AT&T to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion
AT T has announced that it will buy T-Mobile USA from parent Deutsche Telekom for a whopping $39 billion, in a cash and stock transaction. With the major acquisition, AT T will add a significant amount of market share and better compete against Verizon, the market leader in the U.S. for mobile phone users. AT T says it will expand its 4G LTE to 95 percent of the American population, an additional 46.5 million people.
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GeForce GTX 590 pushed back to March 24
According to a new report, NVIDIA's first dual-GPU Fermi card, the GeForce GTX 590, has seen its launch delayed by a couple of days and is now scheduled for a March 24th debut. Previous info pointed out to a March 22nd release but apparently preparations require a bit more time. Set to take on AMD's recently-introduced Radeon HD 6990, the GTX 590 features two GF110 GPUs, 1024 CUDA Cores, a 2 x 256-bit memory interface, and 3GB of GDDR5 memory. According to rumors, NVIDIA's card will have its GPU, shaders and memory clocked at 612, 1224 and 3420 MHz, respectively.
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Foxconn to open factory for Apple products in Brazil
The South American-based Bom Dia news outlet is reporting that China’s Foxconn may build a factory for Apple products in Brazil. Foxconn already has two assembly lines in Jundiai, Brazil that produce products for HP and Sony. Foxconn is known to have commissioned studies investigating the feasibility of adding a third line at its plant. The speculation in the Brazilian press is that this would be dedicated to manufacturing products for Apple. Apple’s press office responded to enquiries by stating that “the company does comment on speculation”. When asked for comment, Foxconn did not deny that it was looking at building a third production line, but that it did not have an official position on manufacturing Apple products in Brazil, as it already does for the company in China.
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Intel 25nm SSD to be released on March 28
It seems things are going well over at Intel so they are going to launch their 25nm MLC based 320 Series (Postville Refresh), ahead of schedule, on the 28th of March. Intel 320 series SSD is set to replace the current X25-V and X25-M series at the same price point targeting mainstream consumers, small business users, data centres and embedded markets. The website VR-Zone first revealed about the Intel 320 series earlier this month and brought the finalized specs and estimated retail pricing.
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Microsoft & feds take down spam giant Rustock
Microsoft and federal law enforcement have jointly taken down the spam giant Rustock botnet, seizing computers, servers, and other equipment from hosting providers in Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Kansas City, Seattle, Scranton, Pa., and Columbus. The devices were allegedly command-and-control machines, from where operators of the botnet controlled over one million infected PCs, globally. Microsoft called the seizures a decapitation of the botnet, which was sending out as much as 30 billion (!) spam emails every day.
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HP 2310ti: Touchers
Direct interaction with on-screen content seems to have become an everyday feature for an increasing number of mobile phone users, but with a touch-sensitive monitor and a modern operating system, this is an option for desktop PC users as well. According to the de facto standards of today, HP 2310ti fulfils all requirements for a good monitor and has a touch-sensitive screen. That’s a good start.
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AMD claims DirectX is limiting GPU potential
AMD worldwide developer relations manager of graphics Richard Huddy has blamed Microsoft’s DirectX for limiting the potential of GPUs in PCs. Current high-end PC GPUs can contain at least as many as 512 stream processors, which should significantly outperform the graphics capabilities of consoles like the Xbox 360 which only has 48 stream processors by comparison. Yet, the real-world graphics performance is not significantly better in PC games. Part of the reason for this is put down to the fact that a number of PC games are ports of console games. However, according to Huddy, if developers were given low-level access to PC hardware without having to go through DirectX, the performance potential of PC hardware could be unleashed. Huddy says that one of the most common requests he gets from game developers is to make DirectX APIs go away .
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ICANN approves XXX domain
ICANN, the governing body behind the Internet has finally approved .XXX domains, almost 10 years after the idea was brought to the group. With a vote of 9-3, and despite objections from the adult industry, the measure passed. Adult sites can choose to use the new domain, but are not required to do so.
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PlayStation 3 firmware 3.60 hacked
Last week, Sony introduced PlayStation 3 firmware 3.60, which added cloud saving for PlayStation Plus members. This week, a hacker uploaded a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO3PcBMzaVg) alleging that he had jailbroken the firmware, showing off a retail console with 3.60 running a homebrew software. You can read an interview with the hacker here (http://www.myce.com/news/a-chat-with-a-ps3-hacker-who-runs-custom-code-on-firmware-3-60-41568/).
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Rocksmith to teach gamers how to play real guitars
Following the decline in sales for music and rhythm games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band series, Ubisoft has announced the launch of its first ever authentic guitar game named Rocksmith. The game will be available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and will allow gamers to plug in their real electric guitar and learn how to play via the game.
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