Saturday October 30, 2004

[H]ardNews 3rd Edition

SanDisk Releases New Cards:

This is for you Pocket PC/Palm users that rely on the SD card format for your extended storage needs. SanDisk has released new 2GB SD cards and 512MB MiniSD cards. This opens up possibilities for more data to be stored. Like DVD conversion, and PILES of MP3's!

SanDiskŪ Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today introduced the world’s largest capacities of Memory Stick PRO™, Memory Stick PRO Duo™ and SD™ cards with 4-gigabyte (GB), 1GB and 2GB capacities respectively. and SanDisk miniSD™ and SanDisk RS-MMC™ cards to 512 megabytes (MB)

Want to Annoy your Friends?:

PhoneBites is a company that is interested in spicing up your dull conversations on your cell phones. If those annoying ring tones in the malls, and movie theatres weren't enough. CNET.com has an article.

The San Francisco-based company this week launched its Razz technology, which enables cell phone owners to interject witty--more often just silly--sound clips into their conversations. The clips are packaged together and can be downloaded to a few advanced phones for about $2. During a call, a Razz user presses a button, and a clip is played.

No AMD for Dell... Still:

The AMDZone has a good article talking about the reasons that Dell doesn't believe that its customers want an AMD processor in their PC's. I find it odd, because of AMD's success. Read it here and form your own conclusion.

News travels fast in cyberspace, and even faster down Mopac from Dull to AMDZone. We have seen many reports of a memo from the belly of the beast commenting on why they do not provide AMD CPUs in any shape or form.