Google’s Android platform shipped 33.3 million units, or roughly one-third of the 101.2 million smartphones shipped across the globe, Canalys said. – Google’s Android operating system became the world’s leading
smartphone platform, accounting for 33.3 million of the 101.2 million
smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter 2010, according to
researcher Canalys.
Canalys, which crunched smartphone shipments across North America, Asi…
Google rolled out a preview SDK for Android 3.0, offering developers the chance to write software on an OS intended for tablets such as Motorola’s Xoom. – Google Jan. 26 released a preview version of the software-development kit for Android 3.0, a new version of the company’s operating system that is intended for tablet computers and other devices with larger screens.
Android 3.0, code-named Honeycomb, offers users a new holographic user interface th…
Company adds to its Application Optimized Storage product line a new appliance specifically designed for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM). – Startup storage appliance
maker BridgSTOR, which launched
itself and its first two products in November 2010, already has expanded its product
line.
The Poway, Calif.-based company on Jan. 24 added to its Application Optimized
Storage product line a new appliance designed for Microsoft System…
Aimed at gamers and graphics professionals, Scorpio Black drives boast data transfer speeds (buffer to host) of up to a maximum of 3Gbits/per second. – Western Digital, which released the first 3TB-capacity internal SATA hard disk drive nine weeks ago,
Jan. 5 announced that it has started shipping a new 2.5-inch, 750GB
SATA hard drive for OEMs that make high-performance laptops and portable
storage devices.
WD’s Scorpio Black drives,
speedier …
Microsoft claims manufacturers sold 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 devices in six weeks, but actual customer sales remain a question. – Microsoft is claiming sales of 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 smartphones in
the platform’s first six weeks of release, reversing the company’s previous
reluctance to discuss anything numbers-related. However, the number of devices
actually sold to customers remains unclear.
Microsoft hopes th…
Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform incorporates system metering controls along with standard cloud administration and multitenancy, chargeback and billing features. – Storage giant EMC, which lately has been
positioning itself more often as a provider of cloud computing infrastructure,
on Dec. 14 launched what it claims is the industry’s first self-service
cloud-enablement platform for storage.
EMC’s Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, aimed
at ISPs, storage pr…
Ships are filthy. A new website shows how filthy
IF THE shipping industry were a country, it would be the sixth-biggest industrial carbon emitter in the world. Whereas big countries have plans for cutting emissions, shipping does not. The UN climate talks in Cancun are unlikely to change that. But customers, who indirectly pay for shipping fuel, might be better placed to put pressure on the industry.
To help them, a “do tank” (yes, really) called the Carbon War Room has set up a website designed to rate ships as if they were refrigerators or boilers. Shippingefficiency.org uses data from IHS Fairplay, a vessel registry, to calculate how fuel-efficient each ship was at the time it was built. The energy implications are converted into letter grades, from squeaky-clean A to dirty G. …
STATS ChipPAC, the semiconductor test and advanced packaging service provider, today announced it has shipped over 100 million semiconductor packages with copper wire bond interconnect and expects copper wire bond production volume to grow another 75% by the end of 2010 due to a rapidly growing customer base.
If you are one of the of types that likes your iPhone, but wishes it has a physical keyboard to use ThinkGeek has your fix. ThinkGeek is now shipping the TK-421 that adds a physical keyboard to the iPhone 4 or 3GS. The Libratone Beat wireless speaker is landing at the Apple store next month. [...]
Nvidia announces the availability of the production release of its CUDA Toolkit 3.2, with performance enhancements, new math libraries and other tools for developers. – Nvidia, maker of GPU technology and tools for
developers, has announced the production release of CUDA Toolkit 3.2,
which provides performance increases, new math libraries and advanced
cluster management features for developers creating next-generation
GPU-accelerated applications.
The CUDA To…
Barnes & Noble announced its Nook Color e-reader has begun shipment, as the bookseller looks for a repeat of 2009s holiday battle against Amazon.com’s Kindle. – Barnes amp; Noble reported Nov. 16 that shipments of its Nook Color
e-reader have begun ahead of schedule, with the first units arriving to
customers this week. The bookseller claims only a limited number of the
full-color devices will be available in stores and that customers ordering this
wee…
Proporta has unveiled a new battery case for the iPhone 4 called the TurboCharger Back Pack. The case has an internal 1700mAh battery and can charge and sync with an included USB cable with a MSRP of $66.95. I mentioned the PLX Devices XWave brain interface a while back; the thing allows you to control [...]
Analysts appear cautiously optimistic about AMD after the company demos its Bulldozer CPU and Fusion APU technologies. – Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated its CPU and GPU computing
technologies on a single die and processor design, with planned OEM system
availability in early 2011. The company’s Fusion Accelerated Processing Units,
currently shipping to OEMs and coming to market in 2011, are built…
The new offerings are designed for EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage arrays running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center. – EMC on Nov. 9 announced some new reference architectures, best
practices and hardware/software products designed to optimize its
storage systems using Microsoft Hyper-V.
The new offerings, which involve increased scalability, consolidation
advancements and improved data protection, are designe…
Apple has plans for NFC on future iPhone and while contactless payments are easy enough guess, a source at Cult of Mac claims there is more to it than payments only. According to the source Apple will also offer NFC with Mac computers. The iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 smartphones are headed to all Target [...]
T-Mobiles new G2 Android smart phone is the successor to the phone that started the Android movement, the G1. Unlike most other Android phones, this device supports T-Mobiles high-speed HSPA+ version of 3G, which gives it a speed advantage over other 3G devices, as well as the current crop of 4G devices. While T-Mobiles 3G service is still being built out, when you find an area with a good signal, the whole Android experience seems more seamless. As is the case with previous Android devices, the G2 will work with a wide variety of e-mail systems. In addition it will support streaming HD video and streaming audio. The phone is easy to use, although the physical keyboard could be a little larger. For the most part, this implementation of Androids on-screen keyboard is much easier to use than in the past, making the physical keyboard less necessary. The very high-speed 3G makes finding, downloading and installing apps from the Android Market almost instantaneous. Overall, the G2 works well, its easy to use and its very fast when youve got the right coverage. – …
If you were all excited at the thought of getting your hands on the cool WD100 wireless dock from Sonos for your iPhone, the time to get it is now. The dock has just started shipping and will set you back $119.99. Apple has admitted that buyers wanting to get the white iPhone 4 will [...]
Opera Software delivers the alpha version of the new Opera 11 browser, which supports extensions. – Opera Software has released the first alpha of Opera 11,
the next version of the company’s desktop Web browser.
At its recent quot;Up
North Web quot; event for press and analysts in Oslo,
Norway, Opera previewed
Opera 11 and announced that it will support extensions. The company on Oct. 21 re…
Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Service Pack 1 includes better integration with Adobe design tools and support for Windows Phone 7 app development. – Microsoft has delivered a new service pack for its Expression Blend 4 development and design technology.
The new Expression Blend 4 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is fully compatible with Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 3 and 4, and .NET Framework 3.5 and 4, according to a post by the Microsoft Expression B…
SGI InfiniteStorage 16000 features dense, industrial-strength data storage and mixed I/O options, with 8G-bit Fibre Channel and 40G-bit InfiniBand. – High-performance computer maker SGI on Sept.
22 introduced its newest storage system, SGI
InfiniteStorage 16000, intended for high-octane environments that deal with
mixed workloads.
Most often, HPC (high-performance computing)
systems that handle computation for projects such as genome rende…
