Thursday, February 3, 2011

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 02/02/2011



InsideHW
Sony to bring PS3 Move to PC
According to a description of a panel at the upcoming Game Developers Conference, Sony is looking to bring the Move controller from its PlayStation 3 gaming console to PC users. An exceprt suggests that Sony will discuss the new Move Server project designed for academics and hobbyists to develop software using the PlayStation Move controller on their own PCs . Sony's Game Systems team in Developer Support, John McCutchan, will present the talk.
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Chrome now makes ten percent of web traffic
Mobile Apple hardware reached a milestone today as new findings showed iOS cracking two percent share of the web for the first time. The iPad, iPhone and iPod reached 2.06 percent of Net Applications' traffic study worldwide and were in even higher use in certain areas. In English-native and other more mobile-driven countries, the share was disproportionately higher, ranging from 3.4 percent in the US to almost 10 percent in Singapore. Google also reached a historic point as data showed Chrome entering the double digits for the first time. The browser jumped the majority of a point to 10.7 percent.
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OEM-only GeForce GT 440 faster than retail version
Nvidia has introduced not one, but two GeForce GT 440 cards, one for retail markets that utilizes 96 CUDA Cores and 512MB or 1GB of memory, and one for OEMs to put into pre-built systems that includes 144 cores, a 192-bit interface and 1.5GB or 3GB of GDDR3 memory.
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HIS makes IceQ X-equipped Radeons HD 6870
Two weeks ago, HIS introduced IceQ X-cooled Radeon HD 6850 cards and now it comes with a couple of new, IceQ X models powered by AMD's Barts 40nm GPU, the Radeon HD 6870 IceQ X and Radeon 6870 IceQ X Turbo X. Both HD 6870s are equipped with the dual-slot IceQ cooler which features one central 92mm fan and four heatpipes, and have DirectX 11 support, CrossFireX capabilities, a 256-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5, and dual-DVI, HDMI and two mini DisplayPort outputs.
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