Hamburg - Japanese motorcycle maker Kawasaki will quit the MotoGP World Championship with immediate effect, the autosport. com website reported on Tuesday.
Citing sources, autosport. com said that Kawasaki will make the official announcement on Monday (January 5).
The report said that Kawasaki was withdrawing from the top level series due to the global economic crisis and below-par results since returning to the event in 2003.
Hamburg - Simon Ammann aims to make ski-jumping history for Switzerland while Gregor Schlierenzauer looks to end an Austrian title drought at the Four Hills Tour which starts on Monday.
Swiss jumpers have three runner-up finishes in the previous 56 editions of the prestigious German/Austrian competition but never topped the final podium.
Ammann, 27, aims to end the rot as the double 2002 Olympic champion and 2007 world champion is in top form, having won four of seven World Cup events this season and made the podium in two others.
But he won't underestimate Schlierenzauer at the Tour with its stops in Oberstdorf (December 29), Garmisch-Partenkirchen (January 1), Innsbruck (January 4) and Bischofshofen (January 6).
Hamburg - Almost all digital frames offer good images, but a test by Germany's Computer Bild magazine highlights problems such as energy consumption.
Some of the frames tested use lots of energy. The most energy-intensive model tested, when operated 12 hours a day, consumed 12.35 euros (16.50 dollars) worth of energy a year. The most energy-efficient model consumed the equivalent of 3 euros a year, the report said.
Hamburg - Graphics cards suitable for PC gaming need not cost several hundred dollars, according to a recent test of 10n current models by the Hamburg-based Computerbild Spiele magazine.
The Sapphire HD4670, an 89-dollar unit offering 512 MB of onboard memory, may have only achieved eighth place in the rankings, but that was enough for the same "Good" grade as the other graphics card in the test.
Hamburg - Japanese motorcycle maker Kawasaki will quit the MotoGP World Championship with immediate effect, the autosport. com website reported on Tuesday. 
Hamburg - Almost all digital frames offer good images, but a test by Germany's Computer Bild magazine highlights problems such as energy consumption.
Hamburg - Graphics cards suitable for PC gaming need not cost several hundred dollars, according to a recent test of 10n current models by the Hamburg-based Computerbild Spiele magazine.
