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By Brooke Crothers
Rival publishers simultaneously reveal plans to adopt Ageia-powered physics engine in upcoming PC titles.
Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive Software are adopting Nvidia's
PhysX technology, bringing more realistic gaming to the PC. The largest
graphics chip supplier announced this week that Electronic Arts and
Take-Two have licensed its PhysX technology as a development platform.
Nvidia got its physics technology when it acquired Ageia
in February. PhysX runs on the graphics processing unit, or GPU. Intel
and Advanced Micro Devices, on the other hand, have been promoting
technology that is executed on the central processing unit, or CPU.
Intel's approach uses technology from Havok, a developer of a physics
engine that
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The company said their 4G LTE processor could power smartphones that get 60 Mbps downloads and 20 Mbps uploads.
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Marin
Perez
LG Electronics revealed a modem chip Tuesday that could offer users up to eight times the connectivity speed of current smartphones.
The company showed off a chip that uses Long Term Evolution (LTE), a
technology that is expected to be a main contender for th
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By Walaika Haskins
Novatel's new MiFi unit is a pocket hotspot.
It connects to 3G cellular data services to deliver WiFi connectivity
to whatever devices you have in a 30-foot radius -- a computer, an iPod
touch, a WiFi-enabled camera, etc. Price points will be a critical
issue for the device, as carriers typically price these sorts of
services with revenues, rather than speedy adoption, in mind. Novatel Wireless has introduced a new line of devices that essentially creates a mobile 
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Written by Iain Thomson in San Francisco
The computer mouse is celebrating its 40th anniversary today after first
being unveiled by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC)
in 1968.
The original mouse had two wheels set at right angles to each other and the
computer plotted the distance each wheel moved. Then in 1972 Xerox PARC came up
with a ball mouse, the design for which remained popular for decades. Englebart developer the mouse while at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI),
one of the largest research institutes in the world. “Doug Engelbart once said, ‘the better we get, the better we get at getting
better.’ That concept, combined with his creation of perhaps the most innovative
interactive computing tools ever developed, has been a personal inspiration to
me,” said Curt Carlson, Ph.D.
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Sun Microsystems appears to have put its utility computing effort, Network.com, on ice until it gets an idea of how to resurrect it.
The pioneering computing effort, which launched two years ago, offered
pay-per-use computing infrastructure for high-performance computing
applications without forcing customers to buy expensive IT equipment.
However, Network.com has only 13 customers and has stopped accepting
new customers, according to a report on the Register.com.
Dave Douglas, senior vice president of cloud computing and developer
platforms group, told reporters Tuesday that the service is in
transition but was reluctant to offer specifics on the direction the
company would go with the service.
"We
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The much-hyped Google Android phone operating system will hit Australia on January 29, in the form of the Kogan Agora and Agora Pro.
As apparently the first handset provider to bring the Android platform
to Australia, Kogan Technologies is cleverly piggybacking on existing
hype about Google's open-source mobile phone platform.
The Android platform is currently available in the U.S. in the form of the T-Mobile G1. Much like the G1, the Kogan Agora phones pack a QWERTY keyboard--though no touch screen.
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In today's world, everyone has more and more to do every day, so Google Inc. is testing a new Gmail tool designed to help people get those things done. On Monday, Google announced a tool called Tasks that's designed to help Gmail
users create to-do lists. Tasks sits on top of the Gmail window and
appears in a chat-like window that's visible while users read e-mail,
use the search function or do other tasks, Google's Task Team said in a
Gmail Blog post. The feature, which is coming out of
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If president-elect Barack Obama heeds the advice of a blue-ribbon IT security panel, he'll create a new White House office for cyberspace to be headed by an adviser charged with coordinating the computer security efforts of federal departments and agencies.
In other words, a Cyber Czar.
But who would fill the role envisioned in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) commission's recent 96-page report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency?" ChannelWeb runs down the list of potential candidates for Cyber Czar.
THE CORPORATE LEADER
John Thompson, CEO of Symantec (NSDQ:
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By Katie Marsal Research firms and investment
banks are welcoming a move that would see Wal-Mart carry the iPhone
later this year, but warn that a special $99 model would stand in
contrast to the company's proven strategy while also presenting
unnecessary risk.
"We believe a $99 iPhone would be atypical of Apple's premium brand
strategy," UBS Investment Research analyst Maynard Um told clients in a
research note. "More likely is a scenario in which select Wal-Mart
(& possibly Sam’s Clubs) are simply added as further iPhone
distribution points (like Best Buy)."
The analyst recognized that a cheaper iPhone model could stimulate
incremental demand, but said it would also cannibalize sales of both
the 8GB and 16GB models and, to a lesser extent, the iPod touch.
More specifically, he estimates that sales of
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By Jennifer Martinez
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Fourteen of the world's
largest mobile phone and chip makers, including Sony Ericsson,
Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and ARM Holdings Plc (ARM.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz),
joined the Open Handset Alliance on Tuesday to support the
Android mobile device platform developed by Google Inc
(GOOG.O:
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Earlier this past month, the final version
of the Apple-backed OpenCL specification was delivered to standards
group participants for vetting, and the final OpenCL 1.0 specification
has now released. Simultaneous with the final spec's release, NVIDIA announced
full support for it in its GPU products. Now we know why Apple has
standardized on NVIDIA GPU hardware across its entire product line.
In a nutshell, OpenCL
is a so-called "GPGPU" specification that enables programmers to tap
the power of the GPU as a data-parallel coprocessor without having to
learn to
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