Tuesday, April 20, 2004
U.S.-Brazilian astronomers open 30 million dollar space telescope project.
From Yahoo! News-Reuters, "Astronomers opened a new window to the cosmos on Saturday by inaugurating a powerful U.S.-Brazilian telescope under northern Chile's famously clear skies. The $30 million Southern Astrophysical Research, or SOAR, telescope sits at 8,800 feet above sea level on Cerro Pachon mountain above the unpolluted Elqui Valley, 300 miles north of Santiago.
Builders broke ground on the telescope project six years ago. It was financed by the U.S. government's Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the government of Brazil, and University of North Carolina and Michigan State University in the United States."
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
AT&T Wireless announced the availability of a new music recognition service today that allows customers to identify songs simply by placing their phones near a music speaker.
The service is the first of its kind in the US, and adds to AT&T Wireless’ industry-leading portfolio of music-related content and offers.
Designed for today’s on-the-go music fans, customers simply dial “#ID” (#43) from any AT&T Wireless phone to initiate the service. When prompted, customers then hold the phone near the music source for approximately 15 seconds. Users will immediately receive a text message on their wireless phone with the name of the song title and recording artist.
“We’ve all been in a situation where we hear a song that we like, but have no idea of its title or who sings it,” said Glenice Maclellan, vice president of messaging services for AT&T Wireless. “Now, your wireless phone can ‘name that tune’ for you. Song recognition is another example of the numerous ways AT&T Wireless helps inform and entertain our customers – giving them access to some of the industry’s broadest selection of multi-dimensional entertainment services.”
The new “#ID” music service is provided by San Francisco-based Musicphone in cooperation with UK-based Shazam Entertainment, which operates a propriety recognition database of more than one million recorded songs. AT&T Wireless customers can trial the music recognition service at no charge beyond standard airtime charges when they first dial “#ID.” Afterwards, the service costs $.99 cents, plus standard airtime charges, each time they use it.
In addition to the service introduced today, AT&T Wireless offers an extensive portfolio of music content including Amazon.com's Editor's Choice, AOL Music Mobile Club, Click2Music, Mobile Music Club, Musicphone, Now Playing, Sony Music Mobile, Warner Mobile Music, and others – such as exclusive content from FOX’s “American Idol.” In addition, AT&T Wireless customers have access to an extensive library of downloadable ringtones and a variety of devices that include integrated or optional FM radio and MP3 attachments. For more information about AT&T Wireless’ music-related offers, visit http://www.attwireless.com/personal/features/fun or http://www.attwireless.com.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
The following PC OEMs and add-in card manufacturers will be offering products based on the NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series...
From nVidia.com Press Release, “By combining raw horsepower with the most advanced 3D feature set available, NVIDIA has made a landmark graphics processor,” said Jeff Fisher, executive vice president of worldwide sales at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GPUs will be the clear choice for the gamer who demands the very best graphics or the system builder who wants to deliver the best performance for next-generation games such as Doom III and Half-Life 2.”
PC OEMs & System Builders
- ABS Computer Technologies, Inc.
- Acer America Corporation
- Alienware Corporation
- CyberPower Inc.
- Falcon Northwest Computer Systems
- Fujitsu Siemens Computers
- Gateway, Inc.
- HP
- Hypersonic PC Systems
- iBUYPOWER Computer
- Medion AG
- Mexmal Mayorista S.A. de C.V
- Monarch Computer Systems
- NEC Computers International
- VoodooPC
- Velocity Micro
Add-in Card Manufacturers
- Aopen America, Inc
- ASUS Computer International
- BFG Technologies, Inc.
- Chaintech Computer Co. Ltd.
- eVGA.com Corporation
- Gainward Co. Ltd.
- Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd
- Leadtek Research Inc.
- MSI Computer Corporation
- Palit Microsystems, Inc.
- PNY Technologies, Inc.
- XFX
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From IGN Wire, NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, introduced today the NVIDIA® GeForce&153; 6800 models of graphics processing units (GPUs) for high-performance desktop computers.
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From Gamespy
"Ever since the release of the ATI Radeon 9700 in October 2002, NVIDIA has been in the unfamiliar position of playing catch up in the high-end video-card market. The mistake that was the GeForce FX 5800, and the competitive but decidedly second-fiddle GeForce FX 5900/5950 cards have taught NVIDIA a lesson, though: Don't make the same mistake three times in a row. With the new GeForce 6800 Ultra, NVIDIA regains the performance lead in a very big way."
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