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Beginning in March, NEC will produce 100K units of the device per month, with plans to increase that number to 600K per month by July. NEC's USB 2.0 host controller is available at $8.5 for 10K units and above. Pricing and availability is subject to change.

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Microsoft Corp. has shown off some of the tools it used to optimize the Windows XP operating system, which is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2001.

At a seminar at the company´s Silicon Valley Campus on Tuesday, one of the company´s engineers gave demonstrations of tools that had been used to debug both the raw source code for the operating system, and the actual compiled programs.

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Microsoft:registered: Windows Media 7 Resource Kit Beta 3 is a collection of tools and utilities designed to assist content producers in the creation, distribution, and playback of Windows Media. In addition to newly released tools that improve the overall experience of working with Windows Media Technologies, the kit also includes popular utilities first introduced in Windows Media 4.1, Digital Broadcast Manager, and Windows Media Tools 4.1.

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A key security flaw in Microsoft´s Active Directory pointed out more than 12 months ago by early adopters won´t be patched for nearly another year.

What´s more, enterprise users will have to upgrade all their directory servers, known as domain controllers, to the forthcoming "Whistler" version of Windows 2000 to activate the patch.

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3D Prophet III - State of the art fragging device and ultra-realistic interactive 3D animation generator

CROYDON, 27TH FEBRUARY, 2001 Hercules is proud to unveil today a major milestone for hardcore gamers - the release of 3D Prophet III. This latest graphics cards from Hercules offers the most powerful, most fully featured graphics processor NVIDIA's GeForce3. Hercules uses its expertise to push the new chipset architecture to its highest level. This new performance monster gives the most demanding gamers the opportunity to take advantage of professional graphics rendering.

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Microsoft Corp. and Unisys Corp. have just demonstrated that the largest Web-based enterprises can run their ERP applications with power and speed - without paying a UNIX-premium price. In an industry-standard benchmark, a 16-processor Unisys e@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 system, running Microsoft:registered: SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition and Windows:registered: 2000 Datacenter Server, simulated a workload of 10,400 mySAP.com users with an average response time of 1.83 seconds.

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TweakTown has posted an exclusive Gigabyte nVidia GeForce3 Press Release and exclusive pictures of the GeForce3 Gigabyte GV-GF3000DF graphics card and the wicked looking box.