The second Mars rover, Opportunity, is now officially on the move! It rolled off its landing pad yesterday, & moved about ten feet to test its driving capabilities.

"Just like you would want to perfect your parallel parking abilities before trying to make it to an appointment on a tight schedule in a big city, engineers tested Opportunity's ability to maneuver on Mars on sol 12, which ended Thursday."

Got a scoop from Maximum PDA this morning about the upcoming iPAQ model from Compaq. This lil' bad boy looks to be stuffed to the gills in the fashion of the Palm Tungsten series.

"The new iPAQ will be a 6300 series device, it will contain GSM/GPRS, it will be based of the 2215 form factor. We were not able to determine if it will have WiFi but it should maintain its Bluetooth functionality with the Widcom Bluetooth Stack."

Whooooooooaaa.... this is some insane stuff right here, folks. Imagine your laptop with a R300 graphics core in it.... yep, that's what I just said, read it again if you need to. This move by ATi will almost certainly corner the performance laptop graphics market. I'm sitting here writing this, & still shaking my head incredulously....

"ATI worked closely with TSMC, to develop and implement a low-k technology for the MOBILITY RADEON 9700. TSMC’s low-k technology reduces device capacitance at the interconnect level to enhance the performance of ATI’s proprietary technologies that are built into the MOBILITY RADEON 9700."