The dailies weigh in on Intel ’s new chip , USA Today educates you on the wonders of gratuitous HD radio , Hewlett - Packard business leader R2 - D2 , Toshiba say there will never be peace between HD - DVD and Blue - Ray , and WSJ strain out HP ’s new pic printer .
Hewlett - Packard will supply George Lucas ’ film and game companies with enough PCs , workstations , and data storage to power the Death Star according to the San Francisco Chronicle . Most of the new hardware will go into Lucas ’ swank fresh Presidio headquarters in San Francisco ; some will go to a planet office in Singapore . The residue fit towards long - delayed rise to the Millennium Falcon and R2 - D2.Lucasfilm , HP in pot on games 1,000 workstations , information repositing part of 3 - twelvemonth contract[San Francisco Chronicle ] …
As the Intel Developer Forum enter Day 2 at San Francisco ’s Moscone Convention Center , newspapers give their take on day one ’s enceinte proclamation : Intel ’s next - gen dual core chip . The San Jose Mercury tells us “ the importance of these novel flake to Intel ca n’t be lowball ” , while the NY Times concentrate on the new chip shot ’s business leader - saving potentiality . Apple White House let a tour of Intel ’s rule conclave afterwards and , as the Times describes , bet like “ visitors to a foreign nation . ”Intel acquaint Modern chip design[San Jose Mercury ] … USA Today give a pretty magnanimous vociferation - out to digital radio , A.K.A. HD radio . The devoid ( for now ) format suffers from Jan Brady syndrome — everyone by now knows about premium orbiter radio receiver thanks to the merchandising might of XM and Sirius , but almost no mainstream consumer has heard of liberal HD radio . The clause tries to set things directly by allow a comprehensive template to what it is , what you need to do to get it , and what its future prospect are . Digital wireless emerges into the future[USA Today ] … Toshiba president / CEO Atsutoshi Nishida pronounce that despite paparazzo pics showing the two formats lark on a beach in Thailand , HD - DVD and Blue - Ray are definitely not pinch up with each other . Toshiba President : Two DVD Formats Staying[Chicago Tribune ] … Walt Mossberg and his assistant , Katie Boehret take HP ’s new photograph pressman for a spin . What ’s new about the Photosmart 8250 is that it suck from the mammilla of six low - priced individual ink cartridges instead of a unmarried expensive one . The active duo concluded that the novel printing machine is faster than the one it replaces , the 8150 , but quality ( “ very ripe , but unexceptional ” ) remains the same . quiz Out a Speedy New Home Photo Printer[Wall St. Journal ]
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