Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone’s browser, so you don’t need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone
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“There’s a new beta for Flash Player 10 (Astro) available for Windows, Mac, and — you guessed it — Linux.” Drop-down menus, like the one on Adobe’s webpages, can now properly overlay Flash animations in both Firefox and Opera. There’s also better camera support, better language support and speed and stability improvements.
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A new study released by Net Applications indicates that a decreasing percentage of the Internet population is using Windows as their operating system. It appears that Mac OS X could soon be listed in the double digit-range, while Windows could fall below the 90% mark.
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LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn’t run on my machine.
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Lots of data on movie sales. It is somewhat obvious that the PS3 rescued the Blu-ray format from failure and if it wasn’t for the PS3, movie sales could not protect themselves from HD DVD (if it was still alive) either. Funny to see that Microsoft sold only 316,000 Xbox 360 HD DVD add-ons.
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Brings Achievements, Steam Player statistics, and more…
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Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server.”The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device.”
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European countries, including other Nordic nations Denmark and Iceland, occupy most of the top 10 spots.
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The RIAA echoed its sister lobbying group, the MPAA, by telling the Jammie Thomas judge that solely making available copyrighted works on a peer-to-peer network is enough to prove unauthorized distribution with fines of up to $150,000 per violation. Any higher standard of actual proof would “cripple” copyright enforcement in the digital age.
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It wasn’t so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. But now we are about to enter the age of “GP-GPU,” general-purpose computing on a GPU, and it’s about ready for the mainstream. Here’s some of what you can look forward to.
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#6. Sim City 2000 - Players are able to build new facilities, namely, stadiums, prisons, and zoos etc. This game allowed the player to build is the arcology, a giant and futuristic structure meant to house many people and at one point in the game, if the player has built enough arcologies, all of they take off to civilizations on far away planets.
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Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom’s Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible?
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