Google has confirmed it will be officially launching Android 3.0 Honeycomb at a press event on February 2nd, and the company also unveiled the new logo for the operating system, seen below. Android 3.0 is optimized for tablets and will first be seen on the Motorola Xoom, which should be available at the end of February.
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Number of Internet users reaches 2 billion
The UN has stated this week that worldwide Internet users have ballooned to 2 billion, while mobile phone subscriptions have hit 5 billion. At the beginning of the year 2000, there were only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users.
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Nintendo's profit drops 74 percent
Nintendo has reported their earnings for the 9-month period ended December 2010, and net profit fell a whopping 74 percent, to 49.56 billion yen (600 million USD) from 192.60 billion yen ($2.34 billion) in the same period in 2009. The gaming company attributed the drop to a wildly stronger yen and a lack of compelling software titles for its DS and Wii consoles. Overall revenue fell 32 percent to 807.99 billion yen ($9.8 billion) from 1.182 trillion yen ($14.4 billion).
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Android 2.3 ported to x86
Google's Android 2.3 has now been ported by Android-x86.org for use on Intel x86-based netbooks and other compatible mobile tablets. While the work is still in progress, the currently available software allows sound and Wi-Fi, though the Ethernet connection, 3D capabilities and mouse control are under development. A 64-bit build environment and Java 1.6 are needed to compile the OS.
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GeForce GTX 590 dual-GPU card rumored for February
A report claims that Nvidia will soon release a dual-GPU monster called GeForce GTX 590 that will blow everything out of the water. Their last dual-GPU product is the GeForce GTX 295, introduced back in January 2009, so it's been quite a while since the company has paired up two chips on a card, one of the reasons for delay being the high power draw of its top-end Fermi-based GPU (the GF100). The stars seem to have aligned nicely though, as the tweaked 40nm GF110 GPU would be used on the incoming GeForce GTX 590, allowing the card to have 1024 of CUDA Cores, a 2 x 384-bit memory interface and 3GB of GDDR5 memory. Its frequencies are unknown but it's very likely they won't be higher than those on the single-GF110 GeForce GTX 580 flagship (772/1544/4008 MHz for the GPU/shader/memory).
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Galaxy Tab sales surpassed 2 million units
Samsung's first Android tablet, the 7-inch Galaxy Tab introduced this past autumn, has reached a new milestone recently, having passed the 2 million mark in sales. According to Samsung, the device has reached shipments of 500,000 in Europe, 350,000 in North America and 330,000 in Asia.
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Internet Explorer 9 RC scheduled for February 10
Microsoft is expected to release the Release Candidate for Internet Explorer 9 at a press launch scheduled for February 10, according to invites. The original date was expected to be today, January 28, but this has moved for unknown reasons. The software will differ from the early beta builds by including a location privacy feature and an ActiveX filter.
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BlackBerry QNX-based devices will run Android apps
Jonathan Geller from BGR website says he's confirmed with multiple sources that it's looking like the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (check out our CES report together with a video demo here (News/Gadgets/CES-2011-BlackBerry-is-Back-in-the-Game-with-PlayBook.html)) and future BlackBerry Smartphones running the QNX-based OS may be able to run Android apps via a Java Virtual Machine. RIM has stated a Java VM is coming to support legacy BlackBerry apps, and it seems RIM may choose to implement the Dalvik JM which Android utilizes (the final decision having yet to be made). Assuming RIM goes this route, you may just be able to run Android apps on your next BlackBerry. You can follow the link here (http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/26/exclusive-blackberry-playbook-and-smartphones-to-run-android-apps/) for BGR's full take on it.
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