Sponsored by AMD, Autodesk, GeoMagic, HP and Newtek this year JPR’s Press Luncheon and Panel discussion on Virtual Movie-making will be held on August 10th at noon at the Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver. There will be a panel of experts in the field to give their views and answer your questions. You check out more details and RSVP ( if … Read more
With announcement at CES by Microsoft that Windows 8 will run on ARM, thereby enabling another processor to run Microsoft applications, the world shifted. That was the promise with Windows NT back in 1993 when Microsoft declared it would run on the popular processors of the time which were Alpha, AMD64, IBM, Intel MIPS, and Motorola. That didn’t quite happen. … Read more
The second quarter by all accounts so far has not been a blockbuster, in fact in some places it’s been a career buster. The DJIA wobbled, not many new jobs were created, and the politics in the US got even more rancorous if such a thing is possible. In the PC industry the major bright spot had been tablets. Called … Read more
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HTC is set to purchase S3 Graphics from Via for $300M. With the acquisition HTC will obtain S3 Graphics’ portfolio of patents and pending applications however “HTC will provide a perpetual license of the S3 patents to Via,” according to HTC CFO Winston Yung. S3 received a favorable patent ruling on July 1, 2011 which might have served as a … Read more
The HP TouchPad first announced in February is finally available. The new TouchPad entering the increasingly competitive table market features a revamped webOS and a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor that drives the 9.7-inch display. You can read on all the specifications of the new TouchPad here.
Ansys today said it will acquire Apache Design Solutions, Inc. (ADS), a simulation software provider for low power solutions in the electronics industry. The deal is for $310 million in cash, and will be paid using cash on hand from the combined companies. The acquisition comes just as Apache was about to set the price for an initial offering of … Read more
I recently got a new phone, a Motorola Droid X2 to be precise. I have a few other phones, a Nokia N95, an iPhone, and a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Because of tariffs and roaming charges I maintain a US phone (that was the iPhone’s job) and a European phone (the N95). The N95 has a SIM and a SD … Read more
When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there are competing vested interests in proprietary software and plug-ins that will put a few bumps in the road in WebGL’s journey to pervasiveness. Read more … Read more
When Khronos launched the WebGL specifications with strong backing from Mozilla, Google, Apple and Opera we thought at least peace had come to the 3D web valley. We should have known better; seems that there are competing vested interests in proprietary software and plug-ins that will put a few bumps in the road in WebGL’s journey to pervasiveness. Last week … Read more
GTX 580M, 570M are becoming available by OEMs, MSI is offering the 570M is their gaming notebook, while Alienware is also offering the 2nd Generation Fermi GPUs as an option. The GTX 580M and 570M have 384 cores and 336 cores respectively. The 580M’s GPU runs at 1240MHz with a texture fill rate of 39.7 billion/s.
By a 7-2 vote, the high court upheld a ruling by an appeals court that declared the law, which also imposes strict video-game labeling requirements, unconstitutional. The 2005 law which would have barred the sales of video games with violent imagery to minors was challenged by the Entertainment Software Association. Its members include Disney, EA, Microsoft and Sony.
