GOOGLE’S ANDROID operating system for Smartphone’s is spreading to just about every device manufacturer out there and Garmin-Asus is the latest company to announce a handset running Android. The A50 is somewhat different from your average Android handset though, much as Garmin-Asus’ past efforts, as it focuses on navigation and location based services.
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AMD IS FINALLY starting to talk about its Fusion CPUs, specifically the first one called Llano. The bad news is that it is not saying very much, but there are some interesting bits that leaked out at ISSCC 2010 in San Francisco.
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DESPITE APPLE’S BEST attempts at telling its iPhone and iPod touch users that Adoble Flash is something they don’t need it now looks like more and more users of the devices are longing for some lovin’ from Adobe.
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GOOGLE HAS ANNOUNCED that it’s getting ready to launch an experimental fibre network in the US with speed of up to a gigabit per second. Google claims this is more than 100 times faster than the speed that the average American can get today and most likely the rest of the world as well, with a few exceptions.
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ACCORDING TO the MWC 2010 Milestone awareness campaign, Motorola has taken a step back into the dark ages. A step that might just be a violation of its license agreements.
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TINY CHIPS THAT can do a lot of things are always impressive and the Texas Instruments (TI) WiLink 7.0 doesn’t disappoint in that regard. It packs just about every technology you’d want in a handheld device when it comes to not only wireless connectivity but a few other handy features as well.
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IT’S NOT EVERY day we’re impressed by some newfangled technology, but this time we have to give it to Nvidia, it’s come up with a really good idea, with some caution. Although we’re not sure where Optimus comes into play. But hey, it’s as good a name as any, right?
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REMEMBER WHEN INTEL talked about opening Atom CPUs to other companies? I’ll bet you didn’t think one of the first customers would be Nokia.
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PROTEX 3.0, available in triple pack or singles. Oh, sorry. We were thinking about something quite different. Asus is apparently touting its latest mainboards under the Protex 3.0 banner, although we cannot help but think about condoms rather than motherboards, given a name like that.
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GOOGLE JUST CAN’T stop dreaming up now products, good ones too, but its latest stroke of genius might one day be something that no traveller will leave home without. If you’ve read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy then you might be familiar with the Babel Fish, although Google hasn’t gone quite that far in its efforts to come up what it said is a universal translator.
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DON’T EXPECT ANYTHING new from Intel this year in terms of desktop chipsets, at least not the way Intel’s current roadmap is planned. We’re going to have to make do with what’s on offer for the rest of 2010, despite some “missing features” in all three of Intel’s latest chipsets. What’s worse is that there’s not much to look forward to next year either, if our sources are correct.
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IF INTEL’S NEXT generation chip does indeed slip into 2011 as some rumors suggest, there is a very good reason for it. Intel works in strange and mysterious ways, and uses more Feng Shui than anyone would expect.
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IT SEEMS LIKE Biostar jumped the press release gun as the company posted details of its upcoming TA890GXE motherboard based on the AMD 890GX chipset on its website. The press release has since been taken down, but it has already spread all over the web. However, what makes it interesting is the fact that it includes the retail name for AMD’s upcoming hexa-core CPUs.
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IN PART 2, we look at the overall findings of the scanner, and a close look at each one. Also included is a look back at the 2007 results in light of the new data.
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HERE WE GO again, Intel has come up with yet another nifty marketing name, Core vPro. These are not only Intel’s ‘new’ processors for businesses of all sizes that add a host of features, but they’re also said to gain cost savings.
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