A reader pointed us to AMD slides, which provide some evidence that AMDwill be aiming to compete at least in certain markets that is targetedby IntelÂ’s Atom processor, by using one of its existing products.Meanwhile, Intel is apparently preparing the launch of its firstdual-core Atom processors for October.
The 2.1 firmware update may be the most critical update for the iPhoneyet, even Steve Jobs dedicated only two minutes of time to the softwareduring yesterdayÂ’s LetÂ’s Rock event. The update is already availablefor the iPod touch and is expected to be posted for the iPhone onFriday. According to Jobs, the 2.1 update addresses "lots of bugs" andfinally fixes 3G the iPhone 3GÂ’s connectivity issues such as droppedcalls.
At 10:28am local time today, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) wasactivated and successfully powered up navigating a beam of high-energyprotons smaller than a human hair through a pipe running through theentire 17 miles of superconducting magnets. While the $20 billiondevice is not yet operating at full capacity or with high-energycollisions, the earliest stages of the required calibration, oftendown to one billionth of a second, are being carried out. The LHCsimpact on science was echoed by the electricity...
Research in MotionÂ’s latest Blackberry phone, the Pearl Flip 8220 is anaverage phone by all accounts, with the exception that it is marketedunder the Blackberry brand and offered by a company that has been thefastest growing smartphone manufacturer for some time. RIM has beencarefully extending its reach from corporate into consumer markets forsome time and this new device should provide the company with room foradditional growth.
Professor Avishai Wool and graduate student Ohad Ben-Cohen of Tel AvivUniversity (TAU) have developed an approach to battle computer virusesthat may put an end to anti-virus software. The approach is sorevolutionary and simple that the days of our machines being slowed toa crawl while every file is checked may soon be a thing of the past.
Shalov Stone Bonner Rocco said it has filed a securities fraudclass action against Nvidia, selflessly representing all investors whopurchased or otherwise acquired the common stock of Nvidia betweenNovember 8, 2007, and July 2, 2008. The law firm believes that Nvidiaand especially chief executive Jen-Huang and chief financial officerMarvin Burkett have been aware about the chip defects long before theywere published and the company may even be hiding the true extent ofthis problem – causing monetary damages for...
Opinion - The updated website layout and design for the popular social networkingsite Facebook is causing quite the buzz across the Internet. In fact,people have never really been fond of changes to Facebook since thesite first started. I personally was more comfortable within theexclusive confines of only college students, and as the site has grownyou live, and you get used to the change.
Sony's got a couple of new HDV cameras it is announcing today. The one of interest to prosumers like you and I is the HDR-FX1000,priced at around $3200.Sony says the HDR-FX1000 is its first Handycam camcorder to featureprogressive scan at 1080/24p and 30p. The 24p image, using a two tothree pull down, can be converted to 60i for editing.
