• Cobalt still mooting anti-Apple Cube lawsuit
  Time: 5:30P PST/ 8:30P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Corey Gouker

  Cobalt Networks continues to mull over legal action against Apple for allegedly swiping the design of its own cube-shaped computer, the Qube.

  Right now, the company, which makes small-office oriented Internet access servers, appears to be investigating the ramifications of action against Apple. Cobalt said it's "concerned" that Apple's Power Mac G4 Cube violates its trademarks. However, it has yet to initiate any action against Apple.

  The irony here is that Apple successfully sued one Korean company, Future Power, and forced an out-of-court settlement on another, eMachines, on the same grounds. The Mac maker said they had infringed its trademark on the design and styling of the iMac.

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• SGI and Sony talk cubes
  Time: 5:30P PST/ 8:30P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Corey Gouker

  SGI and Sony are more likely to continue as partners than rivals, whatever Sony's plans are for its experimental multiprocessor machine, GScube. Or so says SGI.

  "We don't see this as competitive," Greg Estes SGI's VP of telecomms and media tells us.

  As demonstrated, GSCube is useless without some kind of big server behind it, he points out. At SIGGRAPH it was demonstrated with an SGI Origin 3000.

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• Apple says trade secrets posted online
  Time: 5:00P PST/ 8:00P EST News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Corey Gouker

  In a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara (Calif.) Superior Court Wednesday, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) said digital images of its new ApplePro Mouse and Power Mac G4 were posted on several Web sites months before the products' release last month.

  Apple does not know who is responsible for leaking the information.

  The suit does not name the sites where the images were allegedly posted, but several Apple rumor sites regularly trade in publishing information Apple considers confidential.

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• Hackers Breach Firewall-1
  Time: 5:00P PST/ 8:00P EST News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Corey Gouker

  While Checkpoint issues service pack to address vulnerabilities, hackers warn against placing too much faith in firewalls.

  An audience of several hundred network security professionals watched with rapt attention last week as a trio of hackers repeatedly penetrated one of the industry's most trusted and popular firewall products -- Checkpoint Software's Firewall-1. The demonstration, presented at the "Black Hat" security conference in Las Vegas, challenged the widely accepted notion that firewalls are largely immune to direct attack.

  The panel -- John McDonald and Thomas Lopatic of German security firm Data Protect GmbH and Dug Song of the University of Michigan -- identified three general categories of firewall attacks. They began by demonstrating a number of relatively simple techniques by which an attacker could impersonate an authorized administrator, and thus gain access to the firewall application itself.

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• What's Next: Nanotechnology Promises Big Changes by Getting Small
  Time: 5:00P PST/ 8:00P EST News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Corey Gouker

  Comedian Steve Martin used to have a bit where he'd say "Let's get small."

  Today he'd probably say "Let's get nano."

  Thanks to hyperadvances in nanotechnology, getting small is starting to mean big business.

  Today our "What's Next" series examines nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the science of molecule-sized devices. That's right -- computers and machines small enough to, for instance, float around in your bloodstream. Nanotechnology is still a ways off, but it is already revolutionizing our ideas of computing and medicine.

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• Sharky Extreme - Intel Pentium III 1.13GHz CPU Review
  Time: 5:00P PST/ 8:00P EST News Source: Sharky Extreme Posted By: Corey Gouker

  Several months ago, both Intel and AMD stretched their processor technologies in order to reach 1GHz. With a last minute effort, AMD managed to slip ahead of Intel by a matter of days. Since then, the CPU speed wars have taken a breather as Intel and AMD filled in the gap left by the jump to 1GHz. Not long after Intel released their Pentium III 933MHz, AMD regained the speed edge from Intel by releasing their new Athlon "Thunderbird".

  Today, far from the ice planet Hoth, the Empire strikes back! Intel has announced their Pentium III 1.13GHz, the first consumer CPU to surpass 1GHz. Thankfully, Intel has abandoned the meager 33 and 66MHz jumps of the past in favor of a nice, large, 133MHz jump. We tested this new processor, forcing it to jump through various hoops, leap tall buildings in a single bound, and burn through several benchmarks with its laser vision in order to bring you this review today.

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• Compaq to intro AMD Sledgehammer servers
  Time:6:00P PST/ 9:00P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Major AMD OEM customers - including Compaq - will introduce Sledgehammer-based servers as early as Q4 this year, it has emerged.

  Yesterday we reported that silicon for AMD's 64-bit x86-based answer to Intel's Itanium, which we have decided to codename Iceberg rather than Sledgehammer, is already in the hand of major customers.

  Now we understand that product launches from Compaq and other major PC manufacturers who have showed loyalty to AMD and its Athlon product will intro such systems towards the end of this year.

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• Silicon implants boost your orbs
  Time:10:00A PST/ 1:00P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  US surgeons have implanted an experimental electronic retina into the eyes of three blind people, proving that the operation can be done without the eye automatically rejecting the device.

  It will be at least three weeks before the doctors know whether sight has been restored, but they are sure that the operations will be partially successful at least.

  Professor Jose Pulido, head of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Illinois, said that the work was the first step towards the "Holy Grail of restoring eyesight to the blind."

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• Microsoft low-cost MSN appliance out in Q3
  Time:9:00P PST/ 12:00A EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Microsoft's dedicated MSN access device, the much demoed MSN Web Companion, is to be built by low-price PC vendor eMachines, and will go onto the market in the third quarter of this year (we think they mean September rather than Saturday). It'll be priced "well below traditional PCs," and will be based on the CE operating system.

  Which of course Microsoft rebranded as Windows Powered earlier this year, but it seems to have forgotten about this for the Companion announcement. The Companion is intended to be aimed at "consumers who are new to using email and the Internet," but that sounds more like a desperate attempt by Microsoft to avoid cannibalizing its own Windows markets and those of its PC customers. If it's any good, and cheap, then even experienced users could want to shove one in the kitchen, say.

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• Sony Palm-based PDA debuts on Web
  Time: 4:30P PST/ 7:30P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Sony's upcoming Palm-based PDA, due to be demo'd at PC Expo this week, has also made an appearance on the Web, over at French language site PDA France.

  As per the sneak preview Sony granted to the Wall Street Journal, the unnamed PDA is kitted out in standard Vaio colours but in all other respects is recognisably a Palm-style machine. The Memory Stick slot is located at the top of the device, and its scroll wheel - or Jog Dial, as Sony calls it - is over on the top left-hand side of the device.

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• Hardware Roundup: New, improved
  Time: 4:30P PST/ 7:30A EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Hardware Roundup from a variety of sites ...

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• Nintendo set to delay Dolphin debut?
  Time: 4:30P PST/ 7:30P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Has Nintendo delayed the launch of its upcoming next-generation games console, codenamed Dolphin? That's certainly one inference you can make from the company's latest financial results.

  Nintendo's profits fell 35 per cent year on year, down from Y85.8 billion in 1998 to Y56.1 billion ($521 million). The company blamed the strength of the yen against the dollar - a factor that hit Sony's profits hard too - and weak sales of its current console, the N64.

  But it said it expects to see profits rise during fiscal 2000 by 46.3 per cent on the back of strong GameBoy sales (including the upcoming GameBoy Advance, due later this year) and - surprise, surprise - Pokemon stuff.

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• Transmeta scores Gateway-AOL Linux appliance deal
  Time: 4:30P PST/ 7:30P EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Gateway and AOL are to become Transmeta's first announced major customers. The grand unveiling of a Linux Internet appliance is scheduled to take place later today, but Transmeta's flair for publicity doesn't seem to have tarnished in the three months purdah since it announced, and even seems to have rubbed off on its partners a tad.

  So they've been leaking like crazy to their special friends in the public prints. According to Transmeta's Dave Ditzel, the first appliance will ship in Q4, and will use a wired connection to the Internet. He also trails future wireless versions in an unspecified timeframe, but we wouldn't hold out hope for these any time soon; WebPad-type devices are superficially attractive, but just figuring out which wireless standard to use will likely add six to nine months to development time.

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• Intel plan: New chip sets, faster PCs
  Time: 4:30P PST/ 7:30P EST News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Leo Nelson

  Intel Corp. is readying a summer blockbuster of its own: a new chip set that will crank up the performance of value and mid-range desktop PCs.

  Due June 19, according to sources, Intel's new 815 chip set will yield higher overall system performance for consumers, while granting PC makers more flexibility when it comes to designing systems.

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• Rambus Requiem - RDRAM Fails Bandwidth Tests
  Time: 4:30P PST/ 7:30P EST News Source: Tom's Hardware Guide Posted By: Leo Nelson

  In the last few years the advancement of processing power has outstripped the current peak capacity of memory technologies. In other words, today's quickest microprocessors can request data faster than the fastest mainstream memory technologies can provide, thus serving as a performance bottleneck. Although a very valid point can be made that even the most powerful of these processors rarely saturate their current memory subsystems, this bottleneck can be an issue with some applications like video editing and even computer games.

  This problem has worsened in ...

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• Intel's cunning server plans
  Time: 11:30A PST/ 2:30A EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Corey Gouker

  PC customers and companies attempting to plan their server strategy over the next 18 months had better get their thinking caps on, judging from an Intel roadmap we viewed earlier on this week.

  IA-32 based Foster is the elder brother of Willamette, and earlier this year we were led to believe that it would arrive not long after the intro of the desktop processor.

  According to the Intel roadmap, Foster dual processing systems have now been "moved" from the end of this year to Q1 2001, while multiprocessing systems have been "moved" to late Q1, 2001.

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• Intel's view on double data rate memory...
  Time: 11:30A PST/ 2:30A EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Corey Gouker

  The same roadmap we saw two days ago which revealed the price of Merced (Itanium) chips has also revealed Intel's view about double date rate memory (DDR).

  For quite some months, many in the PC industry have been puzzled as to why Intel is choosing DDR for the server market and Rambus is the memory technology of choice for the desktop. [Maybe they should read the contract between Rambus and Intel -- Ed]

  But Intel has quite clearly delineated its stance on DDR in the document we have seen, aimed at its OEMs but clearly excluding the Dell Corporation.

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• Intel Celeron to die Q1 next year
  Time: 11:30A PST/ 2:30A EST News Source: The Register Posted By: Corey Gouker

  An Intel roadmap seen by The Register indicates that the Celeron processor will shuffle off its mortal coil towards the end of the first quarter next year, displaced by the system-on-the-chip solution codenamed Timna.

  But there's life in the old Celeron dog yet, according to the roadmap. As revealed here yesterday, the 633MHz and 666MHz Celerons will arrive at the end of the month, to be followed in Q3 by a 700MHz Celeron, and in Q4 by a 733MHz Cu128K.

  In the third and fourth quarters, the line between the Celeron Cu128K and the Timna, begin to get blurred, with a mixture of both product lines as Intel readies itself to kick the damned thing into touch in Q1 2001.

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• Intel launches 933MHz PIII
  Time: 11:30A PST/ 2:30A EST News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Corey Gouker

  New desktop chip completes PIII lineup. Intel Corp. took the wraps off of its 933MHz Pentium III chip for desktop PCs, Wednesday.

  The new chip, which will show up first in high-end desktop PCs, fills in the last gap in Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) current Pentium III lineup. The company leaped from 800MHz to 1GHz (1,000MHz) in early March and later that month issued 800MHz and 866MHz desktop Pentium III chips.

  PC makers will offer the new chip first in high-end desktops. IBM, for example, is offering the chip in the new Aptiva 990 desktop. The new PC, priced at $2,109, includes the 933MHz chip, 128MB of synchronous dynamic RAM, a 40GB hard drive and a CD-rewriteable drive.

  The new processor for desktop PCs is priced at $744 in 1,000 unit quantities. Intel officials say it is available in quantity now.

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• Shortage: Palms are hard to come by
  Time: 11:30A PST/ 2:30A EST News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Corey Gouker

  A shortage of display and memory components is frustrating buyers looking to purchase Palm devices.

  Where have all the Palms gone? Many consumers hoping to buy a new Palm PDA are finding retailer's shelves bare and online shopping carts empty.

  The Palm shortage, the company says, results from a combination of high seasonal demand and a shortage of LCD panels and flash memory, two critical components used to construct the devices. (The same shortages, as reported by ZDNet, are also affecting cellular phone handset vendors.)

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