What's in a game?
By Sylvie Barak 29th October, 2009
AMD's senior manager of developer relations, Richard Huddy, told HEXUS it looks to him as if NVIDIA is "somewhat abandoning the gaming market." Huddy spoke to HEXUS about NVIDIA's recent GTC event, where focus lay squarely on supercomputing and GPGPU computing for academic purposes, a 180 degree flip from the previous year's Nvision event, which was focused on gamers. "It's not like our only focus is on gaming, but it appears NVIDIA is in a kind of sneering mode towards game players at the moment," Huddy told us, adding that in his opinion, it was quite possible to diversify focus, without abandoning gamers and the gaming market. "Gamers are good people," Huddy continued, maintaining that while solving climate change and curing cancer was certainly very admirable, there was also nothing wrong with a bit of gaming. "Gamers are well rounded individuals," he told us.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Nvidia bashes Intel over USB 3.0 delay
by Fudzilla staff, 02 November 2009
Nvidia has been involved in a chipset licensing dispute with Intel for quite a while now, and every now and then Nvidia spinners tend to remind us of this fact. In a statement for TG Daily, Nvidia spokesman Brian Burke told the world plus dog that Nvidia chipsets were always full of innovative features and that they were better than Intel's own cream of the crop. Burke cites the increasingly popular Nvidia ION chipset for nettops and netbooks as an example of Nvidia's superiority. Commenting reports that Intel will postpone the introduction of USB 3.0 on its chipsets until 2011, Burke said: "With no competition in chipsets, it seems Intel has decided that innovation is not needed for USB any time soon. With no one to push Intel to innovate, PC enthusiasts are left with Intel chipsets and the features and performance they deliver, or lack there of."
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Nvidia has been involved in a chipset licensing dispute with Intel for quite a while now, and every now and then Nvidia spinners tend to remind us of this fact. In a statement for TG Daily, Nvidia spokesman Brian Burke told the world plus dog that Nvidia chipsets were always full of innovative features and that they were better than Intel's own cream of the crop. Burke cites the increasingly popular Nvidia ION chipset for nettops and netbooks as an example of Nvidia's superiority. Commenting reports that Intel will postpone the introduction of USB 3.0 on its chipsets until 2011, Burke said: "With no competition in chipsets, it seems Intel has decided that innovation is not needed for USB any time soon. With no one to push Intel to innovate, PC enthusiasts are left with Intel chipsets and the features and performance they deliver, or lack there of."
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Windows 7 usage growing quickly
by Ina Fried November 2, 2009
Microsoft appears to be getting relatively strong early adoption of Windows 7 in the 10 days since its official launch. According to Net Applications, more than 3 percent of PCs accessing the Web in the past two days have been doing so using the new operating system. Usage of the operating system has been growing strong in recent days, though Windows 7 already accounted for 2 percent of global Web traffic in the days ahead of its formal launch. "The early adoption of Windows 7 looks very strong, and I don't believe Vista enjoyed the same early success," said Vince Vizzaccaro, an executive vice president at Net Applications. "Plus, we've seen surges the past two weekend days, and Windows has historically seen much higher usage market share on weekdays than on weekends." However, weekends tend to see stronger usage by consumers. And consumers are more likely to move quickly to a new version of Windows than businesses, which tend to do extensive testing before adopting a new operating system.
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Microsoft appears to be getting relatively strong early adoption of Windows 7 in the 10 days since its official launch. According to Net Applications, more than 3 percent of PCs accessing the Web in the past two days have been doing so using the new operating system. Usage of the operating system has been growing strong in recent days, though Windows 7 already accounted for 2 percent of global Web traffic in the days ahead of its formal launch. "The early adoption of Windows 7 looks very strong, and I don't believe Vista enjoyed the same early success," said Vince Vizzaccaro, an executive vice president at Net Applications. "Plus, we've seen surges the past two weekend days, and Windows has historically seen much higher usage market share on weekdays than on weekends." However, weekends tend to see stronger usage by consumers. And consumers are more likely to move quickly to a new version of Windows than businesses, which tend to do extensive testing before adopting a new operating system.
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Creative Unveils Plans for Zii MediaBook
By Shane McGlaun - November 2, 2009
The eReader market is booming with products available from multiple manufacturers including Amazon, Sony, and more. Manufacturers are trying to set their devices apart from the other readers with new features like touch screens and dual screens. Late last month, Barnes & Noble unveiled its plans for the Nook eReader. Reports are now coming in that Creative is working on an eReader of its own called the Zii MediaBook. Creative promises that the MediaBook will be different from the other eReader on the market thanks to added multimedia features like a touchscreen, text-to-speech, and an SD memory card slot. Perhaps the biggest of the promised features is the ability to playback video files and surf the internet. Those last two features imply that there will be Wi-Fi, but no mention of integrated 3G connectivity along the lines of what the Kindle offers have been made. Creative claims that the MediaBook will offer user's access to Facebook and Twitter on the go and will be able to view photos on the large touchscreen.
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The eReader market is booming with products available from multiple manufacturers including Amazon, Sony, and more. Manufacturers are trying to set their devices apart from the other readers with new features like touch screens and dual screens. Late last month, Barnes & Noble unveiled its plans for the Nook eReader. Reports are now coming in that Creative is working on an eReader of its own called the Zii MediaBook. Creative promises that the MediaBook will be different from the other eReader on the market thanks to added multimedia features like a touchscreen, text-to-speech, and an SD memory card slot. Perhaps the biggest of the promised features is the ability to playback video files and surf the internet. Those last two features imply that there will be Wi-Fi, but no mention of integrated 3G connectivity along the lines of what the Kindle offers have been made. Creative claims that the MediaBook will offer user's access to Facebook and Twitter on the go and will be able to view photos on the large touchscreen.
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