ATI Jumps on OpenCL Bandwagon by Releasing OpenCL Drivers

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, said in a statement that it is “actively” sampling preview releases of OpenCL-enabled drivers with strategic customers. The move allows developers of software to start playing with OpenCL before the company ships...

Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update

From InfoWorld: Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team.

Today's update to Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat comes...

Google Quick Search Box Released

From PC World: Google Quick Search Box, which we covered when it was just a developer preview six months ago, has just been officially released. Quick Search Box is the child of Quicksilver, which isn't surprising since Quicksilver creator Nicholas Jitkoff works for Google and is one...

Apple finalizes PowerPC divorce with OS upgrade

From CNET News.com: Apple, a company that's rarely namby-pamby about making technological changes, has put its foot down once again with its Snow Leopard upgrade to Mac OS X due in September.

When the new operating system arrives in September, it'll work only on Intel-based Macs...

AMD Picks Up Market Share from Intel

From DailyTech: The global PC market continues to take a beating at the hands of the economic recession around the globe. As PC sales fall to the lowest point in years in many categories, the sales of microprocessors in both consumer and business computers and servers are also...

Intel Does Not Want Bigger Screens on Netbooks

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. said that while there are netbooks with relatively large 12” screen and some companies have plans to produce Intel Atom-based mobile systems with even bigger displays, such computers should not have large screens since this leads customers to believe that...

T-Mobile confirms hackers stole internal data

From InfoWorld: T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.

Hackers posted a message on Saturday on the Full Disclosure vulnerability message board...

What Business Can Expect From Mac OS X Snow Leopard

From PC World: It's the OS that won't go away, despite many enterprises' avowed distaste and Apple's own public disinclination to support enterprise usage. And yet, the newest Mac OS -- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due to be released later this summer -- has two major changes aimed...

Safari 4 fast, but only minor tweaks from beta

From CNET News.com: The public version of Safari 4 came out Monday amid all the iPhone noise at WWDC, and Apple confirmed what those who played around with the beta version already knew: Safari is now a serious browser for serious Windows users, and its position on Macs has been...

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