PlayStation emulator pulled from Android Market
A PlayStation (one) emulator named psx4droid has been removed from the Android Market. In a Twitter post, the developer suggested Google pulled the title due to a Content Policy violation , though it's not clear if the move was related to conflicts with Sony's intellectual property, or that of other developers distributing similar emulators.
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Windows 8 upgrades Shadow Copy function to History Vault
A leak has uncovered plans for Windows 8 to imitate the behavior of Time Machine in Mac OS X. Nicknamed History Vault, it would use the Shadow Copies feature that came in Vista and Windows 7, but give it a proper visual interface for restoring older files. The WinRumors screenshot doesn't provide many details of the restoration process but shows that users could use both real and virtual drives to make a History Vault archive. Apple's equivalent feature first appeared in Mac OS X Leopard in 2005, roughly two years before Vista, and was considered one of the first easy backup options to include an individual file restore system. Mac OS X Lion is due to add a Versions parallel that will let users go back through many edits of a single file instead of simply going by date.
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LG top LED monitor company in last year
CCFL-backlit monitors continued to rule supreme in 2010 but LED-equipped LCD displays have managed to get a big boost, accounting for 10% of all shipped monitors (their market share was only 1% in 2009). Out of those 10% LG had the biggest piece. According to the South Korean manufacturer, its 2010 LED monitor sales topped 2.92 million units, this number ensuring an 18% stake in the LED display market and the first stop in this still niche market.
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Xbox 360 discs get extra 1GB for game data
Microsoft's new disc format will provide more capacity to game data - the disc that is being used by the Xbox 360 console will not change physically because it's still a plain old DVD reader inside the console, but a dashboard update will allow game developers to use more of a DVD's capacity to store game data. While a dual layer DVD holds around 8GB of data, the game data partition on an Xbox 360 game disc only allows for 6.8GB of data. The rest of used for a video partition present on each disc and other data. By using a dashboard update to enable the system to read from a larger game data partition, developers will get about an extra 1GB of space.
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Internet Explorer 9: Better Than Ever
On 14th March, a new chapter in the never-ending browser war began. In the blue, Microsoft corner, the long-awaited Internet Explorer 9 finally made its official appearance. After several months of open testing of beta versions, we got the finished product, promising high performance and a simple interface, ready to ease your work and entertainment on the web.
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Intel X79 to be launched in Q4
Intel's high-end and enthusiast-grade Sandy Bridge E line of chips announced for year-end means a new chipset with proper support, and the latest slide leaks say it's named X79 and is scheduled for Q4 2011. According to slides, X79 will work only with LGA 2011 CPUs and will allow two PCI-Express x16 @ x16 or four PCIe x16 @ x8 slots. Also, it will support eight PCI-Express 2.0 lanes, an integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC and an audio codec, as well as up to 14 plain old USB 2.0 ports and up to 14 SATA connectors, ten of which are 6.0 Gbps (in comparison, the 6 series chipsets for LGA 1155 processors only provide two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports). SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) and RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 are also supported.
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IDC predicts 50% boost in smartphone shipments for this year
According to predictions made by market intelligence firm IDC, the smartphone market will experience a big boost this year, with shipments being expected to top 450 million units, up from 303.4 million of 2010. 2011 is supposed to be the year of Android as the platform could account for 39.5% of the smartphone market, putting it in front of the current leader, Symbian, who'd only manage to grab 20.9% of the market due to Nokia's decision to scrap it in favor of Windows Phone.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 6790 announced for April 5th
Thanks to AMD add-in board partner Sapphire, the concrete evidence of the upcoming arrival of a Radeon HD 6790 is now available. The new cart is said to be powered by a weakened version of the Barts 40nm GPU running 800 Stream processors, compared to 960 and 1120 on Radeons HD 6850 and 6870 respectively.
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Spam down by a third thanks to Microsoft
MessageLabs agency reports the total spam spam is down by more than a third, thanks to action by Microsoft against one of the biggest botnets that serve it up, the Rustock. 88 percent of all spam emails were sent by botnets, and of that botnet-originated spam, Rustock was responsible for an average of 28 percent. Microsoft's action in taking out Rustock has unsurprisingly had a substantial impact on spam levels, but MessageLabs reports that other botnets have increased spam production over the same period, making it likely that previous spam volumes will be resumed soon enough.
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