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12/9 - The Creative Zen Vision:M will be available this month. The Zen Vision:M competes with Apple's iPod, so it is important that it distinguishes itself from its competition. Device offers four times the colors, twice the battery life while playing video, the ability to play video from different formats and download music from different sites. Device uses a hard drive rather than Flash memory. One can also use it as a "clock with wake-to-any-music alarm".
This is a weird combination: Yahoo! Music and NVIDIA. What does online music have to do with 3D graphics? Music videos, that's what. Yahoo! Artist Mods lets people create music videos by combining music "with interactive digital animation".
The problem is how does one harness the vast repository of human knowledge to get answers? Yahoo! Answers beta attempts to surmount this problem. In the Yahoo! Answers, communities determine the reputations "of members who deliver the most trusted, valuable and relevant information".
Another weird combination: gigabit Ethernet and computer graphics. Agere and ATI have teamed up to make sure that Agere's gigabit Ethernet is interoperable with ATI's Radion Express chipset. The combination promises "higher throughput and lower-power-consumption".
That's two weird combinations in one day, both involving graphics.
Small businesses that use Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 with MS Point of Sale or MS Retail Management System now have at their disposal add-on software that allows them to connect front end sales with back end accounting. "It can be downloaded at no extra cost".
Gateway has won a legal proceeding over Hewlett Packard (HP). It's a litiguous industry, fraught with lawsuits. In 2004, HP asserted not less than seven patents against Gateway. Poor Gateway. Three of the patents previously were dismissed, Gateway prevailed on two others, and now this finding of "no literal infringement". Hmmm, that still leaves one more.