Catalyst 10.7a preview driver enables forced AA in Starcraft II
Catching up to Nvidia, AMD has released a new driver that lets users of its Radeon HD 2000 and newer cards (desktop or mobile) cards to force anti-aliasing via the Control Center and make Blizzard's Starcraft II look a bit better.
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Thermaltake releases Toughpower Ultra Slim 95W power adapter
Thermaltake is bringing something new for people who own and frequently use a laptop and other mobile devices, in the form of a slim universal power adapter which can constantly provide 95W and peaks at 120W, if and when needed.
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Silent Android rootkit demoed at hacker's conference
SpiderLabs showed a rootkit at the Black Hat conference, which could compromise an Android phone without its owner's knowledge. The exploit, handed out on DVD at the hacking and security meetup, would let the wielder get complete control and personal data from an Android phone without triggering alerts. Team lead Nicholas Percoco said the app took just two weeks to build and would affect even modern Android 2.1 devices such as the HTC Desire and Legend. The attack was made in an example of ethical hacking and was designed to pressure Google into closing the hole that made the root possible.
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New iPhone app store opens up
A web based alternative to the iPhone app store called OpenAppMkt opened yesterday, but instead of native iOS applications, it offers a selection of HTML apps. The installation of their client is required, which can be done directly from the OpenAppMkt website. Once the client is installed you will have an icon on the iPhone's home screen which launches the app store. From there you can choose from a list of free and paid apps.
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AMD shipped more GPUs than NVIDIA in Q2
Between losing a court battle with Rambus and being replaced by AMD as the graphics provider of choice for Apple desktops this week, Nvidia executivess were probably just hoping to get to the weekend in one piece. No such luck, though, as Mercury Research has announced in its quarterly report that the GeForce-maker has fallen behind its closest rival in terms of discrete GPU shipments. The figures suggest that AMD managed to grab 24.5 percent of the total graphics market for the second quarter of this year, compared to 19.8 percent for NVIDIA. This is a huge role-reversal compared to the same quarter in 2009, when the companies held 18.2 percent and 29.6 percent, respectively. Still, the real winner remains Intel, whose integrated graphics-chips dominate 54.3 percent of the total market.
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PowerColor prepares single-slot cooled HD Radeon 5770
Some people just don't have the room for a dual-slot graphics card in their system. However, with today's power-hungry GPUs, single-slot designs don't normally offer enough cooling for anything more than low-to-mid-range chips. Now, though, it seems that PowerColor has put a full-speed Radeon HD 5770 into a slim-line package.
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317.5 million phones shipped in Q2
According the latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker compiled by IDC, phone shipments in Q2 reached 317.5 million units, up 14.5% on-year. The double-digit growth can be attributed to increased demand for smartphones and higher performance from companies outside the global top five. Speaking of the top five, it still has Nokia in front as the Finnish company managed to ship 111.1 million phones and hold a 35% market share (down from 37.2% in Q2 2009), and Samsung on second place with 63.8 million units and a 20.1% share.
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Gainward readies 2GB GeForce GTX 460
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 460 comes in a variety of pre-overclocked flavours, yet common amongst all the cards we've seen thus far is the memory size, which is either 768MB or 1,024MB depending upon the partner's inclination. Gainward sees merit in launching a GTX 460 equipped with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. To that end, the company has released a 'Golden Sample' model clocked in at 700MHz (up from default 675MHz) core and 3,600MHz memory. The 2GB memory is hooked to the card via a 256-bit interface. Cooled by a centrally-located 80mm fan helped by two heatpipes, the custom design looks rather nice.
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