Thursday, November 19, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Tech Report) 19/11/2009



Google plans Chrome OS event for tomorrow
On Friday, the folks at TechCrunch quoted a "reliable source" as saying Google's Chrome OS would become available within a week. That may well turn out to be true. The same site now says it has been notified that Google will hold a "special Chrome OS event" at...
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GIS Day Shortbread
GIS Day Boy Genius Report: Apple Black Friday deals leaked? C|Net reports Gartner says chip sales will rebound in 2010 AMD-Nvidia showdown looms as demand for graphics recovers Donanim Haber reports Nvidia Fermi...
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$700 MSI 'nettop' has dual-core Pentium, Nvidia graphics
MSI's latest Wind "nettop" doesn't have the looks or software of Apple's iMac, but it's definitely not far from it in terms of hardware. Unlike previous all-in-one nettops, the new Wind AE2220 features a dual-core Pentium T4300 processor clocked...
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OCZ lets loose the Colossus
After five months in limbo, the Colossus has finally made it out into the wild. We speak, of course, of OCZ's new 3.5" solid-state drive family, which combines impressive performance with even more impressive capacities thanks to a...
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Catalyst 9.11 drivers introduce Flash 10.1 support
Radeon users don't have to jealously watch their GeForce-using friends enjoy GPU-accelerated Flash video playback any longer. AMD has released its Catalyst 9.11 graphics drivers, bringing official support for the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta plug-in. You can grab these new drivers for Windows 7, Vista, and XP in...
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Latest NZXT case is big on cooling, cable management
Is that gigantic Corsair case we reviewed earlier this week a little too rich for your blood? If so, you may want to check out NZXT's new king-sized Tempest EVO enclosure, which has some of the same features but a much more affordable $99.99 suggested retail price. The Tempest...
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13.3'' Asus UL30Vt laptop has discrete graphics
Fresh from launching the first wave of UL (a.k.a. UnLimited) family of ultraportable notebooks, Asus has struck again, this time with a 13.3" model that couples switchable discrete graphics with typical CULV hardware and portability. The Asus UL30Vt has a 13.3" 1366x768 display, a choice of dual- or single-core...
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GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 beta hits the web
A little over a month ago, Adobe announced plans to release a beta of its GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 player "later this year." Well, we're now later in this year, and as planned, the beta has become available for download from the Adobe Labs site. Adobe offers versions of the...
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Nvidia announces Fermi-based Tesla GPUs
Don't we all love a good paper launch? Fermi-based graphics processors may not be ready for stores just yet, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia from announcing its first Tesla products based on the new architecture. These Tesla 20-series offerings include two workstation cards and two quad-GPU workstation systems, all...
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Nvidia unveils GeForce GT 240
As it continues to work on next-generation graphics processor for the high end, Nvidia is also refreshing the mainstream portion of its product line. A pair of low-end 40-nm GeForce 200 GPUs targeted at pre-built PCs first appeared on Nvidia's website in July before hitting retailers in...
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