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AMD's three new low-power chips pose potent challenge to Intel
Thu, 23 May 2013 05:32:24 GMT
Is AMD (finally) getting its groove back?
AMD is showing off its latest round of APUs – accelerated processing units that combine compute and graphics cores on the same slice o' silicon – that it hopes will be reinforcements in its battle for the consumer market against its main competitor, Intel, especially at the low-power end of the market.…
Fairphone goes on sale to all
Thu, 23 May 2013 03:36:29 GMT
The Android handset that's PC can be yours
When is a phone PC? When it's a Fairphone, the smartphone “that puts social values first” and has a rather politically-correct (PC) attitude.…
HTC woes prompts 'leave now' tweet from former staffer
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:38:17 GMT
Chief product officer latest to bail from sinking mobe-maker
Life just got even harder for struggling Taiwanese mobe-maker HTC, with chief product officer Kouji Kodera walking out the door and another former staffer posting nasties to Twitter.…
Startup hires 'cyborg' Mann for Google Glass–killer project
Wed, 22 May 2013 00:39:36 GMT
3D augmented reality specs coming your way this year
Watch out, Sergey! A new startup is hard at work on a device that's far more ambitious than Google Glass, and it has just signed on wearable-computing maven Steve Mann as its chief scientist.…
Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the console that can read your heartbeat
Tue, 21 May 2013 21:35:00 GMT
Upgrades Live service – and no always-on requirement
Microsoft has shown off its next-generation gaming console, the Xbox One, with an upgraded Kinect and voice-recognition system, Skype integration, seamless switching between viewing modes, and a massive ramp-up in server support for the Live online community.…
Review: Sony Xperia SP
Tue, 21 May 2013 12:59:08 GMT
The new mid-range marvel? Oh yes.
Sony’s flagship Android smartphones have been a bit of a disappointment to me. But if the Xperia S and Xperia T didn’t quite cut the Colman’s, the cheaper follow-ups, the Xperias P and V, were more convincing. Sony, it seems, is better in the middle than at the top.…
German robots sent to Oz to make GPS millimetre-perfect
Tue, 21 May 2013 06:22:46 GMT
Auto-builders get a home in the great outdoors
Industrial robots from Germany will be spending their life in Australia's great outdoors, helping to improve the accuracy of the country's Global Navigation Satellite System positioning knowledge. The project, a GNSS robotic calibration facility, has been switched on in Canberra, and will ultimately be part of a nationwide calibration network.…
Dell's PC-on-a-stick landing in July: report
Tue, 21 May 2013 05:58:08 GMT
Wyse up, suckers, could this be a new set-side-stick?
Dell's project Ophelia, an Android-PC-on-a-stick effort revealed at CES last January, is apparently set to debut in July.…
Don't Panic! Google FCC filing reveals mystery media device
Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:07 GMT
Nexus Q replacement, or something more Guide-y?
Google has filed paperwork with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a mysterious new media player device, leading to widespread speculation that a successor to the ill-fated Nexus Q may be forthcoming. But if that's true, what's with the Douglas Adams references?…
The iWatch is coming! The iWatch is coming!
Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:35 GMT
Reports: Apple's wrister to have 1.5-inch OLED, test units being built
The Apple iWatch rumor mill has rumbled to life yet again, with one report that Apple is sampling 1.5-inch OLED displays for the li'l fellow, and a second that long-time iKit assembler Foxconn has received orders for a test batch of the "wearable computing" device.…
Rogue Nokia splinter cell drops its Jolla phone A-BOMB
Mon, 20 May 2013 17:12:07 GMT
Ota tuo, vihreä robotti Google!
Smartphone upstart Jolla - founded by a bunch of ex-Nokia engineers - has finally unveiled a device. The gadget's technical details are few and far between at this moment.…
US boffin builds 32-way Raspberry Pi cluster
Mon, 20 May 2013 05:36:49 GMT
Beowulf cluster built for the price of a single PC
Boise University PhD candidate Joshua Kiepert has built a 32-way Beowulf cluster from Raspberry Pis.…
Bureau of Stats releases educational SimClone game
Sun, 19 May 2013 19:04:10 GMT
Hey kids! Why bother with Minecraft when you could play an evidence-based policy sim?
Australia's Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released a game, Run That Town, that borrows heavily form SimCity to give players the chance to learn about the way statistics are used to shape policy.…
MIT takes battery-powered robot cheetah for a gallop
Fri, 17 May 2013 19:55:03 GMT
Biomimetic big cat needs no power cord, just a walker
Video Fast, agile robots for reconnaissance and rescue have been under development for half a decade or more, but they all have needed to be tethered to a power cable. Now MIT thinks it has cut the leash with a battery powered "cheetah" capable of outrunning a human.…
I said ‘no’ to a million-pound Tech City empire
Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:06 GMT
Handed on a plate, thrown back in your face
Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been propositioned in a toilet by a 72-year-old man. He wants me to move in with him and do the business.…
The quest continues for a fondleslab that fondles you back
Fri, 17 May 2013 07:55:13 GMT
British vibro pioneers say: Anything can be a speaker
HiWave, the haptics company which emerged from Brit hi-fi consortium NXT with a mission to make our fondleslabs fondle us back, has fragmented into a part which makes money and the more-interesting Redux.…
Dell uncloaks novel workstation trio, plops one into cloud
Thu, 16 May 2013 22:04:10 GMT
Versatile rack mount, entry-level minitower, itsy-bitsy cutie
Dell has filled out its workstation line with three new machines: a versatile, virtualizable 2U rack-mountable big boy, an entry-level minitower, and the minitower's little brother – which, if a workstation could ever be called "cute", would be a leading candidate for that designation.…
Verizon starts selling VMware's split personality phones
Thu, 16 May 2013 05:27:08 GMT
Bring your own device provided it's one of these two Androids
VMware has notched up a significant achievement in its quest to reduce its dependence on server virtualisation - by striking a partnership with Verizon Enterprise that gives its BYOD-ware Horizon Suite a better chance of finding its way into users' hands.…
Android device? Ooohhhh, you mean a Samsung phone
Wed, 15 May 2013 19:35:39 GMT
Koreans nabbed nearly all the Q1 profits – more even than Google
Android may now be the bestselling smartphone OS in the world, as Google pointed out in its Wednesday morning I/O conference keynote, but a new report says most handset vendors aren't actually making much money off Android – with one notable exception.…
Euro PC shipments plummet into bottomless pit of DOOOOM
Wed, 15 May 2013 15:10:48 GMT
11th quarter of decline, 20pc drop on last year - Gartner
PC shipments in Western Europe declined for the 11th quarter in a row, and suffered the steepest drop on record in the first three months of 2013.…
Hex & plugs & ROM & roll: Computer music stars rock Bletchley
Wed, 15 May 2013 10:04:43 GMT
Seven decades of electronica at code-breaking park museum
Are programmers the new rock stars? That may be a bit of a stretch, but it hasn't stopped one IT engineer staging a computer music exhibition at Blighty's Bletchley Park.…
Watch out, Nokia: Global mobile phone sales slowing
Tue, 14 May 2013 22:19:11 GMT
Only the Asian market showing growth
It seems as though hardly a month goes by without the launch of some flashy new mobile phone. Yet according to new figures from Gartner, overall mobile sales are slowing throughout most of the world, which could mean trouble ahead for some vendors – particularly Nokia.…
Top guns doomed as US Navy demos first carrier-launched drone
Tue, 14 May 2013 21:24:04 GMT
Killer robot takes to the skies
The US Navy has successfully completed the first carrier launch of its unmanned X47B drone, a programmable stealth strike aircraft with a range of 2,100 miles and the skills to allow automatic in-flight refueling, which could give it global reach.…
Google adds Atari Easter Egg for Breakout's birthday
Tue, 14 May 2013 19:24:55 GMT
Cute game born in Jobsian heart of darkness
Google has added a playable version of the early Atari game Breakout to its Image Search system to celebrate the game's 37th birthday.…
BlackBerry's Q5 QWERTY gets flirty with buy-curious teens
Tue, 14 May 2013 15:34:04 GMT
We need to talk about Kevin
BlackBerry's new Q5 QWERTY smartphone was revealed today as "youthful and fun", rather distancing the device from its pinstripe pocket-dwelling siblings, the Q10 and Z10.…
Mystery Sony big-screen ereader to sport E Ink bender
Tue, 14 May 2013 11:03:58 GMT
Liable to be pliable, folks
E Ink reckons its "Mobius" flexible epaper screen will be the first of its kind to go into mass production, an event the company claims will take place some time later this year.…
Android is a mess and needs sprucing up, admits chief
Tue, 14 May 2013 09:58:12 GMT
Can Google really fix it? It isn't in control any more
Comment Android looks unstoppable, and it's a mess. The first fact tends to eclipse the second observation, but Android's new supremo diplomatically acknowledges as much in an interview.…
NYC attorney seeks mobe-makers' help to curb muggings
Mon, 13 May 2013 20:16:00 GMT
'Why no remote killswitch?'
In a series of letters, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has called upon smartphone makers to explain what they are doing to combat the growing problem of handset theft.…
Report: AT&T dropping Facebook phone after dismal sales
Mon, 13 May 2013 18:30:25 GMT
Turns out folks won't buy that for a dollar
Facebook's experiment with branded hardware may be coming to an abrupt end, according to a report that AT&T is discontinuing sales of the HTC First handset after finding that people won't buy it – even for 99 cents.…
Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Mon, 13 May 2013 12:19:07 GMT
Faster, brighter, thinner - what’s not to like? Well...
In purely commercial terms, the Samsung Galaxy S III was always going to be a tough act to follow. After all, it established and then cemented Samsung’s position as the number one smartphone maker by volume - and the only one to give Apple the collywobbles.…
Notebook sales to surge, says notebook seller
Sat, 11 May 2013 00:48:53 GMT
'Intel and Microsoft will save us'
Global notebook sales may be in the crapper, but according to the chairman of the company manufacturing notebooks for Acer, Dell, Toshiba, HP, and others, the bluebird of sales-revenue happiness will sing again in the second half of this year.…
Global nappy hawker trials TweetPee moist-baby monitor
Fri, 10 May 2013 23:34:34 GMT
Electronics on your child's crotch links to Twitter
Twitter is preparing for an IPO, casting around for business plans to sell to investors, and so may be relieved to know Kimberly-Clark, maker of the popular Huggies diaper brand, is suggesting a solid (or in this case, liquid) idea for them to take to market.…
New Ubuntu for phones due 'by end of May' – usable this time
Fri, 10 May 2013 20:57:54 GMT
Team vows to 'dogfood' its own OS
When Canonical released the Developer Preview of the smartphone version of its Ubuntu Linux OS, it warned users that it was only an experimental snapshot and that it couldn't replace their current handsets. That could change soon, however, as one Canonical exec has vowed to make an Ubuntu device his day-to-day phone by the end of this month.…
'Ultimate nerd chick’ prompts C64 clone cancellation
Fri, 10 May 2013 12:18:10 GMT
Project Bread Bin... binned
A damning tweet from one Jeri Ellsworth, described by a Register reader as “the ultimate Commodore 64 nerd chick”, has put the mockers on Project Bread Bin, one retro-tech fan’s dream to build a cut-price Commodore 64-compatible computer in a keyboard case.…
Excess all areas
Fri, 10 May 2013 11:51:05 GMT
The art of larging it up at press conferences
Something for the Weekend, Sir? My career is taking a turn for the worse. No doubt some of you consider that getting paid to bash off 750 ill-judged and frequently inaccurate words every Friday morning about one’s inability to use a computer correctly is an obstacle that you might suffer to stumble over as you stagger along your own rocky career path. I’m certainly not complaining, but I think things have started to go awry.…
Fighting Fantasy and fantastic fights in tights
Fri, 10 May 2013 09:04:52 GMT
Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!, Injustice - Gods Among Us and more
Game Theory This month’s column has been unceremoniously cleft in twain. Why? Because, while May’s big news will undoubtedly revolve around Microsoft’s unveiling of its Xbox 360 successor, there are still a fine number of new releases to discuss.…
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