Bill Gates is not the world's richest man anymore
Bill Gates has lost his crown as the richest man in the world. Forbes, which calculates who is worth what and publishes its “World’s Richest People” list, has decided that Gates is not worth as much as he used to be.
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Hackers love PDF files
Adobe Reader is the software most often exploited in targeted attacks it seems as Helsinki-based F-Secure urged users to update to the newest version of Reader to protect themselves against new attacks taking advantage of a vulnerability patched just three weeks ago. F-Secure claimed that 61 per cent of the nearly 900 targeted attacks it's tracked in the first two months of 2010 exploited a vulnerability in Reader.
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Unreal Engine 3 demo running on Palm webOS
Palm is currently demonstrating Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 running on a Palm Pre Plus at the Game Developers Conference this week. The company managed to get the engine working on webOS just two weeks after receiving a test version of the Unreal Development Kit, according to CNET. The technology is currently used in PC and console games such as Gears of War 2 and Unreal Tournament III.
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Nokia hopes multitasking will set Symbian^3 apart
David Rivas, vicepresident of Technology Management at Nokia, showed off a demo of the interface for the Symbian^3 smartphone OS at a demo in San Francisco earlier this week. The first Nokia phones running the now completely open source platform will be available later this year.
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YouTube mobile site gets banner ads
YouTube's mobile website has grown like mad (160% in 2009), thanks to huge smartphone adoption, and is now serving up videos to millions of people around the world. This is an audience that cannot be ignored in terms of potential revenue so after a bit of testing, Google has now begun putting ads on the mobile site's home, search, and browse pages.
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Khronos releases OpenGL 4.0 specs, Nvidia already claims support
Khronos Group took the stage at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to announce the 4.0 version of OpenGL, Microsoft's DirectX 11 rival API. Defined by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board working group, OpenGL 4.0 includes better interoperability with OpenCL (open-source GPGPU framework) as well as the new GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) 4.00 which provides developers with more options to tap into GPU power, the goal being to deliver enhanced graphics quality, acceleration performance and programming flexibility.
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Intel Core i7-980X reviews go live
Today Intel has dropped the NDA for its first consumer 6-core processor and thus opened the flood gates for Core i7-980X Extreme Edition reviews. Priced at $999, the new chip (codename Gulftown) is a 32nm hexa-core part clocked at 3.33 GHz (3.60 GHz in Turbo mode) with 12 threads, 12MB of L3 cache, and a TDP of 130W. Being an uber-end CPU, the i7-980X EE targets the LGA 1366 platform and will work on current X58 motherboard after a BIOS update.
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ASUS introduces line-up of Designo LCD monitors
ASUS introduced the latest addition to its existing range of Designo Series LCD monitors: the LS246H. Together with the preceding MS Series, the LS246H delivers combination of style and performance. Taking inspiration from the binary state, the Designo Series incorporates the contrasting elements of the numbers 1 and 0, and straight lines and curves into an ultra-slim profile. The Designo Series monitors feature ring stands with Ergo-Fit Technology, allowing users to make tilt angle adjustments with just one finger.
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