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Cellular baseband offers full HSDPA support
Electronics Talk - Broadcom has released a new cellular baseband processor that is fully compliant with the High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standard for high-speed cellular data. Note: Readers of the Editor s free email newsletter will have read this news

First Take: Panasonic Toughbook CF-51
ZDNet Australia - You can't hose it off like its predecessors, but Panasonic's Toughbook CF-51 has been built strong enough to take more than its share of punishment. Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie's rise to stardom fuelled a thriving rumour mill that bolstered her

BlueStreak SoC drives multimedia toy
Electronics Talk - A design win for the new Fisher-Price Pixter Multi-Media portable device affirms Sharp's position as a cost-effective design solution source for video-intensive products. Note: Readers of the Editor s free email newsletter will have read this news

New NVIDIA Dual-Analog TV Tuner Turns PCs Into Home Entertainment
Media Center PC World - NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA DualTV tuner with comprehensive personal video recording functionality, unique MediaSqueeze disk space saving technology, and support for XPMCE. With its unique two-tuner technology, the NVIDIA DualTV tuner

Smart-toy with Mulit-Media system from Sharp 6-04-06
Channel E - Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas' and Fisher-Price are working together at the Pixter Multi-Media portable device. The solution set includes Sharp's LH79524 System-on-Chip (SoC) and custom TFT-LCD panel, as well as design support and software

Networked industrial MPU targets small-footprint SoCs
Electronic Engineering Times - AMCC announced the first of its family of networked industrial MPUs the PowerPC 405EZ processor, with speeds ranging from 100MHz to 400MHz to provide high-performance, low-power solutions for small-footprint SoC designs. The PPC405EZ's connectivity

Help needed + a rant
Slyck - Yeah, so I need help, and I would love to rant. What do you want to hear first? The rant? Too bad, you gotta hear my problem first. My PC is pretty much I don't know messed up? I haven't got any idea whats wrong with it myself. I mean, sometimes

Upgrading: power up your PC
PC Authority - Select Page 1 - Introduction 2 - Media centre 3 - Home PC 4 - Digital creation 5 - Gaming PC 6 - Business PC Next >> An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades. Perennial

Spending more on software
Express Computer India - There has been a marked increase in spending on packaged software by enterprises, while the spend on hardware is slowing down, reports Abhinav Singh Enterprises in India are investing more in packaged software vis- -vis IT hardware. LG Electronics