AS OF YESTERDAY, the Open Handset Alliance gained a new member in MediaTek, a company mostly known for its optical drive controllers and various solutions for DVD players. However, the company has more recently become a serious player in the cellular phone market, especially in China, so its move to join the OHA makes a lot of sense.
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AFTER WEEKS OF hunting down obscure sources harboring even more obscure technical knowledge, we can say that Nvidia massively screwed up the GF100 based cards, they have reverted to using some of the Bumpgate bad materials again. Nvidia is once again unwilling to talk about it, and their customers probably will be kept in the dark too.
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IF YOU’VE SET your mind on one of the new dual core mobile Atom netbooks that Acer has been teasing us with, well, then you might have to wait a little while longer as it seems like both Acer and Asus have decided to delay its dual core moble Atom netbooks until sometime towards the middle of August. Part of the reason behind this is meant to be stock clearing of netbooks with single core Atom processors.
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NVIDIA JUST HAD one of their most sleazy marketing tactics exposed, that PhysX is faster on a GPU than a CPU. As David Kanter at Real World Tech proves, the only reason that PhysX is faster on a GPU is because Nvidia purposely hobbles it on the CPU. If they didn’t, PhysX would run faster on a modern CPU.
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LAST WEEK, INTEL proved they were much smarter than Microsoft and IBM when they put out a widely ignored press release about an administrative motion with the FTC. While the text said next to nothing, the actions behind it had immense ramifications, especially if you are an Intel stockholder.
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IF YOU’VE EVER had problems figuring out which way you’re supposed to put batteries in your gadgets, then this is what you’ve been waiting for. Microsoft has gone and solved a problem that most of us have come upon at one time or another, which way do you put the batteries in. Well, with a bit of luck (and low royalty fees) we might just see Microsoft’s InstaLoad technology solve this little problem for once and for all.
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HOW TIMES HAVE changed, Finland has just entered a new era in history where reasonably priced broadband access with a minimum downstream speed of 1Mbit/s has become a legal right for its citizens and businesses. This is an issue that’s been discussed by many other European countries, but most of them came up with the view that internet access isn’t a right, it’s a privilege and then went on to implement various regulations based on that.
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IN THIS DAY in age it seems like companies are relying a little bit too much on social media to get their message out and Asus has announced its Eee PC 1215N on facebook, yet there’s no mention of it on Asus’ website. The latest addition to the Eee PC family features a dual core Atom D525 processor an Nvidia ION 2 graphics which makes this 12-inch “netbook” a rather interesting offering.
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