Intel and NVIDIA seem to be trading barbs recently, with either always managing to somehow point out just what it is that their upcoming or current products can do better in certain areas. Intel, on the one hand, has been definitely delivering breakthroughs in the area of low-power consumption and long battery life. On the opposing side, NVIDIA is, of course, sticking to its graphics and multimedia expertise and has already announced that the next-generation ION chips will give netbooks multimedia capabilities.The company is seemingly unconcerned with how Intel has been saying that the ION's extra features add unnecessary cost to devices that are not even designed for multimedia capabilities. Folks at Engadget seem to have gotten a hold of some details on the platform and it appears that NVIDIA may be working on other things besides feature integration.
The so-called ION 2 chip (whose real denomination is still unknown) might be arriving during the first quarter of 2010 and, as many end-users will likely be thrilled to learn, it will even be compatible with the Pine Trail platform as well. This will likely aid NVIDIA in scoring more design wins because the Pine Trail itself specializes in low power consumption. Still, what the company did not speak on was just how the chips would deal with the Intel plat... (read more)
One of the aspects of Microsoft that should come as no surprise is that the company plans ahead not just next year’s product launches, but decades in advance, in terms of the evolution of its technology. Not limited to its own software, this strategy is an integral part of how the company is tackling problems faced by education systems world... (
Firefox 4.0, the next major release of Mozilla’s open source browser, will bring to the table a major overhaul of its graphical user interface, one that would put the UI in line the Windows 7 Ribbon/Fluent style. Mozilla has already made public details on the revamping of the Firefox User interface for version 4.0, and various concepts and sketches ha... (
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Microsoft is helping Windows 7 customers celebrate love right on their desktops. In this regard, the Redmond company has made available for download a new desktop theme designed to integrate seamlessly into the desktop of their Windows 7-power computers. The Lacy Hearts is, as the software giant has put i... (
The latest development milestone of Office 2010 has made it into the wild, even though Microsoft never intended to have the general public get their hands on the release. Earlier this week, the Redmond company revealed that the next iteration of the Office System reached a key milestone in the evolution to RTM, namely the Rel... (
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