All the stories tagged with Thoughts
Intel re-enters System-on-Chip market with its X86 architecture
07/23/2008, Intel has just announced a System on Chip (SoC) product named EP80579. The basic idea of a SoC is to integrate as many components of a computer as possible in a chip. That allows to reduce the size, cost and power [...]
Microsoft fights back with Vista advertisement: a flop in the making
07/22/2008, Microsoft has had enough to see Apple communicate (negatively) about Vista: they have launched an initiative that aims to “educate” customers on the current state, but also the benefits of Vista. First, there’s some recognition that things went well (honesty) [...]
BlackBerry business tactics to fend-off the iPhone tsunami
07/21/2008, RBC analyst Mike Abramsky doesn’t believe that the iPhone is a direct threat to Blackberry. He points out the fact that Blackberries are available though almost any major carriers, in the U.S, for example. This is quite true, and that’s [...]
NVIDIA Integrated GPUS Alongside Intel ATOM Processors Soon?
07/08/2008, That’s just speculation, but Digitimes believes that NVIDIA might partner with Intel in the Mobile Internet Device (MID) space. Personally, I’m thinking “NetTop” and not MID, but their idea is to pair Intel’s ATOM processor with a low-cost NVIDIA GPU [...]
Why SSDs are not as cool as they should be
07/01/2008, Tom’s Hardware has published an article that establishes that SSDs (Solid state Drives) are not saving battery life (that was already confirmed during the Macbook air tests) or increasing performance. To explain quickly, conventional wisdom would say that SSD drives [...]
NVIDIA PhysX Modded to Run on ATI Hardware? Seems Fishy
06/30/2008, There is a rumor on the NGOHQ forum saying that someone has been able to modify (“mod”) a set of ATI drivers to run NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated PhysX code on older (pre-4800) ATI cards. At the moment, there is no proof that [...]
Ebooks Are Just Not Good Enough
06/27/2008, Piper Jaffray & Company have conducted a limited internet survey (344 respondents) that concluded that roughly two-thirds would not buy an e-book, even if the price was low. Although any limited survey has to be interpreted with caution, this is [...]
Nokia Opens Up Symbian – The Cost of Influence is $410M
06/24/2008, Nokia already had a large stake in Symbian, the entity that produces the operating system (OS) for its phones. Now, the company bought the rest of the shares for $410M and announced that phone makers would not have to pay [...]
AMD and Havok/Intel Optimize Physics for AMD
06/12/2008, When Havok/Intel and AMD work together to make physics simulation run faster on CPUs, one could say that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”, right? In case you don’t know, Havok is owned by Intel and provides a [...]
Blood-Pressure Sensing Underpants
05/19/2008, Looks like a pair of underpants isn’t just meant to keep your privates in place anymore these days, as scientists have come up with a rather novel method of sensing your blood pressure, by including a blood pressure sensing system [...]
Storage: Regardless of How Much You Have, It Is Never Enough
04/22/2008, Kit Eaton at Gizmodo had an interesting post about “How many TBs is Enough”? The author lists that storage devices that he has and says: “at comes to a grand total of 2010 GB, so around 2 TB. That seems [...]
iPhone Without Exclusive Deal in Italy, Exception or Policy Change?
04/21/2008, The Italy iPhone launch might signal a change in policy at Apple. As of now, Apple chose one carrier per country to which it gave exclusive rights to commercialize the iPhone. The idea is that carriers enter a bidding process [...]
Readius E-Ink Rollable E-Book (Video)
04/18/2008, (Video in the full post – click on the link below) Our friends from TeleRead have posted a link to this cool video of the Readius Rollable E-Book that also has a cellular wireless functionality. Now I wouldn’t call this [...]
