New and Noteworthy: Intel Core 2 Duo chips debut; iTunes Could Be Apple's 'Trojan Horse' in the Home Audio-Video; more

Intel Core 2 Duo chips debut News.com reports that Intel has launched its Core 2 Duo processor at an event at its Santa Clara, Calif.-based headquarters. "The Core 2 Duo, which was code-named Conroe, has received a tremendous amount of praise from chip reviewers who had savaged the world's largest chipmaker in recent years for the poor performance of its Pentium D chips against Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon 64 X2 processors." More.

iTunes Could Be Apple's 'Trojan Horse' in the Home Audio-Video A press release from ABI Research speculates that Apple's iTunes service has the potential to outstrip its formidable iPod business and may allow it to enter the home audio and video markets ahead of its competitors. "With over a billion files downloaded from iTunes so far, computers all over the world are brimming with music, speech and video, often organized by iTunes client software into playlists and catalogues. Leveraging all that content, which users have already paid for and want to hear on a good home audio system or watch on a digital-ready TV, creates a huge opening for consumer electronics vendors." More.

Hi-def video add-on coming to iPod CNET reports that in about five months, you'll be able to watch high-definition video on your iPod. "Podcessory maker ATO plans to release a sleeve with a built-in LCD screen that slips around Apple's iPod -- whether it's a video iPod or not -- and turns it into a portable high-definition video player, John Scott, CEO of the start-up company, said at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit taking place this week at Stanford University. The iSee HD player will sell for between $199 and $250 (around £120) and will be released at the end of the year. The initial players will be able to handle MPEG-4, DivX, HD.264 and other formats. The battery on the device will last for about five hours." More.

OpenDarwin heads for extinction VNUNet reports that the OpenDarwin project, originally created to provide a development environment for building and developing Mac OS X sources, has closed its doors. "A posting on the OpenDarwin.org site, which also aimed to create a standalone Darwin OS derivative, reads: 'OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in four years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on. For this reason, OpenDarwin will be shutting down.' The project was originally meant to be a development community for fixes and features for Mac OS X and Darwin OS." More.

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