IDF Fall 2003: Intel stays schtum on overclocking

You have probably read a lot of the news emerging from Intel's Developer Forum in San Jose, but has there been any developments regarding the Intel Desktop Control Center, Intel's apparent accommodation of overclocking - which surfaced last month? The answer is no, for all the gathering of the great and the good, but we did try. An Intel spokesperson did confirm the product would appear in the fourth quarter, but short of a release within the next week or two that was always going to be the case. We even went to the top and asked Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CTO, about the plans for the Control Centre. ...more

Thread Checker 1.0 released for Pentium processors

Finding bugs in computer programs can be difficult at the best of times, but multi-threaded programs provide a particular challenge. It is for this reason Intel has released debugging support for its Hyper-Threading technology. The software tool Thread Checker 1. ...more

InterBase 6.0 released

Borland updates InterBase, its venerable, cross-platform database. Features of InterBase 6.0 include IBConsole (a GUI front end for InterBase's command-line tools), support for ODBC, JDBC and ANSI SQL, and integration with other Borland tools, such as Delphi 5 (through the use of InterBase Express components). ...more

IPTV companies club on single standards push

Companies that provide TV over the Internet (IPTV) joined forces on Monday to set a single global standard so that systems can work together. The Open IPTV Forum is backed by companies including Ericsson, Matsushita's Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens AG, Sony, AT&T, Telecom Italia and France Telecom. Not on the starting list are Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft, the market leaders and alliance partners in IPTV networks and software. ...more

Adobe to release two versions of Photoshop CS3

Adobe has revealed that it will be launching two versions of Photoshop when it unveils Creative Suite 3 on 27 March. In addition to the new, long-awaited version of the image editing and manipulation software, Adobe will introduce Photoshop CS3 Extended, a completely new edition designed, in Adobe's words, for cross-media creative professionals to stretch the limits of digital imaging. Photoshop CS3 Extended includes everything in Photoshop CS3 plus a new set of tools for the integration of 3D and motion graphics, image measurement and analysis. ...more