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1. ARM accelerates Android mobile development

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... developing almost immediately." He noted that ARM's "simple and elegant" RISC architecture has been widely integrated into a variety of mobile devices, including the recently introduced Motorola Droid. ...

2. Samsung launches its own mobile platform

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 10 November 2009

   ... opening Samsung’s mobile platforms we will be able to provide rich mobile experiences on an increasing number of accessible smartphones," said Dr Hosoo Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of the Media ...

3. Windows 7 upgrades crash and burn

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... the system on and immediately start pressing the 'F8' key until you reach a multi-boot menu 3. Select 'Safe Mode with Networking' in the list 4. Wait until it boots into Windows. This may take a few minutes ...

4. Kingston accelerates Windows with 40GB SSD

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 26 October 2009

   ... GHz, 4GB of system memory, on-board SATA 3Gbps (ACHI enabled) and Windows Vista SP2."PCMark runs a series of tests such as Windows Vista startup, importing photos, adding music to Windows Media Center ...

5. NASA launches space exploration app for the iPhone

   (Space/Space Features)

   Friday, 23 October 2009

   ... clocks, Twitter feeds and astronomy related multimedia. "We're excited to deliver a wide range of up-to-the-minute NASA content to iPhone and iPod touch users," explained Ames spokesperson Gary Martin. ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   ... into media giant. But that's my problem with Google. Beyond the search technology, something its founders did not invent, but merely perfected, Google has proven to be a follower in technology. Gmail, ...

7. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   ... doesn’t have that either), and things like a media player and DVD burner you’ll have to download from the web or buy (which most seem to do anyway).   Starter is just a clean basic OS and, if ...

8. FCC scrutinizes Google Voice restrictions

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 09 October 2009

   ... "ill conceived" and selective call ban. However, Google media counsel Richard Whitt defended the company's controversial policy by noting that local carriers often charged "exorbitant" termination rates ...

9. High tech won't save the economy this time

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Monday, 05 October 2009

   ... engineers and sales staff, and, inadvertently, I suspect, stifling innovation to build support around their legacy systems. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media darlings will not create the next ...

10. Microsoft confirms no Windows 7 restrictions for netbooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 25 September 2009

    ... have been switched off include desktop personalization, fast user switching, multi-monitor support, DVD playback, support for domains and XP Mode. Windows Media Center is not available and Starter machines ...

11. Engineers and artists develop 3D printing in glass

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 24 September 2009

    ...  Artist Meghan Trainor, a graduate student in the UW's Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, was the first to use the new method to produce objects other than test shapes. "Creating kiln-fired ...

12. Apple retires 40GB TV model, lowers 160GB version to $229

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 14 September 2009

    ... television set as early as 2011. The device is expected to feature advanced media functions and would be capable of synchronizing with iPods, iPhones and Mac computers. "The argument that Apple will ...

13. Slideshow: AMD previews next-gen gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 11 September 2009

    As TG Daily previously reported, AMD showcased its next-generation technology during a recent media event on the USS Hornet in Alameda, California. A number of rigs, projectors, laptops, components and ...

14. New Hubble instruments take dramatic images

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

      NASA has released its first images from the newly-serviced Hubble Space Telescope, and jolly impressive they are too. NASA has released its first images from the newly-serviced Hubble Space Telescope, ...

15. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 30 August 2009

    ... bus support, hyperthreading or cache size. As such, deployment of the 40W Opteron will undoubtedly extend well beyond Cloud 2.0 and social media environments." Jeff Jenkins of AMD expressed similar ...

16. Most Americans believe healthcare reform myths

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 24 August 2009

    ... mandatory end-of-life decisions and euthanasia counseling, are those that have gained the most traction in the media and have resulted in changes to the House bill." A random sample of 600 Americans ...

17. Apple, AT&T sued for lack of MMS capability

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 13 August 2009

    A class action started in a Louisana district court alleging that Apple and AT&T touted the iPhone as supporting MMS (multimedia messaging service) but have not as yet provided the service.A class ...

18. UMPC, take 2: Samsung touts first WiMax MID

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    ... which immediately turns the device into something you would not want to rely on for an entire day. Samsung uses Windows Mobile as the operating system for the Mondi. The downside, of course, that it is ...

19. Microsoft hands 20,000 lines of code to Linux community

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 20 July 2009

    ... In addition to this, we worked to improve interoperability with Axis2 and provided support to the Firefox community to optimize Firefox for Vista and Windows Media Player."  ...

20. Joost retreats from consumer market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    Joost, the online video startup, has decided to abandon the consumer market. Instead, it will focus on providing 'white label' online video platforms, allowing media companies such as cable and satellite ...

21. Macworld 2010 to feature Indie developers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 June 2009

    ... with "key audiences," including media, retailers, consumers and potential investors. San Francisco (CA) - IDG World Expo has confirmed that Macworld 2010 will feature a show floor area dedicated exclusively ...

22. That new Xbox for 2010 … real or fake news?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... Photoshop enthusiasts and other media and in the end it turned out that we were 100% on target. If Steve Ballmer was not entirely delusional yesterday (it was a hot, humid day in Chicago yesterday, though), ...

23. Broadband access gets more expensive, study finds

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 June 2009

    Access to fast Internet connection has jumped over the past year. A new study released by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that 63% of Americans now use broadband Internet ...

24. New York is prime site for jet stream kites

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... Australia, and north-eastern Africa," said Archer. "The median values in these areas are greater than 10 kilowatts per square meter. This is unthinkable near the ground, where even the best locations have ...

25. Palm’s massive iTunes gamble: Are they nuts?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 02 June 2009

    ... software development projects for big bad insurance companies. He comments extensively in a wide range of media, and works closely with clients to help them leverage technology and social media tools and ...

26. E3 attempts to resurrect the glory days of gaming

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Sunday, 31 May 2009

    ... help resurrect the glory days of gaming. "(The 2009) E3 Expo has garnered overwhelming support from members, exhibitors, attendees and media," spun Michael D. Gallagher, CEO of the Entertainment Software ...

27. WD offers two terabytes for $299

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 May 2009

    ... and video recording applications, such as DVRs, media servers, media centers and mainstream surveillance systems, often demand 24x7 operation from hard drives. Our drives meet the demanding requirements ...

28. Intel sued over Pentium name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 15 May 2009

    ... that's operated for 30 years. In February, Intel filed a case with the World Intellectual Property Office Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO), requesting the transfer of the domain names to itself. ...

29. Microsoft’s silly shot at the iPod: Desperate?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... a much easier to use interface, I would jump ship immediately. And I don’t think I am alone. And I am not even talking about the outrageous per-song-pricing, which I still believe should be much closer ...

30. Supermicro releases Atom-based blade server

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 08 May 2009

    ... which may not rank among the most capable servers, but offer just enough horsepower for some basic applications, such as home media delivery systems.San Jose (CA) – If power consumption is what counts ...

31. Facebook may not trash your grades

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 07 May 2009

    ... is co-author of Facebook and Academic Performance: Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data, which appears in the online journal First Monday. The researchers used relevant information from three existing ...

32. Windows 7 RC1 finally appears

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 30 April 2009

    ... MSDN and TechNet subscribers. General public availability will follow on May 5 at the Microsoft Download Center. New features in the release candidate include remote media streaming, Windows XP Mode ...

33. Cyberthreats: U.S. under attack every day, virtually

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 23 April 2009

    ... by national media about cyberlaw issues. She has also written a book called, "Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State," published recently by Oxford University Press, that outlines the ...

34. First look: Mozilla Firefox FX 3.6 alpha 1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 06 April 2009

    ... the ability to save pages as web apps will allow FX to act as "the intermediary between web applications and the user's OS desktop," Mozilla claims. FX will integrate with OS X Dictionary, ...

35. Inside Apple's war chest: CIA-like patents for the next-gen iPhone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    ... craziest filings often grab the most media attention. And as we near Apple's developers conference (slated to run between June 12-18) where the company is expected to take the wraps off its next-generation iPhone, ...

36. Complexity kills the computer industry

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    ... and media companies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.  ...

37. Hollywood panics! X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirated, hits web a month before official release

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 02 April 2009

    ... download or wait for the official release? SLIDESHOW:X-Men Origins: Wolverine(6 pictures) We've gotten used to a world where illegal copies of the latest Hollywood flix appear online immediately ...

38. Upscale your DVDs to HD quality with GPU-accelerated software

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... load handled by the GPU and CUDA software engine. The SimHD software is a $19.95 plug-in extension to ArcSoft's TotalMedia Theatre 3 ($89.99) or TotalMedia Extreme ($119.99) software tools for HD video ...

39. Analysis: Mobile games as Microsoft's new weapon against iPhone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... LiteScape, Melodis, Netflix, Pandora, PhatWare, Resco, ShoZu, Sling Media, SBSH Mobile Software, Spb Software, Web Information Solutions and Zagat Survey all round out an impressive list of developers ...

40. Microsoft kills Encarta: Is society getting dummer?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 31 March 2009

    ... of optical media and CD-ROM drives for computers provided software makers with previously unheard of storage capacity (650 MB when most hard drives were below 200 MB as this was long before perpendicular ...

41. Conficker worm believed to have originated from China

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 30 March 2009

    ... utility). The virus payload does not cause immediate damage to files, but the worm is set for future action when called upon (by a remote machine sending it instructions). It is very pervasive however, ...

42. Skype's mobile assault: iPhone client due tomorrow, Blackberry in May

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 30 March 2009

    ... AT&T fears users who routinely exceed minutes included with their plans would immediately switch to VoIP services (like Skype) that offer free or significantly cheaper voice calls over the Internet. ...

43. Android gets two-way syncing of corporate Exchange contacts and calendars

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    ... dubbed ContactsSync and released by Wrike and Intermedia, which solved this glaring omission. The Android-based smartphones -- like T-Mobile's G1 -- have been unsuitable for business use. However, as ...

44. Fennec Beta 1 review: The future of mobile browsing is here

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    ... into byte-codes, which are an intermediary representation suitable for much faster execution. It's like a run-time compile. It converts the text-based, human-readable Javascript source code into a machine-readable ...

45. WWDC 2009: June 12-18 with possible Jobs keynote

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 27 March 2009

    ... moving apps from QuickTime APIs to a newer QuickTime X multimedia platform.The IT track remains dedicated to sysadmins and enterprise IT managers who want to integrate Mac and iPhone into corporate ...

46. Conficker Worm #3: Prepare for April 1

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 26 March 2009

    ... terminate Process Explorer.   The payload does not cause immediate damage to files, but the worm is set for future action when called upon. It modifies and lowers Windows security settings, deletes ...

47. Google's Voice Search arrives on Blackberry

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... The updated program now allows Blackberry users to speak queries like "restaurants" or "movie showtimes" to immediately get listings of nearby restaurants or showtimes for theaters near to their current ...

48. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 25 March 2009

    ... company Pinch Media, suggesting Apple is actively testing at least one prototype iPhone out in the wild. Two additional references to iFPGA and iProd 0.1 are also interesting. While the former refers ...

49. Can anyone break the carriers' choke hold on the cellphone market?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Monday, 23 March 2009

    ... phones are sold. Read on the next page:  Apple vs carriers, no-commit iPhone on March 26, Conclusion Apple vs carriers When Apple first described the iPhone to carrier execs, AT&T was immediately sold ...

50. First PhysX-enabled games arrive on iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 20 March 2009

    ... sport notably realistic interactions and movement, you'll immediately notice sub-par graphics in terms of the number of object on screen, their animation, textures and limited complexity in the 3D world. ...