction, AMD might match Intel in clockspeed and best them in performance by introducing a 760MP configuration running two Athlon 4s at 1.7GHz.

Overall we feel that the Intel Xeon DP platform is a step in the right direction for Intel, the quad channel Rambus implementation, like that of the i850, offers an impressive memory bandwidth. It will be interesting to see what AMD comes up with to best Intel in that department, as the DDR memory bandwidth we’ve seen up till now is about as fast as PC-133 SDRAM, and no match for the RDRAM.

In the FPU department the Xeon DP, like the Pentium 4, needs some more work to optimize for SIMD and SSE2, once those optimizations are properly implemented we’re confident that the FPU performance of the Xeon DP and the Pentium 4 will be equivalent, or better than that of the Athlon. And once Intel scales up the clockspeed, 2GHz versions should be available in Q3, we’ll see a gradual raise in FPU performance naturally, even without optimizations.
 

Special coating kills germs.
Posted: 05/22/2001     Source: CNN  Added by: Kim Heise

Here's another ingenious invention that I stumbled on while perusing the CNN web site. Consultants that need to go onsite to work with clients' computers directly are going to appreciate the fact that future keyboards and mice might be protected by this new bug coating.

Anybody who has seen/used disgustingly dirty keyboards with yesterday's lunch between the key knows what I'm talking about.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new polymer coating holds the promise of guarding against infections commonly spread by bacteria lurking on things like telephones and door knobs, researchers say.

"You could coat any type of surface with this material, and it would be there permanently," said Joerg Tilleer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It is chemically attached so that it cannot be washed away."

In a study appearing Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tiller and his co-authors said laboratory tests show that the coating, called hexyl-PVP, was able to kill up to 99 percent of Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas and E. coli, all common disease-causing organisms.

Tiller said the coating, applied to glass slides, was tested by spraying the slides with a concentrated solution of the bacteria groups common in household and hospital infections. The results were compared to uncoated glass slides that also were exposed to the bacteria solution.

"The test solution was rather like what happens when you sneeze or cough," said Tiller. On the glass slides treated with hexyl-PVP, 94 percent to 99 percent of the Staphylococcus organisms were killed. For Pseudomonas and E. coli, the kill rate was consistently at 99 percent.

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Intel rolls out 1.7-GHz Xeon CPU with 'NetBurst'.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: Silicon Strategies  Added by: Kim Heise

My, my - Intel is plenty in the news today as the company tries to "one up" AMD in the CPU war. Intel's new Xeon CPU features a new "NetBurst" technology that supposedly speeds up multimedia performance. This sounds very much like MMX 3.0.

Intel's marketing division is working overtime and was smart enough to rename MMX 3.0 to "NetBurst" because MMX has been shown to be non-impressive over the last several years.

New Intel Xeon chip is coming.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: ZDNET  Added by: Kim Heise

Has anyone seen any prices on the new Intel Xeon processor? I can't find anything as of the time when this article was posted here. If you hear something please forward me the link - Thanks in advance.

SiS Receives AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz Chips.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: Electic Tech  Added by: Kim Heise

Expect the first batch of 1.4ghz AMD Athlon CPU's to be available very soon at local computer stores and OEM online stores.

Currently Intel is still in the lead again with the new 1.7ghz P4 processor and it will be exiting to see which company ships the first 2ghz CPU.

"We've received samples of a 1.4-gigahertz Athlon," said Nelson Lee, a marketing manager at SIS. "According to AMD information, it will offer versions of the chip that run up to 1.7 gigahertz."

AMD chips compete with Intel's 1.7-gigahertz Pentium 4 processors, the largest chipmaker's latest offer for the premium PC market.

Windows 2000 - Improving Compatibility/Performance guide.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: 3D Spotlight  Added by: Kim Heise

If you use any Microsoft OS other than Windows 2000 you are missing out substantially on performance and stability. Keep in mind at least 256MB for Windows 2000 is recommended - ignore the requirements Microsoft spins on the OS.

3D Spotlight has written an excellent document showing users how to improve performance and compatibility under Windows 2000.

Windows 2000 is the future of all Microsoft Operating Systems (Well, NT, but anyway). Windows 2000, while admittedly great does have a few problems with it, compatibility issues happen to be one of them for many people, as does poor WDM drivers (Although there's not much which can be done about them in this guide). This guide however will give you tips on how to improve Application/Game Compatibility & Performance in Windows 2000. Read on.

CPU/Memory Watch - 5/21/01.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: System Logic  Added by: Kim Heise

System Logic has posted a table showing CPU/memory prices for both AMD and Intel dated for this week. Keep in mind many of these prices are obtained from various online vendors who may not have the actual product in stock. Make sure you read the fine print carefully before making and purchasing decisions.

Remember that if the vendor says it will take two to three weeks before they have it in stock move on to the next seller since prices vary substantially over a couple of days. This is a fairly old trick but still commonly practiced.

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Orange ships USB 2.0 CardBus.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: USB Workshop  Added by: Kim Heise

I'm still not clear on why USB 2.0 is even being considered since it offers no significant performance gains and is much slower than firewire. I suspect company "strong arm" tactics are being used to sell this unimpressive upgrade.

Even Microsoft was considering not offering USB 2.0 support under Windows XP but changed their minds last minute.

At the USB-IF Developers Conference, Orange Micro announced today that it had commenced worldwide shipment of its OrangeUSB 2.0 CardBus PC Card.

The OrangeUSB has four USB ports and is compatible with the 32 bit CardBus PC Card technology found on all laptops. The card will work alongside of other USB 1.1 ports which come as standard features on most laptops.

The first USB 2.0 CardBus card will also be "backward compatible" with all USB 1.1 devices which means it can simultaneously support USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 peripherals at full rated speeds.

Upcoming computer technology.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: Review Zone  Added by: Kim Heise

The Review Zone has posted a very worthwhile read on what we can expect over the next several months in this chaotic PC hardware environment. Well worth the read.

Keep in mind the market is so fickle that any predictions must be taken in context to when they were made.

The second half of 2001 promises many flips and changes in the market. Expect to see some very interesting technologies and strange implementations of older hardware. We'll have a look at the most happening areas and this article is divided into two major parts to concentrate on video cards and processors.

We are just at the beginning of nVidia's six-month product cycle, so there won't be anything new from them in the near future for the desktop market. They are still working on a 'GeForce3 Ultra' and a new mobile GPU, and other than new GeForce3 products and new MX200/400 products, nVidia-miracles are some time away.

It's time for ATi to strike back, but their usual delays have pushed the release of the Radeon 2 to around late fall. Some specs of the new GPU have leaked out. These are all rumors, but to go against the GF3 and its successors, they'll have to keep to those figures. Their drivers are improving all the time and the dark days of the Rage 128 are gone, but they'll have to maintain those standards if they are to impress consumers.

On the CPU side of the market, the release of the Palomino or the Athlon 4 is the biggest event. The new core will power high-end notebooks, but we won't see desktop versions till late August.

IBM breaks the limits on hard drives.
Posted: 05/21/2001     Source: ZDNET  Added by: Kim Heise

Expect hard drive space to increase significantly over the next year or two if IBM can actually produce the new AFC technology in the consumer level.

Lately we've been hearing far too much talk from many companies and it would more exciting if these technologies actually made it into our computers. Often these new technologies are simply stepping stones for future developments.

Technically called antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media and informally referred to as "pixie dust" at IBM, the innovation introduces a thin layer of the element ruthenium onto the disks inside hard drives where data is stored. AFC allows more data to be packed onto a disk.

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IBM Travelstar drives scheduled for shipment later this year are expected to come with an increased density of another 33 percent.

"We've found a way to add AFC to our current hard drive production methods, so we'll be able to double capacity with little or no cost, essentially maintaining or even dropping the price per gigabit," Munce said.

AFC will also allow smaller drives to store more data and use less power, which could lead to smaller and quieter devices, Munce said.

Drives with densities of 100 gigabits per square inch will enable desktop drives to reach 400GB storage levels, notebooks 200GB, and one-inch Microdrives 6GB.

Storage researchers have worked on AFC for years, Porter said. "But IBM is the first to turn theory into practice."

Intel 845 with PC133 SDRAM Support in June.
Posted: 05/20/2001     Source: X-Bit Labs  Added by: Kim Heise

While scanning the news headlines over at X-Bit Labs I stumbled on this article regarding Intel's new chipset called the I845. Intel is not pleased with the relatively little support for RDRAM (RAMBUS) and has opted for the more popular and cheaper SDRAM memory module.

What makes me concerned is that the prices of SDRAM 133mhz or faster may jump in price significantly as Intel breathes new life into the aging memory technology.

According to our sources in Taiwan, the first version of Intel 845 chipset (Intel 845A) for Pentium 4 processors supporting PC133 SDRAM will really be released in June (if worst comes to worst, it will happen in July), as we have actually predicted. The chipset is likely to be announced at Computex show already, in early June. At least as far as we know, many mainboard manufacturers are planning to showcase their solutions on this chipset at Computex.
The chipset specs have been known for a long while now that’s why we will just remind you about them briefly. It will support Socket478 Pentium 4 CPUs and will feature an ICH2 (ATA/100) microchip. It is quite possible that the chipset will also allow designing Socket423 mainboards, however, we don’t think that any of the manufacturers will dare to. And almost the only unclear thing, which has been in i845 specs is now disclosed: the chipset will support up to 3GB PC133 SDRAM.

Olitec Launches V92 Modem.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: Active Win  Added by: Kim Heise

The majority of internet users still use modems to connect to the world wide web and obviously there is still a major market there for profit. It appears as if the new V92 modem standard offers a few more improvements that was first thought.

Take a look at some of the changes but keep in mind before rushing out there to pickup a new V92 modem you need to verify support for V92 with your ISP.

Olitec is among the first manufacturers to unleash a V92 ready modem. The Speed'Com V92 ready brings to the V90 standard new advantages like an enhanced upload transfer rate (48Kbps instead of 33.6Kbps for 56k modems), an immediate connection to the net thanks to QuickConnect that reduces connection time (up to 40% faster to get connected than with a 56k modem), and the support for call alert: you can now receive phone calls while you surf the net (while you speak to your correspondent the net connection is pending). Finally due to a new compression algorithm loading HTML pages is up to 30-40% faster than before. The Olitec modem comes with fax support, answer phone machine, and a flash memory so you can update the firmware to add new features to your modem in the future.

Microsoft announces XBOX price and launch date.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: Microsoft  Added by: Kim Heise

Not only the gaming community, but whole of IT has been sitting on "pins and needles" waiting for the big announcement from Microsoft.

Predictably Sony is very nervous since several vendors are going to jump over to supporting Microsoft's XBOX due to several problems that plague the PS2 - namely it is very difficult to develop software titles for and you still cannot find one available at a local retailer.

Diehard gamers finally have an answer to one of the two burning questions in the gaming world: When can they get their hands on Xbox? Today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2001, Microsoft announced that its first console gaming system will hit store shelves Nov. 8, with 600,000 to 800,000 consoles available at launch, and between 1 million and 1.5 million available through the holiday season. The console will sell for US$299.

AMD Thunderbird vs. Palomino.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: Wild Andy  Added by: Kim Heise

Wild Andy is kind enough to post several charts showing the differences between all the new AMD processors.

Athlon 4 and the new Morgan type Duron core offer 5 key improvements over the old Thunderbird and Spitfire Cores respectively, they are ...

Competition between RDRAM and DDR still full of uncertainties.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: DigitTimes  Added by: Kim Heise

At one point it appeared as if DDRAM was the clear winner as the next generation motherboard memory type for PC's but it looks as if the market is changing again.

It is simply impossible to predict what happens over the next month or two - let alone the next two weeks in this turbulent industry.

DDR SDRAM, due to Taiwanese chipset providers’ strong support, seems to have received wide market attention. However, after Intel’s reduction of Pentium 4 prices by almost 50%, first-tier motherboard makers report that RDRAM has exceeded DDR motherboard shipments by 40%. Pentium 4 price cuts have obviously driven up RDRAM sales. Therefore, whether DDR memory will become the next-generation standard in one to two years is still uncertain.

Not only have Pentium 4 prices declined, but the unit price of RDRAM-based motherboards has also declined substantially. With first-tier motherboard makers fiercely competing for market share, the unit price of RDRAM motherboards has dropped by over 15% to around US$150 from US$180 at the beginning of the year. Steve Chen, vice president of partner and OEM marketing for Rambus, noted that systems adopting RDRAM and the Pentium 4 processor are even priced at only US$899 in the US and have entered the mainstream PC market.

Rev. 6.0 of the BIOS Optimization Guide Posted.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: Rojak Pot  Added by: Kim Heise

Adrian dropped me a note letting me know his popular BIOS optimization guide has been updated to version 6.0. The guide is certainly handy for anyone who wishes to make sense of all the techno babble terms that are posted as options in your system BIOS.

Western Digital Caviar WD800BB 81GB review.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: Storage Review  Added by: Kim Heise

Storage review has gotten their hands on Western Digitals new 81GB hard-drive. I wonder who is going to break the 100GB consumer level first.

In March, WD turned more heads by announcing the 400BB's successor, the WD800BB. Featuring 27 gigs per platter, the 800BB again allows WD to claim the 7200 RPM density crown. This time around, however, WD has climbed back up to a flagship count of three platters… something not seen since the days of the "Expert," the manufacturer's original 7200 RPM drive developed jointly with IBM. The yielded size of 80 gigs finally dethrones IBM's long-standing 75 gig Deskstar 75GXP as the king of the 7200 RPM capacity hill. Though density and platter counts have increased, WD maintains a claimed seek time of 8.9 milliseconds. This has been an increasingly difficult thing to do as exemplified by the latest offerings from Quantum and Seagate. A standard 2 meg buffer rounds out the package.

Researchers plant seeds for organic LED growth.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: EE Times  Added by: Kim Heise

A little something to lighten up your Friday morning (or afternoon) and learn about something unusual in the IT industry. However unusual - one has to admit it is a very ingenious idea.

BOSTON — The technical sessions at the Society for Information Display (SID) symposium, which will kick off June 4 in San Jose, Calif., will be rife with reports on organic LEDs (OLEDs). Indeed, perhaps never before have so many R&D dollars been thrown by so many companies — 85 and counting — at a single display technology.

The active-matrix liquid crystal display (AM LCD) remains the dominant flat-panel display (FPD) technology, but a "promising group of technologies is beginning to nibble at the edges of the LCD powerhouse," said Barry Young, senior vice president at DisplaySearch (Austin, Texas). The most widely pursued of those is the OLED.

RealNetworks unveils "Napster"-like service.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: CNET  Added by: Kim Heise

Real Networks is drumming up PR for their own music sharing service. I wish the company would clean up the installation procedure for RealAudio because you need to customize the install "to the T" so that it does not install a whole slew of unwanted products.

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser gave a first public look Thursday at the MusicNet subscription service his company is building, describing features that resemble Napster's file-swapping service.

MusicNet, a joint venture with major record labels from AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI Group, plans to let music fans search for, then download or stream, a broad range of music owned by those three labels, Glaser said. These songs could be downloaded from other MusicNet subscribers, as people would on Napster, as well as from central servers.

But there are key differences between the labels' effort and the popular file-swapping service. Only music that has been authorized by the labels will be available to trade. Any music downloaded via MusicNet will be "tethered" to personal computers, so it can't be burned to CDs or transferred to portable devices. Consumers will also get an occasional reminder to "relicense" their downloaded music, meaning they will have to keep paying monthly subscriptions to listen to downloaded music.

Intel answers AMD with 'Tualatin'.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: TechWeb  Added by: Kim Heise

It's a smart idea to wait for the dust to settle while the two CPU giants duke it out and throw massive salvos at it each other. The trick is to determine when the "dust has actually settled" so that you can make a sound purchasing decision.

Delivering a counterpunch to rival Advanced Micro Devices and its new 1GHz Athlon 4 chip, Intel will launch five new mobile Pentium III chips this July, sources said.
The chips--code-named Tualatin (pronounced "TWO-ala-tin")--will be the first new and faster Pentium III chips in more than a year, boasting clock speeds of up to 1.13GHz, according to sources familiar with Intel's plans.

The fastest new mobile Pentium IIIs will compete with AMD's Athlon 4 chip--announced Monday--a mobile version of the Athlon that runs at speeds as high as 1GHz.

The five Tualatin chips will run at clock speeds of 866MHz, 933MHz, 1GHz, 1.06GHz and 1.13GHz.

DNA tests for Titanic victims.
Posted: 05/18/2001     Source: Wired  Added by: Kim Heise

After reading this news clip it makes me proud to be involved in this high-tech industry since every now and then we actually produce something worthwhile amongst all the hype to benefit everyone.

Here we use the tools of DNA analysis to help victims from the Titanic disaster find a little piece of mind.

TORONTO -- Nearly a century after they perished aboard the luxury liner Titanic, three mystery passengers who were laid to rest in unmarked graves -- including a 2-year-old boy -- may finally be identified by Canadian researchers through DNA testing.

Scientists will partially exhume the remains of a woman in her 30s, a young man and a baby, whose graves in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are marked simply No. 281, No. 240, and No. 4., in a bid to match bone fragments to extended family members who instigated the project.