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Thanks USBMan for this one: Software maker Novell on Monday sued Microsoft for alleged false advertising and demanded that its competitor publicly renounce the statements. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Novell accuses Microsoft of false and misleading statements about Novell´s software in a direct-mail advertising campaign targeted at Novell´s customers last month. Read more

Tweakers Asylum has posted a review on the KDS Avitron AV-7TF 17" Display. Anyone who has been shopping for a 17" monitor lately knows $164.00 is on the bottom of the pricing scale. If the performance claims of KDS hold true, the Avitron AV-7TF would make an excellent choice for the budget minded computer user. So does the Avitron AV-7TF offer up a respectable list of features and options while staying affordable? Let´s start off by taking a look at the Avitron AV-7TF´s features. Read more

Hardware Analysis has posted a review on Nvidia´s Titanium Nvidias Titanium series, a new generation of GeForce? Or simply rebranding of products running at a somewhat higher clockspeed? With ATis new Radeon just around the corner Nvidia seems eager to regain the performance crown. Read more

Everything USB send some USB related news: Acer pumps up USB 2.0 support Two of the three new products come in the form of flatbed scanners, with similar features, but at different prices. The Acer S2W 7400UT scans at 2400x4800dpi, with built-in support for film scanning. The Acer S2W 6400UT scans at 1200x2400dpi and also features built-in film scanning. Read more Logitech unveils MouseMan Dual Optical Shaped exactly like the Wireless Mouseman Optical - except corded, the Mouseman Dual Optical reads the surface via two 800dpi optical sensors, which Logitech claims allows for ...smooth cursor movements and increased precision... Read more

3D Spotlight has updated their weekly Price Guide. So, what´s new this week? ATI Radeon 8500 and 7500s have been added to our price list, they are retailing (pre orders) for $249 and $166 respectively. As always, Athlons are a real bargain with the 1.4Ghz version selling for only $109 !!! Now into the new sections we opened this week, we have Abit´s TH7 RAID Pentium 4 motherboard selling for $160. We also found a few interesting Hard Drive offerings, IBM and Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm disks for only $106, even 100GB beasts from Western Digital only cost $252 (7200rpm). Read more

Storage Review has posted a review on the Fujitsu MAM3367 SCSI harddisk. Fujitsu 15,000 RPM MAM is the latest to challenge Seagate´s dominance of the high-performance SCSI market. The Cheetah X15-36LP presents a formidible target. Can the MAM succeed against such long odds? Read more

BoomGames has posted a Max Payne review About a year ago I heard about a new game which would have a 3rd person viewpoint with fantastic texture quality, graphics, and slow motion play. I didn´t think it would ever come out knowing it would be overseen by 3d Realms. I was wrong, however, and it did come out recently. It´s Max Payne and he´s pissed. Read more

Maxmimum Reboot has posted some new ATI Radeon Windows 2000 5.13.01.3271 WHQL drivers Read more

Overclockers Online has posted a review on a KT133A board from IWill, the KK266plus-R. The board has onboard RAID, 6 channel onboard sound, overclocking and tweaking options, and much more ... To check out what our KK266plus-R was capable of, we decided to test it by using the fastest AMD CPU currently available (the Athlon 1.4GHz) and some fast OCZ Performance Max SDRAM (pretested stable @ 175MHz CAS3) to be sure the memory doesn´t act as a bottleneck. After some serious experimenting, I found out that the KK266plus-R is capable of running my Athlon CPU and the memory @ 161MHz CAS3 and @ 153MHz CAS2. That´s quite an achievement, don´t you think?? Read more

3dXtreme has taken a look at the Ratpadz Gaming Mouse pad. The mouse pad itself is extremely stiff and highly durable. I would imagine the $12 investement will provide hours and years of utter gaming ecstasy, there´s no guarantee for more frags...if you suck.....you suck. I mean there´s only so much a mouse pad can really do! I´ve also really been able to appreciate the accuracy and smooth tracking in photo editing applications where accuracy is important. I can imagine CAD users would be able to benefit from this design as well as the gamers. Read more

Tweakers Asylum has posted a press release from Absolute Multimedia about their upcoming Titanium 3 500 GeForce 3. Whomever Said Speed Kills Obviously Owned a MORPHEUS Titanium! 3DPOWER / ABSOLUTE LAUNCHES GeFORCE3 Ti500! Graphics spe[censored]t, 3DPower Ltd proudly announces the first GeForce3 Ti500 based graphics accelerator to hit the market - the MORPHEUS Titanium display adapter. The MORPHEUS Titanium perches high atop the competition by delivering the worlds fastest GPU and memory gaming solution. With a core clock of a blistering 240MHz and a staggering effective memory clock of 500MHz DDR, the MORPHEUS Titanium offers more then 30% improved raw performance over the GeForce3. The MORPHEUS Titanium comes fitted with 64MB of 3.6ns DDR SDRAM thereby delivering 8.0GB/sec of memory bandwidth and shattering the memory bottleneck. Read more

FrostyTech has posted a review on the Fortis Tech A92 Heatsink Thermal adhesive, no matter how good it is cannot be considered a replacement for a solid metal joint, or even soldering job. From the tests we can see one that the Fortis A92 is overwhelmed by 100W heat load. Thick aluminum fins joined to a copper base with what appears to be thermal epoxy really doesn´t have the needed kick it should. Were the interface between the aluminum fins and copper base more conductive we might see the A92 come back fighting better. While it has a high speed fan, the thick fins and non-optimal joint between the base plate leave it lacking on the small interface die tests. Given the limitations of the technology being applied here we have to class this heatsink as OEM, and as such it is not ideal for performance cooling situations on processors like the T-bird. On the larger interface die the performance (especially at 50W) is pretty good, but at higher wattage´s it can keep up. Read more

A Windows XP compatible version of Sygate is out. Thanks AzuKa. Sygate® Home Network 4.2 Build 803 If using Sygate® Personal Firewall with this build, you must use Sygate® Personal Firewall 4.x. The latest release version of Sygate Home Network is now available. Download this version with several new features, including: Windows XP support Increased Performance on Windows NT/2000/XP Single network interface card networking New intuitive user interface Integrated Basic Firewall Access Rule Editor Read more

Insideproject has posted their Ultimate Video Card Cooling Guide If you are looking to overclock your video card´s chipset or memory, then cooling is a major factor. By overclocking your video card, you will get better overall performance, and higher frame rates in games. If your interested in getting the most out of your video card, the above products combined produce the best results we have seen. Read more

Tec Central has posted a Asus A7V266 review in german. This Mainboard be based on the via KT 266 chipset and had itself in the comparison the Epox 8KHA. Translator Read more (German)

Dan´s Data checked out the A4 Tech Mini Size Mouse and the New Motion Tech Super Mini Mouse. The names are the biggest things about these rodents; the A4 Tech mouse is substantially smaller than any normal mouse, and the New Motion one is so tiny it looks as if lipstick should pop out of one end. Read more

The Tech Report has put up a comparison between the 1.1GHz Duron and Celeron. THE LAST TIME we checked in on the value processor market, AMD had just released its Duron 1GHz processor, beating Intel to the symbolic 1GHz mark yet again. Since then, Intel has passed the 2GHz mark with its high-end Pentium 4 chip, and the company has quietly made available 1.0 and 1.1GHz versions of its Celeron value processor. AMD counters today with the release of its 1.1GHz Duron processor, which recaptures clock speed parity in the value market for AMD. Read more

X-bit labs has posted a NVIDIA Titanium Graphics Cards Family Review. Following the 6-month cycle NVIDIA today announced the so-long awaited graphics cards family - NVIDIA Titanium. Besides three new solutions aka GeForce3 Ti 500, GeForce3 Ti 200 and GeForce2 Ti, NVIDIA also prepared a new Detonator XP driver, which provides not only a tangible performance growth but also supports some new hardware features implemented in NVIDIA chips. Find out what these babies are worth! Read more

Inside Project has posted a review on the Elsa Gladiac 920 GeForce 3 64mb DDR video card. Inside the box there are Gladiac 920 with green cooler and green RAMsinks, standard VGA 15-pin D-sub connector and TV-out with an S-video connection. For TV-Out Elsa also included an S-video to RCA adaptor, which is great if you don´t have S-video connector on TV or adaptor. There is also FULL versions of Giants: Citizen Kabuto GeForce 3 optimized version (also known as DX8.0 optimized version) and Elsamovie 2000 software DVD-Player. Read more

Neoseeker has posted a review on the Olympus DM-1 Voice Recorder Unlike most other units, the Olympus DM-1 digital voice recorder and music player is actually targeted at corporate consumers, moving away from the already densely populated mainstream MP3 market. It is touted as a voice recorder, first, setting its sights at dictation oriented consumers. In second is the DM-1’s music player functionality, supporting both MP3 and WMA. Read more

Inside Project has posted a review on the ASUS Geforce 3 Pure video card. Now that the NVIDIA has set the video standards, and become more popular, manufactures are starting to bring all sorts of variations of the Geforce 3 to the market. In most cases, manufactures are beefing up their cards with extra features, such as extra video features, faster memory, and larger heatsinks. The reasoning behind these extra features is an attempt of standing out from the crowd. The way ASUS has been leaning with there boards is quite obviously catering to overclockers. This is apparent from the larger heatsinks... Read more

OC Workbench has posted a review on the Shuttle AV40R motherboard. Shuttle has made in roads to the Athlon boards with it´s award winning AK31 rev 2.0. To date, Intel has only introduced Brookdale (i845) which does paralysed the P4 system performance with bundling it with SDRAM. The problem with SDRAM is that it deters the real performance of the Pentium 4. As we can see, the next logical step would be to go with DDR, but Intel only licensed this technology to SiS and ALi. That is also why you don´t see many manufacturers producing P4 DDR boards using P4x266 which is still in a licensing battle. Shuttle has made a bold move by adopting the VIA P4X266 chipset for the fresh Pentium 4 supporting the DDR modules. Read more

X-bit labs has posted a new article on AMIFlash BIOS Up[censored]. We would call our article a guide for BIOS reflashing, which is a very useful thing for many PC users. There we tried to provide all the details of the BIOS reflashing procedure with the AMIFlash utility. Even if you are a commencing user this article will help you tackle BIOS up[censored] without much trouble. Read more

Microsoft Corp. today announced pricing and availability for two new levels of subscription services to the MSDN® developer program that will provide its most important customers -- developers -- with the information and software they need to successfully build XML Web services and applications. Now every level of Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET has a corresponding level of MSDN subscriptions, providing developers with a clear path from the tools to the services that will make them successful. MSDN now offers five subscription levels, each tailored to suit the varying needs of professional developers. Through the priority access feature, subscribers to MSDN will continue to be the first to receive the latest Microsoft products, such as Visual Studio .NET, server and operating system technologies and product information. Subscribers to the new Operating Systems level and above received the highly anticipated Microsoft Windows® XP operating system on Sept. 24, more than a month before its scheduled Oct. 25 availability in retail stores. Read more

.... PatchBay, First Licensable System for Delivering Video on Demand CinemaNow Inc., the leading video-on-demand distributor of feature films over the Internet, today announced the immediate availability of PatchBay™, the first fully integrated technology solution that can be licensed by distributors to launch their own Web-based video-on-demand networks. PatchBay, a solution owned by CinemaNow, is built on the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system, including support for Windows Media™ Audio and Video and digital rights management. It is the first complete and licensable video-on-demand solution that makes it possible for distributors to quickly establish a Web presence, turning film rights into profit without investing in costly development and implementation. Read more