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Industrial designers and graphic artists use their monitors to view 3D images of the products they are projecting but it would be easier for them to access a special device that would display the images in three dimensions on a high resolution screen or something similar that would make them look like they were real.

Well, this is the role of Bloom, a PC concept designed to enhance their creativity by bringing next-generation technologies in a powerful and advanced set of devices with extremely friendly user interaction.

This computer can be accessed via a biometric scanner that can recognize the right user and allow the access to all the stored files and applications, or directly via verbal commands based on powerful speech recognition software with voice commands libraries.

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AMD has lived up to their word and are releasing their 780G chipsets H1 2008. They announced availability at the CeBIT 2008 event in Hanover, Germany. Manufacturers out of the gate include ASUS (M3A78), Gigabyte (GA-MA78GM), and ECS (A780GM), ranging from $70-100USD.

Utilizing HyperTransport 3.0 (15 GB/s @1.8GHz / 20GB/s @2.6GHz), the 780G calls for DDR2 1066 and has four banks directly connected to the AM2+/AM2 socket. Specifications leaked last year (image) called for DDR3 in a 240-pin 128-bit interface, but memory pricing and AM2 compatibility encouraged the use of DDR2. The AMD 780G chipset is also directly connected to the socket and has a dual 16x link for input/output.

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Microsoft Corp. gave early testers their first glimpse of its next-generation Web browser Wednesday, and said Internet Explorer 8 will adhere to the same standards as competitors’ programs.Microsoft’s browsers, including the current Internet Explorer 7, gained notoriety among Web developers for handling Web page code differently than Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox, Apple Inc.’s Safari, the now-defunct Netscape Navigator and others.

For the most part, major non-Microsoft browsers and outside developers who built Web pages worked with agreed-upon technical standards, while Microsoft was accused of adding proprietary code to those standards. The result: Web pages that looked good in Internet Explorer but broke on other browsers, or vice versa.

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Speakers for your MP3 player are never going to be both portable and able to pump out great sound.

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Microsoft Corp asked software developers to “bet on us” as it began making test versions available of Internet Explorer 8, an upgraded version of the main software used to browse the Web.At Microsoft’s MIX08 conference on Wednesday, the company’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, said the Web was at the center of everything Microsoft was doing as it seeks to expand beyond the desktop business it dominates.

“I know today that you have many amazing technology choices available to you, but I’d like you to bet on us,” Ozzie told an audience of Web developers.

Microsoft has been pushing for a “software plus services” strategy that uses the Internet to augment traditional software that runs on a computer’s hard drive.

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