Friday, September 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 16/09/2010

InsideHW
HTC unveils Desire HD and Desire Z with new HTC Sense and HTCSense.com
HTC Corporation unveiled a new HTC Sense experience with the new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z Android-based smartphones. The new HTC Sense experience continues to place people at the center by simply making its phones work in a more personal and natural way. HTC Sense introduces a number of key innovations including a series of connected services called HTCSense.com that enhance people’s mobile experience on HTC phones.
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Adobe releases 64-bit Flash Player
After countless requests and lots of complaints, Adobe Systems has finally released a public preview version of Flash Player Square , a new build of the popular browser plug-in in native 64-bit form for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Not coincidentally, the Square preview was released on the same day as the Internet Explorer 9 beta (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/) as Adobe's solution has support for IE9's hardware accelerated rendering capabilities.
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Froyo 2.2 now on more than quarter of Android devices
According to the latest info from Android Developers, 2.2 Froyo has quickly taken a large chunk of the distribution of Android devices and has jumped to 28.7 percent. While still in the clear lead, Android 2.1 has fallen to 41.7 percent of the distribution. The strong jump is thanks to the release of the Droid 2, and updates to the EVO 4G, Moto Droid and HTC Incredible.
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PlayStation 3 might get PS2 compatibility back after all
Thanks to a Japanese forum poster, there is now concrete evidence that Sony is at least considering creating a peripheral that would give PlayStation 3 owners a way to play their PS2 games. The new patent filed by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan shows off a Compatibility Adapter , a peripheral that contains necessary parts to playback PS2 games, but will work when attached to a PS3. When the PS3 launched in 2006, gamers were given full hardware backward compatibility, but later versions of the console removed the hardware and added software-based emulation instead. Sony later removed all backward compatibility, in an effort to shed costs.
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