Monday, June 14, 2010

IT News HeadLines (Rage3D) 14/06/2010


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Duke Nukem Forever Lawsuits Settled
This paves the way for another ten years of development! :D 3D Realms/Apogee Ltd. and Take-Two have settled their differences and filed to dismiss their litigation over Duke Nukem Forever. "The above action, including any and all claims that were or could have been asserted by the parties, is...
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HP Bringing Instant-on Linux Capabilities In-House
HP has reached an agreement with BIOS-maker Phoenix Technologies to acquire HyperSpace, an instant-on Linux platform that runs in a lightweight hypervisor integrated into the BIOS. The two companies plan to complete the $12 million deal by the end of the month. The HyperSpace platform is designed...
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COMPUTEX 2010 Wrap-up @ HotHardware
Every year, the largest computer exhibition in Asia is held in Taipei, Taiwan over the course of five days. Computex is huge, and spans several buildings throughout the city. Only CeBIT, held in Germany, can claim to attract more visitors and businesses to their event. But it makes sense that...
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PowerVR Gets DirectX 9 Support
In the name of progress! LONDON — Graphics intellectual property licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc has announced its PowerVR SGX544 graphics core for embedded and mobile applications with support for Microsoft DirectX 9 and multi-processor capability. The PowerVR SGX544 can be...
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ATI Radeon HD 5870 & 5970 with NVIDIA PhysX @ TweakTown.com
If you haven't heard already, the 257.15 Beta ForceWare driver set from NVIDIA accidently had the ability for ATI users to again use an NVIDIA card as a second to do PhysX. The whole ordeal created a bit of drama around the web; as soon as it was discovered by NVIDIA they yanked the driver and put...
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The Witcher Developer Explains DRM Policy
Further elaborating upon its recent declaration that "nothing is decided yet" (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64054) regarding The Witcher 2 and DRM, developer CD Projekt RED has issued several statements (http://tw2.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=29225.0) on the matter, including a...
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AMD Next Generation FireStream Cards To Launch June 2010
A tid-bit from John Frueue's AMD@Work blog (http://blogs.amd.com/work/2010/06/10/fusion-for-servers/comment-page-1/#comment-2067) about AMD FUSION indicates AMD plans to release new AMD FireStream processors...
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AMD FUSION In Servers? Not Quite, But They're Planning For It
AMD's Director of Product Marketing for Server/Workstation products, John Fruehe, has published a blog about the challenges and possibilities of moving AMD FUSION Accelerated Processing Unit into Servers: Today in the server world, CPUs do all of the heavy lifting in the vast majority of...
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