MacNN | S3 News http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us S3, Latest News, Headlines, Stories; http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ S3 launches first Chrome 500 graphics line http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/s3.chrome.500/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0811/s3chrome530gt.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Best known for its integrated video in recent years, VIA's graphics label S3 late yesterday introduced the Chrome 500 series of graphics chips. The hardware is built to challenge the Radeon HD 4350 and other budget dedicated cards both in the feature set and performance with a newer unified shader (effects) processor design that supports DirectX 10.1+ and OpenGL 3 for graphics as well as general-... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/21/s3.chrome.500/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:05:00 GMT Amazon outage knocks out store, Kindle [U] http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/06/amazon.outage/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0806/amazonkindle-3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />(Update: service back late in the afternoon) Amazon has been suffering an ongoing shortage that has both affected its main business as well as hurt its Kindle e-book reader, according to user reports. The outage began earlier this afternoon and has left Amazon's main page nearly, blank, with only a "service unavailable" message at the front. Kindle users in turn note an inability to access the c... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/06/amazon.outage/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:50:00 GMT