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1. TSMC gears up for more chip business

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   Pure play foundry TSMC, the leading manufacturer of semiconductors designed by fabless companies, is gearing up to expand its business.Pure play foundry TSMC, the leading manufacturer of semiconductors ...

2. Pachter: Apple prepping game console for 2013 launch

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 16 July 2009

   ... World of Goo or Geometry Wars, but probably not super cool stuff like Gears of War until they bought a few developers. What Apple cares about is getting into the living room, and an Apple TV with games ...

3. Google beefs up Gmail for Android and iPhone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Wednesday, 08 April 2009

   ... you are actually using it. For example, when you are archiving emails, the data is stored in a cache (database on the iPhone, Gears database on Android devices) on the device itself initially and sent ...

4. Review: IE8 is no speed demon, but is most secure browser available

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 March 2009

   ... work if you have the Google Gears extension installed (a fix is underway). While both Web Slices and Accelerators are one-of-a-kind features giving IE8 a competitive edge, it is now evident that their ...

5. Google tweaks Gmail tasks, improves editing and management

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 12 March 2009

   ... Gears), the company stresses that Gmail tasks are still an experimental Labs feature. Google promises tasks integration with Calendar, notifications, sharing and sync options once Gmail tasks makes ...

6. Review: Safari 4 Beta - Not quite there yet

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 25 February 2009

   ... to the Gears browser plugin instead of HTML 5 functionality, like desktop Gmail with offline mode, will lack offline capability in Safari since there is no Gears plugin for the browser yet.A good citizen ...

7. Analysis: Chrome growth slows to a crawl, new features needed

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 29 January 2009

   ... brought some minor fixes which included an update to Gears (version 0.5.8.0) to fix crashes with some offline applications, along with spell-checking for Hebrew. With the current flat growth, even clearing ...

8. Gmail goes offline

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 28 January 2009

   Google has been playing with Gears technology for couple of years now, having leveraged its potential to harness offline functionality in its web applications such as Reader and Google Docs. The welcomed ...

9. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 08 January 2009

   ... Flight Sim X - Microsoft, Frontlines Fuel of War, Gears of War, GTR 2, Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Gun, Half-Life 2 - Episode 2, Half-Life 2 - Portal, Half-Life 2 - Team Fortress 2, Harry Potter ...

10. 2000-year-old computer recreated, shows amazing accuracy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 12 December 2008

    ... unnoticed until it was being catalogued at a museum in Athens, Greece. There, the box cracked open and revealed some of its inner secrets. Once the gears and wheels were seen, along with inscriptions ...

11. Nintendo shatters game console shipment records

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 December 2008

    ... continues a rather dramatic market share decline when compared to its rivals. Game sales were equally impressive in November. Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) moved 1,560,000 units, followed by 1,410,000 units ...

12. Gmail gets tasks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 09 December 2008

    ...  service that integrates with Gmail, iGoogle and Google Calendar and provides offline functionality through Gears as well. If keyboard shortcuts are enabled (General tab under the Settings section of ...

13. Xbox 360 slaughtered PS3 on Black Friday, Microsoft claims

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 02 December 2008

    ... have been a disaster and the Xbox 360 is selling on a record pace. Supported by game titles such as “Gears of War 2,” “Fable II,” and “Lips”, Microsoft described a “historic Black Friday for Xbox 360”, ...

14. Google posts Chrome version 0.4.154.22 as a "bugfix-only" release

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    ... an issue that caused Chrome to occasionally hang when using a site with Gears offline data. This means that users are no longer required to disable offline access, if a problematic site causes Chrome to ...

15. Google preps Chrome patch, adds new features

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 17 November 2008

    ... you can open a list of blocked pop-ups by clicking on the notification icon. Developers warn that this version of Chrome may occasionally hang when sites that use Gears to synchronize offline data are ...

16. Liquid crystal lubricant developed, reduces friction to almost zero

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 11 November 2008

    ... gears and bearings this new discovery may put oil out of business. Freiburg (Germany) - Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FG) have developed a liquid crystal lubricant that reduces friction ...

17. Gears of War 2 hits 2.1 million units on day 1 – report

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 09 November 2008

      It appears that Microsoft had a blockbuster title in stores just in time for Christmas once again. Gears of War 2 could not quite match Halo 3, but 2.1 million boxes sold on day 1 means that Microsoft’s ...

18. Microsoft counts on Gears of War 2 as Xbox 360 blockbuster

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 05 November 2008

      Microsoft seems to have a real good handle on introducing critical features and content for the Xbox 360 when it counts. Gears of War 2 will be released to 20,000 retailers this week and should ...

19. Blackberry Storefront takes on App Store and Android Market

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... APIs and BlackBerry Web Signals to deliver opt-in alerts to Blackberry handsets. Also new are tools for web development, available in 2009: Gears enables web applications to run as standalone applications ...

20. Motorola has a $2000 phone. Do you care?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... it did on its first," the manufacturer promises. The mechanics use tungsten carbide coated gears and use hardened steel that is typically used in high-performance engines for durability. Even tiny screws ...

21. Greasemonkey coming to Google Chrome

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

      The immensely popular Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox users is coming to Google Chrome thanks to Aaron Boodman, who developed Greasemonkey in the first place. Boodman works at Google on the Gears ...

22. The 20 most anticipated video games for the 2008 Christmas shopping season

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

    ... Jackal” an arms dealer that has been selling weapons to both sides of the conflict. This goal is to be accomplished by any means necessary. 5. Gears of War 2 (Epic; Release date: October 26, 2008) - ...

23. Google Chrome ignites browser speed race

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 11 September 2008

    ... API (or both). In that sense, Google Chrome has the upper hand for now because Web Workers come as an integral part of Gears technology (built in Chrome) that has been available to web developers for over ...

24. Why Chrome is a fantastic browser

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 02 September 2008

    ... icon to the shortcut. The shortcut actually launches a site in Chrome window without UI controls, which creates the look and feel of a desktop application. If the web application is Gears-enabled, a local ...

25. Google removes cached page of Chrome download

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 02 September 2008

    ... age? A similar hiccup apparently happened to Google itself when it briefly published the download of the new Chrome browser at http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en exactly at 12:00 am PST, earlier ...

26. Intel teases new Larrabee details

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 03 August 2008

    ... that Larrabee cores can scale almost linearly in games such as Gears of War, FEAR or Half-Life 2, Episode 2.  16 cores will provide twice the performance of 8 cores, 24 cores three times the speed, ...

27. Gmail going both ways in six weeks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 24 July 2008

      Gears is one of the lesser known technologies from Google but people who live in the cloud have found it invaluable to bridge the divide between offline and online applications. The technology enables ...

28. Microsoft exec says Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 - update

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 14 July 2008

    ... Final Fantasy 13, Gears of War 2 and Fallout 3.  On the multimedia side, Microsoft appears to be positioning the 360 as a media hub and has partnered up with NBC Universal and Netflix to offer movies ...

29. Google offers offline file access in Docs

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Friday, 20 June 2008

    ... and the files will synchronize when a connection is restored.  Google’s ‘Gears’ application must be installed first. When working on a file inside of Google Docs, users will see green icon in the ...

30. Firefox 3 impressions: Bigger and better in every way

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 June 2008

    ... to mention that Google has its Gears technology to provide offline functionality to Google Apps applications. For instance, I am actually writing this article within Google Docs while I am offline. When ...

31. Why Firefox 3 matters

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 04 June 2008

    ... and offline support that enables web applications to provide offline functionality, similar to Google Gears. In theory, this means that you will be able to access your Facebook friends list and read or ...

32. Ballmer, Gates show off Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

    ... its search engine, but Mossberg hit back and asked why Microsoft’s search market share was dropping? Gates did not have an answer. Ballmer and Gates changed gears by showing off some of the touch command ...

33. Who needs D-SUB, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort? USB rocks!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    ... However, the bandwidth limits showed up in games such as Unreal Tournament III, Gears of War and Call of Duty 4: It seems that those games don’t like the tiling architecture. In Need for Speed: Pro Street ...

34. Xbox 360 hits 10 million unit sales in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... is the 16th Xbox 360 game to sell more than one million units. Previous “platinum” titles include Halo 3, Madden NFL 07, Madden NFL 08, Gears of War, Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty 4. ...

35. Grand Theft Auto IV the top game on Xbox Live

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 May 2008

    ... and Gears of War. The stats are based on the number of unique users who took the game online during the week of April 28.  The exact number of users was not revealed. ...

36. Germans launch ultimate Porsche 911 Turbo game steering wheel

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 06 May 2008

    ... you've could encounter on Thrustmaster/Logitech products, so you'll definitely feel how to work the car out. With the steering wheel you get two removable gearshifts. One supports both 6+1 "H" and sequential ...

37. Dell gears up to fight Asus’ Eee PC

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 10 April 2008

    Round Rock (TX) – Dell will be partnering up with Taiwan-based Compal to produce an inexpensive miniature notebook computer.  The notebook will have an 8.9-inch screen will presumably compete with ...

38. Google Docs go offline

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... comes as an extension of Google Gears, which lets users create a hard copy of every website they visit so they can view it later when they're offline. Mountain View (CA) - Google announced this week that ...

39. Tim Sweeney, Part 3: Unreal Engine 4.0 aims at next-gen console war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 March 2008

    ... in 2011 and 2012. We're shipping Gears of War now; we're just showing the next bunch of major tech upgrades such as soft-body physics, destructible environments and crowds. There is a long life ahead for ...

40. Google Gears turn to mobile platform

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 04 March 2008

    ... to previously viewed websites while offline is now coming to mobile phones. The Google Gears tool creates a copy of every website that users visit, allowing them to go back to that site even when they ...

41. VIDEO: Epic shows off updated Unreal 3 engine

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 21 February 2008

    At Microsoft’s GDC keynote, Epic technical director and CEO Tim Sweeney showed off the updated Unreal Engine 3 in a graphics buzzword-filled presentation.  The new engine will power the upcoming Gears ...

42. VIDEO: Epic confirms Gears of War 2

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 20 February 2008

    Without showing any in-game footage or game mechanic details, Epic Games confirmed it is working on a sequel to the 2006 hit Gears of War, and is slated for a November 2008 release. San Francisco (CA) ...

43. DJ Tiësto and computer games form an unholy alliance

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 12 February 2008

    Famous rave DJ Tiësto has joined forces with Streamline Studios, the makers of music and special effects for famous game titles like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3. Amsterdam (Netherlands) – ...

44. Tech Talk Terascale: TG Daily chats with Intel CTO Justin Rattner

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    ... change gears a bit.  What are the other technologies should we be aware of?   Rattner:  Well, the digital radio piece is a big aspect of what we’re doing.  And there’s also ...

45. TG Video: Aftermarket lithium-ion battery pack squeezes 150 MPG from a Toyota Prius

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 October 2007

    ... for cargo.  You can even lay the spare tire on top of the battery pack, but Nick Rothman, a kit installer for Green Gears, told us that some companies go without the spare and carry a can of “Fix ...

46. Halo 2 remains most popular Xbox Live title

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    ... title played online, with Gears of War right behind it.  Hexic HD, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas, and Call of Duty 3 rounded out the list of the current top five XBL games.  In total, 3.2 ...

47. World Series of Video Games closes shop in middle of tournament

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 13 September 2007

    ... halt as event organizers were unable to secure enough sponsorship revenue. The worldwide video game competition, created by US-based Games Media Properties, included melees of Counter-Strike, Gears of ...

48. Epic Games gets slammed with lawsuit over Unreal Tournament

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 20 July 2007

    ... to the lawsuit, this also caused delays and other expenses in the development of the game totaling millions of dollars. Epic's own Gears of War for the Xbox 360, which uses the Unreal Engine, was ...

49. Update 3: E3 2007 game announcements and lineup

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 July 2007

    ...          Epic Gears of War PC Christmas 2007         Factor 5 LAIR PS3 Aug. 2007 ...