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Nvidia Claims 50 Percent Speed Boost in Next-Gen Mobile GPUs

Nvidia Claims 50 Percent Speed Boost in Next-Gen Mobile GPUs

Nvidia used the first day of the CeBIT expo in Hanover, Germany to lift the curtain on the next generation of notebook GPUs, which will push portables another step further to their powerful desktop counterparts. Nvidia claims that all the chips can push frame rates up to 50 percent better than the chips they replace, while consuming the same amount of power.

The GTX 280M and 260M will top the line-up with features aimed at the enthusiast consumer, while the GTS 160M and 150M make further concessions to price and efficiency. The GTX chips are likely destined for high-power gaming notebooks, while the GTS series should provide ample graphics in notebooks that shoot for a slimmer profile and less power consumption.

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World Cyber Games Underway

World Cyber Games UnderwayAre you one of the best, one of the very best, gamers? If so, and you’re from Europe, you really shouldn’t be reading this. You should be in Hanover, where the Samsung Euro Championships,part of the World Cyber Games, got underway yesterday at the CeBIT exposition. With 250 games and $100,000 inprize money, it’s proof that there’s serious money in gaming.   Contestants can compete on PC games – Warcraft 3: The frozen Throne (real-time strategy), Command & Conquer 3(real-time strategy), Need for Speed: Pro Street (racing), FIFA 08 (soccer), Counterstrike 1.6 (strategy shooter, 5 against 5), while Xbox 360 fanatics have Dead or Alive 4 and Project Gotham Racing4.   In all cases contestants will be using standard equipment, Vnunet reports, and can’t bring in their own peripherals. However, they will be allowedto configure the equipment to their own preferences.   They’ll take part in knock out rounds, with the new champion crowned on the final day of CeBIT.

Samsung Ships Tiny WEP500 Bluetooth Headset

Announced last spring at CEBit in Hanover, Germany, Samsung is now shipping it’s diminutive WEP500 Bluetooth headset. About the size of a U.S. quarter coin, the WEP500 is one of the smallest headsets on the market today, offering a distinctive circular design. The unit comes in at just 7.7mm thick, and comes with a jewel-case charger/cradle for both carrying the headset and charging it when not in use.

The WEP500 headset uses Bluetooth 2.0, and offers both noise reduction and echo cancellation technologies to make sure your voice comes through clearly to your callers. The unit also offers automatic volume control which adjusts the volume as the level of background noise changes, making sure you can always hear your caller.  Read more...

Samsung 7MP Camera Phone Becomes Reality

The new phone, which also has an MP3 player and business card reader, would go on sale as early as the first half, though a price had yet to be set, Samsung said in a statement.

Samsung aims to sell 100 million mobile phones this year, up 16 percent from 86 million sold last year.

The SCH-V770 phone will make its international debut at CeBIT, the world’s biggest tech and telecoms trade show, in Hanover, Germany on Thursday.

Shares in Samsung, Asia’s most valuable technology company with a market value of $81 billion, ended down 0.4 percent at 500,000 won, versus a 0.85 percent rise in the broader market.  Read more...

LG Develops Brightest And Darkest PDP

From LG’s press release:

LGE has successfully developed a PDP that boasts the world’s highest brightness at 1500cd/m2 (1.5-2 times the industry’s average) and contrast ratio of 5000:1, thus demonstrating again its exclusive technological superiority in the PDP industry.

To implement the world’s highest brightness and contrast ratio, LGE formed a 20-member research team including five doctoral holders to develop the following technology over the last year with an investment of 3.5 billion won.

▲ Peak enhanced technology (PET) needed to implement high brightness
▲ Technology enabling a high contrast ratio by implementing ‘real black’
▲ New ASIC technology
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Samsung Will Bring EV-DO Phone To U.S.

A cell phone capable of using wherever the user is, the world phone made its first appearance at the CeBIT 2004 Conference in Hanover, Germany in March.

The state-of-the-art phone is compatible for both CDMA 2000 1X and the EU’s GSM mode.

“Given the current demand for globally accessible phone, like ours, the user will increase by millions every year. After testing waters by introducing CDMA 20001X, GSM and new GPRS models this year, the company will unveil EV-DO phones by 2005,” according to a Samsung Electronics official.

German Teen Confesses To Sasser Worm

The teenager, whose name was not released, was arrested Friday in the northern village of Waffensen, where he lives with his family. In a search of the suspect’s home, German investigators confiscated his customized computer, which contained the worm’s source code.

“As a result of the student’s detailed testimony about the viruses he spread, he has been identified clearly as the author,” the state criminal office in Hanover said in a statement.

Read more at CNN.com.

NEC Develops 3D Face Recognition

The algorithm uses GIB (Geodesic Illumination Basis) descriptors as registered data, which is calculated from 3D facial data, enabling optimal description of various pose and illumination changes.This results in superior identification accuracy essential to real world application of facial recognition technology.

The features of this technology, in comparison to NEC conventional models, are as follows:

(1) NEC has developed a matching method that identifies and highlights individual facial characteristics of 2D images and compares them with 3D and GIB facial data achieving 24 times better accuracy.
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Phoenix Enables ‘Instant On’ Email Access

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. has released an expanded version of Phoenix FirstWare Assistant, now with support for email. The Phoenix cME certified application, designed for mobile professionals, now allows users of any Windows-based notebooks, tablets and ultra-portable PCs instant “read-only” access to their email from Microsoft Outlook without the need to launch the primary operating system. The product, available this month, was introduced at the CeBit technology trade show in Hanover, Germany.  Read more...

Siemens To Show Protoype PenPhone

Infoworld is reporting on a new phone that Siemens has been working on. The phone is in the shape of a pen that allows you to write letters and numbers on any surface and enter the data directly.

The GSM-based PenPhone prototype features integrated handwriting recognition technology and will be unveiled at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany next month.

Read the whole article at InfoWorld.

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