1. Google launches Nexus One phone support 12 hours ago   permalink

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Customers suffering shipping and technical issues with the new Android phone now have more resources than online support forums.

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The Tech Report :   National Bagel Day Shortbread Kristopher / DailyTech News Feed :   Google Reduces ETF for Nexus, Unveils Phone Support Line Paul Fang / SlashGear :   Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners, 48NEXUS

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Www.tmonews.com Google Customer Service Number Now Live   —  After taking quite a beating in the blogosphere after the initial launch of the Nexus One, Google has officially launched phone support. That’s right; 888-48-NEXUS (63987) will get you customer service from Google, open daily from 7AM to 10PM EST. That’s right, from Google. Read those words, stop, close your mouth and let the wow factor hit ... TechBlog :    Linkpost | EWeek :    Google Cuts Nexus One ETF to $150 from $350 News / DSLreports :    Google Lowers Nexus One ETF, Launches Phone Support - Google's moving to tackle major early complaints...

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News / DSLreports :    Tuesday Morning Links - Tim Conneally / Betanews Google lowers 'unusually high' early termination fee on Nexus One   —  By Tim Conneally , Betanews At the end of January, the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Task Force launched an inquiry into the Early Termination Fees (ETFs) of the major wireless providers with a special focus on the Google Nexus One handset. The Nexus One is unlike other smartphones in that it is sold only by Google and available ... Aharon Etengoff / TG Daily :    Google slashes Nexus One early termination fee MacNN Google finally offers over-the-phone support for Nexus One   —  Google has quietly put up its first phone support option for the Nexus One. It's currently limited to dealing with sales and shipping but is the first direct, live option for the Android phone. The company had previously limited its own help to e-mail and had redirected all live support to either T-Mobile, for carrier issues, or directly to ... Macworld Google now taking Nexus One calls   —  Just one week after Google posted an advertisement for a phone support program manager, the company is offering live telephone support for Nexus One customers. Leena Rao / TechCrunch Bubble Motion Launches Twitter-Like Voice Blogging Service For Mobile Phones   —  Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space. The startup is launching Bubbly, a voice-blogging social network built for mobile phones. With Bubbly, you can record and broadcast messages from any mobile device. When a users records audio messages ... Ubergizmo Google Looking To Extend Free Turn-by-turn Service To Europe   —  Google has recently been offering free turn-by-turn navigation for Android phones in the US, and while that is great, our friends on the other side of the pond have had to make do without for some time now. Fortunately Google seems to have been listening, and word is that Google has been working with a company in the Netherlands to bring said ... Editor / PRO Google caves to Nexus One telephone support   —  Google has opened a telephone support line for Nexus One owners, after its forums were filled with complaints from angry customers. The Nexus One - the Google-branded smartphone built by HTC and running Android - was launched more than a month ago in the US, but support was initially limited to email, with Google admitting that it could take ... Katherine Noyes / TechNewsWorld Phone-Hater Linus Torvalds Blesses Nexus One   —  Google's Nexus One phone is a winner, according to Linus Torvalds, founder of the operating system it's based on. "I generally hate phones," explained Torvalds, who is known as "the father of Linux," in a blog post on Saturday. "At the same time I love the concept of having a phone that runs Linux, and I've had a number of them over the years," ... Johnny / Gadgetizer.com Google Steps Up For Nexus One Full Support   —  Well all of you Nexus One owners are finally going to see full support from Google, so start counting your lucky stars. With a new support phone line that you can contact between 4am to 7pm PST, you can inundate the new system with all of your concerns and questions.  Just call (888) 48NEXUS. Editor / Neowin.net Google's Nexus One phone support goes live   —  The biggest complaint about the Nexus One at launch was the lack of customer support from Google. Google has been known for their online-only ways. When customers have problems with their products, Google typically uses email support and online forums to rectify the situation (unless you're a paying Google Apps... Spericas / Java.net blogs Exploring Hypermedia Support in Jersey   —  During the last few weeks, Marc H. , Paul S. and myself have been exploring some ideas to support Hypermedia in Jersey. The outcome of this investigation is an experimental implementation that is available in Jersey's trunk (module version 1.2-SNAPSHOT). Exactly what it means to support hypermedia is still an area of research, and some other ... Arnold Zafra / 901am Google is Catching Up Fast with Palm’s Market Share Even Without the Nexus One   —  The latest report by comScore on December 2009 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share shows some interesting trend among current top mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone OS platforms. The report was based on the share of current mobile subscribers with age ranging from 13 and older. Motorola was the top mobile OEM from ... Zeus / Impact Lab Google Language Translation Mobile Phone Two Years Away   —  Google hopes to build on its existing translation database of 52 languages.  Search giant Google has said that it is working on a phone that can translate live, automatically between languages. Live language translation on mobile phones could be just two years away, according to search giant Google. The company already offers text translation ... Shawn Ingram / Gadgetell Google lowers ETF on Nexus One   —  Section: Communications , Cellphones , Smartphones , Mobile , Web , Google The Nexus One is a strange device. It is the only cellphone of any kind that has two Early Termination Fees, one from the carrier (currently only T-Mobile), and one from Google itself. That alone was enough to get the FCC asking Google about why it charges an ETF for the ... PCWorld Latest Google Now Taking User Phone Calls About Nexus One   —  Just one week after Google posted an advertisement for a phone support program manager, the company is offering live telephone support for Nexus One customers. Dena Cassella / Digital Trends Google Lowers Nexus One ETF, Adds Phone Support   —  Nexus One gets a lower early termination fee (ETF) and a phone support line. The Seattle Times Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract   —  Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network. The Seattle Times Google reduces fee to break Nexus One contract   —  Google Inc. is shaving $200 off the fee that it charges customers of its new Nexus One phone to break a service contract with T-Mobile, as federal regulators continue to probe such fees and the rationale for them.

2. Linux can compete with the iPad on price, but where�s the magic? 13 hours ago   permalink

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"Yesterday I watched Apple�s Steve Jobs unveil the iPad. Jobs clearly can create revolutionary products; he can also produce spin like no one else. Yesterday was no exception.

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3. Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up 9 hours ago   permalink

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Stewart Butterfield and his friends are back at it with a new company. CNET's Daniel Terdiman was given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.

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4. Google Gmail press conference 2 hours ago   permalink

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Paul Biba / TeleRead Google appeals ruling of the French court   —  A Paris court previously fined Google €300,000 in damages and €10,000/day for its breach of French copyright law in digitizing La Martinière books. Now, Google has appealed the verdict on copyright infringement and is claiming that their use of short excerpts in their index is fair use under French law. There is no indication [...]

5. Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat 11 hours ago   permalink

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Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.

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David Kaplan / PaidContent :   Zagat Books A Table With Foursquare; Restaurant Maven Reaches For Mobile App's Cool Factor

Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable! :   Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media and Entertainment Brands

Colin Gibbs / GigaOM :   Foursquare Teams With Zagat to Make Yelp Squeal TechBlog :   Linkpost | Fmpub.net / John Battelle :   The Tuesday Signal David Kaplan / MocoNews :   Zagat Books A Table With Foursquare; Restaurant Maven Reaches For Mobile App's Cool Factor Mark Briggs / Lost Remote :   Google Maps making recommendations

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Kit Eaton / Fast Company Foursquare Steps Up its Location-Based Content With Zagat, HBO Deals   —  Conscious of the advancing, diversifying competition to its location-based gaming/info services, Foursquare is not sitting on it's laurels : It's announcing new partnerships with some big-name media companies to add content to its system. First up is a deal with Zagat, which will add some named-quality reviews to Foursquare and act as a ...

Allison Mooney / Silicon Alley Insider Big Media Jumps On The Foursquare Bandwagon   —  Brands seem to be tripping over themselves to align with hot mobile startup Foursquare . After Pepsi , Tasti D-Lite and Metro News dipped their toes, a wave of media brands including Bravo TV, HBO, Warner Brothers, Zagat and the History Channel are now testing the waters, experimenting with the platform in new and interesting ways. These new ... The Seattle Times Group makes deal to buy land near Hollywood sign   —  A nature conservation group said Monday it has reached a deal that would protect a huge swath of land near the world-famous Hollywood sign from being developed into luxury homes.

6. Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales. 1 hour ago   permalink

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After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple–the ability to raise prices on their songs. Last April, iTunes introduced a “variable pricing” scheme, which gave the labels the ability to move prices from 99 cents a song to $1.29 (and for some tracks, down to 69 cents).

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MacNN :   Warner sees stalled digital music after variable iTunes

Matt buchanan / Gizmodo :   Shock: When You Raise iTunes Prices, People Buy Less Stuff

AppleInsider :   ITunes price increases mean slower sales for music labels MacRumors :   Music Labels See Slower iTunes Sales Growth in Wake of Price Increases

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.   —  Book publishers itching to raise the prices on their e-books should pay attention to the music labels, which raised the prices on their downloads last spring. Consumers, it turns out, like paying less for stuff.

Robert Andrews / PaidContent WMG's Bronfman Does A Murdoch, iTunes Will Be 'Dwarved'   —  Warner Music Group ( NYSE: WMG ) CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. couldn’t have made it more clear - the music industry wants to ween itself off its Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) dependency, and it will get do just that when iTunes comes under massive competition pressure from new unlimited and mobile services… “ Digital growth has slowed ... Robert Andrews / PaidContent WMG Finds Music Growth Overseas As U.S. CD Sales Skip   —  Forget the last 10 years of post-Napster industry annihilation - Warner Music Group ( NYSE: WMG ) is now seeing growing income from both music sales and music publishing - but only if you factor in overseas sales; the U.S. business is still in rewind ... — Music sales : October-to-December recorded-music income was 3.4 percent up from 2008 - Electronista Warner sees stalled digital music after variable iTunes   —  Warner Music Group during its fiscal results call today acknowledged that its digital music sales have slowed since it helped push for variable pricing on iTunes last year. In the fall, the company's digital sales equivalent to whole albums grew about 5 percent compared to late 2008 where it grew 10 percent over this past summer and 11 percent ... Mike Masnick / Techdirt Research Shows Unauthorized Digital Books Leads To 'Significant Jump In Sales'   —  We've seen this before, with individual authors like Paulo Coelho and David Pogue , who both found that as more people were able to get unauthorized copies of their ebooks, their sales actually increased. So, this shouldn't come as a surprise, but some new research looking at the impact on sales of unauthorized files getting out found a " ...

7. Apple Releases Aperture 3 4 hours ago   permalink

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CUPERTINO, California—February 9, 2010—Apple® today introduced Aperture™ 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto® ’09, Aperture 3 makes ...

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech :   Apple Store back up. No new Macs.

John C Abell / Wired :   Apple Wrongfoots Pundits With Aperture 3

Mer / Silicon Alley Insider :   No New MacBooks... Yet!

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AppleInsider Apple introduces 64-bit Aperture 3 with Faces and Places   —  Apple on Tuesday released the next major update to its photo editing and management software, with Aperture 3 sporting over 200 new features, including Faces, Places and Brushes for $199 new, or $99 to upgrade.

CNN.com New Apple product is ... Aperture 3   —  Apple on Tuesday unveiled Aperture 3, the latest update of its photo editing and management software.

News Apple unveils Aperture 3 raw workflow software   —  Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, the latest version of its raw-conversion and photo management software. It promises faster organization of large number of images and offers over 200 new features. Changes include a new Faces and Places option that enables Face detection and geotagging, an improved slideshow feature that combines photos and HD ... Emma Woollacott / TG Daily Apple makes gains in smartphone market   —  Apple now has more than a quarter of the US smartphone market, according to the latest figures from ComScore. read more Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech Apple grabs 25% of smartphone market   —  The iPhone is looking pretty good in a pair of market snapshots Click to enlarge. Source: comScore In the past week, IDC and comScore have both issued reports of the fast-growing smartphone market that show Apple ( AAPL ) gaining share. In the U.S., according to a comScore report published Monday, Apple's share grew to 25.3%, up more a point, Stan Schroeder / Mashable! Apple Store Down, Wild Speculations Abound   —  Whenever Apple Store goes down, it’s a moment of geek bliss, especially if you like Apple products. What will Apple launch this time? Will they just announce minor changes to some of their Macbooks, or do they have something really interesting in store for us this time? In any case, the Store is down now , so feel free to share your ... Stan Schroeder / Mashable! Apple Grabs 25% of the Smartphone Market, Android Doubles Market Share   —  comScore has released a report on the state of the US mobile market from September to December 2009, and it shows that the recently established trends of Android and iPhone growth don’t show signs of ceasing. In December 2009 RIM was still the leading mobile smartphone operating system in the U.S., with 41.6% market share, a slight drop ... Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo Apple Patent Shows A 3D Virtual World For Buying Their Goods In   —  There was a time, before Avatar, when 3D meant crummy virtual gaming. A recent patent granted to Apple shows they are (or were) considering a 3D virtual Apple Store—a more welcoming way to shop for Apple products. It doesn't sound very "Apple," when they normally favor start minimalism over cheesy big-headed virtual characters, but as you ... Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo Apple Store Down—Time For Twitter To Crash With Speculation   —  Gasp! Whatever could it be? I'm hoping for new MacBook Pros, what about you? [ Apple - Thanks assorted tipsters! ] Kdawson / Slashdot IBM Releases Power7 Processor   —  Dan Jones writes "As discussed here last year, IBM has made good on its promise to release the Power7 processor (and servers) in the first half of 2010. The Power7 processor adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up-time, according to Big Blue. Power7 chips will run between 3. ... MacNN Apple Store down   —  Apple has taken its online store down this morning in what is likely the first instance of a publicly available product update for this year. The company hasn't provided any clues of its own but does so after Best Buy deleted current MacBook Pros from its purchasable inventory, paving the way for new updates.... Thomas Ricker / Engadget Apple Store down globally, let the speculation begin   —  Sometimes it's nothing, but often, especially when it's a Tuesday and we're sitting on a stack of overdue rumors, an Apple Store outage is a tell that new products are due. Especially when the store goes down on a global basis as it has just now. So take a moment to reflect on the latest rumors and chime in with your predictions in the comments. ... AppleInsider Apple's share of U.S. smartphone market grows to 25% - study   —  A strong holiday quarter helped to grow Apple's share of the U.S. smartphone market by 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, giving the iPhone a 25.3 percent share of users, according to a new report. Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW) The Apple Store is back online   —  Filed under: Apple Yes, as expected, the Apple Store is down for the morning, presumably to update us with brand new MacBook Pros and whatever else Apple has cooked up for a release. We'll keep an eye on the website along with you readers, and when we see what's been updated, we'll let you know. Do be patient -- as many of us are traveling to ... Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog Apple Grabs a Quarter of U.S. Smartphone Market   —  Perhaps it has to do with Apple positioning itself as a mobile devices company, but the iPhone is on a serious upswing in the U.S. smartphone market, even while all of its competitors seem to be losing ground. Except for one, that is, and the rate at which that company is building up steam should [...] Jeremy Muncy / Top News Apple’s Store Is Back Up, Aperture 3 Added   —  UPDATE: The Apple store is finally back online and it looks like the only thing added was the recently announced photography software package, Aperture 3 . To say people aren't pleased with Apple would be an understatment... as many were hoping for the new Core i5 and i7 MacBooks. Are you let down that nothing else was added to the Apple Store? ... MacRumors Apple Releases Aperture 3 With Faces and Places Tagging Features   —  Apple today announced the release of Aperture 3, adding over 200 new features to the company's professional photo editing and management application. The updated version includes the Faces and Places tagging features introduced in iPhoto las... Webmaster / The Mac Observer News: Apple Rolls Out Aperture 3 Video Tutorials   —  Along with the launch of Aperture 3, Apple released a series of tutorial videos showing how to use several of the new features in the professional image management and editing application. Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report Apple announces Aperture 3   —  Something photographers have been waiting for; Aperture 3 finally brings all the features we know and love in iPhoto ‘09, and meshes them with a new and improved Aperture software set. We’re talking about great organizatioin features using Faces and… Macworld Apple releases Aperture 3   —  Apple released Aperture 3 on Tuesday. The program is now 64-bit capable and offers "200 new features." Technology News Apple releases Aperture 3 photo software   —  Apple Inc. on Tuesday released Aperture 3, its latest professional photography software package. (AAPL) PCWorld Latest Apple Releases Aperture 3   —  Apple may not be at Macworld 2010 this week, but the company still managed to announce a new product just in time for the trade show. On Tuesday Apple announced... Dave Freeman / CrunchGear Apple job posting hints at video option for iPads   —  It's crazy how the slightest little hint of something starts all the rampant speculation about Apple's product development. This is the third clue that the next generation of iPad will have a camera, if not video capability. It certainly explains the stuff that was found in the SDK . Ryan Paul / LXer Linux News Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release   —  The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes ... Chris Maxcer / TechNewsWorld Sorry, You Just Can't Pin Down Apple Consumers   —  When I first noticed the Retrevo Pulse headline for its study that examines consumer interest in buying the Apple iPad, my first reaction was eerily in line with the traffic-grabbing headline, "Apple iPad Hoopla Fails to Convince Buyers." I'm an unabashed fan of almost every Apple product the company in Cupertino produces, and yet I'm still not ... Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider The Apple Store Is Down -- New Macbooks Coming?*   —  UPDATE: What a snooze ! Apple needed to close its store just to stock up on Aperture. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Apple To Upgrade MacBook Pros Tuesday Ahead Of Macworld Conference? Apple iPod Touch, New MacBook Selling Like Crazy (AAPL) Apple's New 27-Inch iMac Is A Kick-Ass Bedroom Computer-TV Combo Communications and Technology Blog Apple Antitrust Issues   —  Apple has a very closed ecosystem and at least some think the company may be headed down the road of antitrust litigation if it isn't careful. This article asserts the problem Apple could get into is an area where Google absolutely dominates - advertising. To me, Google will act as an eternal counterbalance letting Apple get away with a great ... Jeremy / ILounge News: Apple seeking App Store feedback from developers   —  Apple has begun sending out a survey to iPhone developers asking for their thoughts on the iPhone Developer Program and App Store experience. TechCrunch reports that while the lengthy survey covers a wide range of topics, the majority of questions revolve around the application review process and the developers’ overall happiness with the ... Nicole Martinelli / Cult of Mac Update: Apple Logo Dispute Down Under   —  Australian retailer Woolworths is buying time in the latest Apple logo dispute. At the core of the corporate tussle is a “W” logo of a peeled apple with leaf filed back in August 2008 for the 80-year-old supermarket chain. The new logo was supposed to symbolize fresh produce, but speculation was that Apple opposed it because the [...] The Seattle Times ComScore: Apple gains US smart phone share   —  Apple Inc.'s iPhone gained a percentage point of U.S. smart phone market share while BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Inc. lost a point in the last three months of 2009, according to research group comScore Inc. Ars Technica Apple investigating Mac Pro performance and heat issues   —  Last week, we told you about some unusual issues affecting Nehalem-based Mac Pro models, characterized by abnormal performance degradation and CPU power draw when using on-board audio circuitry. Several sources have told Ars that Apple support technicians are now saying the problem is known, and that the issue is being actively investigated by ... Dena Cassella / Digital Trends Apple Announces Aperture 3   —  Apple released Aperture 3 just in time for Macworld. Webmaster / The Mac Observer Product News: Aperture 3 Adds Faces Support, More   —  Apple introduced Aperture 3 on Tuesday, adding an enhanced version of iPhoto 09's Faces and Places features to the professional digital image management and editing application. According to Apple, Aperture 3 offers over 200 new features. F-Secure Antivirus Research Team (mailto:weblog\ / F-Secure Antivirus Research An Apple a Day   —  We were recently asked some questions about Mac security. Mikko's comments can be read at CNET . Also in Apple news, iPhone/iPod touch OS 3.1.3 has been released and there are security fixes . ( Not that it's mentioned during the update .) And speaking of iPhones, they're vulnerable to remote attack on SSL . Updated to add : Here's another ...

8. Texas Instruments delivers industry�s first quad-radio single chip 2 hours ago   permalink

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TI raises the bar with WiLink™ 7.0 solution, integrating WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth® and FM transmit/receive technologies on a true single-chip DALLAS (February 9, 2010) /PRNewswire/ — Demonstrating its leadership in the wireless connectivity market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today unveiled its WiLink™ 7.0 ...

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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo :   WiLink Crams Wi-Fi, GPS, FM Transmission and Bluetooth Into a Single Chip

Darren Murph / Engadget :   TI stuffs WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and FM radios on a single chip, UWB and LTE are like 'hello?'

Chris Velazco / MobileCrunch :   Texas Instruments goes for broke, packs 4 radios into WiLink 7 chip

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Electronista TI makes single chip with Bluetooth, FM, GPS and Wi-Fi   —  Texas Instruments this morning brought out the WiLink 7, a design it says is the first to include four types of wireless on a single chip. It combines Bluetooth, an FM transceiver, GPS and 802.11n Wi-Fi into a single design and lets phone designers cut down on the size and energy needed. The creator estimates that it takes up half as much space ...

Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop Texas Instruments Announces WiLink 7 Combo Chip   —  Today Texas Instruments introduced the WiLink 7, a new Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio combination on a single chip. The Wi-Fi support includes the new Wi-Fi Direct standard, the Bluetooth includes the Bluetooth 3.0+HS standard, and the FM radio ... (follow link to read)

9. Why did Ofcom back down on DRM? 1 hour ago   permalink

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The corporation is endangering its own future by letting the Hollywood studios set the rules for its HD broadcasts Back before the Christmas break, it looked like Ofcom was ready to do its duty and stop the BBC from adding digital rights management technology to its high-definition broadcasts. After all, DRM doesn't actually prevent copying – ...

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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing :   Why is the UK TV regulator planning to allow BBC DRM?

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Judith Townend / Journalism.co.uk BBC head of religion and ethics disputes Sunday Telegraph article   —  Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s head of religion and ethics, has criticised the Sunday Telegraph for the way it presented his comments in an interview. In a BBC blog post yesterday, Ahmed writes that he had given an interview ahead of the Church Of England’s Synod debate and its motion on the issue of religious broadcasting [...]

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The survey, performed by Forrester along with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), found 62 percent of advertisers believe that TV advertising is less effective than it used to be, which is causing them to ... Tonie van Ringelestijn / B R I G H T Canon 550D fixt HD-videofunctie   —  Canons 550D is het nieuwe model in zijn sterke spiegelreflexlijn. De video-opname in Full HD is verbeterd. Al sinds het uitbrengen van de 300D zes jaar geleden presenteert Canon een elk jaar een prima middenklasser onder de dslr-camera's. De nieuwe 550D is het semi-pro model van 2010. Hij heeft een 18 megapixelsensor en Canons Digic 4- ... 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10. AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops 9 hours ago   permalink

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SAN FRANCISCO—The "Llano" processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU—instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an "application processor unit," or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11- ...

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Vladislav Savov / Engadget :   AMD Fusion sampling soon, arriving in 2011 with Llano APU

The Tech Report :   National Bagel Day Shortbread

OSNews :   NVIDIA Unveils Optimus Seamless GPU Switching Shane McGlaun / SlashGear :   AMD Fusion CPU/GPU combo to fight Intel in notebooks

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Ubergizmo NVIDIA Optimus achieves goal of seamless GPU transition   —  After the NVIDIA Optimus teaser was posted in early January, there was some speculation about what it was, but we now have first-hand information: NVIDIA Optimus is an architecture for multi-GPU computers (typically integrated + discrete) that allows the operating system to seamlessly switch between integrated and discrete graphics. The goal is ...

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11. Free Trial 3 hours ago   permalink

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To get a fully functional copy of Aperture 3 for your Mac, enter your name and email address below. You’ll receive an email with a link to download Aperture 3 and a serial number for activation. The free trial will expire 30 days after you open the application for the first time.

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MacNN :   Apple launches Aperture 3

Nick Santilli / TheAppleBlog :   Apple Finally Releases Aperture 3

Chris Davies / SlashGear :   Apple Aperture 3 gets official

12. Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome 12 hours ago   permalink

JOHN TIERNEY / NYT

A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.

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Romenesko People prefer e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes   —  New York Times They also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney .

13. Morningstar acquires footnoted! 4 hours ago   permalink

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For the past 6 1/2 years, we’ve written frequently about various mergers and acquisitions. Today, we have some M&A news of our own: Morningstar (MORN) has acquired footnoted.org. You can download the official press release here, but I wanted to personally share with you why I’m so excited about this deal and why I think [...]

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Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com :   Morningstar Buys Footnoted.org

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Romenesko Morningstar acquires Footnoted for undisclosed sum   —  Footnoted.org || Morningstar release Michelle Leder , who founded Footnoted.org in 2003, goes over SEC filings to find information buried in the fine print, such as evidence of aggressive accounting and excessive compensation. || Read the release . || See Footnoted items that have been posted on Romenesko.

ChicagoBusiness.com Breaking News Morningstar buys SEC filing researcher   —  (Crain’s) — Morningstar Inc. said Tuesday that it bought a business that looks for information in SEC filings that can signal serious problems at companies. Chicago-based Morningstar did not disclose terms of its acquisition of Footnoted.org and Footnoted Pro, which had been part of ...

14. Samsung announces the Monte ahead of MWC 2 hours ago   permalink

Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report

Sure, Mobile World Congress kicks off in just under a week, but that doesn’t mean all the big boys are going to hold off on their product announcements. Take Samsung, for example, which today announced the S5620 Monte. Running the…

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Andrew Liszewski / OhGizmo! Samsung TicToc Shakeable MP3 Player   —  By Andrew Liszewski It apparently wasn’t important enough to make the announcement roster during Samsung’s CES press conference, but the TicToc was on display at their booth and is a clever alternative to Apple’s iPod Shuffle. A built-in motion sensor makes switching tracks as easy as shaking the player, and it’s smart ... Laura June / Engadget :    Samsung TicToc PMP player lets you shake right past that Ke$ha song Chris Davies / SlashGear :    Samsung TicToc MP3 player: shake to skip

Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo Samsung Monte S5620 Phone Gets Early Reveal Prior To MWC   —  A few leaks here and there, and voila—Samsung's Monte S5620 is revealed ahead of MWC. Running the TouchWiz 2.0 Plus OS, it has full HTML browsing and the usual array of social networking tricks. A 3.0-inch capacitive WQVGA TFT touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, and Google Maps 3.0 seems to be the crux of it, ...

Ubergizmo Samsung Super AMOLED phone could run on Bada   —  We brought you news of a new Super AMOLED handset from Samsung that will debut at Mobile World Congress (MWC), Barcelona, and today there is a new development on this mystery phone. Apparently, it is being promoted as the first Bada-powered Samsung phone, debuting on a day filled with love - Valentine's Day. What do you think of this news - will ... Ubergizmo Samsung S5620 Monte announced   —  Samsung has announced its latest handset (we had a look at its unofficial specs here), the S5620 Monte which will come with Wi-Fi connectivity as well as a 3" WQVGA touchscreen display with a movie-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio as expected, and more. With Samsung's TouchWiz 2.0 Plus interface, one will be able to enjoy quick access to apps for ... Thomas Ricker / Engadget Samsung's first Bada phone with Super AMOLED to be announced on February 14th? Sure.   —  By now you're undoubtedly aware than Samsung has a new smartphone OS ( Bada ) and touchscreen technology ( Super AMOLED ) in the works. In this case, putting 2 and 2 together yields 14, a number that matches Samsung's February 14th press event at Mobile World Congress. How so? Well, first of all, Sammy is promoting the Samsung Unpacked teaser ... Darren Murph / Engadget Samsung's S2 Portable gets Michael Jackson makeover, promises to heal the world   —  You know, something deep, deep inside of us knew that this was going to happen , but with Michael Jackson's untimely departure of Planet Earth back in the news thanks to Mr. Conrad Murray's arraignment, it seems like the glut of This Is It -related gear is even touching the typically straightforward tech industry. The drive you're weeping at ... Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless LG, Samsung integrate social networking into latest phones   —  LG and Samsung have taken a shine to social networking with their latest phones, which they previewed ahead of the phones' official unveilings at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, next week. Both of the South Korean handset titans said their respective phones have slick, industrial designs, multimedia features, and--at ... Electronista Samsung to unveil Bada phone on Valentine's Day?   —  Samsung has released a teaser page saying it will unveil a brand new handset at the Mobile World Congress show on February 14th. The press event is by invite only, and is widely expected to revolve around the first cellphone running not only Samsung's own Bada-powered operating system, but also with the Super AMOLED touchscreen. Little is known ... Electronista Samsung intros Monte handset with TouchWiz 2.0   —  Samsung has introduced its latest feature phone, the S5620 Monte. The device features Wi-Fi connectivity and a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen with a 16:9 aspect ratio. Samsung's TouchWiz 2.0 Plus interface provides quick access to apps for social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. A 3.2-megapixel camera is paired with software ... Admin / Infoworld News LG, Samsung go social with latest phones   —  South Korea's two biggest cell phone makers previewed on Tuesday handsets they plan to unveil at next week's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona. Both phones feature full-screen touch panels on their face, Wi-Fi and close links with social networking services. EWeek Samsung, LG Introduce Slim, Social Smartphones   —  Samsung launched the Monte on the same day LG Electronics introduced the Mini, which it says is now the thinnest full-touchscreen phone on the market. LGs stated goals include toppling either Samsung or Nokia by 2012. - Both Samsung and LG Electronics released news of new smartphones Feb. 9. The LG Mini while being called the slimmest and ... PCWorld Latest LG, Samsung Go Social With Latest Handsets   —  South Korea's two biggest cell phone makers previewed on Tuesday handsets they plan to unveil at next week's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona. PCWorld Latest Juniper to Integrate Mobile Networks and Edge Routers   —  Juniper Networks will announce products that integrate mobile networks into its MX 3D Universal Edge routers at Mobile World Congress. Warp2Search.net Samsung HMX-U10 Mini Flash Cam Review   —  The YouTube generation is no doubt among us. If you can think it up, there's probably already 50 videos of it on YouTube. With YouTube now supporting HD videos there's very little leg work required on your end before you upload. As such, manufacturers are starting to take advantage of this by integrating YouTube upload functionality right into ... Michelle Perkins / Adobe Blogs One web. Any device. -- Join us at MWC 2010   —  Next week Barcelona, Spain will host the 2010 Mobile World Congress . Adobe and Open Screen Project partners will be there presenting and demonstrating the latest development on the Flash Platform and the Open Screen Project that will help define the future of the mobile industry. Adobe is working with more than 60 partners in the Open Screen ... Admin / Infoworld News Juniper to integrate mobile networks and edge routers   —  At next week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Juniper Networks will launch products that integrate mobile networks into its MX 3D Universal Edge routers and let third party vendors integrate their applications into mobile networks.

15. Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit 4 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

We already know that Windows 7 is growing faster than Vista was when it was released, but how fast are gamers adopting it? Pretty darn quickly, according to January 2010 data from Steam, the leader of the digital distribution market. Last month, the percentage of users on Windows 7 eclipsed the number of users on Windows Vista. Windows XP is ...

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TechBlog Windows 7 and batteries: Shooting the messenger   —  Windows 7 is a pretty cool operating system - I think it's the best version of Windows that Microsoft has released. But some notebook PC owners would beg to differ. Last week, reports arose that Microsoft was looking into a message some Windows 7 users were seeing. A warning box appears saying: Consider replacing your battery. There is a problem ...

Thomas Ricker / Engadget Cube's 6-inch capacitive touchscreen e-reader is a Windows Mobile 6.5 fantasyland   —  If you're a sucker for immaculate specs at a discount price then the Cube e-book reader might be the device for you. The Chinese outfit is said to be working on a 6-inch, E Ink reader built around the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system with baked-in WiFi (sorry, no mention of 3G data) for "remote server synchronization." And as declared in the ...

Ryan / CyberNet News Display Battery Life on the Windows 7 Taskbar   —  Windows only Awhile ago I wrote an article that covered various ways you can monitor the remaining battery life of your laptop, but I was starting to wonder what kind of apps developers had come up with for Windows 7 users. Interestingly enough on that same article a commenter, Chris, talked about a [...] PIPI / Slo-Tech novice Microsoft: baterije niso problem   —  Pri Microsoftu so zanikali obtožbe izpred nekaj dni, da je Windows 7 kriv za močno znižanje kapacitete baterije. Orodje, ki uporabnika opozori, da ima le še 40% prvotno specificirane kapacitete baterije, v njihovih testih ni dalo niti enega napačnega opozorila. Orodje tudi zgolj bere podatke iz vezja v bateriji, v ... PCWorld Latest Users Dispute Microsoft's Explanation of Windows 7 Battery Problems   —  Windows 7 does not ruin notebook batteries or issue premature warnings that the power is exhausted, Microsoft's head of Windows said in response to customer... PCWorld Latest Windows 7 Just Being Honest About Battery Life   —  Microsoft has looked into reported issues with Windows 7 battery life and determined that users are simply caught off guard by Windows 7 more accurate battery life reporting. Richard Mitchell / Joystiq Total War games 66% off on Steam this week   —  Strategic war game buffs, take note: All of the Total War titles on Steam are receiving a massive discount this week, to the tune of a whopping 66 percent off. In fact, you can pick up the Total War Mega Pack , which includes Medieval II: Total War , Rome: Total War -- including the Alexander and Kingdoms expansions -- and Empire: Total War for $ ... Martin / GHacks technology news Remove Old Notification Icons In Windows 7   —  If you have been running Windows 7 for some time you might notice eventually that some of the notification icons that are displayed in the customize dialog are those of programs that are no longer installed on the computer system. Neither the software program nor the Windows operating system seem to remove those old notification [...] EWeek Microsoft Says Windows 7 Battery Issues Are Batteries' Fault   —  Microsoft claims its engineers have been exploring complaints of poor battery life for some laptops running Windows 7, and that in every case the operating system is not at fault. Instead, Windows 7 had correctly evaluated via a new feature that those users batteries were failing, Microsoft said in a Feb. 8 blog posting. However, posts on ... Vedant Kulshreshtha / TechNet Blogs Update to the Microsoft Enterprise Search Roadmap   —  February seems to be the favored month for Search roadmap updates in Microsoft. On Feb 10, 2009 the Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map press release disclosed a detailed road map from Microsoft for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business . Since ... Admin / Infoworld News Users dispute Microsoft's explanation of Windows 7 battery problems   —  Windows 7 does not ruin notebook batteries or issue premature warnings that the power is exhausted, Microsoft 's head of Windows said Monday in response to customer complaints. Michael Korp / TechNet Blogs Hyper-V und die Startreparatur von Windows   —  Ist mir selber in der Kombination noch nicht passiert, aber die Startreparatur habe ich doch schon häufiger bemühen müssen. Ein Grund dafür ist, dass ich doch das eine oder andere Mal die Platte im Rechner gegen eine andere oder größere tauschen wollte, versucht habe “besonders schlau” zu sein oder aber aus irgendeinem anderen Grund an ...

16. Benjamin Cohen 2 hours ago   permalink

Www.channel4.com

Technology correspondent Benjamin reports on the media (both old and new), Britain's growing gambling industry and technology, including detailed coverage of the problems faced by broadband consumers.

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Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk :   Channel 4 tech journalist tells all about dotcom past

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe :   It’s time to kill off the Dotcom Hero CEO

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Technology.timesonline.co.uk A British Google? It could have been me   —  As I slipped out of Mr Miller’s A-level English class, I turned on my mobile phone: “Israeli embassy here. Could you call with your passport number as Binyamin Netanyahu would like to meet you at Heathrow at 3.30pm. Please do not discuss this message with anyone before calling me back.” Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk :    Channel 4 tech journalist tells all about dotcom past Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe :    It’s time to kill off the Dotcom Hero CEO

17. Producers: Final Fantasy XIII will 'resurrect' Japanese game industry 2 hours ago   permalink

JC Fletcher / Joystiq [PlayStation]

Final Fantasy XIII may not be out in North America and Europe yet, but the development team is in full "victory lap" mode in Japan. At least, that's how it seemed when noted industry figure Jem Alexander interviewed producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama for the European PlayStation Blog . Asked about the state of the Japanese ...

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Luke Plunkett / Kotaku There Will Never Be Another Final Fantasy Game Like FFXIII   —  Final Fantasy XIII has been in development for over five years, has involved hundreds of staff and has cost the publisher a ton of money. So you can see why there'll never be another Final Fantasy game like it! Speaking with Sony on the official European PlayStation blog, the game's producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Motomu Toriyama have said:

Major Nelson / Xbox Live Games on Demand: Street Fighter IV and Halo Wars   —  The following Xbox 360 game are now ready for direct download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace : Content: STREET FIGHTER IV Price: Check pricing for your region Availability: North America and Asia Dash Text: (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) This game supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. Download the ...

PhysOrg Team / PhysOrg.com Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons   —  (AP) -- Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontations that have led to collisions and a sunken vessel continue. Luke Plunkett / Kotaku Final Fantasy's Angry Australian Motorbike   —  Final Fantasy is a very delicate series. Effeminate, even. So you'd expect any marketing tie-ins with the game to feature delicate things. Books, clothing, artwork, etc. Not in Australia. No, to celebrate the launch of Final Fantasy XIII in Australia, EB Games and Ubisoft (the game's distributor down under) will be giving away a motorcycle. Not ... Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing Beautiful Japanese gramophones   —  Alan sez, "A Japanese company is producing gramophones with natural touches such as bamboo needles." The player is produced by world-class hobbyist supplier Gakken, and the quality shows. This gramophone supports all record sizes, features speed and tone adjustment, and even lets you record music! No file formats to worry about, no batteries to ... MARTIN FACKLER / NYT Japanese Split on Exposing Secret Pacts With U.S.   —  Agreements on U.S. bases and allowing nuclear-armed ships in Japanese ports date from the 1960s and 1970s. Tom / Eurogamer News: FFXIII devs confused by Wada comment   —  Offer their thoughts on series future. Motomu Toriyama and Yoshinori Kitase have admitted they aren't sure what Square Enix president Yoichi Wada meant when he said Final Fantasy XIII might be the last game of its kind from the veteran RPG publisher. "Whether we are going to continue to internally create this type of game remains to be seen," ... Tom / Eurogamer News: All EA games to feature online, DLC   —  Publisher makes pledge to investors. Electronic Arts man John Schappert, formerly of Microsoft, has said that the third-party publisher plans to step up its online efforts during the coming year. "In fiscal 2011, every one of EA's releases will have an online component, both downloadable content and online play," he told investors during a ...

18. IMac 27 Shipping Again 1 hour ago   permalink

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo

After the rumored iMac 27 global shipment halt , reader Adam Pattee has sent us confirmation that his unit—purchased on January 29—is now shipping. Apple says his iMac will arrive on February 16. Did you get a notification too? Write to submissions@gizmodo.com .

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Chris Davies / SlashGear :   Apple 27-inch iMacs now shipping again?

19. Nvidia Unveils Optimus Switchable Graphics Technology 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.pcworld.com

Does your laptop have switchable graphics? You know, both an integrated graphics chip that sips energy and gives you long battery life along with a discrete GPU (graphics processing unit) that offers better 3D graphics and video performance? Notebooks with switchable graphics have been shipping for years, but they haven't lived up to user ...

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Www.nvidia.com NVIDIA Optimus Technology Delivers Perfect Balance Of Notebook Performance And Battery Life   —  SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Feb. 9, 2010— NVIDIA Corp., today announced NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology, a breakthrough for notebook PCs that chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics – delivering great performance while ... OSNews :    NVIDIA Unveils Optimus Seamless GPU Switching Shane McGlaun / SlashGear :    NVIDIA drops Optimus automatic graphics switching on notebook world

The Tech Report Nvidia brings Optimus switchable graphics to notebooks   —  Switchable graphics is the best way to squeeze decent gaming performance and great battery life from the same notebook, but it's never been able to deliver graphics power on demand seamlessly. Nvidia's Optimus switchable tech promises to do better, and we've tested a system to find out whether it... Digg.com NVIDIA Optimus Notebook Graphics Switching Impresses   —  Ideally, switchable notebook graphics would be seamless. Launch an app that doesn't require significant graphics resources & chipset graphics get used. Fire up a game & the discrete GPU kicks in. Up til now, a scenario like this wasn't available w/out a hard switch over and possible reboot but NVIDIA aims to change that w/ their Optimus technology. Bit-tech.net Article Feed Nvidia Optimus: More Than Meets The Eye   —  Nvidia's new Optimus technology is primed to transform switchable graphics in laptops, netbooks and the second generation Ion platform. Trust us, for your next laptop upgrade this is looking like a must have technology. Electronista NVIDIA outs Optimus live graphics switching for notebooks   —  NVIDIA today formally unwrapped Optimus, a hybrid graphics technology that it promises will solve many of the problems of performance and battery life on notebooks. It can switch from integrated to dedicated graphics and back while the system is still active and logged in, providing a completely transparent experience for power saving; users can ... Home Nvidia transforms switchable graphics with Optimus   —  GRAPHICS OUTFIT Nvidia has thrown back the curtain on Optimus, a system that allows for the dynamic switching of graphics systems on notebooks. Today's laptops usually have to suffer a trade-off between Intel's subpar but energy efficient integrated graphics processor (IGP) or a higher performance but power-hungry discrete graphics card that ... Editor / PRO Nvidia Optimus transforms laptop graphics   —  Nvidia has unveiled a new technology for laptops which will automatically switch from integrated to discrete graphics depending on the task. While integrated graphics chips tend to be quite gentle on battery life, they don't have the muscle to tackle more intensive tasks such as gaming. In contrast, discrete graphics cards tend to offer more ... Aharon Etengoff / TG Daily Nvidia introduces Optimus technology for notebooks   —  Nvidia has introduced an intelligent switching technology for notebook PCs that automatically selects the optimal graphics processor for running a specific application. read more

20. ATI Radeon™ HD 5570 Graphics Brings a Big Visual Experience to Small Form Factor PCs 8 hours ago   permalink

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The newest addition to the AMD graphics family strengthens the world's only complete line-up of award-winning DirectX® 11 capable graphics cards, delivering exceptional HD multimedia and gaming performance at a mainstream price

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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog :   Yet another DirectX 11 Graphics Card from AMD!

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Reviews Tom ATI Radeon HD 5570: Reasonable Gaming Performance For $80?   —  AMD rounds out its DirectX 11-capable lineup with an entry-level gaming card sporting all of the Radeon HD 5000-series' value-adds. Does the Radeon HD 5570 represent the perfect combination of low-price, gaming performance, and features? DirectX - Radeon - ATI Technologies - Advanced Micro Devices - Zune HD Chris Davies / SlashGear :    ATI Radeon HD 5570 launched, reviewed: $80 low-profile DirectX 11

MacNN ATI Radeon HD 5570 gives DX11 to small form factor PCs   —  AMD this morning launched its second new video chipset in just a matter of days and this time targeted a comparatively untapped mini PC category. The Radeon HD 5570 is a major step up in performance from the 5450 with 400 stream processors versus 80 but still occupies a single card slot and is relatively short, making it ideal for small form ...

Digg.com Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB graphics card: the jigsaw is   —  Filling in the gap left by the last two launches, £60 will buy you a Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB card. We find out how good it is. The Tech Report Radeon HD 5570 launches at $79-85   —  After outing the Radeon HD 5670 in January and the Radeon HD 5450 last week, AMD has now added a third sub-$100 graphics card to its DirectX 11 lineup. The new Radeon HD 5570 fits squarely between its two siblings with a $79-85 suggested price range, and it... Warp2Search.net ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review   —  « Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Case Review · ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review · Sapphire HD 5570 1GB Review » Bit-tech.net Article Feed Radeon HD 5450 Review: HTPC Heaven?   —  A £40 graphics card? Surely that's as useful as a chocolate teapot? We take a look at AMD's latest and cheapest Radeon from the HD 5000 series, the HD5450, see how it stacks up against integrated graphics and find out in what situations it might be a great buy. Home ATI announces the Radeon HD 5570   —  THE GRAPHICS ARM of AMD, ATI has announced another in its Radeon HD 5000 series of graphics cards, the HD 5570. Today the firm said that the card, which retails for just under seventy-three quid, doesn't compromise on performance and is perfect for multimedia processing, including DirectX 11, on small PCs. Warp2Search.net Sapphire Radeon HD5570 1GB DDR3 Review   —  The Sapphire Radeon 5570 is a low-power budget graphics card, marketed in the $80 range to consumers who are interested in some light gaming, and indeed the card is more capable than the lowly 5450 in terms of gaming performance. At this price range, the Nvidia GeForce GT 240 is the 5570's closest competitor. Question is: Can the 5570 continue ... Auto-Graphics / Library Technology Guides automation update Auto-Graphics' AGent Iluminar user Interface experiences widespread adoption   —  (January 13, 2010). Auto-Graphics announced the successful implementation of AGent Iluminar, the company's next generation user interface, across numerous AGent customer sites. Since the successful completion of beta testing and full production launch of AGent Iluminar in July, 2009, Auto-Graphics has fully deployed AGent Iluminar for two ... Editor / Neowin.net TechSpot: ATI Radeon HD 5570 Review   —  It's self-evident how AMD has kept us busy over the last few months, showing us new generation GPUs aiming at all possible price points. From the performance-oriented HD 5850/5870, to the mainstream HD 5770 and the extreme dual-GPU powered HD 5970. The budget models had to wait a bit longer. ... Kristopher / DailyTech News Feed ATI Launches Radeon HD 5570, Continues to Drive DX11 Volume   —  This is also a great representation of how I was saying AMD/ATI creates a small core that scales upwards while NVIDIA creates large monolithic cores. Because of this ATI has a whole price range of chips but could sacrifice the top spot. The problem I wonder is how does FERMI create a market for middle to low end or more mainstream without re ...