ATI Technologies and Valve today announced the first public showing of Half-Life 2 will take place at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, CA. The product will be shown on ATI’s Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB, the highest performance 3D card currently available.

On2 Technologies, Inc., a world leader in video compression for 12 years, today debuted its new flagship codec, VP6. On PSNR tests, VP6 substantially outperforms JVT / H.26L, Windows Media 9, and DIVX 5.05.

With the release of the SuSE Linux 8.2 i386 ftp version, SuSE announces that the its Linux 7.1 distribution will be discontinued for all architectures. After two years of successful use, the removal of Linux 7.1 support will free SuSE resources to further enhance newly released products.

Yahoo and Intel Corporation today announced that Yahoo Games will showcase online PC games that take advantage of the power of the Pentium 4 processor. Intel will also be the sponsor of Yahoo! Games on Demand an online gaming destination that offers streamed rental of PC games from various publishers including Activision, Atari Inc., and Vivendi Universal Games.

Don't have DSL/Cable but live within a mile or so of a Starbucks? T-Mobile now offers wireless access with unlimited data transfer, available in your home with the right tools.

After the incredible success of ABIT Serillel, the first and only converter allowing end-users to experience serial ATA technology with their current parallel hard disk, the ABIT Engineers have developed the next generation of serial to parallel conversion devices. Serillel2 takes all the great features of the original Serillel, and improves it to support Hot-Plug functionality and ATAPI Devices, such as CD-ROM, CD-RW, and DVD-ROM.

Have you ever noticed the heatsink on your video card wasn't making proper contact? In this article I will guide you through removing the stock heatsink from a Leadtek GeForce 4 ti4200, cleaning off the silicon goop, re-applying some decent thermal compound, and then refitting the stock heatsinks.

Intrinsity just announced the its new FastMATH low power microprocessor architecture. FastMATH-LP is essentially based upon an adaptive digital signal-processing core operating at an impressive frequency of 1 GHz. The new “LP” utilizes the same bus and interconnect technologies as the original 2 GHz FastMATH chip, but operates at a mere 5.5 watts. The 1 GHz model offers the ability to process 3 billion multiply-accumulate operations per second per watt, thus representing the best power to performance ratio for any embedded microprocessor currently available.

A community site is simply a website utilizing one or more automated software applications that permit users to interact. The users usually provide the bulk of the content for these sites. Here are a few of the key components to create successful community sites and options for incorporating them into your own home on the Web.

Hewlett-Packard is launching a new trade-in program for enterprise class customers. Customers purchasing 25 or more personal computers before June 30 will receive a cash-back rebate upon receipt of the old trade-in systems. Cash value can be upto $220 depending upon the system’s specifications.

Long-time industry player Leslie L. Vadasz will retire on June 1 from his position as executive vice president of Intel Coporation. Vadasz is an original founding member of the semiconductor giant, spearheading several engineering and business projects during his time with the company. At age 66 he is stepping aside, but many old-timers in the computing world will certainly miss him.

Kevin Dukart of Montana has been selected as the winner of Advanced Micro Design’s recent Breakout Performance Survey. The promotion generated massive interest between January and April, with more than 20000 entries representing 13 countries. For those unaware of the survey, it polled voters to select the top picks for “breakout” performances in sports, science, and entertainment.

What is an MP3 one would ask? The correct answer is a type of compression, MPEG 1 Layer 3, hence MP3, for audio. Today, MP3’s are wide spread through Peer-to-Peer (P2P) services like Napster, Kazaa, Gnutella servers, and more. Still, not all MP3’s are from P2P services, some may find MP3’s are easier than compact discs or even vinyl records, by converting them into MP3’s.

Animated video can be the most problematic type of multimedia to process, especially when converting from analog source material. The traditional techniques utilized for live video processing rarely work for anime. At the upper ranges of the quality spectrum, animated content produces extreme amounts of motion, color variation, and fine detail. Even more simplistic form like cartoons warp the rules governing common sense video processing. Anime can require tedious analysis to produce a quality encoding project, even for the most experienced multimedia experts.

Delta Force: Black Hawk Down is the latest release from Novalogic based upon the Comanche 4 game engine. The game takes place from the actual events of the 1993 Somalia raid, though some missions are fabricated. DF:BHD is not only entertaining, but a portion of the profits go to a worthy cause.

First published here: http://www.webpronews.com/archives/012601.html Keeping your web site simple doesn't necessarily mean that you are shortchanging your visitors. Things like simple navigation and simple graphics actually allow more visitors to view your web pages and help to keep them there because the pages load faster. Simple navigation can consist of plain old text hyperlinks, or some very small graphic buttons arranged in some easy-to-follow way. Be consistent with the way you have people navigate your site. Use the same format for all of your pages when possible. Most people like to be able to figure out the web site's navigation system in short order. If it takes too long for them to figure out how it works, they will look for an easier web site to navigate. With the millions of sites available for them to go to, you need to make yours appealing to the web surfer that drops in for a look.

The TCPA initiative is to provide the industry with a standardized platform architecture that works towards developing a trusted security model between the end-user and manufacturing segments of the computing industry. TCPA is perhaps a forwards looking prospective upon computing, but only through the detailed analysis of the technical specifications involved can one determine if the TCPA honestly benefits the average consumer.

On March 4 congressional representative Zoe Lofgren from California submitted house resolution 1066, a bill entitled "Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations Act of 2003." The Balance Act seeks to amend title 17 of United State copyright code in hopes of clarifying controversial copyright issues associated with the much hyped and often hated Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Regardless of one's political thoughts, this legislation being sponsored by Lofgren offers hope in this age of digital uncertainty.

Even though this year's CeBit convention is winding down today, Tech in My Opinion is proud to bring you several pictorial highlights from the event. Stefan Fagerholm was lucky enough to attend this year, and he has gathered many superb images of upcoming products from a variety of popular manufacturers.

Ever notice how many DVD backup guides are on the Internet these days? A Google search will return hundreds of hits, but nearly all have an important flaw in common: the need for multiple applications and massives list of complex steps or half-working scripts. Sure, one could take the time to learn about ripping, audio to video demuxing, and file stream conversion, but who really has the want or desire to set in front of a computer for countless hours just to back up a single DVD movie?