Adobe CS 5 to be launched on April 12
Adobe Systems has revealed that the official introduction of its latest Creative Suite is set for Monday, April 12. The CS5 launch will be streamed online via Adobe TV but that is only accessible to those who register here with their Adobe ID.
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Unigine Heaven 2.0 released
Just days before AMD finally gets some competition in the DirectX 11 space, Unigine has rolled out the 2.0 version of the Heaven Benchmark which was the first app to really show off what DX11 can do. With the 2.0 release Unigine has included things such as heavier tessellation load, several major optimizations of the engine, Physics-driven flags, more dynamic lights and introduction of moderate and extreme tessellation modes.
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ASUS GTX 470/480 gets Voltage Tweak
Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards are surely going to be fast - with the latter likely to take over the mantle as the fastest single-GPU graphics card available. However, if that just isn't good enough, it looks as though ASUS is going to help enthusiast users make the most of their prized cards via Voltage Tweak technology. We've yet to see ASUS's cards in the flesh, but the Taiwanese manufacturer has provided us with the box shots that confirm the implementation of its overclocking feature.
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No Firefox for Windows Phone 7
Mozilla revealed that the company will not be creating a version of Firefox for Windows Phone 7 because Microsoft decided to close off development to native applications . Development of FF for Windows Mobile 6.5 will also be shut down given the fact that Microsoft has said they are betting the future on Win 7, not 6.5.
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MSI introduces the Radeon HD 5850 & HD 5870 Twin Frozr II
MSI has today officially launched two new Cypress-powered cards which, although they make use of the Twin Frozr II cooling system, are not part of the Lightning family. These Radeons have stock clocks but Military Class components and is also equipped with a cooler boating two 80mm PWN fans and four heatpipes (two of which are 8mm-thick SuperPipes), that can lower GPU temps by up to 12 degrees more than reference solutions.
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Sapphire fights Fermi with HD 5850 TOXIC 2GB
Sapphire has today announced a new-and-improved version of the Radeon HD 5850 TOXIC graphics card introduced earlier this year. The upgraded model retains all the goodness of the existing model, but comes equipped with a massive 2GB memory - double that of the previous card. Designed to raise the performance provided by AMD's reference design, Sapphire's custom card comes factory overclocked with the GPU running at 765MHz and the 2GB of GDDR5 memory hitting an effective 4,500MHz. For comparison's sake, that's up from 725MHz and 4,000MHz, respectively, for a stock-clocked alternative.
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iPhone & iPod take revenue from Nintendo and Sony
Apple in one year has already claimed almost a fifth of all portable gaming revenue for itself: the iPhone and iPod touch made up 19 percent of portable game revenue in all of 2009 where it had claimed five percent just a year earlier. At the same time, Nintendo dropped slightly to 70 percent, and Sony's PSP had its share almost halved, plunging from 20 percent to 11 percent. The nearly fivefold spike was enough to have Apple represent 5 percent of all video game revenue, regardless of the platform, and eat into sales of TV consoles. Other portables still grew year-over-year to 24 percent of video game revenue, but systems like the Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 dropped eight points to 71 percent.
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