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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... to hit $27 billion next year 

 A report authored by Jon Peddie Research (JPR) claimed that the PC gaming hardware market will increase by $1.2 billion this year to $21.26 billion.

 According to ...

2. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. This appeal, which carries more legal weight than the Ombudsman's ruling, is due to be heard early next year. In a statement on the ruling, Intel said that it welcomed ...

3. Mouse sniffs out counterfeit euros

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   So dismantle that mint right now Next time you go to the bank, don't be surprised to see somebody waving a mouse at your holiday money. Researchers at the University of Lleida say the sensor of some optical ...

4. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... overclocking capabilities were enabled by next-gen fan and vapor technologies, as well as a "fully vented" exhaust to keep the card cool. 

 "The 5970 features the world's most powerful graphics core ...

5. Semiconductors to bound back next year

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   Chips with everything Two things aren't going to go away unless there's a world wide catastrophe - semiconductors and the internet. Gartner has started to believe this too. According to a report it issued ...

6. Russian airport massacre prompts Modern Warfare 2 ban

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... of Modern Warfare 2 that "entirely removes" the mission from the game. 

The censored console version is currently pending approval from the Russian government and could be released sometime over the next ...

7. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... released in the first half of next year. Intel also said that it's introducing a beta program for Ct technology, a method of using parallel programming in C and C++ by creating auto generated code across ...

8. Getting paid to watch porn

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... with the two girls with one cup, in a plumbing supplies depot. Next to a zoo. Above a sewage plant. I'm not going to labor this point but when I'm categorising images (which is not, incidentally, a job ...

9. Audi gives up designing cars

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... olds to 'envision automobiles appealing to young people of the future'. The Audi Design Team has apparently taken the ideas submitted by these pre-pubescents and designed 'next generation vehicle control ...

10. Qualcomm intros first 3G/LTE chipsets

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... will allow mass market commercial deployment of two nextgen network technologies for better data capabilities for mobile devices. LTE - which stands for long term evolution - is supported by a large number ...

11. Mozilla refreshes Firefox 3.6 Beta

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... users. Firefox 3.6 - which is also known as Namoroka – will be based upon the Gecko 1.9.2 engine. The next-generation browser is expected to offer faster JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness ...

12. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... sitting next to you is trying to eat, but I’d just as soon avoid this experience.  Something to do with being anti-social I think… With a thin laptop like this I actually have left over room and ...

13. Mozilla looks ahead as Firefox celebrates fifth anniversary

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... Firefox since the initial release of version 1.0. "Over the last five years we've been setting ourselves up for the next five. The web is moving faster, not slower, and modern browsers are set to handle ...

14. DDR2 "shortage" causes DRAM prices to soar

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... which said the benchmark price is now $41, up from $36. The analyst company thinks that DDR2 contract prices are likely to continue to rise during the month. Manufacturers of DRAM want the next generation ...

15. Nanospheres can repair spinal cord injuries

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... polyethylene glycol did not. Next, the researchers want to learn about the specific mechanisms that enable the micelles to restore function to damaged nerve cells. The research appears in Nature Nanotechnology. ...

16. Sub sinks large Hadron Collider

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... told The Times newspaper. “The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird - either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane.” CERN reckons it will have the cooler back on track in the next couple ...

17. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... continues, with hearings expected to start in spring next year, unless a settlement between the parties is agreed.  ...

18. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... important transformation for MSN, and it’s only the beginning.” The new version should become available in the US next year.  ...

19. Marvell powers next generation of e-readers with ARMADA SoC

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    Marvell and E Ink have introduced a "highly integrated" platform for next-generation e-readers.  Marvell and E Ink have introduced a "highly integrated" turnkey platform for next-generation e-readers. ...

20. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... people have loved. I can really only think of Halo Wars and Halo 3: ODST for the 360 this year. Oh, and let's not forget next year: Heavy Rain, God of War III and MAG all look pretty amazing to me."  ...

21. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... Clair sued Samsung, Matsushita, Victor, JVC, Nokia, HP and Eastman Kodak. Kodak and Samsung have licensed the technology.In 2006, St Clair sued Siemens, BenQ, AUdiovox, UT Starcom, Sprint Nextel, Cingular, ...

22. Researchers produce viable human germ cells

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... weeks, the researchers isolated the cells that flashed green. The researchers next conducted a variety of tests to confirm that the green fluorescing cells behaved like germ cells. Once convinced that ...

23. UK will disconnect file pirates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... legislation is unlikely to come into effect until spring of 2011.And a general election has to take place in the UK by Spring of next year, meaning that if the UK Labour Party fails to achieve re-election, ...

24. Roku streams Netflix on wireless set-top boxes

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... a breakthrough price point with the launch of our [$80] Roku SD player," explained Roku CEO Anthony Wood. "And the [$130] Roku HD-XR is the first Netflix-streaming device to embed next generation 802.11n ...

25. Weather scrubs Ares I-X test flight

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    The maiden test flight of NASAs next-generation launch vehicle, Ares I-X has been scrubbed for today (Tuesday) due to adverse weather conditions at the Cape. Flight Director Ed Mango is currently ...

26. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    Tilera has launched an advanced line of TILE-Gx processors that reportedly offer "ten times better" compute efficiency than Intel's next-generation Westmere chip. The processors - fabricated in TSMC's ...

27. ESA calls for Mars mission volunteers

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... for an eighteen-month Mars mission. The catch? It's just a simulation. Next year, an international crew of six will be locked into a facility in Moscow for a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day ...

28. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... choice but to adopt the howling beast known as Windows 95 if I wanted to play the next-generation of games. With a heavy heart and lighter wallet, I eventually purchased a new Pentium-based system that ...

29. Phoenix ties knot with Samsung for "instantly on" notebooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... next generation mobile devices that make use of Phoenix technology, found at www.hyperspace.com.  ...

30. AUO unveils flexible e-paper

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 20 October 2009

    ... of the flexible e-paper will drive the next wave of the reading revolution," said Dr CT Liu, Senior VP & GM of Consumer Product Display Business Group of AUO. "With the fully supported panel capacity ...

31. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    The next version of Microsoft’s flagship application suite, Office 2010 is to be available as a public beta program from November, CEO Steve Ballmer announced today. The next version of Microsoft’s ...

32. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... of managerial and technical expertise in India is accelerating and I'm betting in the next decade the title will go to a CEO based there. Cisco Systems' John Chambers and IBM's Sam Palmisano have done ...

33. Apple takes on Microsoft's Zune with FM Radio iPhone app

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... - renders high-quality video and plays HD radio. SiPort CEO Aiman Kabakibo told TG Daily that his company had proposed the HD Radio concept to Microsoft shortly after the next-generation Zune was announced. ...

34. Rumor: Nintendo selects Tegra processor for new DS

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    Nintendo has reportedly selected Nvidia's Tegra processor to power its next-generation DS/DSi console. According to Theo Valich, Nintendo has already started work on the new device and plans to debut ...

35. Acer claims it will knock Dell off pole position

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    Taiwanese manufacturer Acer claims that in the next two quarters it will beat Dell and become the world's biggest PC manufacturer.Taiwanese manufacturer Acer claims that in the next two quarters it will ...

36. Solar cell powers LG e-reader

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 12 October 2009

    ... of longer usage," said Ki Yong Kim, head of the Solar Cell Office at LG Display. "We will continue to provide users with enhanced convenience and value to solidify our lead in next-generation, environmentally ...

37. PS3 claims "top home console" slot as Wii sales decline

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    The PlayStation 3 is expected to claim the "top home console" slot for the month of September. According to EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich, hardware unit sales for next-generation systems are likely to ...

38. Khronos introduces OpenMax AL multimedia specification for MIDs

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... for companies to really take mobile multimedia to the next level with AL," Hirshon told TG Daily. "It's new integration with OpenSL ES, the 3D positional audio API from Khronos, will enable some amazing ...

39. WiMAX has failed, industry guru claims

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    ... the shape of fast connections to come.He said: "There's no doubt that the next generation standard will be LTE." Hauser is director of Amadeus Capital Partners and also has an interest in Cambridge Broadband.WiMAX ...

40. FCC pledges to "unleash" 4G mobile broadband spectrum

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 07 October 2009

    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has pledged to "unleash the spectrum" for 4G mobile broadband. According to Genachowski, the next generation of mobile technology will "make all the difference." FCC Chairman ...

41. SAP's Leo Apotheker dismisses Oracle's bid for power

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    The CEO of SAP was next up on the stage here in the Opera district of Paris at the Etre conference, a man who speaks in measured tones but isn't frit of Oracle at all. The CEO of SAP was next up on ...

42. Recession good news for polar bears, says IEA

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... by 17 percent in the next decade and by half by 2030. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN climate convention (UNFCCC), added: "The cost of addressing climate change is manageable. The cost of ...

43. Chip foundries for the chop, says iSuppli

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... looks as if next year is likely to bring a new set of problems for the industry. "Tough competition will remove some of the players in the market," says the iSuppli report. This and the cost of developing ...

44. ARM, Globalfoundries sign strategic partnership

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... aimed at next generation system on a chip (SoC) applications. The program is built around a suite of ARM Physical IP, Fabric IP and Process IP and will focus initially on implementing low power and ...

45. Slideshow: Nvidia showcases next-generation GPU architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 04 October 2009

    As TG Daily previously reported, Nvidia showcased its next-generation Fermi architecture during the 2009 GPU Conference in San Jose, California.As TG Daily previously reported, Nvidia showcased its ...

46. Nvidia: Fermi demo board was "engineering" prototype

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 02 October 2009

    Nvidia has clarified that its next-generation Fermi board showcased at the GPU conference keynote and subsequent Q&A session was an "engineering prototype." The official clarification came just ...

47. Chips showed stronger sales in August

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 02 October 2009

    ... still expect a 14 percent drop in world semiconductor dollars this year and a 12 percent increase next year."  Memory and car chips are expected to be strong in September, he added. While volumes ...

48. Ig Nobel winners beat each other with beer bottles

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

      So much more fun than next week's boring Swedish version, the winners of the Ig Nobel prizes were announced last night. So much more fun than next week's boring Swedish version, the winners of ...

49. Nvidia says Fermi speculation is "insane"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    Nvidia has rebuffed speculation that its next-generation Fermi GPU is targeted primarily at the high-performance computing market (HPC) market. Nvidia has rebuffed speculation that its next-generation ...

50. Mental Image debuts iRay rendering technology

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    ... standards in rendering efficiency as we know it." See Also Oak Ridge National Labs plans Fermi-powered supercomputer Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU  ...