Wednesday, April 17, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 18/04/2013






Intel revenue down, but forecasts hold
Considering last quarter's dismal PC shipment figures, Intel could have fared a lot worse. The chipmaker posted its Q1 earnings this afternoon, and according to the AP, its results are in line with analysts' expectations. Also, as Reuters points out, Intel has kept its 2013 forecast unchanged, signaling bullishness about its next-gen products due out later this year.
This still wasn't an ideal quarter for Intel, of course. The company's revenue, net ...
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Bethesda teases next project
Something is brewing in Rockville, Maryland. Yesterday, Bethesda Game Studios announced that it would stop releasing new content for Skyrim. The studio explained that its "next major project" had reached the stage where it "requires the studio's full attention."
That "next major project" hasn't been referred to by name, but earlier today, the official Bethesda Softworks Twitter account posted a short video clip ostensibly related ...
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Google Glass hardware specs, API details are out

We've know about Google's Project Glass initiative for about a year now . Prototypes have been floating around for a while, and the first wave of Explorer ...
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Windows 8.1 may boot to desktop, resurrect Start menu
There are plenty of reasons to hate on Windows 8, but the biggest one is no doubt the new Start screen. A lot of us dislike how it replaces the old Start menu and appears like an uninvited guest at every bootup. Why isn't there an easy way to keep it out of sight?
Believe it or not, the next major version of Windows due out this year may address that. ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley reports ...
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Sapphire doubles memory for hot-clocked Radeon HD 7790
Just a few weeks after the release of AMD's Radeon HD 7790 graphics card, Sapphire has rolled out a second hot-clocked edition. The existing "OC" model combines a 1075MHz GPU speed with 1GB of GDDR5 memory running at 6.4GT/s—modest improvements over the reference config's 1GHz GPU clock and 6GT/s memory. For an encore, Sapphire has whipped up a 2GB OC edition that doubles the onboard memory. This new model has the same memory speed as its 1GB counterpart, but the GPU runs 25MHz slower, at 1050MHz.
The 2GB card also has an updated cooler; the heatsink is connected to a metal plate covering the memory chips on ...
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