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Business Week is carrying a report and an interview with ATI CEO Dave Orton, on the upcoming PCIE rollout. EETimes is carrying a related article, outlining NVidia's plans to use a 'bridge chip' to allow for a smoother transition to the new technology.

Archrivals Nvidia Corp. and ATI Technologies Inc. are taking very different approaches as they roll out graphics processors and modules aimed at the first crop of PCs supporting the serial PCI Express interconnect. Nvidia (Santa Clara, Calif.) will initially ship bridge chips for its existing graphics processors, while ATI (Markham, Ontario) is announcing this week a new line of graphics controllers with native Express support.

Graphics are the most important element of the I/O shift, given the bandwidth-hungry nature of the chips that initially use 16 channels of Express while most other peripherals use a single lane. "The primary attachment for Express probably for many years to come will be graphics," McCarron said.

The use of bridge chips to manage inventory through the first phase of the transition was natural for Nvidia since it commands the lion's share of the discrete desktop graphics sector. Nvidia developed a proprietary 16x version of the AGP bus linking its existing graphics chips to the Express bridges.

Nvidia claims that use of bridge chips doesn't really affect performance, but I guess we'll all have to wait and see..

A British mother's chatroom safety device has helped win her the title of the world's top female inventor. The Phone & Net Guard can prevent calls to specified numbers and also allows the user to block broadband signals on the phone, without affecting normal phone usage.




The BBC is carrying this story.

The Financial Express is carrying a story on plans by and American company - Kasenna to offer Bollywood movies to Indian audiences worldwide via Video-On-Demand.

The company has begun studying and understanding the various issues involved with licensing in India. Mr Gray said, “Licensing issues differ from country to country, which is what we need to understand. As of now, we will go back and conduct a market study and also try and get the feel of the American appetite for Indian movies.”

Kasenna has had its presence in India for a year. The company has its research and development centre and officials have indicated India to be the fastest growing operation.

Bollywood is now going to spread like the plague :S Let's hope international audiences push for better overall quality..

IIIT (not IIT) Hyderabad has incubated a technology firm Enrich Technologies at its campus founded by Mr Santosh Kumar Gangwani after he graduated from the institute in 2002.

After working on the idea for nearly two years, Enrich Technologies has developed a software product, EezLearn Multimedia Language Lab, that aids teachers and students in language content creation and management and serves as a collaborative tool for learning.

Enrich Technologies is targeting the product at customers such as language training institutes, call centre training institutes, engineering colleges, schools, and TOEFL and GRE training institutes.

The full story is available here.

The Economic Times is carrying a story on MediaIBC, a "small company (that) has recently bagged a huge government deal beating off competition from the established biggies like Infy , Satyam, TCS etc." The software in question is it's Validator software.

The Government of India, looking for an ideal candidate to design its revolutionary 'less paper system', has handed over the the mega deal to a group of young innovators who had started Media IBC, the little known software company which somehow writes codes that take into account the emotions of individuals.
Starting from the belief that ?God is a software codie?, it is only a step forward to desire to play God, writing codes that help in development of self and state.

With the crappy website, tacky write-up, ideas that seem to have stemmed from The Onion, and to top it all off - The GOI backing, all I can smell is BS..

eWeek is one of many sites carrying a story on HP's plans to "certify, support and jointly sell MySQL AB's open-source database and JBoss' applications server on its server hardware".

"We'll be the first and only vendor to offer an integrated, certified, supported solution on an operating system stack. HP is the only solutions vendor who can do it, because the other vendor has a vested interest in selling their own software," Rovira said, referring to Microsoft as the "other vendor."

The HP announcement comes as another notch in the belt for MySQL, which is fast becoming the open-source database darling of the corporate world. Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing for MySQL, of Uppsala, Sweden, said that HP's move shows that there's a "big brother in IT to support and service a complete open-source stack."

The full story is available here.

ATI Tech has formally launched operations in India. ATI Technologies (Europe) GmbH managing director and vice-president, Peter Edinger told reporters on Thursday that ATI would sell its series of chipsets – 9800 SE, 9600 XT, 9800 XT and 9200 SE – in the country, and would increasingly target the gaming and home entertainment sector in the country.

Silicon India is carrying this story.

Wired is carrying an interesting update on the state of Linux in Iraq.

Though the United States has eased several restrictions governing the export of goods and technologies to Iraq over the past year, "publicly available" software, like Linux, remains caught in limbo because it implements certain security standards -- namely, strong encryption.

Linux developers say strong encryption is necessary to protect the security of businesses and Internet users. American policy makers believe it's a tool that terrorists may use to hide their communications from law enforcement officials. In light of the current war on terrorism, the latter argument has so far prevailed -- meaning anyone wishing to send a copy of Linux to Iraq must first obtain permission from the Department of Commerce.

Meanwhile, the Department of Commerce has classified Microsoft Windows and Sun Solaris as "mass-market encryption products," meaning that the vendors can ship them to Iraq without a license.

This has to be a new low for the US government :S

Cell phone service provider Hutchison Essar, a division of telecommunications giant Orange, on Friday became the second of India's wireless companies in a week to start selling "push to talk," the walkie-talkie style cell phone service. Tata Indicom has also introduced this feature recently.

Push-to-talk technology allows callers to connect to other cell phones with just the push of a single button, similar to a walkie-talkie. Only one person can talk at a time, and there is no need to dial a number.

News.com is carrying this article.

The Economic Times is carrying a report on news of a Swedish computer game that has been banned in China.

The computer game, "Hearts of Iron", made by the Stockholm-based games developer Paradox Entertainment, also showed Taiwan as a part of Japan , Xinhua news agency said, citing a censorship committee under the Ministry of Culture.

"All these severely distort historical facts and violate China 's gaming and Internet service regulations," the ministry said. "The game should be immediately prohibited."

Considering the widespread piracy market in China, I don't see how they plan to enforce this..