Apple tablet a reality
After word spread that Apple had rented a stage for a "major" announcement in January, the rumor mill was at full speed that the oft-rumored Apple-branded tablet may finally be a reality. The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster all had stories over the past few days, claiming that a major product announcement was set for January. Munster gives it a 50/50 chance of being the tablet, while the WSJ says Apple is already debriefing media companies on how their content would work on the devices.
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Kodak and Samsung settling their patent problems
Kodak and Samsung have agreed to try to reach a settlement regarding their patent disputes. Making the first big step towards ending the courtroom fighting, Samsung has committed to making a non-refundable payment to Kodak this year that will be credited toward its future royalty obligations to Kodak.
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YouTube gets the URL shortening service
YouTube this week introduced youtu.be, an URL shortener that will cut down to size links to YouTube clips. With youtu.be visitors of Google's site will be able to move quicker when sharing videos they like, while developers are enables to do things like provide thumbnails, embed the video directly, and track how a video is spreading in real-time.
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Unreal Engine 3 running on iPhone
AnandTech is reporting that the Unreal Engine 3, the technology behind games such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum, has now been successfully run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzts8tsKuHs) on an iPhone 3GS and a 3rd generation iPod Touch.
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ATI wins 2009. in graphics
The year 2009 was really slow, unusually so when it comes to new product announcements and the better part of the second half of the year was spent waiting for new DirectX 11 parts. In early 2009 Nvidia launched its Geforce GTX 295, something that has dominated the high end graphics market all the way until November 2009. Nvidiaآ’s GTX 285 and GTX 260, both in 55nm were usually the best choice. In the mean time AMD had HD 4870 and HD 4850 cards and letآ’s not forget the dual-GPU HD 4870 X2, but all of them usually ended just slightly slower than Nvidia offering. The first part of year was clearly in Nvidia favour.
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Two new Foxconn H55 motherboards
For the upcoming launch of the 32nm Core i3/i5 processors, Foxconn has prepared two micro ATX motherboards, the H55MX-S and H55MXV. Both powered by the H55 chipset, the boards have a 6-phase power design, support for 45nm/32nm LGA 1156 CPUs, two DDR3-1333 memory slots, a PCI-Express x16 slot and six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports.
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Average American spends 13 hours online
According to a Harris Interactive survey of US Internet users, it appears the average users spends about 13 hours a week online, however, the range is very large. Over the past decade, online time has doubled from just under 7 hours in 1999 to the current survey results. At its peak, in October 2008 (during the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the upcoming election of President Obama), online time was over 14 hours.
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Faulty BIOS in some Sapphire HD 5770 cards disables 80 shaders
A BIOS glitch in Sapphire HD 5770 Vapor-X cards seems to be responsible disabling 80 shaders, dropping their number to a total 720, which is what you get on an HD 5750.
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Intel rubbishes NVIDIA ION graphics for netbooks
Intel and NVIDIA look set to continue their spat concerning the hardware that powers netbooks. It can be argued that Intel provided the fundamental stimulus for netbook growth when it released the Atom chip in 2008. Custom-designed for low power and small mobile form factors, the chip has been taken up by almost everyone. The chip giant then recently launched the second-generation Atom, complete with integrated graphics and, consequently, lower platform-wide power-draw.
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