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Note the Business Wire logo on that Yahoo page. As far as I can tell, The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP simply paid Business Wire to distribute their press release, and Yahoo put it up on their site automatically, as they do many BW press releases.

There's no conspiracy here. Move along, move along.

-- R.

The specifications in English...at the bottom of this article:

(BSNS WIRE) Sony's VAIO PictureBook First to Market With Transmeta's Crusoe Sony's VAIO PictureBook First to Market With Transmeta's Crusoe Processor

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000--

Sony Electronics today announced that its new VAIO(R) PictureBook C1VN notebook computer will feature the Crusoe(TM) processor, whose energy-saving capabilities will substantially enhance the popular notebook PC's battery life. With the new C1VN model expected to ship next month, Sony is slated to be the first to bring the benefits of the Crusoe processor to U.S. consumers.

"With Sony's VAIO PC line, we're constantly enhancing the consumer's PC experience by providing the world's most robust technologies in stylish, ultra-light and compact form-factors," said Mark Hanson, vice president and general manager for VAIO PC products at Sony Electronics.

"At just 2.2 pounds, the PictureBook is light weight. Couple that with the enhanced battery life Sony is experiencing with Crusoe and consumers get more productive mobile time and greater flexibility in how they use their notebooks. With this technology, there's no reason to be tethered to a power cord or searching for an AC adapter."

In addition to substantially improved battery life, the PictureBook features a new built-in progressive scan camera for better digital still and video images and a full complement of digital video editing software, making it one of the market's smallest, most powerful business computing and digital video editing systems.

Among the PictureBook's full suite of office and entertainment applications is Sony's MovieShaker(TM) -- a fun, simple application for producing digital home movies, complete with transitions, effects and music -- Intuit Quicken(R) 2000, QuickTime (TM), Microsoft(R) Word 2000 and Adobe's Photo Deluxe(R), Business Edition.

Also featured are additional Sony applications, including DVgate(TM) and PictureGear(TM), which allow users to capture full motion digital video and still photography for dynamic multimedia presentations -- or even video e-mail. PictureGear(TM) allows for enhanced management of digital content - both sound and video files. Users can visually organize and manage personal digital content collections including still images, digital video clips, MP3 files and much more.

In addition to the super-fast 600 MHz(b) Crusoe Processor and the new progressive-scan CCD camera, the VAIO PictureBook has a 12 GB(c) hard drive, 128 MB of SDRAM -- and a dedicated MagicGate(TM) Memory Stick(R) media slot for easy storage of downloadable SDMI-compliant music, high-resolution images and other data. The VAIO PictureBook features Sony's programmable Jog Dial(TM) control for easy application loading of a host of user-friendly applications.

The new PictureBook PC begins shipping in October with an estimated selling price of $2,299(d) The PictureBook will also feature Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Millennium Edition (Me) operating system. "It's no surprise that Sony, the company that created the ultralight notebook category, is first to market with Crusoe," said Dave Ditzel, chief executive officer, Transmeta. "Unlike other microprocessors, Crusoe uses an innovative 'smart layer' of software to perform functions normally done in hardware on a chip. This fundamental, unique design difference allows Crusoe to be smaller, run cooler and be more power-efficient than traditional microprocessors."

Key Specifications:

Sony VAIO C1VN PictureBook Computer
PCG-C1VN

CPU Crusoe(TM)processor
TM5600 600 MHz(b)
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LCD Display 8.9-inch UWXGA width (1024 x 480) TFT with
XWIDE(TM)display technology
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Operating System Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Millennium Edition
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Dimensions 1.14" Slim x 9.8" W x 6.0" / Lightweight -
only 2.2 lbs.!
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Built-in Camera Progressive Scan CCD Camera with 350K pixel
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Software Applications Adobe Acrobat(R) Reader
Adobe PhotoDeluxe(R) Business Edition
Intuit(R) Quicken(R) 2000 Basic
Microsoft(R) Word 2000
QuickTime(TM)
RealNetworks(R)RealPlayer(R) 7 Basic
Sony Media Bar(TM)
Sony MovieShaker(TM)
Sony DVgate(TM)
Sony Smart Capture Suite
Sony PictureGear(TM) 4.1
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Interfaces i.LINK (IEEE 1394) S400 interface
VGA Output (includes VGA Adapter + NTSC)
USB port; RJ-11 phone jack; Audio-In port;
Headphone output
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Standard RAM 128MB SDRAM
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Hard Disk 12 GB(c) HD
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Battery Lithium-Ion Battery (option for dual and
quad battery)
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Digital Video DVgate(TM) motion and DVgate(TM) still
MPEG1 Digital Video
Upgraded Video Chipset/Memory (8 MB video RAM
for running graphics apps.)
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Digital Audio Hardware MIDI
3D surround; Built-in stereo speakers
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Floppy Disk Drive External 1.44 MB, 3.5", sold separately
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Modem Integrated V.90 56K(e)
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Additional Features ATI RAGE MOBILITY graphics chip with
8.0 MB SDRAM PC Card Slot supports one type II
card CardBus support
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Optional Accessories PCGA-BP51A/Standard Capacity Battery $149.99(d)
PCGA-BP52A/Double Capacity Battery...$249.99(d)
PCGA-BP54/Quad Capacity Battery .....$499.99(d)
PCGA-CD51/A16X CD-ROM Drive..........$299.99(d)
PCGA-BC5/Battery Charger.............$199.99(d)
PCGA-UMS1/A USB Mouse.................$49.99(d)
PCGA-AC16V2/AC Adapter................$99.99(d)
PCGA-MM164/Memory....................$399.99(d)

Availability October 2000

ESP $2,299.99(d)

Note: A Photo is available.

Check these:

Slashdot thread on the Tracer software
Press release on BusinessWire
Tracer Technologies (BakBone)

There might be other companies offering a similar product, but this is what I remember from an earlier discussion here on Slashdot.

Cya,
bBob

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Yes. Two new Power Mac systems will be introduced, one will use the Rage 128 Pro chipset (as currently featured in Power Mac G4s); the other will use the Radeon. Additionally, an iMac utilizing the Rage 4XL chipset (dunno what this is) will be announced. The press info is here:

http://www.businesswire.com/webbox/bw.071700/20199 0394.htm

No, the link is broken due to a space in it. Here's a corrected link for those of you too lazy to figure out how to fix it.

try
http://sf-web1.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline .cgi?day1/201992048&ticker=mc|bk bof|bkb.
instead.
-f

this has been about for at least a year now, and green for a couple of years. heres an artical from december 98 Cambridge claims blue light emitting polymer and heres a good one from feb 98 it clames that Seiko-Epson and Cambridge Display Technology were working on a momocrome version.
want to find out more .

A couple of things: First, Linus isn't asking for the "nominal fee", he doesn't own the domain names. SeriousDomains does. Linus just won't release the trademark for use if the names are auctioned. SeriousDomains still gets to sell them at a "nominal fee."

What really needs to be done to eliminate domain name squating is get a legal precedent ruling that domain names are in the public domain and therefore, not saleable. Furthermore, any domain name not in active use needs to be returned to the public domain.

In any case, here is the press release with some of the names:
press release

Terra is in a "Low Earth Orbit" (LEO), and as such, will eventually crash back into Earth. In fact, NASA is requiring LEO satellites be de-orbited at end of life, as a way to keep trash out of orbit. (For several spacecraft I've designed this is an annoyingly design-driving requirement; simple spacecraft are being made complicated by the need for a beefy propulsion system simply to make it crash into Earth before it's dead. But keeping space clean is a noble and correct thing to do.)

So that I can blatantly plug my own company, here's my company's news release, a page describing the spacecraft briefly, a more detailed one and another that describes the follow-on spacecraft we're making. I don't know why TRW doesn't toot its own horn more, it's done some of the coolest physics-breaking things in the last fifty years, of any of the aerospace companies.

Even more disturbing -- scroll down the BizWeek page a little and note the story on "Imagery-Driven Fragrance Products are Everywhere These Days ... Including the Kitchen Sink!".

Hey... isn't that dish soap in iMac colors?

Carumba! It's iSoap! Quick Steve, call the lawyers!

http://www.business wire.com/cgi-bin/photowire.pl?101299/bw1.jpg

btw, Sun's SCSL is aimed more at commercial developers (including Sun's OEMs) and researchers, not so much general members of the public. However, they are releasing quite a bit of stuff under the SCSL - Java, Jini, HotSpot (later this year), their SPARC processors and several other software products. They seems to be SCSL'ing their products in general. They haven't said much about SCSL'ing Solaris recently - the last time it was brought up they said it would be quite hard to do, because of all the liscences.

I suppose there will be inevitable comparisons between Beowulf and Sun's HPC software, and SMP kit. The main hardware difference is bandwidth and latency - Beowulf seems more about combining lots of single CPU (or low CPU count, eg 1-4) boxes in a network, possibly having several hundred of such boxes. Sun's approach to high end computing is to have big SMP boxes (a single Starfire E10000 can take 64 UltraSparcs) with the option of clustering a few of them - currently limited to 4, ie 256 processors. A Starfire has a 6Gbyte/s I/O bus and 15Gbyte/s main memory bus, which is rather better than Ethernet. Sun's approach is more expensive, but it also solves a wider class of problems well. For some things (eg cracking codes, rendering) you don't need much interprocess communication or bandwidth, so it scales well with Beowulf, but for other things (some kinds of database operations, eg OLAP, and data intensive scientific calculations) you really need very high bandwidth and very low latency (close to main memory speeds) which is where Beowulf doesn't do so well. Still, some things don't scale so well, even on a Starfire... Btw, the Starfire is over 2 years old.

Cue Sun's next gen super-computer, codename Serengheti, which has a completely different architecture. It's memory architecture is called Cache Only Memory Architecture (COMA), which seems to have been in development for a long long time at Sun. A single box will take 128 processors, and you'll be able to cluster 8 of them, for a total of 1024 processors. It'll be powered by Sun's UltraSparc-III, which recently reached first silicion, and has b ooted on Solaris. Incidentaly, the UltraSparc-III has hardware support for 1024 processors, and is supposed to be out in volume production by the end of the year. However, Serengheti won't be out until about the 2nd half of 2000.

Anybody know where the updated version is? I ran around the Business Wire
site looking at today and yesterday's press release, and the only thing that looks close is
http: //www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day1 /190540189&ticker=sunw
which talks about Sun adding four new companies to it's systems integrator pool.