3D API’S MIGHT not be the most exciting thing in the world, but without them we wouldn’t have any kind of 3D graphics which would make computers a lot less fun and a lot less useful for many users around the world. Khronos has announced its latest version of OpenGL which simply gets a version bump to 4.0.
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ADOBE’S FLASH PLAYER might be one of the most controversial pieces of software at the moment, especially with the lack of love from Apple’s upcoming iPad and of course the iPhone and iPod Touch as well. The latest beta version of Flash 10.1 just landed and revision three adds hardware support for a few new Intel chipsets, as well as fixing a lot of bugs.
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YOU MIGHT ALREADY have read one of the many guides on the net about how to get your PC running OS X. We have come across an approach that makes the whole install process a lot easier and thought we’d share it with you. By a lot we mean that you don’t need a Mac for starters, which should be a huge help to those who own only a PC and want to have a go at building a Hackintosh.
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AMD HAS ANNOUNCED its latest Catalyst 10.2 drivers, which in itself isn’t really big news as AMD has been releasing graphics drivers on a monthly basis for quite some time now. However, what is the new is that AMD is aiming to offer monthly driver updates for those with a Radeon Mobility card in their notebook, which is a huge step forward.
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MICROSOFT WASN’T JOKING when it said that Windows Phone 7 was redesigned from the bottom up, well, at least not as far as we could tell from today unveiling at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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OUT OF THE BLUE, Intel and Nokia announced that they’re working on a new open source Linux based operating system called MeeGo that builds on Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo platforms. This was the only joint announcement at the Mobile World Congress and we’re slightly disappointed that it wasn’t a new x86 based CPU.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Symbian platform, which has been developed over more than 10 years and has shipped in more than 330 million devices around the world, is now completely open and the source code is available for free. According to the Symbian Foundation, an industry group; the transition from proprietary code to open source has been the largest such project in software history.
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THIS PAPER FOCUSES on the accuracy and time needed to run, review and supplement the results of the web application scanners (Accunetix, Appscan by IBM, BurpSuitePro, Hailstorm by Cenzic, WebInspect by HP, NTOSpider by NT OBJECTives) as well as the Qualys managed scanning service.
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THERE HAS BEEN a lot of talk recently about ATI’s ‘Grey Screen of Death’ and almost all of it is hysterically overblown. Let’s take a look at the problem in a bit more detail.
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APPLE HAS JUST announced its latest addition, the iPad. We’re not sold on the name, but one of the big news items here is that Apple might be forced to change the name, as iPad was a registered trademark of Fujitsu Japan and there’s also a company called Magtek that sells a product called the IPAD. But that’s for another day; let’s take a closer look at what’s on offer.
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