Today is a sad day, my friends. AMD has capitulated and decided to settle all disputes with Intel for a bit more than 30 pieces of silver. I have to admit the agreement comes as a shock since AMD was quite on a roll and I expected them to win their legal disputes with ease. However, I guess the financial crisis has shown its ugly fangs and took quite a bite from Advanced Micro Devices' budget, enough to have them settle for a large sum of dollars in order to continue their development of new technologies.As far as any comments regarding the settlement of all antitrust and IP disputes is concerned, both companies have released the same ... [read more >>] The date is June 25, 1998 and Microsoft has just released a new operating system. The name is Windows 98. It is incredible, gives you almost complete control over every setting, you can modify anything you want from the user interface to the more advanced settings... it is just perfect! Time passes and new iterations of the Windows OS appear. Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista. However, no matter what they come up with... it just doesn't work as good as Windows 98. And just when everyone was tired of the same revamped operating system from 11 years ago, Microsoft comes up with Windows 7, the only operating system that... [read more >>] You know, when Sir Howard Stringer, Sony's CEO, introduced the make.believe slogan at IFA 2009, I found it a bit hilarious, because it reminded me of something related to the illusory, rather than something real. However, over the past couple of days, Sony has started to prove what it meant with make.believe, since it's released some innovations that, at first sight, seem taken right out of the future.So, after reading yesterday about its single-lens 3D HD camera system, it's about time to look at yet another very impressive technological innovation achieved by the Japanese company, namely a wireless power transfer system tha... [read more >>] Ever since it was first introduced, NVIDIA's Tegra platform was regarded as the future of ultra-mobile computing, the “Holy Grail” that would usher in a whole new brand of products that would cross the gap between today's portable media players, smartphones, GPS navigators and netbooks. And it seems that the GPU manufacturer is seriously considering collaborations on multiple fields as far as Tegra is concerned, apparently even planning to streamline it in order to work with Google's future operating system, Chrome OS. So, as Kevin C. Tofel from JKOnTheRun informs us, a very reliable source from NVIDIA (which, fo... [read more >>] As most of you gadgeteers out there probably know, there's a new exhibition going on as we speak and its name is IFA 2009, in Berlin, Germany. Since Sony's press event has just concluded, how about we take a first glance at what the people at Sony have in store for us in the coming months? Believe me, you won't be disappointed!Like it was to be expected, Sir Howard Stringer was yet again “happy to be with us again this year” and started off by announcing they would be reorganizing Sony in order to pass the current economic crisis. Nothing unknown to us. Following up is the introducing of a new 3D projector from So... [read more >>] No matter what type of user you are, you must have heard of Google Chrome. Whether you live in New York or Sri Lanka, whether you're a power user or just a light Internet explorer, you must have heard of Google, the web browser. Nine months after its launch on different OS platforms, Google Chrome announces it will give birth to an OS of its own: the Google Chrome OS.It seems to take a lot of its features from all the operating systems available today but is designed to be fast, responsive and offer seamless integration of the Internet. Thus, you just press your computer's power button and a few seconds later, you're already ... [read more >>] Michael Jackson died. You can see everything on the news in living color and even video. No matter where you are right now, you know everything there is about Michael Jackson. The child star, the Pop legend, the urban myth, the man that transformed the music video into an art form through the use of that time's limited technologies.Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 and ever since childhood, he was always the main attraction. First as a member of the Jackson 5, then as the King of Pop and later because of the scandals he was involved in. I remember watching Thriller and thinking “That’s incredible!” It was on... [read more >>] The article regarding low-power HDMI hasn't even cooled yet and... here's another hot piece regarding the upcoming HDMI 1.4 Specification. It seems this latest HDMI version will be brimming with new enhanced technologies to bring more joy to HDMI-using... users around the world. Continue reading for more interesting details about the future of HDMI.HDMI seems to be turning a lot into what USB has become, a universal connector trying to replace all other connectors out there. Why am I saying that? Well, mainly because the 1.4 version will be adding a data channel to the HDMI cable, allowing two-way high-speed (100 Mb/s Ethernet, to... [read more >>] Remember those accusations against Intel stating that it had acted to keep competitors out of the computer chips market? Well, it seems they were not as unfounded as Intel might have had us think. The European Union has recently imposed a record fine of 1.06 billion euros onto the giant corporation.European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes stated the following regarding the decision, “Given that Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for over five years, the size of the fine should come as no surprise.”As some of you might already know, their belief... [read more >>] A while back, I wrote a news article regarding a rumor about Bluetooth's latest reincarnation and the fact that its specifications might be released this month. Well, the time has come for me to officially present to you the latest, the greatest and definitely the fastest short-range communication protocol around: Bluetooth 3.0.Yes, indeedy, ladies and gents, from now on, manufacturers and consumers alike will be able to send data between different devices at Wi-Fi-like speeds thanks to the inclusion of the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer that increases data transfers at well... about 24MBps. But that's not all the news. I for on... [read more >>] | 
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