CNN.com - Bush: U.S. doesn't eavesdrop on phone calls of ordinary Americans - May 16, 2006

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush insisted Tuesday that the United States does not listen in on domestic telephone conversations among ordinary Americans.

The president did not respond directly, however, when asked whether it was a violation of privacy for the National Security Agency to seek phone records of millions of people from telephone companies.

The NSA has been collecting records of calls made in the U.S. by ordinary Americans as part of its anti-terrorism efforts, according to USA Today. The newspaper story followed reports that the NSA has been conducting eavesdropping on the electronic communications of suspected al Qaeda members and their contacts in the U.S. without warrants."

New race for the Alliance

"WORLD OF WARCRAFT, the most popular MMORPG and one of best-selling games in the world, will be getting a mission pack in the next couple of months.

Under the name, The Burning Crusade, Blizzard has presented excerpts from their unfinished code which will hopefully, one day become a great add-on that will give just that another kick of WoW-drug to over six million players and beyond."

Bush in 'ceaseless push for power' - Financial Times - MSNBC.com

"President George W. Bush had shown disdain and indifference for the US constitution by adopting an 'astonishingly broad' view of presidential powers, a leading libertarian think-tank said on Monday.

The critique from the Cato Institute reflects growing criticism by conservatives about administration policy in areas such as the 'war on terror' and undermining congressional power."

There is nothing divine about a bomb test

The first I heard of Divine Strake was last month. I was standing a few feet from the Nevada Nuclear Test Site where the experiment will happen. Corbin Harney, a Western Shoshone elder, winkingly gave me permission to enter the U.S. government-run, restricted-access site as his guest, since, if you believe the treaty the government signed, his people still own the land. I declined his invitation - I didn't have time to go to jail. Still, he and I stood together, holding hands, our heads bowed in prayer, or in respect for the prayers of others, as a religious service was held in the nuclear dust."

TUL Radeon X1900GT takes on Gainward's 7900 GT

"WE GOT HOLD of one of the first Radeon X1900 GT cards available on the market and had a fiddle.
ATI just introduced this card based on its R580 core, but with fewer pipes and with adjusted clock speeds. The R580 core is clocked at 575MHz and the card has 256MB of GDDR 3 memory clocked at 1200MHz. "

Investor Relations - News Releases - Press Release

"MARKHAM, ONTARIO, May 5, 2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX News Network) -- ATI's Radeon� X1900GT offers a top-of-the-line gaming experience at a great value that will entertain and amaze

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) announced today the availability of the new Radeon� X1900GT graphics processor. The Radeon X1900GT captures the outstanding speed, performance and rich feature set of the award-winning Radeon X1900XTX in a card available at a suggested retail price of $299.

'The Radeon X1900GT blends lighting-fast frame rates with unmatched image realism for incredibly immersive game play-something ATI is optimized to deliver as the only company that supports features like high dynamic range and anti-aliasing simultaneously,' said Vijay Sharma, Director of ATI's Desktop Discrete Products, ATI Technologies. 'The Radeon X1900GT is a fantastic gaming card for the money, plain and simple.'"

Intel Commits $1 Billion To Further Emerging Markets Strategy

"Intel Commits $1 Billion To Further Emerging Markets Strategy
World Ahead Program Links Work in Accessibility, Connectivity, Education

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2, 2006, Intel Corporation will invest more than $1 billion over the next five years in a broad new program to speed access to uncompromised technology and education for people in the world's developing communities.
The Intel World Ahead Program, which extends the company's existing initiatives for developing regions, integrates Intel's efforts to enhance lives by driving progress in three areas:"

Geforce 7900 series massively available

"NVIDIA managed to maintain solid shipment of Geforce 7900 GTX and GT cards. It took it roughly six weeks after it announced the cards but from now on you should not have any major problems to find one at the local store.

We checked most of the big etail stores in the UK, USA and Germany / Austria and we learned that you should not have any problem to order one today and to get it in a few days time."