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From DailyTech: HP has just announced that it will be taking its webOS mobile operating system open source. The company still hasn't committed to further producing its own hardware based around the operating system, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't change its mind in the future... |
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From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has announced that it had started to build it phase 3 of its Fab 15 which will produce chips using 20nm or thinner fabrication processes. TSMC began construction on Fab 15, phase 1, in July 2010, and completed equipment move-in in... |
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From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said that making special-purpose GPU-based accelerators compatible with CPU sockets makes no sense. The approach proposed by AMD is vastly different from the one that is allegedly offered by its arch-rival, Intel Corp., which insists on... |
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"The trackball, a related pointing device [to the mouse], was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952. It used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball. It was not patented, as it was a secret military project." (Source: Wikipedia). Is it scary to think that the concept of a computer mouse is almost 50 years old? Back then, it was a very primitive and... |
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Since I write a review almost every week throughout the year, it is hard to believe how many introductions I have written during my reviewing career. And although each of these introductions are as unique as it can be (Really, I am not kidding -- try going through all of my past articles), to be honest, there aren't many that really stands out in my memory. Although the Tt eSPORTS Meka G-Unit is definitely one of my recent... |
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From PC World: Don't look for id Software's Rage or Bethesda's Skyrim in your browser anytime soon, but it sounds like Google has big time gaming plans for its Chrome platform—plans that already involve running stuff like Xbox Live Arcade game Bastion in Chrome directly. Google... |
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From CNET News.com: Apple was dealt a significant blow in a German court today after a judge ruled the company is in violation of a Motorola Mobility patent. According to Foss Patents, which obtained the ruling, the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled today that Apple violates... |
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From DailyTech: Whitman... |
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From DailyTech: Taiwan's Acer Inc. (TPE:2353) is sick and tired of making "cheap" products. It lusts for the kind sleek designs that highly profitable American computermaker Apple, Inc. (AAPL) produces. Acer CEO J.T. Wang was blunt when he remarked, "We will shift our strategy to... |
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From X-bit Labs: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Thursday quietly started to sell a yet unannounced DeskStar hard disk drive with 4TB capacity in Japan. The novelty is quite expensive, but not extremely despite of the fact that it uses components produced in flooded Thailand... |
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