OPERA MIGHT NOT be the most popular desktop web browser out there, but the company is doing well in the mobile market and continues to push out new features for its desktop browser. The company has announced a beta version of Opera 11 which is available for download from today and it brings with it a fair few new features, but the most significant one is support for extensions based on the W3C widget specification.
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TODAY, AMD IS launching two new cards from it’s Northern Islands family of GPUs, the HD6850 and HD6870. These cards, based on the ‘Barts’ chip are both mid-range players that will redefine mainstream performance and devastate Nvidia’s margins.
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WINDOWS PHONE 7 has finally arrived some eight months almost to the day since the new phone OS from Microsoft was first unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in February. One thing that’s certain after today’s launch is that Microsoft has the backing of the device makers with Dell, HTC, LG and Samsung all launching handsets.
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UBUNTU LINUX 10.10 came out today on, well, 10/10/10. Maverick Meerkat is out for the same price as it’s predecessor, free as in beer, and free as in freedom.
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WESTERN DIGITAL HAS joined the 3TB drive club with their new My Book Essential external HD. If you are thinking that this is simply a 3TB drive slapped into an existing USB2/3 case, you would be right.
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DESPITE THE CELLULAR network operator’s best efforts to control what their customers can and can’t do on the devices that they use with the various cellular services, the biggest bugbear of most network operators has been, and still seems to be, Skype. Today Skype announced its Android client software, something that is already causing quite a stir, especially as the software is limited to Wi-Fi networks only in the US, while in most other countries it can be used over the networks data service.
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IF THERE’S ONE thing Android handset owners have been complaining about outside of the US and a few selected other countries, then it has to be the lack of paid for apps from the Android Market. Today Google announced its first step towards a solution of this problem by announcing that the Android Market with paid for apps will be rolled out in 18 countries over the next two weeks.
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IT LOOKS LIKE ATI’s, sorry AMD’s, 6870 is on track and doing quite well. Early word from AMD central has two big thumbs up.
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NVIDIA’S JEN-HSUN WANG gave a masterclass in how to snow the trusting last Tuesday during the keynote of their GTC conference. He bent statistics well past the breaking point, and the tame press lapped it up, parroted it back, and didn’t check a single stat. Mission accomplished.
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Tim Sweeney and Andrew Richards were kind enough to put up with Charlie’s questioning, interrupting, and, in general, badgering about the future of gaming and coding at GDC 2010. As requested, shall we say, demanded, by our paying readers, this includes all six parts in one go.
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INTEL HAS JUST failed at Internet 101, basically how to make yourself not look stupid and impotent while failing to accomplish anything at the same time. Luckily, while stupidly thrashing, they are pissing off the very geeks who are likely to be their best customers.
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WE’VE SPENT A fair bit of time over the last month pondering the upcoming Radeon series from AMD. Specifically, the card which is rumored to be the 6770 is of interest. Sure the bigger cards get the crowns and bigger fanfare but this should be a card that most of us are more likely to buy given the price ranges.
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THE SECOND KEYNOTE of IDF was given by Dadi Perlmutter, and it focused on Sandy Bridge, and the uses that it enables. There is a lot you can do with 2 256-bit AVX vector units for voice, video and other data intensive streams.
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HERE ARE SOME pics of a running AMD Bobcat platform, specifically a Zacate CPU running City of Heroes: Going Rogue. Also included are some cheesecake shots of the CPU itself. Enjoy.
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AT IDF THIS morning, Paul Otellini gave a broad overview about the future of Intel, and how it is becoming a full stack provider. Everything was about what you would expect until about half way through when the caffeine induced hallucinations kicked in.
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