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Ever since Advance Micro Device has purchased graphic processing unit (GPU or in layman term “the video card unit) giants ATI Technologies on July of 2006, they retained the ATI brand for the GPU units until today on which AMD has formally drop the ATI brand name for all their upcoming Radeon GPU units.
Click here for on “AMD kills ATI brand”
Just when people are settling in to iPhone 3G S, Apple has previewed the upcoming iPhone 4G.
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iPhone 4G Features
• Titanium and Glass.
• OLED screen
• 3G
• GPS
• Front camera for iChat
• Removable battery
• 3.2 Megapixel camera
• Video
• 32 GB
The tentative release of the iPhone 4G will be around Mid 2010.
Microsoft and Yahoo! has finally struck a partnership in terms of internet searches as Microsoft now powers Yahoo search engine.
A 10-year deal announced Wednesday gives Microsoft its best shot yet to show its new search technology, Bing, is as good as or better than Google’s. Microsoft also hopes to use Yahoo to divert sales from Google, which generates more than $20 billion a year from ads.
More about this news on Yahoo! News
Wordress.org has recently released Wordpress 2.8 aptly named ‘Baker’. The significant changes in which it includes syntax highlighting for theme/plugin editing, a theme installer, and a great revamped widgets interface and API and more.
For a detailed writeup on the Wordpress 2.8 feature you can read it all in Andrew Turner’s blog post on Netuts.com entitled “The 10 WordPress 2.8 Features To Look Out For”
Microsoft must really love open source and want to see it succeed. Recently, Microsoft’s open-source team lead, Sam Ramji, urged open-source vendors not to compete with Microsoft on price, but instead focus on “value.”
While I’m sure Ramji meant well, I’m equally certain that Microsoft would like nothing more than to not be reminded of how expensive its products can be compared with open-source solutions. After all, Microsoft was the company that turned the software industry on its head by introducing lower-cost solutions years ago to undermine the Unix businesses of IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and the database businesses of Oracle and IBM.
It’s been a while since I last did an update for this blog and I decided to post an update as well as a new theme to boot. The new theme is simple but effectively show the blog’s niche.
If you usually see Apple’s Safari browser installer bundled with Quicktime or the Yahoo! Toolbar bundle on other installers, then Google Chrome is not far behind. Real Player installation now offers you to install Chrome during its own installation process.
Does this means REAL Networks will be part of Google’s every growing network?