It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend viewing video clips online, and Internet video advertising is booming.
Thank goodness Rupert Murdoch didn’t buy YouTube.
Anticipated for months, ATI have today finally announced their next generation of graphics cards. Reviews and benchmarks are all over the web, take your pick from the usual sources (I saw the news on Anandtech).
A comprehensive list of the current (p)reviews can be found at Rage3D.
As usual it depends on what game you benchmark and what configuration you choose as to whether this new ATI range takes the performance crown away from NVidia but two things are certain:
1) The top end will be very, very expensive (350+ quid is a *lot* of money to spend on a graphics card)
2) As with all recent ATI releases you can’t actually buy them yet. Expect to see stock in time for Christmas. Maybe.
Over the weekend at an electronic music festival that took placed in Berlin, Germany, this exquisite Nokia 3250, Nokia’s latest music phone, captured the spotlight of Nokia Trends by several people who attended the festival. Given a unique design, the mobile phone added a twisting axis down the centre of the phone, to transform a traditional phone keypad into dedicated music keys. In addition, it can store up to 1 Gigabytes (approximately 750 songs) of high quality music, offering 10 hours of continuous non-stop music playback. With camera becoming part and parcel of today’s mobile phone, Nokia 3250 comes with 2-megapixels built-in camera for consumers to take advantage of the smart phone’s capability. Equipped with tri-band functionality, it also allows connection to GSM 900/1800/1900 type of network. It is expected to be released to public during the first quarter of 2006, at an estimated retail price of EUR 350 (excluding taxes or subsidies).
Intellext has announced to launch Watson 2.0 on Friday. Recognised to work as a sidebar, Watson 2.0 is designed to artificially understand the content of the text that any Personal Computer (PC) user is reading or creating, and automatically offers relevant news articles, Word documents, and other Web- or PC-based information for the user. Unlike Google’s Desktop (Sidebar) service as databases were occasionally exchanging with Google servers, Watson 2.0 offers its service without compromising PC user’s privacy, as nothing gets sent to their servers.
During the recent Game Show at Tokyo, Japan, Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata revealed the next generation of Nintendo Revolution Controller. Untypical of the traditional physical appearance of past Nintendo controllers, the new design is set to see how gamers may react to the new innovation.
To avoid competition with Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo has come up with their own sleek design of Gaming Controller, designed specially by Nintendo’s visionary designer Shigeru Miyamoto. So, as he speaks, what is so special about the new device?
Water-based cooling systems have been known to be part of today’s electronic equipment, such as cars and automobiles. However, Japanese PC makers, NEC, feels that consumer PCs should also benefit from same technology, especially with extreme high heat dissipation from fast processing chips. Over-clockers will find this very useful.
The MSX-M2GS Memory Stick PRO Duo from media from Sony introduces 2 GB of storage for today’s memory-hungry devices, such as compact digital camera, portable audio devices, Sony PSP Handheld equipment, and even as flash memory storage for files. One of this may cost less than $200.
Airgo Networks have just announced a new WiFi chip that boasts speeds up to 240 Mbps, that is over 2 times as fast as standard Ethernet and 5 times more speedy than existing WiFi solutions. It uses MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple Output) technology which basically means it has multiple antennas for both sending and receiving.
As with existing Wifi solutions actual throughput is significantly less than the maximum speed, but even running at 50% it will still be significantly faster than a 100 Mbps wired network.
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