GlobalFoundries hires Freescale's Gregg Bartlett
AMD factory spin-off GlobalFoundries is continuing to build its brainy army, with the latest move being to appoint Gregg Bartlett as senior vice president of technology and research and development. Bartlett, who last served as vice president of design technology at Freescale Semiconductor, and has 25 years worth of experience in technical and management positions, is taking the R&D crown from Craig Sander, who'll be going to work on some "special projects."
"Gregg brings a wealth of experience in both the collaborative development of advanced technology and its application to a variety of products," said Grose, chief executive officer of GlobalFoundries. "He also understands what it takes to transition from an internal supply chain to an independent, customer-focused company. Under Gregg’s stewardship, GlobalFoundries will work to extend its technology leadership, raising the bar for the entire foundry industry and continuing to push semiconductor technology at the leading edge."
In addition to heading GlobalFoundries' research, Bartlett will oversee the company's collaborative R&D activities with the IBM Alliance.
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Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 is all-stock, still nice
If nothing goes terribly wrong in the immediate future when, tomorrow we'll see AMD announce the Radeon HD 4770 and its partners flood the web with press releases describing their RV740 offers. As you'd expect, Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte will be on call and also introduce a Radeon HD 4770 aka, the card pictured just below.
The new card features 640 Stream Processors courtesy of the 40nm RV740 GPU, has a 128-bit memory interface and 512MB of GDDR5 memory, DirectX 10.1 and CrossFireX support, a dual-slot cooler, and two DVI connectors. The Radeon HD 4770 comes with a 750 MHz-clocked GPU and the memory set to 3200 MHz, and is set to cost just under $100. One more day till the unveiling...
Photo courtesy of HKEPC.
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Microsoft's Live Search Product Upload going bye bye
After doing a mash up of Live Search Products and Live Search Cashback, Microsoft has decided on discontinuing its still beta Live Search Product Upload. The soon to be defunct service allowed sellers to quickly get their products in the Live Search database.
Retailers in the US using Live Search Product Upload were advised to continue their collaboration with Microsoft by participating in the Live Search Cashback advertising program.
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Microsoft delivers 18 language packs for Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft has last recently released 18 language packs for its latest browser release, thus brining the number of languages supported by Internet Explorer 8 to 43. Available for download here, the new packs deliver support for the following languages - Bulgarian (code BGR), Bosnian (Cyrillic) (BSC), Bosnian (Latin) (BSB ), Catalan (CAT), Croatian (HRV), Estonian (ETI), Hindi (HIN), Latvian (LVI), Lithuanian (LTH), Macedonian (MKI), Romanian (ROM), Serbian (Cyrillic) (SRB ), Serbian (Latin) (SRL), Slovakian (SKY), Slovenian (SLV), Thai (THA), Ukrainian (UKR) and Vietnamese (VIT).
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Google fixes a couple more Picasa bugs
Everyone's favorite IT octopus, Google, has recently rolled out an update for the Windows version of its image software, Picasa. Build 71.36 comes to fix two bugs - one where unedited 'Original Size' uploads to Picasa Web Albums were compressed and one which caused cropped images to display incorrectly when combined with sharpen or glow.
To download Picasa 3.1 build 71.36 visit picasa.google.com.
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Apple to pay Opti Inc $19 million
Last week a Texas court has found shiny machine promoter Apple guilty of willfully infringing a patent of Opti Inc. and was ordered to pay $19 million in compensation. According to the judge, Apple infringed on a patent named "Predictive snooping of cache memory for master-initiated accesses," which describes a method of improving communication between CPU, memory and other devices.
Filed at the beginning of 2007, the lawsuit saw Apple trying to get Opti's patent invalidated but apparently even the company's (we assume) very well-paid lawyers couldn't sell that to the judge. And so it now has to write a check for $19 million. No biggie for Apple right?
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Wine 1.1.20 out in the open
A new development release of Wine has recently been made available and, in addition to lots of bug fixes, it features:
- Show a dialog on application crashes.
- Much improved OLE copy/paste support.
- Various listview improvements.
- More Direct3D code cleanups.
To get the Wine 1.1.20 source simply follow this link.
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Techconnect Review Round-up 25/4/09
Graphics cards
- MSI N250GTS-2D1G OC GeForce GTS 250 Video Card @ motherboards.org
Enclosures & PSUs
- Supermicro SuperServer 5035L-IB case @ Virtual-Hideout
- NZXT Zero 2 Gaming Chassis @ Hi-Tech Reviews
Displays
- Lenovo L215P @ Digital Trends
Peripherals
- Enermax Aurora Micro Wireless Keyboard @ Hardware Secrets
PCs
- MSI NetOn AP1900 @ InsideHW
Photo and video cameras
- JVC Everio GZ-X900 and Nikon Coolpix L100 @ TrustedReviews
Sound
- Etymotic hF2 Custom Fit Earphones @ bit-tech
Other
- AC Ryan Playon! DVR TV @ bit-tech
- XtracPads Hybrid @ BurnOutPC
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New Opera 10 alpha build ready for download
After a three week dry period (likely due to Easter), the Opera Software devs have returned bearing gifts, more specifically, a new Opera 10 alpha snapshot. The release brings automated crash reporting for the Windows version and also includes the following tweaks and fixes:
Highlights
- Turbo mode is now disabled automatically for local IP addresses and hostnames
- Work on adding a placeholder image for plugins that are missing or not loaded (in Turbo mode) - see the "extras" folder for the SVG file
- Google TLD server work. On first run, we contact a Google server, and it returns the correct top level domain (TLD) to use
- Show sent mail when using threading in the e-mail client
- Updated Presto version to 2.2.2
- Some improvements for skin designers:
1) Added "Reload skin" action, which can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut in the shortcut editor
2) You can point to an unzipped skin by adding the full path to the skin.ini file in opera:config#UserPrefs|ButtonSet
3) Toolbar.ini defines new button skins for each toolbar, so each toolbar can be skinned separately. Fallback is Toolbar Button Skin. (Known issue: Native skins not updated yet, so they will get the hover state for the default skin instead)
User Interface
- Insufficient label height for Japanese translation in "Download Opera setup" dialog
- Fix for Thunder Download menu entry (popular Chinese download accelerator)
- Manual update check wasn't working when Opera was set to "don't check for updates"
- Any search from personal bar triggered Google, regardless of selected search engine (related to Google TLD work)
- "Show menu=0" didn't work
- Fix for Fast Forward at Polish Google site
Site Compatibility
- Couldn't click zoom buttons at Google Maps
- Moving an iframe didn't move Flash content
- Empty text nodes shouldn't always cause line breaks in rich text editors (needs testing)
- Mouse events were captured on transparent SVG
- SVG image not repainted correctly after scrolling
- Opera would not set document.cookie when IP address was specified in the URL
Stability
- Several crash fixes (table-row styled optgroups, kiosk mode crash on startup, document.write crash in javacript:, crash when overwriting TEXTAREA in designMode, back button crash, crash when selecting all in documentedit with generated content, sync crash on exit)
- Plugged some memory leaks
- Fixed freeze with nexted CSS display styles
- Freeze when searching DOM in Dragonfly
Mail/Chat
- Show sent mail when using threading
- "- Opera" incorrectly added to IRC toolbar
- Threaded mail view showed as Flat, and Period didn't work on PowerPC and SPARC
- Inconsistent icons for Check and Send
- Switching to RTL directionality fails in M2
- Drafts appear in Received when any character was entered into the To field
Widgets
- 302 wasn't handled properly in widgets when using XHR
Windows
- Profile lost after upgrading single user installation
- Opening a download in an external application would open several tabs because of spaces in the local path
Available for Windows and Mac OS X (Linux version coming next week), the new Opera 10 (codename Peregrine) alpha build can be downloaded from this page.
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