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

Analysis: Mobile industry pursues Linux platform

Mobile companies are clubbing together to create a foundation in pursuit of a Linux platform for mobile phones. Handset builders Motorola, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung and operators Vodafone and NTT DoCoMo announced yesterday they will build the world's first 'global, open Linux-based software platform for mobile devices'. It aims to develop an API specification, reference architectures and implementations, and a set of developer tools. ...more

Book review: Who says elephants can't dance? by Louis V. Gerstner

The book is sub-titled 'Inside IBM's historic turnaround' and it describes Louis V. Gerstner's encounter with the failing IBM empire. He emphasises that in the early nineties the company was facing financial extinction, something easily forgotten today, and the story of the book is how he tried to turn around the bloated and uncompetitive dinosaur that IBM was becoming. ...more

3Gb floppy disks, courtesy of Fujifilm

Fujifilm has announced a breakthrough in magnetic data storage, with its prototype NANO CUBIC technology that can boost the capacity of current forms of media tenfold. NANO CUBIC technology uses an ultra-thin layer coating that boasts low noise and high signal to noise ratios making it ideal for rewritable data media. Applications for such a technology include high-capacity floppy disks, high definition and long duration digital videotape of broadcast quality, and backup media for both data and video. ...more

NTT announces holographic memory breakthrough

The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT has been pushing the boundaries of holographic storage. It's not quite 'Hamlet on the holo-deck' yet, in terms of three-dimensional imaging, but the holographic principles of light interference patterns are being used for a high-capacity storage device. Called Info-MICA (Information-Multilayered Imprinted CArd), the new memory is capable of storing 1GB of data within the size of a postage stamp, reports NE Asia Online. ...more