Stable Chrome 9 brings WebGL and Chrome Web Store
Google has yesterday released two new Chrome builds, one is the dev/tester-oriented 10.0.648.18, and one is a Stable release (9.0.597.84) which can be safely used by everyone on Windows Mac OS or Linux. Being the first 9.x stable build, Chrome 9.0.597.84 comes with multiple new features, the highlights being access to the Chrome Web Store (available in the US only unfortunately), support for WebGL (allowing for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics), and Chrome Instant, a function that will begin loading a frequently visited website while you are typing its URL in the omnibox.
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AMD prepares Bulldozer for CeBit
AMD is planning to showcase its new Bulldozer architecture at CeBit in less than a month's time. Bulldozer is a completely new module-based architecture, the first in quite a few years for AMD, and should deliver impressive performance and more flexibility than AMD's current cores. According to AMD, the new processors should outpace its current six-core Thuban parts by about 50 percent. This would put the Bulldozer on a par with Intel's high-end Gulftowns.
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PlayStation 2 sales still impressive
The Sony PlayStation 2 gaming console has sold more than 150 million units since its launch in 2000, Sony's recently released quarterly financial results reveal. Despite the PS3 being released as a successor in 2006, 2.1 million of the older console shipped in Sony's last fiscal quarter. In the fall of last year, it celebrated its 10th anniversary in the US.
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32% admit to stealing neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi
According to a new survey commissioned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, 32 percent of respondents admit to logging into their neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi at least once. In 2008, the last time the group did the poll, the number was 18 percent, so it seems that many consumers have not taken the steps to protect themselves.
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AMD lowers Phenom prices
AMD has chosen to drop prices on its Phenom II X4 and Phenom II X6 series processors for what it seems no apparent reason. Quad-core models, including the 955 BE, 965 BE and 970 BE dropped by $10, or between 6.9 and 5.4 percent depending on the SKU.
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Samsung Galaxy SL uses LCD instead of AMOLED
Samsung has quietly rolled out a new version of the Galaxy S to accommodate its supply shortages. The newly uncovered Galaxy SL switches from the iconic four-inch Super AMOLED to an LCD instead. Unusually, it drops Samsung's self-made 1GHz Hummingbird processor for a similarly clocked TI OMAP 3630. A number of subtler changes are also in store, as the device is about 0.27 inches thicker and carries a larger 1,650mAh battery. It ships only with 16GB of storage, though this isn't different than with most Galaxy S models. Android 2.2 comes preinstalled.
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Microsoft and Nokia must join forces in phone market
Berenberg Bank analyst Adnaan Ahmad has written an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop this week, telling the companies they must join forces in the phone market, or disappear. Ahmad says that Elop should immediately make a deal to have exclusive access to Windows Phone 7, and commit to a date for a product shipment. Elop admitted last week that Nokia must build, catalyze and/or join a competitive ecosystem in order to adapt to the fast moving smartphone industry, where Nokia has notably lagged.
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Sony talks about PSP2 backwards compatibility
Sony has revealed that the company is pushing developers to bring games formerly released on UMD to the upcoming PlayStation Portable 2, porting the games to the new memory cards designed for the system. Furthermore, Sony is asking developers to add their existing games to the PlayStation Network as digital downloads, so new owners can purchase them. If you purchased a game from the PlayStation Network, you can re-download that game for free on the new device. However, if you owned the game on UMD, you are out of luck. The company did say it will not be releasing any external UMD accessories, so it appears that Sony is finally leaving the dead format in the past.
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