Some 544 million graphics chips will ship in 2010, up 27.9 percent on the 425.4 million shipped in 2009, according to market analyst Jon Peddie Research (Tiburon, Calif.). Jon Peddie Research – Graphics processing unit – Business – Advanced Micro Devices – Nvidia
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Graphics chips shipments to rise 27% in 2010, says analyst (EETimes)
The fifth Wacom Intuos4 is named the “Intuos4 Wireless” as it teams up with Macs and PCs via Bluetooth. An 8 x 5-inch display used with a pressure-sensitive Grip Pen will have designers porting their…
It seems like we’ve been talking about Samsung and its 30nm promise for an eternity, but ever so slowly real products are starting to head out into real consumers’ hands. After recently announcing its forthcoming NAND memory cards , the company is back with word of 2Gb DDR3 DRAM modules that consume 30 percent less power than their 50nm counterparts , yet are also more cost-effective to manufacture. Operating at either 1.5 or 1.35 volts, the 30nm parts are set for mass production in the second half of 2010, so they won’t be here quite as soon as we’d like, but at least we’ll know what to put down in our next Holiday Gift Guide .
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Samsung’s 30nm DDR3 DRAM set to lower costs and power consumption later this year
Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE deployment, and now we can break that figure down a little by noting that NTT will be spending between $3.3b and $4.4b on its infrastructure alone.
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NTT DoCoMo will demo LTE prototype at MWC, launch service this year
Security has been stepped up for a panel of nine judges hearing the asset seizure case against former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Supreme Court secretary Virat Chinwinitkul said on Monday.
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Security stepped for nine judges in Thaksin’s assets case (The Nation – Thailand’s English news)
This right HERE* is called the Lamborghini Madura, and it’s a concept car from another of the fantastic pages in the book of Slavche Tanevski. This designer is on fire with the car designs, let me tell you that. Before we had Tanevski’s “Ankonian,” now we’re gettin yellow! (or blue if you please) Or green! This vehicle’s a Hybrid! That’s right, race fans, join in on the saving of the earth.
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Madura, Laser Child of the Road
Cignias’ NAO Symphony still doesn’t seem to be widely available following its CES unveiling, but our good pal Dave Zatz looks to have sourced one from the wild, wild abyss. He did the world a favor by hosting up unboxing shots and a few first impressions, noting that this “sophisticated” iPod speaker dock actually interests him far more than most of those me-too offerings cluttering shelves today. Unfortunately, he’s still working on getting the iPhone app to connect to a hidden SSID, but feel free to hit the source link and peruse the image gallery while he gets that ironed out
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Cignias NAO Symphony wireless iPod boombox gets unboxed
Israel has boosted security measures at its borders and embassies in the wake of the killing of a senior Hamas militant for which the Palestinian Islamists have blamed the Jewish state, Israeli public radio said on Monday.
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Controller-type devices baked into wearables have been around since the late 17th century (though we can’t seem to recall one in particular that was made before Nintendo’s Power Glove ), but frankly, we haven’t seen a whole lot of innovation in this department over the past few years. Deanmark’s AirMouse is hoping to change all of that, but if we didn’t know any better, we’d say Microsoft kind of called this concept first. Anywho, the strap-on mouse — which doesn’t seem to boast any sort of price or release date — attaches on one’s wrist and fingers in order to place sensors on areas where you’d normally mouse
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Deanmark’s AirMouse looks more like a ragged glove, less like an input peripheral
• This weekend’s big story has been the row between Amazon and Macmillan , the publisher, over ebook pricing. After temporarily pulling all Macmillan books – including physical ones – from its site as they argued about who can set the price of ebook downloads, Amazon has now relented .
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Breakfast briefing: Amazon’s publishing war, China’s internet war and the Tory’s broadband election
The last time DZone spoke with Mark Thomas, a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource and committer for Apache Tomcat, he said that Tomcat has had a long history of memory leaks when reloading web applications. This topic could easily fill its own article, he said. In his overview of the features coming in Tomcat 7, Thomas said that the new version, which is expected to have an alpha…
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Keyboard Dock with hardware keyboard ; Case which can be used to stand the iPad in various positions; Dock; Dock Connector to VGA Adapter for external monitor or projector; Camera Connection Kit for transferring photos (PTP) and videos … Yair Reiner said the iPad will compete against e-book devices such as the Barnes & Noble nook and the Amazon Kindle while offering 70% of revenue to publishers, the same arrangement afforded developers on the Apple App Store. … View post: 沪江博客 – 风雪夜归人 – iPad
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沪江博客 – 风雪夜归人 – iPad
Motorola’s Backflip has yet to springboard itself over to AT&T, but those who call China home can hop on the bandwagon right away. Said phone — which sports a full touchscreen and a physical QWERTY thanks to the horizontal clamshell design — is now available from Moto’s Chinese portal for 4,298 Chinese yuan (in unlocked form), which translates to right around $630
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Motorola Backflip spotted in the wilds of China
Amazon is selling the Magellan Roadmate 1212 for only $99.95 shipped, originally priced at $299.99. Its “Centrality Atlas III processor and built-in high-sensitivity antenna provide the fastest position acquisition in the industry for reliable navigation.” Product page . QuickSpell intelligently searches and checks spelling so you can enter your destination with just a few touches of the screen.
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Deal of the Day: $299.99 Magellan RoadMate 1212 3.5" Portable GPS Navigator for $99.95 Shipped
Virgin CEO Richard Branson has unveiled Necker Nymph, a new $660,287 underwater plane that “can dive to depths of up to 130ft; Richard hopes to one day explore depths of 35,000ft.” Similar to fighter jets, the Necker is piloted via a joystick and uses downward lift from its wings to fly downwards.
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Virgin CEO Richard Branson Unveils Necker Nymph Underwater Plane
Curious folks around the world enjoy a bit of hackintosh every now and then (although once is enough for many), but no geek has successfully ventured as far as Toni Nikkanen of Finland, who became the first person to run OS X on a phone — the Nokia N900 .
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Mac OS X 10.3 installed on Nokia N900 via PearPC, barely usable for impatient geeks
This Roman army knife from 200AD could be one of the first multi-function tools built, complete with an “iron blade, a spoon, fork as well as a retractable spike, spatula and small tooth-pick.” Continue reading for one more picture. Experts believe the spike may have been used by the Romans to extract meat from snails. It is thought the spatula would have offered a means of poking cooking sauce out of narrow-necked bottles
In an abrupt turnaround, the bookselling giant has reversed the stance it had taken with Macmillan over ebook pricing Amazon has given in over the pricing of ebooks which prompted a row with the publishers Macmillan – to the extent that Amazon stopped selling both Macmillan’s ebooks and its physical books in its US store. The initial move had generated a great deal of entirely acceptable heat for Amazon, which wanted to be able to set the prices of ebooks and was prepared to use its power in selling physical ones to do it.
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Amazon admits it will have to give in to Macmillan over ebook pricing
The massive, multimillion-dollar security operations for the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics are being adjusted in light of recent breaches such as the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner and the White House gatecrashers. Sports and government officials say such lapses — where individuals got past guards on the ground — are leading to increased screening efforts at major upcoming…
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Xmas bomb attempt prods Super Bowl security change (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. It was quite the week for Apple, first with its best-ever earnings and then the launch of the iPad .
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