ATI climbs on board AMD's dual-core Turion

With a view to the forthcoming Vista, ATI has released a new series of chipsets to support AMD's new 64-bit dual-core mobile chip, the Turion 64 X2. The recently released extension to the Turion family has optimised battery life and improved graphics support geared for the forthcoming Windows platform, such as the 3D Aero user interface. As well as Enhanced Virus Protection and HyperTransport technology, the AMD chips feature AMD's Digital Media XPress, designed to improve multimedia performance and playback for the likes of games, streaming video and audio, DVDs, and music. ...more

EU to give Europa website a face-lift

The EU's giant website Europa is to get a face lift throughout 2004. The site's stated aim is to 'capture new audiences'. The site - which claims to be 'probably' the world's biggest - provides information about the EU in all of its different languages which adds up to some 2. ...more

Microsoft trial witness under attack

The nine-states attack the funding background of the latest Microsoft witness. Reuters reports that University of Chicago economist Kevin Murphy, called as a witness for Microsoft in the ongoing antitrust case, has admitted that all his published research has been at least partly funded by Microsoft. Mr Murphy had asserted that the broad sanctions the nine states are seeking to apply to the antitrust remedy are unnecessary as there is no evidence that Microsoft's illegal acts had been to the detriment of the competition. ...more

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here's wishing everyone a lovely Christmas, and a happy, healthy and successful 2007! As always, thanks to all those who have helped with the site - whether posting comments or giving us feedback - but special thanks to all our forum moderators! In particular we should mention gullyg and timark, for their endeavours beyond the call of duty. ...more

Microsoft polishes Vista iPod patch

Microsoft has released a revised version of the Vista patch that enables safe ejecting of iPods. The patch improves compatibility with Windows Vista's Safely Remove Hardware feature and Windows Explorer's Eject command. In some cases, using either method to unmount an iPod could corrupt data on the portable media player. ...more