Twitter now has 100 million active users
According to Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo, there are about 100 million active users, despite 200 million registered accounts. Growth in mobile usage is about 40 percent every quarter, an outstanding number, adds the CEO.
When asked if the service will go public soon, Costolo noted that they want to be able to remain independent, grow the business the way they want to, and not be beholden to public markets until they feel like they want to be . Finally, the CEO says Twitter now has about 400 million unique visitors every month, up from 200 million on January 1st.
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Viewsonic's ViewPad 7e budget tablet available for preorder
ViewSonic's ViewPad 7e tablet, seen at IFA 2011, has now become available for preorder on Amazon carrying a price tag of $200. For this kind of money, you're getting an Android 2.3 device with a 7-inch touchscreen, a 1 GHz single-core processor and 512MB of RAM.
The 7e also has 4GB of built-in storage, a microSD card slot, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, a G-sensor, an ambient light sensor, a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera, a front-facing VGA camera, an USB port, and a mini HDMI output. No shipping estimate is provided by Amazon, but it shouldn't be long before the ViewPad 7e arrives.
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TSMC to raise prices on AMD and Nvidia because of the agreement with Apple
TSMC is doing something that is sure to make AMD and Nvidia grumble a lot. Since the reported that Apple had taped out CPUs at TSMC, there has been the looming question of capacity. Apple uses a lot of chips, and they are not exactly small chips either. TSMC has limited capacity on their cutting edge processes, and if you depend on that, things can be a little problematic at times. Apple supplier contract demands first priority on everything, and are pretty ruthless negotiating every detail. This is the long way of saying everyone else but Apple will lose out when there is a shortage.
Sources also say that TSMC’s yields on 28nm are not all that great. While we don’t know if the contracts with Apple specify a minimum number of wafers or minimum good die, either way, the initial guesstimates are unlikely to match the parts coming out. AMD and Nvidia seem to want 28nm wafers as well, and in high volumes. They may not need quite as many as Big White, but they need a lot, and it is unlikely that TSMC has that many to offer. To lessen demand, TSMC came up with a cunning plan, raise prices to make the wafers less attractive. Either that or just rake in more cash.
In the end, we hear that prices for 28nm products just went up by somewhere between 15-25%. If 28nm wafers cost about $5000, this is around a $1000+ bump, which will surely make GPU makers very unhappy. The short story is that Nvidia is looking to capitalize on 28nm as a cost down measure for laptop chips, AMD less so. Given the margins on low end products, one has to wonder if this move just made initial profits on the new line just dissappear.
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Apple wins nationwide Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in Germany
A German court has weighed in on Apple's seemingly interminable patent battle against Samsung, and it isn't looking good for Galaxy Tab users. In a today's ruling, a Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court upheld last month's preliminary injunction, banning the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 within Germany. President judge Johanna Brueckner-Hoffmann determined that Samsung's tablet bears a clear impression of similarity with the iPad 2, citing the slate's minimalist, modern form , thereby meriting a nationwide ban.
Earlier this week, Apple won a separate injunction against the Galaxy Tab 7.7 in Düsseldorf, though Samsung can still appeal that decision in a lower court. The court stopped short, however, of calling for an EU-wide injunction against the 10.1-inch slate, arguing that it could only be competent to order a Europe-wide ban for a firm headquartered outside the European Union if this firm has a German subsidiary . Samsung, meanwhile, plans to appeal the ruling in a higher court.
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CPU vs GPU from a Gamer's Point of View
Whenever you’re willing to buy a new PC or upgrade your graphics card, there will be a colleague, neighbour or friend who’ll tell you that the CPU is going to be a bottleneck if you take a really strong graphics card. Truth be told, these claims are not without basis in fact, but lately, we’ve been under the impression that the issue has been overblown by far. In other words, how many people do you know who’ve actually tested a certain graphics card model with several CPUs and can back up their claims in fact? Certainly, there is a difference between various CPU generations, but how does a Core i3 cope with applications other than the CPU-intensive ones compared to Core i5? Is the price difference of 50€ a clever investment if the only thing you care about as far as performance goes is the number of frames per second?
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