Category :: Softwares
Samsung's beautiful-but-pricey Series 5 Chromebook too rich for your blood? Fear not, cloud-dwellers. Acer just announced that its Chromebook, dubbed the AC700, will go on sale in the states this month for $349.99, to be followed by a 3G-equipped version later this summer. If you're part of the niche market that would happily live in Chrome OS in exchange for instant-on ...
Posted on June 29, 2011 | Tags: AC700, Acer, Acer AC700, acer chromebook, AcerAc700, AcerChromebook, Chrome OS, chromebook, ChromeOs, Google
Today marked the official launch of Office 365 with a New York City event hosted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The sultriness of the hot June day did not dampen the obvious enthusiasm Microsoft executives, engineers, and some partners all have for the global release of the product, but not everyone shares this enthusiasm. Real concerns exist for partners over profit, ...
Great news……Microsoft today made an announcement that will accelerate the adoption of GPU computing (that is, the use of GPUs as a companion processor to CPUs). The software maker is working on a new programming language extension, called C++ AMP, with a focus on accelerating applications with GPUs.
With Microsoft now embracing GPUs in their future higher level language and OS roadmap, it makes the decision to go with GPU computing even easier for those programmers still on the fence.
Its intent with ...
Microsoft announced yesterday that it's preparing to unleash a whopping 16 bulletins next week. Slated for June 14, this month's Patch Tuesday will address 34 vulnerabilities across many products. The update follows a comparatively light cycle in May, which included only two security bulletins.
Of the 16 patches, nine are labeled "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating, while the remaining seven are deemed ...
Posted on June 13, 2011 | Tags: bugs, critical issue, fix, patch tuesday, problems, windows 7, Windows patch
I am very pleased to announce the launch of a brand new version of the very popular NVIDIA PhysX SDK. The new PhysX 3.0 SDK is available to all registered developers on our developer support website located at:Â http://supportcenteronline.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=1949
PhysX is the world’s most pervasive physics solution for highly realistic and real-time simulation based effects for games, film and ...
With the advancement of web technologies, it is not surprising that the web and web applications are increasingly playing an important part of our experience on the computer. In the coming week, Google is releasing its first Chromebooks - netbooks which are based completely on a cloud OS and in which the traditional desktop has been replaced by the web browser. ...
Posted on June 07, 2011 | Tags: address bar, AddressBar, app, browser, desktop, desktop browser, DesktopBrowser, download, google chromebook, GoogleChromebook, home screen, HomeScreen, html, interface, javascript, linus, Mac OS X, MacOsX, Mozilla, mozilla chromeless, MozillaChromeless, operating system, OperatingSystem, OS, shell, video, webian shell, WebianShell, windows
Windows PCs don't exactly have a reputation for security, but Microsoft's trying to change that. When smug know-it-alls claim that Windows PCs have more viruses than a public toilet, Microsoft points to the PatchGuard driver signing system on 64-bit Windows as their way of saying "Nuh-uh!" PatchGuard keeps the baddies from getting high-level privileges on Windows machines. Bad news: Kapersky's reporting that a new malware program that targets Windows 64-bit users has figured a way around the protection.
The malware is part ...
Posted on June 06, 2011 | Tags: 64-bit, anti virus, kapersky, Malware, OS X, patchguard, virus, windows
Sydney, Australia, 3 June 2011 - Kogan today released the world's first laptop powered by Google's Chromium OS, available for sale and ready to be dispatched.
The Kogan Agora Laptop powered by Chromium OS goes on sale today for £269 in the United Kingdom and $349 in Australia and ships direct to customers next week.
Kogan's Chromium OS Laptop is based on the ...
Posted on June 02, 2011 | Tags: chromium, chromium os, ChromiumOs, Google, Google Chrome, google chrome os, google chromium, google chromium os, GoogleChrome, GoogleChromeOs, GoogleChromium, GoogleChromiumOs, kogan, kogan agora, kogan laptop, KoganAgora, KoganLaptop, laptop, ruslan kogan, RuslanKogan
- Snapdragon Family of Processors Will Support Next Evolution of Mobile Computing -
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced today that its upcoming award-winning Snapdragonâ„¢ family of smart mobile processors, including the MSM8960â„¢ with integrated 3G/LTE modem, is designed to power devices running the next version of Windows. The companies' collaboration continues to address the converging and fast-changing mobile computing landscape, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon family of dual-core and quad-core processors will enable optimal computing performance, extended ...
Posted on June 02, 2011 | Tags: APQ8064, arm, Microsoft, msm8960, qualcomm, snapdragon, windows 8, windows next, Windows8, WindowsNext
Microsoft just showed Windows 8 running on three different ARM platforms: a single-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, a dual-core TI OMAP 4430 and a quad-core NVIDIA Kal-El notebook. The same interface we showed you earlier exists on these systems, and the same applications can run across both systems (assuming the apps have been ported to ARM).
You get a ...
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