IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 11/13/2010

ARM's Mali brings GPGPUs to the masses
THE INQUIRER

THE DECISION of British chip design outfit ARM to update its Mali GPU extending support for OpenCL could signal the dawn of mainstream GPGPU use.

British military will spend Â£650 million on cyber warfare
THE INQUIRER

THE GLORIOUS British military that was chased out of Basra in Iraq and is likely to advance to the rear out of Afghanistan for about the fifth time in the last 200 years has apparently decided to spend £650 million on developing its cyber warfare capabilities.

Facebook readies an email service
THE INQUIRER

PRIVACY SHEDDING SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook is gearing up to launch a full-fledged email service.

UK Online will shut down
THE INQUIRER

RUPERT MURDOCH'S UK Online, the Internet service provider set up by Sky, will close down, and will slam its virtual doors in mid-January 2011.

Vint Cerf urges ISPs to deploy IPv6
THE INQUIRER

INTERNET PIONEER Vinton Cerf raised the spectre of Internet islands in urging businesses to move towards IP version 6 (IPv6).

Toshiba Folio 100 video demo
THE INQUIRER

JAPANESE PC MAKER Toshiba has launched the Folio 100 tablet and invited The INQUIRER's sibling V3.co.uk to take a closer look at the 10in device.

Nvidia declares that Google tablets are the future
THE INQUIRER

TABLETS WILL CONQUER the world, according to Nvidia, which admitted that it is late to the party but said that it sees a big future with Google's Honeycombe.

Palm Pre 2 gets a UK launch date
THE INQUIRER

MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP has announced a UK release date for its Palm Pre 2 handset running WebOS 2.0.

Samsung leaks its Galaxy S successor
THE INQUIRER

THE LINE between smartphone and tablet is getting blurred as Samsung has leaked details about its flagship smartphone for 2011.

Joojoo loses its mojo
THE INQUIRER

THE PENNY HAS FINALLY DROPPED for the Joojoo as the firm behind the tablet said the device has reached its end of life.

Sony PS Move motion controller review
THE INQUIRER
Review

Product Playstation Move
Website http://uk.playstation.com/
System Specifications none
Price £29.99 including VAT or £39.70 for starter pack

Hacker nicked for theft of naked Grady Sizemore pictures
THE INQUIRER

A 19 YEAR-OLD WOMAN has been charged in a case of stolen naked snaps of American baseball star Grady Sizemore being distributed over the world wide web.

Kinect hack brings out cool ideas
THE INQUIRER

HACKERS ARE finding that Microsoft's Kinect motion controller can do all sorts of interesting things.

Kin 1 and Kin 2 are back from the dead
THE INQUIRER

FAILED PHONE DESIGNER Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two have made a re-appearance on Verizon's list of phones for sale.

Samsung only DRAM maker to grow
THE INQUIRER

ANALYST OUTFIT Isuppli has noted that Samsung was the only one of the top five DRAM suppliers to see its sales grow last quarter.

Dell admits it mislabelled batteries
THE INQUIRER

TIN BOX SHIFTER Dell has admitted that some of the Venue Pro smartphones that were shipped out last week were mistakenly labelled.

Twitter links up with Apple
THE INQUIRER

FRUIT THEMED peddler of shiny toys Apple has teamed up with microblogging website Twitter to help spread its glorious "Ping" social network.

Apple deigns to involve itself in a Java SDK
THE INQUIRER

JAVA HAS BEEN EMBRACED by the shiny toymaker Apple, sort of, and will not suffer the dire fate meted out to that heretical abomination known as Flash, at least for now.

Disconnecting connected telly
THE INQUIRER
Analysis
BOXEE BOX, the set-top box (STB) for Boxee, an open source Connected TV product, became available worldwide Wednesday, but will the UK and US television industries' resistance to connected TV mean that Boxee, Google TV and their like will fail?

Apple delays its IOS 4.2 update
THE INQUIRER

THE CAPPUCCINO COMPANY, Apple is delaying its IOS 4.2 mobile OS update because of WiFi problems on the Ipad.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

IT News HeadLines (THE INQUIRER) 11/13/2010

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