One-off patent licence payment helps keep media player firm afloat.

Dell'Oro Group report paints rosy picture.

It is starting to look like things are going to heat up on the GPU front as Nvidia and AMD go head-to-head in the next month or so.

Graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia posted a fourth quarter $147.7 million loss, as demand for Nvidia-equipped PCs weaken.

Nvidia has confirmed that its already much-maligned Fermi GPU based graphics cards won't be seeing the light of day in 2009.

8W, 15W, and 25W models due in the fourth quarter.

The Cell is not just for the PlayStation 3 - now the technology is making inroads into laptop territory.

For Sony, the advent of MP3 must have been a particular irritation. After all, well before MP3 achieved any popularity Sony had released its own perceptual encoding/compression system for digital audio: ATRAC.

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Some intriguing new technology and genuinely useful features make Home Server one to watch.

Global rules needed to save the internet.

Dref-AB on the rampage.

Chipmaker hopes for fall developer event to take theattention off its shrinking revenues.

World's Fastest Notebook.

Trade association warns that web users still not taking security seriously.

The Quadro FX3000 is based on the same NV35 core that powers the latest GeForce FX 5900 cards, but with a few new additions to cater to the professional market. Compared to the older Quadro FX2000, which was based on the NV30, or GeForce FX5800, the FX3000 has double the memory, at 256MB, as well as a 256-bit memory interface, giving double the theoretical graphics bandwidth, hitting just over 27GB/s. It also supports other features from the NV35, including a 128-bit floating-point precision graphics pipeline, 128-bit colour, 12-bit sub-pixel accuracy, 16x full-scene anti-aliasing, 3D volumetric textures, and of course support for all the latest OpenGL, DirectX and NVIDIA’s own Cg graphics language versions.

Despite not being the smallest or lightest notebook, this veritable speed demon packs a 3.06GHz desktop Pentium 4 processor and is matched with an ATI Mobility 9000 graphics adaptor and quarter gig of PC2100 DDR RAM. Another notebook to dispose of legacy parallel, PS/2 and serial ports, it boasts a pair of rear mounted USB ports, S-Video output and FireWire connectivity. Also included are 10/100 Ethernet, a 56K modem and single PCMCIA slot for card expansion.

The Inspiron 630m is Dell’s first 14-inch widescreen notebook.

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