Hardware(Processors)
The New Prescott Pentium 4 processors will feature: 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus, 1MB of L2 cache,and Hyper-Threading II technology, the newcomer will also include additional instruction sets, known as PNI – Prescott New Instructions (SSE3 maybe) that are proposed to further accelerate processing of streams. In addition, sources indicated that there will be a number of different flavours of Prescott processors this year with core-clocks varying from 3.40GHz to 3.80GHz. Note, that in the latest Roadmap Update, Intel officially only indicated 3.40GHz Prescott processors by the year end and 3.60GHz and above CPUs in the first quarter 2004. So, either Intel is trying hard in order to roll-out its 3.80GHz chips by the end of 2003, or, the company simply looks through this opportunity at the moment, but no decisions have been made so far. However we should not expect the 3.80GHz Prescott products to come earlier than next year.

News Source : Digital Nowhere | Intel

::Handhelds(GBA)::
The company AM3 will release an official Gameboy Advance Smart Media Player. 24 minutes of animation (movies) can be played with a standard 32MByte Smart Media card, a 256MByte Smart Media Card could hold up to 192 minutes. Moreover, it can also play music files, pictures, etc.... The price is not vrey expensive (around US$35 only).

News Source : Game News

::Hardware::
S3 creater of one of the first few cards since the PCI times is now creating Delta Chrome a graphic card that is said to challenge ATI and Nvidia 3D cards with their price and features although not as powerful as the ATI and Nvida new cards but the price is the selling factor.


News Source : Mega Games | Graphic Cards

::Consoles(PS3)::
Yeah that is right information about the PS3 are starting to come up. The new console spots a lot of cool features like networking and network processing. A lot of power at that. Well do read more from the source.

News Source : Mega Games | PS3

::DVD::
Think you DVDs are safe? Totally life long protected againest damage? Even originals are facing a crisis now. It seems that they are rotting and yes rotting causing the disc to be not playable because rot causes a spot to form on the disc this in turn causes the player to be unable to read the disc because of this spots. Well there are a few listed that are faulty. Do go check ur discs and of course the distributors don't want to have anything to do with this rotting of disc.

News Source : SMH.com.au

::Hardware::
Seriously, now; 250 GB is a lot of hard drive space. But Western Digital hopes you'll find a need for that much storage when they release their WD Caviar 250 GB hard drive next month. The new drive is based on an 80 to 83 GB per platter technology, and it uses three platters. At this rate, who needs MP3 anymore? Why not just rip straight to .WAV? Or, even better, rip your CDs twice: once to .WAV for playing on your home machine, and once to MP3 for your portable.

News Source : ARS Technica

::Software(PC)::
Sorry for the slow updates recently had to get permission from the owner to link him off my website. Well here is a cool little piece of software for all those P2P network downloaders. Have you ever been fustrated that you cannot open a 1/2 downloaded AVI movie? Or you cannot prview the AVI till it is done? Well this fine fella here Andrei Jefremov wrote this software to actually help you solve all these fustrations.

Key Benefits
Preview AVI, divX, MPG, MPEG and VideoCD files without interruption of the download process
Uses standard DirectX framework - no additional software needed
Very simple interface
Does not change the original video file in any way
Tested extensively with P2P and FTP software
It is Free!

Website : AVIPreview

::Consoles(PS2)::
Qcast Tuner for the PS2 this little software allow you to connect your PS2 to your computer over the network and stream videos, MP3 and other media on your system it is a really cool software and made for the PS2. Just install the Software on your PC and pop a boot disk into your PS2 and you get live streaming form your PC. Oh almost forgot till now only the Official PS2 Network Adapter is supported.

Website : Boradq | Digital Entertainment

::Internet::
Cash machines, Internet connections and the servers that sit at the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001.

News Source : News.com | Internet
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::Internet::
The US goverment has allowed the registration of the .mil domain to the public. Very interesting options this will be posed to us read the full story on theregister.co.uk.

Full Article : The Register | .mil

::Security::
Internet users in Asia prepared for a possible second day of attacks by a computer virus that yesterday caused widespread service outages in South Korea and network slowdowns throughout the region.

News Source : News Forge

::Games::
Posted on 22 Jan 2003 on the official blizzard website that they are planning an expansion set for Warcraft III looks like more units and more fun till the day the expansion just hold on to what you have now. Warcraft rocks.

Full Article : Blizzard | Warcraft III Expansion
News Source : Slashdot.org

::Consoles (X-Box)::
Back in college (1991), I wondered why no one had bothered to make a DOS-based game console. One day, in the back of a notebook, I made some notes about how you might go about creating a DOS-based game console. (I even called it an "X-Box", but really the "X" was there because I didn't know what else to call it. Microsoft's current "XBox" console is completely different, and I don't claim any rights to the "X-Box" name.) I've posted some scans of my notes, and a discussion about how you would create a DOS-based game console.

Full Article : The 1991 X-Box
News Source : Slashdot.org

::Consoles::
A news source reported that over 8 million of X-box consoles had bee sold.

Asia - 0.85 million
USA - 5.4 million
Europe - 1.8 million

However, over 50 million of PS2 have been sold already. = )