| AMD releases dual-processor graphics card
It includes DVI (digital visual interface) and DisplayLink ports to support external multimedia devices. The card will support CrossfireX technology by the end of this quarter, which will allow up to four graphics cards to work together to scale multimedia performance, AMD said in a news release. Priced at US$449, the card is available worldwide. With high-end features and midrange pricing, AMD's Moorhead hopes the new graphics card will boost the company's product offerings and heat up competition with rival Nvidia. Pricing makes the X2 impressive, but even more significant is the card's improved performance while using just one slot, said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. Users seeking a graphics performance boost usually end up buying two cards, which uses up two card slots.
Rockies-Sox duel a night for stargazers
It started Wednesday night when John Williams and the Boston Pops performed the national anthem. Then the crowd went wild when Hall of Famer Carl "Yaz" Yastrzemski, Boston's favorite 1967 star, threw out the first pitch. Ashanti sang "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch. Stephen King, Alan Dershowitz, Doris Kearns Goodwin (the first dame reporter to go inside the Red Sox locker room!), Chris Matthews and Doug Flutie were spotted in the sweet seats Wednesday night. Carol Beggy, who writes the "Names" column for the Boston Globe with Mark Shanahan, tells us to look behind left-handed hitters to see the boldest names in the park. She expects more well-knowns in the crowd in the first two games, a gang that'll probably include season fans: Larry David, Mike Wallace, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jack and Suzy Welsh, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Ted and Vicki Kennedy, Denis Leary, Tim Russert, John Lithgow.
Archives for: July 2007
Dow Jones/Ottaway owners have until 5pm today to decide Bancrofts' jockeying over Murdoch deal goes down to the wire Some family members have committed to vote in favor of a sale, but others oppose the deal for fear that News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's style of journalism would damage the integrity of Dow Jones's publications... which includes The Standard-Times in New Bedford and The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis The Bancroft family and its advisers headed into the final hours of deliberations over the fate of Dow Jones & Co. Sunday amid heated jockeying and negotiating that threatened to create a rift between the company's board and some family advisers, according to people familiar with the matter. Still, the company's fate remained too close to call, these people said. Michael B.
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