Google’s open source Android operating system is maturing and beginning to attract a more diverse audience of third-party developers. To accommodate the growing need for more power and flexibility, Google is opening up the platform to additional programming languages and new kinds of development.
Intel’s China-based Fab 68 will produce 65nm silicon exclusively when it goes online early next year, Intel has announced. The announcement is something of a surprise, since Intel had been restricted by US government export regulations from exporting high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and when Fab 68 goes online, 65nm will be only two nodes behind the cutting edge.
After delving into various data points about iPhone OS 3.0 adoption rates, a commenter suggested we poll our readers to see the adoption rate among the Infinite Loop-erati. So here we are and we want to know: have you updated your iPhone or iPod touch to iPhone OS 3.0? And if not, why not?
Apple released the major iPhone OS 3.0 update just last Wednesday. Since then there have been conflicting reports of how quickly users are upgrading to the new OS, which offers a number of benefits to users of all of Apple’s mobile devices.
The Summer 2009 edition of the twice-yearly Top 500 Supercomputer List is out, and there are some notable changes in this latest version. In terms of the perennial Intel/AMD horse race, after a period of holding steady at roughly 12 percent, AMD’s Opteron has resumed its decline as a total share of the processor families represented. AMD dropped from 12.2 percent six months ago to 8.6 percent on the current list, while Intel’s Xeons climbed from 73.6 percent to 78.6 percent.
COO Tim Cook is becoming an even more invaluable asset to Apple’s executive team after serving as acting CEO during Steve Jobs’ recent medical leave. Despite Jobs’ apparent return as June draws to a close, a Wall Street Journal report suggests Cook will continue to take on responsibilities at the company that were once reserved for Jobs alone.
As netbook sales continue to escalate out of sight, models and
manufacturers proliferate, and new platforms battle for supremacy in
the marketplace and in the minds of consumers and OEMs, analysts
continue to debate the suitability of netbook hardware to consumer
needs. NPD’s most recent report on netbooks purports
to show, using direct user surveys, that consumers are highly confused
about netbooks, frustrated with their low performance, and typically
underuse their superb mobility. There are reasons for skepticism about
these results.
Apple released a few software updates last night. One is an updated firmware for all recent AirPort base station products, and the other is for Apple’s professional video editing software, Final Cut Pro.
The Mad Catz Street Fighter IV Fighting Sticks are amazing: high-quality hardware that is easy to mod and pimp out however you see fit. The only problem? They have been extremely hard to get ahold of, due to a low-production run and huge interest from the fighting game community.
The Methodist University Hospital in Tennessee confirmed today via press release that Steve Jobs indeed received a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in partnership with the University of Tennessee in Memphis. The announcement was made with Jobs’ permission, saying that he received a transplant “because he was the patient with the highest MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) of his blood type and, therefore, the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available.”
