Tag archive: Newcastle

Midway Games—the company that served as home to Mortal Combat, Wheelman, Joust, Gauntlet, Spy Hunter, and many other well-known titles—has had more of its assets acquired by Time Warner for $33 million at bankruptcy auction. The sale was approved on July 2, and will become final within ten days. Under the terms of the arrangement, Time Warner gets the majority of Midway's game properties and assets, although there are a… Read More

You won’t be using it anytime soon, but researchers at a pair of British universities have created software that allows a cameraphone to function as a computer mouse, according to a report on Vnunet.   Teams working together at York and Newcastle universities have created the software that uses Bluetooth technology. By moving the phone as you would a mouse, it could interact with public displays, letting users perform such tasks as… Read More

The chipmaker is doing so by increasing shipments of a new version of its desktop Athlon 64 based on a processor core dubbed Newcastle and by launching a new mobile Athlon XP chip based on the circuitry of the Athlon 64. AMD also plans to soon release another Athlon 64 FX chip for desktop PC enthusiasts. Read more at CNET News.com.