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Submission + - Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:11AM

Stoobalou writes: Microsoft exec Tami Reller told attendees at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 taking place in Los Angeles yesterday that any PC capable of running Windows 7 today would be capable of running Windows 8 when it is released, towards the end of the year.

Submission + - AMD Grabs Fastest Mobile GPU Crown From Nvidia (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:56AM

Stoobalou writes: AMD has scored another point over its graphics rival Nvidia with what it claims is the world's fastest single-GPU mobile graphics processor, the Radeon HD 6990M.

While the red team is unlikely to hold the crown for long in the fast-moving world of discrete graphics, the company's latest chip is certainly impressive enough. Based on the TeraScale 2 unified processor architecture and the Barts GPU core, the Radeon HD 6990M — a mobile equivalent to the company's high-end Radeon HD 6990 PCI Express graphics card design — features 1,120 stream processing units, 56 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units, and 32 colour ROP units.

Submission + - GlobalFoundries Gets Ready For 300mm Wafers (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:29AM

Stoobalou writes: Semiconductor fabricator GlobalFoundries has announced a new stage of its race to support 300mm wafer sizes in its manufacturing plants: a move from construction to equipment installation.

For the past year, the company has been constructing brand-new clean rooms in its New York and Dresden facilities, ready to support the 300mm wafer size. It's been a long project, but one which will hopefully start bearing fruit soon with Fab 1 in Dresden pushing manufacturing up to 80,000 wafers per month once the equipment is installed.

Submission + - Apple Attacks GetJar Over App Store Name (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @04:59AM

Stoobalou writes: Apple has served independent software distributor GetJar with a cease & desist order over its use of the term 'App Store.'
GetJar — which says it is the world's largest free app store with over two billion downloads of 150,000 mobile applications on multiple platforms including Android, Blackberry, Java and Symbian — has told Steve Jobs in no uncertain terms what he can do with his order.

Submission + - Space Shuttle Atlantis Heads Into Space (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 08, 2011 @11:40AM

Stoobalou writes: The last-ever space shuttle launch has taken place, despite some last-minute glitches that saw the countdown held at just T-minus 31 seconds.

Coming in the last few minutes of a tight launch window at an overcast day as the computers at Mission Control handed off to those within the Atlantis shuttle itself, the short hold left many wondering if the weather would close in before the glitch was corrected.

Submission + - Pinhead-Sized Camera Developed by US University (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 08, 2011 @08:47AM

Stoobalou writes: Scientists at Cornell University have developed a camera small enough that several of them could sit on the head of a pin.
The device, which is 100th of a millimetre thick and less than half a millimetre on each side, won't exactly replace your DSLR — resolving, as it does, just 20x20 pixels — but the development has wide reaching implications in many industries.
Costing just a few pennies to manufacture, the tiny device, which resembles a miniaturised CD, could soon be seen in consumer gadgets, robot monkey butlers and surgical theatres.

Submission + - Google Targets Psudonyms For Google+ Account Cull (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08, 2011 @08:46AM

An anonymous reader writes: Google may still be throttling sign-ups to its social networking service Google+, but it's also thinning out the ranks of its current members as it struggles to meet demand. Businesses were the first to go, and they've now been joined by those who value their privacy or have other reasons to use a pseudonym.

Submission + - German Government Warns of Critical iOS Flaws (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:22AM

Stoobalou writes: Germany's IT security agency the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) warns of what it calls 'new vulnerabilities' in Apple's mobile operating system iOS.

German iDevice owners are being warned to steer clear of PDF files and web sites from untrusted sources.

Submission + - Acorn's Steve Furber Looks to ARM Supercomputers (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:19AM

An anonymous reader writes: Veteran of microcomputing Steve Furber, in his role as ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, has called upon some old friends for his latest project: a brain-simulating supercomputer based on more than a million ARM processors.

Submission + - Web Devs Optimistic Over IE10 Conditionals Demise (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Thursday July 07, 2011 @06:01AM

Stoobalou writes: Microsoft has announced some changes due in Internet Explorer 10 that promise to improve its HTML5 parsing with respect to other browsers, but the removal of certain features, including the death of conditional comments, is causing a stir in the web development community.

Submission + - Anonymous Forms Political Wing (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Thursday July 07, 2011 @03:07AM

Stoobalou writes: Hive-minded Anonymous, the anarchic online mischief-making outfit, has formed a political wing.
"We are transitioning from attacking the system from the outside to restructuring it from the inside," the bunch said in an emailed manifesto.

Submission + - SleepWell Wi-Fi Hack Promises Battery Boosts (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @12:19PM

Stoobalou writes: A student at Duke University in North Carolina has developed a modification which he claims can boost the battery life of mobile devices with just a simple tweak to the Wi-Fi driver.

Submission + - How PowerPoint Costs The Economy Billions (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:35AM

Stoobalou writes: A political party has formed in Switzerland with a single aim — to outlaw Microsoft's dreaded PowerPoint application.

The Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP) estimates that the use of Microsoft's presentation software costs the Swiss economy 2.1 billion Swiss francs (£1.54 billion) a year. It extrapolates that to claim that, across Europe, some €110 billion (£81 billion) is frittered away by managers trying to make the information they want to impart look prettier.

Submission + - Web-Based iOS Jailbreak Now Has iPad 2 Support (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @06:34AM

Stoobalou writes: JailbreakMe.com, the simplest method ever for unlocking Apple's iOS devices, has been reborn and now has the ability to open up the iPad 2.
Developed by a team including usual suspect Comex, Cydia supremo Jay Freeman (saurik) and Grant Paul (chpwn), the web-based hack opens up just about any iDevice capable of running iOS4.3, enabling them to run all sorts of software and widgets which have not passed muster with Apple for one reason or another.

Submission + - NATO Servers Hacked Again (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @10:55AM

Stoobalou writes: Servers belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) appear to have been breached for the second time in as many months.
The fighting force which is currently embroiled in an attempt to pinch all Colonel Gadaffi's oil has been left red-faced by its inability to shore up its servers against attack, let alone find a bloke in the biggest tent in Libya and kill him.

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