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Dialogic announced that their Diva Media Processing Boards will support Asterisk. Because most of the Diva Media Boards have powerful Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) onboard and can move processor-intensive, low-level tasks to these DSPs, significant reductions in server CPU load are possible especially when used in an Asterisk based systems.

With the release of the chan_dialogicdiva channel driver, Dialogic is now offering active support for the Asterisk environment through its line of Diva Media Boards, along with an associated Starter Kit program.

Other functions handled by the Diva Media Boards include DTMF recognition/generation, pulse detection, tone detection/generation, fax detection, echo cancellation, and multi-party conferencing. The Diva Media Boards can make conference up to 120 active callers without causing load on the CPU. Some of the Diva Media boards’ signaling features include worldwide support of protocols and services, including most Q-SIG flavors and Signaling System 7.

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Western Digital unveiled its Caviar SE16 640GB 3.5-inch hard drives based on 320 GB-per-platter technology.

The 640GB size may no longer be an exciting news since other disk manufacturers have been offering 1TB disks for quite sometime now. However, Western Digital’s jump from 250GB to 320GB per platter technology promises a lot of potential in the future. Western Digital’s 3.5-inch Caviar SE16 disks has a 3Gb/s SATA interface, 16MB of cache built in, and are available for $139.99

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Microsoft has officially released Windows Vista Service Pack 1, an update that addresses most of the feedback received by Microsoft about Windows Vista.

Vista SP1 contains changes focused on addressing specific reliability and performance issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards. Windows Vista SP1 also addresses some management, deployment, and support challenges.

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Sony PSP firmware 3.93 is now available for download from Network Update. From the changelog, the update is offering enhanced support for PlayStation Network titles.

Additionaly, there are 20 new internet radio players that have been added to the PSP’s Internet Radio feature. However, this information is not mentioned in the changelog.

Click here to download PSP Firmware 3.93

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The Tesla Roadster is a fully electric sports car, and is the first car produced by electric car firm Tesla Motors. The car which features a 3-phase, 4-pole electric motor which develops 248 HP can travel 221 miles (356 km) on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack and accelerate from 0-60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds with the development transmission.

In late January, the company announced that it passed all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. The company also noted at the time that regular production for the vehicle would commence on March 17 after over two years of prototyping and testing. The first production Roadster, referred to as “P1″, was delivered to Tesla Motors’ Chairman Elon Musk on February 1, 2008.

The 2008 Roadster production is already sold out as Tesla Motors took reservations for over 900 units. The company is now accepting orders for 2009 models which will hopefully come with the production two-speed transmission already installed. Final pricing for the 2008 Tesla Roadster base model is $98,000, plus a destination charge of $950.

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