Nvidia announces GPU Technology Conference 2011
The third edition of the Nvidia-created, sponsored and promoted GPU Technology Conference (GTC) has been officially announced for October 11-14. The event, which focuses on GPU-based computing, will take place in the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. This year's GTC will also include the Accelerated High Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium hosted by the Los Alamos National Lab and Nvidia, and will be 'enhanced' by the presence of Many of the sponsors and exhibitors from GTC 2011 have already secured their spot, including Microsoft, Supermicro, PNY, Adobe, Next IO, GE Intelligent Platforms, AMAX, Appro, The Portland Group, and Wolfram Research.
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Qualcomm reveals APQ8060 mobile processor
Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon APQ8060, processor that is now running in HP's new TouchPad tablet. This dual-core (clocked at 1.2GHz in Touchpad) comes paired up with Adreno 220 GPU and features support for Stereoscopic 3D (S3D), 1080p 30fps HD video capture and playback, console-quality gaming and full web browsing including the support for Adobe Flash 10. According to Qualcomm, the newest member of the Snapdragon family includes two asynchronous processor cores, an integrated Adreno 220 GPU with twice the processing power of its predecessor, support for up to a 16 Megapixel camera, and can capture and display HD 1080p stereoscopic video or 8 Megapixel stereoscopic still images to an autostereoscopic panel or a 3DTV (via HDMI).
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Club3D makes a 1GB Radeon HD 6950
Club3D has launched a Radeon HD 6950 with 1GB of memory. The offering has stock clocks but utilizes a custom cooler that features two copper heatpipes and two fans to ensure proper cooling of the 40nm Cayman GPU.
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HP announces new webOS smartphones
At the webOS event in San Francisco, HP announced the first two Palm-designed smartphones to only bear the HP brand, the compact and mid-range Veer (on the left) and the high-end Pre 3 (on the right). Set for an early Spring arrival, Veer measures 54.5 x 84 x 15.1 mm, weights only 103 grams and features HSPA+ support, a 2.57-inch (320 x 400) touchscreen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an 800 MHz Snapdragon MSM7230 processor, 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage. Also on-board are 802.11 b/g/n WiFi (router functionality included), Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, a 5 megapixel camera, an accelerometer, a proximity sensor, an USB port and a 910 mAh battery.
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Facebook: Eleven Popular Applications
Facebook’s basic idea is rather confusing for new social network users. Is that a place to communicate with your friends and family, a place to promote yourself and your company, a place to link to funny and interesting websites that you’ve found on the internet, or a place to “kill” some time by playing one of the available games with your friends? In short, Facebook is all of this and more. With over half a billion virtual “neighbours”, it’s clear that this is the biggest online community. The interesting fact, however, that sets Facebook apart from all other social networks, is the sheer number of available applications. While the simple user interface has attracted users worldwide, the simple API (Application Programming Interface) has attracted independent programmers and development teams to create Facebook applications. Owing to Facebook’s rapid expansion, this social network now contains around 600,000 applications.
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Intel to begin shipping revised LGA 1155 chipsets by February 14
Intel has revealed that the first B3 stepping 6 Series chipsets for desktop and mobiles, and C200 series for servers and workstations, which fix the previously acknowledged SATA 3.0 Gbps bug, will be available to customers such as OEMs as of February 14. This date is pretty much in-line with Intel's promise that shipments of products that are based on B3 chips will ship by the end of February.
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New protection mechanism for Google account owners
About five months after rolling it out for Google Apps users, Google has introduced two-step verification for the Google account crowd, enabling a higher level of protection from hackers. Due to the added security feature, people will have to introduce two sets of information to log into their Google account, first their email address and password, and second, a code (a different one every time) which will be provided by Google via a phone call or in a SMS, or generated through an app for Android, BlackBerry or the iPhone. For those who don't want to be bothered to enter a new code every time they log in there's a Remember verification for this computer for 30 days option.
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ViewSonic introduces dual-SIM Android phone
ViewSonic Europe released its Mobile World Congress presentation by introducing a dual-SIM Android phone, the V350, and a dual-boot, 10-inch ViewPad 10Pro. The former has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and uses Android 2.2. It can answer calls coming to either SIM card's phone number at the same time and is geared the most towards Europeans and Asians who have more than one provider. Other features include a five-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, microSD slot and assisted GPS.
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Crysis 2 beta leaked online
An early beta version of Crysis 2 leaked to torrent and file sharing sites last night! As we can hear on many gaming forums, the build is not so stable and is very prone to crashing, but includes the entire game together with multiplayer and demonstrates the graphics capabilities of the improved CryEngine 3 well. The build also includes the activation mechanism, but it seems that hackers have already managed to produce a workaround. As we know, the official release of the game is scheduled for March on all three platforms (PC, PS3 and Xbox 360).
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