Via builds a chipset for the Turion

Chip developer, Via Technologies, has announced the availability of the VIA K8N800A chipset for the new AMD Turion 64-bit processor for notebooks. Via says that the K8N800A is low-power core-logic chipset with an S3 Graphics UniChrome Pro integrated graphics processor (IGP) incorporated with the northbridge. The IGP offers dual-pipeline graphics performance via a 128-bit 2D/3D engine and shared DDR memory support. ...more

Blogger moves subscription features to free service

Blogger.com, the popular web logging site owned by Google, is moving many of the features previously found only in the Blogger Pro subscription service to the free blogger service. Blogger Pro will be wound down and not offered as a separate service. ...more

University to set up archive of bust dot com company business plans

Budding entrepreneurs and historians of the future will be able to look back on the madness of the dot com boom. The University of Maryland has received government and private grants to archive the business and marketing plans of those companies launched between 1996 and 2002 that thought having a domain name and venture capital backing meant they could retire at 25. The University of Maryland's Robert H. ...more

PC mouse with a difference

Nowadays, computers and mice seem synonymous like fish and chips or Steptoe and Son, but one little furry critter took the link a little too far. That bastion of truthful reportage, The Sun, tells the story of a computer engineer that discovered a real life rodent living inside a faulty PC taken in for repair. Gary Cooper of Lancashire found the creature had made a nest inside the casing and caused the computer to short circuit after chewing through a number of cables. ...more

Orders taken for FireWire SuperDrives

Online retailer 4DVD is taking pre-orders for a FireWire version of Pioneer's SuperDrive, the combined rewritable CD and recordable DVD drive recently unveiled in the 733MHz Power Mac G4s. In conjunction with Apple's DVD Studio Pro software the drive can write DVDs that can be played in most domestic DVD players. It also acts as a standard DVD recorder (writing up to 4. ...more