By ET Bureau 29 Apr 2009
World's second largest PC chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and FXLabs Studios, India’s leading end-to-end game development company, on Tuesday announced a strategic technology alliance to foster game development in the country. The association makes FXLabs the first Indian game development company to join forces with AMD to deliver a compelling gaming experience. As a part of the alliance, FXLabs will deploy the latest ATI FirePro series of workstation graphics technology for the development of upcoming games, provide a test base consisting of AMD Radeon series of consumer graphics processors and in addition, provide the technology expertise of its graphics engineers.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 ATOMIC: ramping up to 1,000MHz core
By Tarinder Sandhu 29th April, 2009
We've now seen a steady trickle of partner-designed Radeon HD 4890 graphics cards be unveiled since the launch of the GPU four weeks ago. Radeon HD 4890s ships at either 850MHz core and 3,900MHz memory (XT), or 900MHz core and 3,900MHz (OC) and are available for around £200 for the cheaper model and just a touch more for the OC.Sapphire is readying its own HD 4890 that it hopes will steal the thunder from rivals. Encased in a Vapor-X heatsink and pre-overclocked, we've managed to snag a pre-production sample of the highest-clocked HD 4890 we've seen thus far. Read on to find out our initial thoughts.
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We've now seen a steady trickle of partner-designed Radeon HD 4890 graphics cards be unveiled since the launch of the GPU four weeks ago. Radeon HD 4890s ships at either 850MHz core and 3,900MHz memory (XT), or 900MHz core and 3,900MHz (OC) and are available for around £200 for the cheaper model and just a touch more for the OC.Sapphire is readying its own HD 4890 that it hopes will steal the thunder from rivals. Encased in a Vapor-X heatsink and pre-overclocked, we've managed to snag a pre-production sample of the highest-clocked HD 4890 we've seen thus far. Read on to find out our initial thoughts.
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Tweeters flying away in droves
While new Tweeters are flocking to the micro-blogging site, Twitter's retention rate is a dismal 40 per cent.
By: Sharon Gaudin - Apr 29, 2009
Ask any high school kid - soaring popularity loses some of its luster if more than half of your new friends ditch you after the first month. And that's the problem that Twitter Inc. executives are facing. It seems that while people are joining the micro-blogging site in droves, a whole lot of them don't sticking around for long. A Nielsen Co. report released Tuesday shows that 60 per cent of Twitter users do not return to the microblogging site the next month. And for the 12 months prior to Oprah Winfrey joining Twitter this month with great media fanfare, the site had a retention rate of less than 30 per cent.
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Also read these:
Why Most Twitter Users Give Up
Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth
Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?
Twitter is a Fad
By: Sharon Gaudin - Apr 29, 2009
Ask any high school kid - soaring popularity loses some of its luster if more than half of your new friends ditch you after the first month. And that's the problem that Twitter Inc. executives are facing. It seems that while people are joining the micro-blogging site in droves, a whole lot of them don't sticking around for long. A Nielsen Co. report released Tuesday shows that 60 per cent of Twitter users do not return to the microblogging site the next month. And for the 12 months prior to Oprah Winfrey joining Twitter this month with great media fanfare, the site had a retention rate of less than 30 per cent.
Read more here -->Link
Also read these:
Why Most Twitter Users Give Up
Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth
Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting?
Twitter is a Fad
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