Archive for January, 2010
Apple’s A4 is an ARM-based system-on-a-chip a la Tegra 2?
For some of us, amid all the hubbub about revolutions and whatnot yesterday, the most significant announcement on hand was Apple’s supposedly custom A4 CPU. Alas, in the cold and brutal light of the morning after,
MMO developers sound off about World of Warcraft’s dominance
We remember a time when every young buck coming out of the MMO development stables would puff up its cheeks and proudly proclaim itself “The World of Warcraft-killer.” However,
ision suing Aflac over ‘You Don’t Know Jack’ parody
Now, see, we were pretty certain that nobody was still working for Jellyvision — however, we wouldn’t be willing to risk a pricey copyright infringement suit over that assertion.
Apple Unveils the iPad
Apple today unveiled its latest pop gadget, poised to add to the legacy of iPod and iPhone, the iPad. Quite technically, its a tablet computer, but Apples implementation ensures its a mix of the Mac, iPhone, and iPod in clever proportions. The device is half an inch thick, weighs 750 g, has a 9.7 inch […]
ATI Catalyst 10.1 Driver Suite Released
AMD today released the ATI Catalyst 10.1 driver suite, this years first. The suite provides drivers and system software for ATI Radeon products (including Radeon HD 5900, 5800, 5700, 5600, HD 4000 series), AMD 7-series chipsets, All-in-Wonder, and Theater multimedia products. The new set of drives brings in application-specific performance improvements, OS and application bug-fixes, […]
Twitter working on ‘interesting hacks’ to evade Chinese and Iranian firewalls
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, the co-founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, said that software developers are working on ‘interesting hacks’ to evade the censorship by oppressive governments in China and Iran.
Razer’s dual-sided Vespula mousepad: for smooth, seductive mood-swingers
Not that we haven’t seen multifaceted mousepads before, but there’s something quite delectable about Razer’s latest.
Dell ‘Mini 5′ tablet prototype shows up as M01M in Shenzhen black market
Who’s got some love for prototype gadgets, eh? Apparently someone does in Shenzhen (surprise of the day?).
Nokia grows profits and smartphone share in Q4
Pretty good news for Nokia today as it announces its Q4 results. Net income jumped 65% to €948 million (on €12 billion in sales) or 26 eurocents per share, from €576 million euros, or 15 eurocents a share, earned in Q4 2008. That handily beat the consensus forecast of 19 eurocents per share. Importantly
tech updates book-like Hardbox to version 3.0, embraces SuperSpeed USB
We’ll just come at you straight — the world needs a more varied selection of external hard drives. Aside from the occasional LaCie / Lego-inspired alternative, there’s really a stark lack of style when perusing the storage shelves at Best Buy.
