It’s not all that much to go on--a PowerPoint slide purported to have been disgorged from the bowels of Intel, but with actual provenance unknown. [......]
Archive for December, 2009
Hopping right into the tablet vacuum left by Apple’s conjectured announcement of a tablet device (What is it now, the iPad, iSlate or iGuide? I’ve lost track.), Notion Ink has announced a tablet of its own , the Adam, which will come equipped with Nvidia’s Tegra, Android, and a Pixel Qi LCD display. Tegra and Android are current news, so let’s focus on what’s new: the Pixel Qi display[......]
So here we are. The ball’s just about to drop on 2010, and while we’re not controlling games with our brains or Vulcan nerve pinching aliens on the holodeck just yet, it’s been a pretty great decade for games, all told. So I’ve written an arbitrarily numbered list of my favorite games of the past decade, because what else are you going to do to ring in a new decade[......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews 0 ( online surveys ) The hosting of software and services in leased, private clouds is already a reality for many businesses worldwide. But the synchronization of confidential data is the next big step, and while technologists declare "the cloud" as something that is happening , like climate change, CIOs aren't always ready to take the plunge[......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews The key to a huge plurality, if not a majority, of exploits that have plagued Microsoft Windows over the past two decades has been tricking the system into executing data as though it were code. A malicious process can place data into its own heap -- the pile of memory reserved for its use -- that bears the pattern of executable instructions[......]
By Bob Flores, E-Commerce Times [The author of this article is Bob Flores , the former Chief Technology Officer for the US Central Intelligence Agency. [......]
Need a new PC, but don't have a ton of cash? We'll show you how to build a machine that can do anything—from browsing the web to playing games to encoding video—for a mere $647 In many respects, it’s more difficult to build a great cheap PC than it is to build a more expensive one. In fact, the less money you have to spend, the more vital it is that every dollar delivers measurable value. [......]
Why settle for ranking within a calendar year when you’ve got a whole (depending on where you start counting) decade available? Wired has cobbled together it’s 15 “most influential games of the decade,†and, it may be safe to conclude from the list, it wasn’t much of a decade for gaming[......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Betanews begins its transition to the new decade with an examination of the critical issues that taught us valuable lessons in the past year. If you're old enough to remember 1999, you may remember the sense of wonder, possibility, and dreams yet to be fulfilled that was drummed up by what used to be called the "media," during the much-celebrated rollover of the odometer[......]
As the capacities and prices of hard drives drop it becomes so very tempting to replace existing hard drives with something bigger, and perhaps faster. But what to do with the old drives? External drive cases, let’s face it, are passé--and in some instances will cost you more than the drive they’ll house is worth[......]
We've been hearing rumors Google would release its own branded netbook, and while speculation has been spotty, the chaps over at UK's IBTimes claim to have the inside scoop . Let's get the obvious out of the way. Google's netbook will come equipped with the search giant's Chrome OS, which is only surprising if you were expecting Android to power the platform. [......]
By Carmi Levy , Betanews Like the other over-50% of smartphone-owning people in North America, I'm quite the fan of my BlackBerry. Even in an era when newer kids on the block -- namely Apple's iPhone and Google's Android -- garner more accolades and headlines for having slicker interfaces and cooler (and more) apps, the BlackBerry platform remains the safe, reliable choice that's good enough for most consumers and businesses. Despite analyst predictions that the BlackBerry will someday be reeled in by the upstarts, Research In Motion continues to grow and dominate the market it practically defined a decade ago. [......]
With the rise of popular streaming services such as Hulu, many would probably speculate that BitTorrent usage would be on the decline, but according to the folks over at TorrentFreak , nothing could be further from the truth. Nearly doubling its 28 million a year user base to 52 million, uTorrent usage is continuing to rise with no end in sight. [......]
A new computer is like a blank paper--there's a lot of potential there, but without some work on your part, it's useless. It's not hard to get started, but there are some essential first steps that everyone should follow when breaking in their new PC. In this guide, we've compiled a step-by-step list of essential tips, tricks and advice from many of our other features, to provide you with just the information you need to get off to a great start with any new PC. [......]
