OpenGL 4.0 specification announced at GDC
With the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco underway, Khronos Group, the association behind OpenGL has announced the fourth generation of its cross-platform graphics API. This is the first major update since the launch of OpenCL and brings the graphics standard more up to par with Microsoft's DirectX 11, with GPU-accelerated tessellation and various other performance improvements.
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Intel launches first six-core desktop processor, the $999 Core i7 980X Extreme Edition
Intel officially launched today its first hexa-core desktop processor, the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition. As previously reported, the codenamed Gulftown chip features six 32nm cores clocked at 3.33GHz, reaching a maximum Turbo Boost clock speed of 3.6GHz for single-threaded operations, it has a massive 12MB L3 cache, and is capable of running 12 threads simultaneously with Intel's Hyper-threading t...
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ComScore: Android usage soars, iPhone stalls, Windows Mobile dives
ComScore's latest mobile figures are in, and Microsoft's market share has continued to plummet, while Google, RIM, and Apple experienced gains.
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Sony demos its motion controller, the PlayStation Move
At its GDC keynote today, Sony finally officially revealed its answer to Microsoft's Project Natal: the PlayStation Move. The inelegantly named motion controller will launch in three packages, starting with a standalone controller. Next up is a starter kit with the PlayStation Move, PlayStation Eye, and an unnamed game for under $100. The most expensive will include a PlayStation 3 console, the Mo...
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Wednesday tech deals: Samsung Bluetooth Headset for $1 after rebate
Samsung WEP650 Bluetooth Headset for $1 after rebate + free shipping
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OCZ announces sub-$100 Onyx SSD series
OCZ has definitely been active on the flash storage front, releasing not only some of the best performing solid-state drives on the market but also a few value-oriented options. Currently standing as their most affordable offering is the 30GB Agility drive, which is selling for around $119 at several online retailers, but now the company is looking to break the sub-$100 price barrier with the intr...
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ARM: Over 50 tablet devices will debut in 2010
Apple's iPad could face some serious competition as 2010 unfolds, if an ARM executive's predictions hold true. Roy Chen, ARM's worldwide mobile computing ODM manager, expects over 50 tablets to launch worldwide in 2010. The pending swarm of slate computers has even prompted ARM to secure more space at this year's Computex conference, where it will show off tablets along with e-readers, netbooks, a...
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OnLive launching in June, starts at $14.95 per month
It's been almost a year since OnLive first unveiled its ambitious games-on-demand service at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Now, after going through a rather limited "public" beta stage and facing both praise and skepticism, the company is getting ready for a commercial roll out on June 17. According to an official announcement today, OnLive will launch in the 48 contiguous United States and...
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News around the web: Economy Grounds Flying Car
Economy grounds flying car (video) @ Reuters
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Free wireless broadband access coming to the US?
Great news for Americans stuck with 56k: the US may soon offer free wireless broadband Internet. The idea is part of a new plan (PDF) intended to increase the number of Americans using broadband at home from 65% to 90%.
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Rivals gain on Dell's lagging PC shipments in 2009
Acer has shown substantial growth over the past couple years, acquiring several PC makers and delivering competitive products as it strives to take HP's number one crown. Last December, market researcher iSuppli reported that in Q3 2009 the company actually moved one step closer to this goal by overtaking Dell's quarterly shipments for the very first time. Now the numbers for the whole year are in...
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Google launches store for third-party Web apps
Google has launched a new online store where third-party developers can sell Web apps to Google Apps users. The Google Apps Marketplace offers Web applications that can be integrated into Google Calendar, Google Docs, Gmail, and other services available in the search company's cloud-based productivity suite.
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PCGA: PC software sales totaled $13.1 billion in 2009
The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) today released its yearly Horizons Report, a research study encompassing all aspects of the PC gaming industry worldwide. Among the key findings revealed by the non-profit consortium is that gaming software revenue was a $13.1 billion industry last year, up 3% from 2008. This total includes retail sales as well as online gaming, digital distribution and online adverti...
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VueScan 8.6.19 for Mac OS X
VueScan is an easy to use scanner program that saves you time and improves your productivity.
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Little Snitch 2.2.2 for Mac OS X
Little Snitch tells you when a program tries to send info to the internet so you can see whats going on in the background.
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JetPhoto Studio 4.7.2
A full-featured digital photo organizing and web publishing platform.
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Joyfax Server 4.90.0310
Fax software allows you to send and receive faxes in a network environment.
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MediaInfo 0.7.29
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
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EverNote 3.5.2.1697
EverNote is a free note-taking application.
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x264 Video Codec rev. 1471
x264 is a free library for encoding H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video streams.
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Wise Disk Cleaner 5.1.2
Free up disk space by deleting junk files that are no longer used.
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Spybot Search and Destroy Detection Update March 10, 2010
This updates the detection rules for Spybot Search and Destroy.
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Trend Micro Pattern File for Windows 6.907.0
Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for virus identification.
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Bitdefender Virus Definitions March 10, 2010
Keep your Bitdefender Anti-Virus updated.
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Ad-aware 2008 Definitions File 0149.0171
Manually update Ad-aware 2007 with the latest definitions file.
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Norton Virus Definitions 2003-07 March 10, 2010
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.
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Norton Virus Definitions 2008-10 March 10, 2010
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.
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