BBC strike action
Posted by mrplow (3 Comments)	Mon May 23rd '05 01:54:55 AM
BBC journalists and technicians have begun a 24-hour strike over job cuts. The strike is expected to cause disruption to TV, radio and online news services. BBC employees are protesting at plans to cut 3,780 jobs and privatise parts of the corporation, which were announced in recent months. Unions say the cuts are the most damaging in BBC history. The corporation says they are needed so the BBC can invest more in programmes.
News Source: BBC (heh..)	Genre: Politics

Customise your Google Portal!
Posted by donkey (3 Comments)	Fri May 20th '05 08:03:30 AM
I'm not sure how old this is but over at google.com/ig they've implemented a nice set of customisation features to allow users to add "boxes" to their google start page. In typical google style the site works amazingly well and has dragable elements similar to the customisation features in Google News. You're best to check it out for yourself although you'll need a Google/Gmail account. The features tie in various aspects of Google's business; allowing users to turn on/off displaying their Gmail inbox, headlines from various new sites (including BBC NEWS and Google News), local weather forecasts amongst others. Many of the features are customisable, giving users freedom to specify the number of headlines they want to display or which stock market indices and companies to track.
News Source: Google	Genre: Intrawab

PlayStation 3 hot on the xbox's heels
Posted by mrplow (6 Comments)	Tue May 17th '05 11:53:02 PM
Taking some advice from the Xbox 360, the playstation 3 is also ugly as sin and comes in a horrible "cheap AV equipment silver" as well as, it seems, white and black varieties. Many have compared it's "sexy curvaceous" look with that of the famous George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. Hopefully it won't run quite as warm. An awful looking redesign of the controller completes the look, although the console does support upto 7 of the wireless bluetooth boomerangs. Silly specs: CPU Cell Processor running at 3.2Ghz with 7 special purpose 3.2Ghz processors, capable of 218 gigaflops of performance Backward compatible GPU RSX at 550MHz 1.8 teraflop floating point performance 256Mb XDR main RAM at 3.2 GHz 256Mb of GDDR VRAM at 700Mhz Memory Stick Duo, SD, compact flash memory slots Detachable 2.5 inch hard drive Support for seven Bluetooth controllers Six USB slots for peripherals Supports Blu-ray DVD format System Floating Point Performance of 2 teraflops Communication Ethernet, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth Output in HDTV resolution up to 1080p as standard The graphics are nVidia based, while the 360 has ATi-inside, meaning the console war can also attract the pc-based ATi/nVidia fanboys - hooray! Nintendo have a lot of hard work to do.
	Genre: Console Gaming

Xbox 360 released
Posted by donkey (10 Comments)	Fri May 13th '05 08:02:52 AM
Microsoft's new console will be called the Xbox 360 and be in the shops by Christmas, it has been revealed. Rivals Sony and Nintendo are expected to provide more details about their consoles next week at the annual games trade show, E3 in Los Angeles. The controllers are similar to current ones, but are wireless and white to match the console. The machine is designed to stand on one end and comes with a removable 20Gb hard drive. Microsoft is not talking about the 360 as a digital entertainment hub. But the machine can be used to play music, watch DVDs and stream media from portable devices or a Windows XP computer. What is not known is if gamers will be able to play current Xbox games on the 360. Games for the 360 itself will be designed for widescreen high-definition screens and are expected to offer a dazzling level of graphical detail. Specs: Three IBM PowerPC 3.2Ghz CPUs ATI 500MHz graphics processor 48 billion shader operations per second 512Mb GDDR3 RAM of memory Removable and upgradeable 20Gb hard drive Three USB ports Windows Media Extender built-in Support for DVD-video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-DA, CD-R, WMA CD, MP3 CD, Jpeg photo CD
News Source: BBC NEWS	Genre: Microsoft

AMD Debuts Athlon 64 X2
Posted by joe (0 Comments)	Mon May 9th '05 09:00:21 PM
There are many things that we have learnt here, and it has become apparent that AMD now has an answer to Intel's HyperThreading technology. While we have focused our preview on the performances of the Athlon 64 X2 against its single cored cousins, we found that there was very little that took the Athlon 64 X2 by surprise. Dual core is here to stay despite AMD opting to introduce its dual core processors in to the mainstream, before expanding in to the bleeding-edge FX-series processors - maybe this is a sign that AMD have at least one more single-cored FX-series CPU to release before they adopt dual core across the high-end of its Athlon 64 range. The noticeable increase in overall smoothness outweighs the additional performance that you may well see in some applications when using the Athlon 64 FX-55. The problem here is when you feed the FX-55 with too much pie, it spits it back out at you, while the X2 4800+ appears to be hungry for more and more. It's really hard to explain, but I've never experienced anything like this before, even back in the days of running a dual Celeron system on an ABIT BP6. Everything you do just comes across with an added element of smoothness. However, based on my wide experiences with the Prescott core, we can assume that the Athlon 64 X2 will be ahead of the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 in single threaded applications. Unfortunately, with not having had the chance to evaluate Intel's Pentium D core yet, we cannot pass comment on how well AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ compares to it in a multi-tasking environment. If you keep in mind the fact that most of us are still in the world of single threaded applications and computing practices, you could assume that the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ looks the most attractive of the pair.
News Source: bit-tech.net	Genre: Tech

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