(Press Release) Logitech has announced that the Infogrames' Test Drive series will support its force feedback wheels for the PlayStation 2. Test Drive will be available in Q1 2002, while Test Drive Off-Road(TM): Wide Open(TM) is now available for an estimated retail price of $49.99. Test Drive Off-Road: Wide Open will be on display with Logitech's force feedback wheels for PlayStation 2 at the ECTS tradeshow in London (Booth 1640), starting September 2.
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(Press Release) ATI Technologies Inc. and Intel Corporation today announced their support of the IEEE 1394 standard for multimedia device connection to the personal computer. The 1394 standard, more popularly known as FireWire and i.LINK, is growing in acceptance as the best method to connect peripheral devices, such as digital video camcorders, to PCs. ATI's newly announced ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV, features 1394 to broaden the multimedia capabilities of the ALL-IN-WONDER family.
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(Press Release) CSU Sacramento, SpotLife and Logitech have announced their participation in a new online video classroom project that was co-developed by Dr. Kent W. Meyer and Rolando Cabiles. Dr. Meyer, a Professor of Accounting at Sacramento State University, and Mr. Cabiles, the Project Coordinator, are taking the virtual classroom to the next level by adding live video and audio to Dr. Meyer's online lectures. The course utilizes a Logitech QuickCam Web camera to broadcast real-time video and audio via SpotLife's Personal Video Broadcasting service. The participants in the first online video classroom at CSU Sacramento had a higher attendance rate, a lower dropout percentage and passed the course with a stronger accumulative course average.
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(PRNewswire) Seagate today announced the release of the breakthrough Serial ATA storage interface that will ultimately transfer data at an amazing 600 Mbytes per second -- six times faster than the current ATA standard -- and allow more complex, flexible and intelligent multi-drive systems. Seagate and Intel today are demonstrating the world's first fully-compliant prototype Serial ATA hard drive with native hot-pluggability, at the Intel Developers Forum, San Jose. Seagate played a leading role in the two-year effort to bring Serial ATA to market, and the specification was formally released today by Seagate, APT, Dell, IBM, Intel and Maxtor as the successor to the Ultra ATA/100 interface.
Seagate also announced plans to provide the first Serial ATA hard drives to the market next year. Seagate has readied its current Barracuda ATA products to ship with the Serial ATA interface as soon as leading chip providers release Serial ATA discrete host controllers on add-in cards and motherboards. Together, these products will enable the PC and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries to begin a transition to Serial ATA products by next year. Allowing a simple and cost-effective transition, Serial ATA provides a cost structure similar to Parallel ATA, and is 100-percent backward compatible with legacy Ultra ATA/100 software and drivers.
By its third generation, Serial ATA will enable data rates of 600 Mbytes per second at an affordable ATA cost, allowing a fantastic future of data-intensive and entertainment-heavy content delivered via PCs, home network hubs and CE devices with unprecedented speed. Because it's hot-pluggable, Serial ATA simplifies new-generation ATA devices like removable in-dash car computers and music players. Its future superset functions like enhanced command queuing will bring users the right data more quickly than ever, at the right time. Serial ATA's incredibly simple, small cables and its low power requirements make possible entirely new, smaller form factors in the PC, mobile and CE world.
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(Press Release) Looking to extend battery life in notebook PCs, NVIDIA Corporation has introduced PowerMizer, a radical new mobile technology that allows end users to extend battery life by way of a flexible power management system integrated in both the hardware and software. PowerMizer enables features already built into NVIDIA's family of GeForce2(TM) Go mobile GPUs and provides users with the optimal balance between performance and power. PowerMizer includes a simple but flexible interface that gives users control of the power management settings that best fits their personal computing environment. PowerMizer reduces system level power consumption by reducing CPU load as well as saving power within the graphics subsystem. Instead of increasing voltage to deliver peak performance, PowerMizer uses an industry low 1.575V to minimize power consumption while delivering the industry's fastest graphics solution. In the maximum battery mode setting, the average graphics power consumption is a remarkably low one-half watt for standard office applications.
NVIDIA's PowerMizer technology will be featured in notebooks powered by NVIDIA's GeForce2 Go, Quadro2(TM) Go, and next-generation mobile GPUs.
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