New Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard is thin, expensive
Some folks like their keyboards big, heavy, and loud. Others don't mind typing on something a little smaller and more portable. Microsoft has addressed the latter portion of the market with its new Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000, which is purportedly the company's thinnest keyboard ever. The device is "just a...
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OpenCL developers get a little help from Nvidia
Getting good performance out of general-purpose apps that run on the GPU could get a little bit easier thanks to Nvidia. The company has introduced the OpenCL Visual Profiler, a software tool that gives developers "insight into performance bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization." The OpenCL Visual Profiler brings the following...
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Steve Jobs introduces new iPods, iTunes 9
Apple had few surprises in store at its "rock and roll" event this morning, aside perhaps from the return of charismatic co-founder and quasi religious figure Steve Jobs, who talked briefly about his liver transplant. Product-wise, Jobs introduced a refreshed (but not completely revamped) line of iPods as well as...
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iSuppli weighs in on Chartered acquisition
Over the Labor Day weekend, ATIC entered an agreement to purchase Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor. The deal should bring GlobalFoundries and Chartered under one roof—a big deal for the independent semiconductor foundry market. Research firm iSuppli has now weighed in on the deal with a few observations and predictions. According...
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Western Digital starts shipping 640GB 2.5'' drive
Those 750GB and 1TB mobile hard drives are all well and good, but being thicker than normal, they're not guaranteed to fit inside your laptop. Good thing, then, that Western Digital has started volume shipments of what it claims to be the world's highest-capacity 2.5" hard drive with...
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Say goodbye to Foxconn-branded graphics cards
Remember when Foxconn introduced its very first branded graphics cards back in 2006? Well, almost exactly three years later, DigiTimes reports that the company has decided to throw in the towel. That means the end of Foxconn-branded graphics cards, although it presumably won't stop the Taiwanese manufacturing giant...
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Dell has a pair of king-size ultraportables
Intel's consumer ultra-low-voltage processors are definitely getting a lot of use, hitting not just compact 13.3" and smaller laptops, but also larger systems that still benefit from the power efficiency and low cost. Dell has now added two good examples of the latter trend to its Inspiron z series: the...
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