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Archive for October, 2009
J. TECH - Oct - 31st
J. TECH - Oct - 30th
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and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Road" – the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world. Check out official website here –>Link |
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J. TECH - Oct - 30th
Gamers could be joining in a real televised sporting event from their homes early in 2010.
By BBC 30 October 2009
Real Time Race has been developing a system that places players side-by-side with the drivers in real races. The firm’s technology would map the circuit just before the race so the virtual track would match up to the one on TV. The video recording of the track would then be manipulated by the gamer during live coverage. This data would then be streamed to the player’s computer or straight to a television via the internet. "We can put you in your own car, within real TV coverage of a real race, and in real time against the professionals," said Chris Leigh, the company’s head. "When Jenson Button nails his car from the front you can go and chase after him and try and beat him to the first corner," he said. Immersive experience: To make this possible, ahead of the race, a car with a mounted five headed-camera would need to do a lap to film a 360 degree picture of each part of the track. Unlike current video manipulation, which rotates the picture, this system allows users to move to places where the camera has not been but still offer a video footage experience. Roderick Kennedy, the technical officer at Real Time Race, said this gave drivers an immersive driving experience."Our data gathering system can generate an image from anywhere on the track so you can drive freely around the track."
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J. TECH - Oct - 28th
By JR Raphael, Oct 28, 2009
Well, gang, it’s official: Verizon’s Motorola Droid smartphone is on its way into the world. The Droid, unveiled Wednesday, will hit store shelves on November 6 with a $199.99 price tag, after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a new two-year contract. The phone is the first to run Google’s brand new Android 2.0 operating system, and it packs plenty of punch not previously seen on the smartphone market. Not surprisingly, plenty of people are already speculating whether it’ll put a dent in the sales of that other high-profile device (you know, the one whose manufacturer is occasionally compared to a communist regime). Regardless of whether you like your phones with a lowercase “i” or a giant red eye, the Verizon Droid has some undeniably interesting features. Here are five that stand out the most to me.
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J. TECH - Oct - 28th
By Kevin McLaughlin, Oct. 28, 2009
Just because something is technically possible doesn’t mean it’s legal. That’s the message Eric Ligman, global partner experience lead in Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Group, is sending this week to bloggers who claim to have found a way to circumvent Microsoft’s rules and perform a clean install of Windows 7 using upgrade media. Cost savings is the motivating factor here: The Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade sells for $80 less than the full version, and the Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate upgrades are $100 less than full price. However, Microsoft’s EULA only allows Windows 7 upgrades to be installed on PCs that have a previous version of Windows already installed. Ligman, whose knowledge of Microsoft’s complex licensing terms is nearly as vast as the lawyers who drew them up, often warns of the dangers of violating Microsoft’s EULA, which include potential Business Software Alliance audits and a host of other costly legal hassles. “For those of you without an existing Windows license to upgrade from, you should be aware that an upgrade license by itself is not a license to install and run Windows on your computer,” Ligman wrote in a Tuesday blog post.
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J. TECH - Oct - 28th
by Mark Hachman 10.28.09
Sony has recalled about 69,000 AC adapters sold with its Vaio notebook products, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. No injuries have been reported, although Sony said that it has received four reports of the adapters short-circuiting, due to insulation that can fail over time, Sony said. No incidents took place in the U.S., either. The adapter number is the Sony VGP-AC19V17. The adapters were sold between from September 2005 through October 2009, and included the Sony Vaio VGC-LT series and VGC-JS2 series notebooks as well as the VGP-PRBX1 and VGP-PRFE1 docking stations.
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J. TECH - Oct - 28th
By AppleInsider Staff October 28, 2009
Apple this week is equipping developers with a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6.2, the second maintenance and security update to the company’s new Snow Leopard operating system that will perform upgrades to nearly 150 components. The latest beta, labeled Mac OS X 10.6.2 build 10C535, comes one week after the Mac maker issued build 10C531 to address issues with Snow Leopard’s Dock, ColorSync, QuartzCore and graphic driver components. This week, Apple has asked developers to continue to provide feedback on graphics drivers while also tasking them with focusing their evaluation efforts on TrackPad preferences and the ability to create virtual machines, people familiar with the matter say. As was the case with last week’s beta, documentation accompanying build 10C535 reportedly lists no known issues. And while Apple has temporarily ceased its practice of providing a running list of bug fixes that will come baked into the impending release, it did identify 148 components that have seen tweaks.
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J. TECH - Oct - 26th
By Ian Paul, Oct 26, 2009
The New York Times’ Executive Editor, Bill Keller may have inadvertently confirmed the existence of the oft-rumored Apple Tablet in a private speech earlier this month. Keller may have also let slip the name of the new device: Apple Slate. Then again, he may have been speaking hypothetically based on the common assumption that Apple is about to release a tablet device in the next few months. Here’s what happened: The Keller Speech – On October 15 or 16, Keller gave a speech during an “all hands” meeting for the Times’ digital staff at TheTimesCenter in New York, according to a post by Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. During the speech, Keller made a reference to the Times’ strategy for mobile devices. “We need to figure out the right journalistic product to deliver to mobile platforms and devices,” Keller said. “I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate, or whatever comes after that.”
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J. TECH - Oct - 26th
By Agam Shah, Oct 25, 2009
Tilera on Monday announced new general-purpose CPUs, including a 100-core chip, as it tries to make its way into the server market dominated by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The two-year-old startup’s Tile-GX series of chips are targeted at servers and appliances that execute Web-related functions such as indexing, Web search and video search, said Anant Agarwal, cofounder and chief technology officer of Tilera, which is based in San Jose, California. The chips have the attributes of a general-purpose CPU as they can run the Linux OS and other applications commonly used to serve Web data. “You can run us as an adjunct to something else, though the intent is to be able to run it stand-alone,” Agarwal said. The chips could serve as co-processors alongside x86 chips, or potentially replace the chips in appliances and servers.
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J. TECH - Oct - 26th
Growth predicted
By Ed Berridge, 26 October 2009
AFTER THE CHINESE semiconductor market dipped in 2009, the industry is expected to be major force in the world markets next year. According to bean counters at Isuppli, China’s semiconductor market is expected to rebound vigorously as exports of electronic products recover from the global economic crisis. Sales of Chinese semiconductors will decrease to $68 billion in 2009, down 6.7 per cent from $72.9 billion in 2008. While this sounds bad for China’s semiconductor makers, they actually have been doing a lot better than other chipmakers, as the semiconductor industry as a whole suffered a 16.5 per cent decline this year. However the Chinese government’s economic stimulus package and the country’s own domestic electronics market rebound in the first quarter seem set to turn China’s chip market around.
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