Big news roundup - February 22, 2007

Posted on Thursday, February 22 2007 @ 19:43 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
I'm not feeling too well today so I'm not going to post a lot of full-lenght news articles today. Instead I'm going to do some speedlinking with some of the more interesting news stories published on the web today.

Instead of launching a G81 GPU, NVIDIA is working on the G90. They are also working on new DirectX 10 graphics cards for old AGP systems.

Canon has a new fast digital SLR, the 10 megapixel EOS-1D Mark III. Besides this model they also have five other models for consumers.

Intel promised 3GHz quad-core Xeons and processors with a 1600MHz FSB.

HarCoreWare compares the power consumption of the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

Google will sell an online software suite, the Google Apps Premier Edition.

AMD might have a quad-core Opteron running at 2.3GHz.

4G cell phones will make an end to per-second billing for mobile voice and data, with new all-you-can-eat-fixed-price packages.

Apple and Cisco have settled the iPhone trademark suit.

Kotaku has tech demos of CryEngine 2 - which looks amazing.

And blue-violet lasers are poised to boost Blu-ray read and write speeds next year.


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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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