Opera Mobile Store Launches, Everybody Welcome (Except Apple) The Opera App Store current has apps for Android, Palm, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Java provided by Appia. The iOS on the iPhone is noticeably absent, but may be added in future updates. I am sure this initial absence is simply due to pending agreement with Apple and has nothing to do with the "Mature" rating the Opera Mini browser received in the Apple App Store.
PikkoTekk Building 1,000 Player FPS Battlefield PikkoTekk has taken a different approach by redesigning the communication server side instead of server/client communication. Using the concept of cell phone networks, they have created a way to have a single game, with a single map, scaled across several different servers.
Western Digital Acquires New Territory in the East As of March 4th 2011, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was acquired by Western Digital for $3.5 billion in cash and 25 million WD common shares valued at $750 million.
Boston Dynamics Contracted to Create Cheetah-Bot Boston Dynamics named the new project "Cheetah" after the animal they decided to model the robot after. Cheetah-bot is expected to have the agility of a real cheetah to make sudden and quick turns/stops, a flexible spine to aid in its speed, and much of is big brother Big Dog's all terrain programming.
Killer NICs Comes to Laptops Killer Wireless-N adapters support IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n standards, operate on 2.4 GHz and 5GHz frequency bands and come in a half-size mini-PCIe form factor. Killer Wireless-N 1103 and 1102 adapters deliver data rates of up to 450 Mbps and 300 Mbps, respectively, using range-enhanced 802.11n.
Magicka Sends Mages to Vietnam! Wait, What? "Have you ever wondered what it would have been like if wizards were allowed to roam the jungles of war-torn Vietnam, attempting to bring peace and stability to the region by casting spells on all opponents?" reads the press release. "Wait, you haven’t ever wondered that? Ever? Okay, so we’re probably the only ones who have but in our defense: here’s your chance to stop being so closed-minded."
Steve Jobs’ Knighthood Rejected? I can't say for sure if this is the real reason behind the rejection; but I am also unable to come up with any plausible reason why Gordon Brown would reject him? Without Steve Jobs, there may never have been personal computers, laptops, MP3 players, or legal digital music distribution.
Valve Teases About Steam “Big Picture Mode” Valve's announcement is light on details, since the firm is setting the stage for a full reveal at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco later this week. However, it does gloss over a few key facts: "big picture" mode will provide "controller support and navigation designed for television interaction," and it will allow players to "enjoy Steam and their library of Steam games on more screens throughout the house."
Google Accidentally Drops the Ball Again If you've got a working Gmail account, you might want to back it up every so often -- as many as 150,000 Gmail users lost access to their inboxes this morning, and some of them are reporting (via Twitter and support forums) that years worth of messages, attachments and Google Chat logs had vanished by the time they were finally able to log on.
Flexible Microprocessor with Organic Semiconductors That dream is closer to reality than ever, as researchers from IMEC have created a cheap (potentially 1/10th the cost of silicon chips), bendable microprocessor by layering a plastic substrate, gold circuits, organic dielectric, and a pentacene organic semiconductor to create an 8-bit logic circuit with 4000 transistors.
AMD Advances Parallel Computing with OpenCL University Kit AMD today announced the introduction of the OpenCL University Kit, a set of materials that can be leveraged by any university to assist them in teaching a semester course in OpenCL programming.
Zotac ZBox SFF PC Gets Reviewed The new Zbox AD03BR and Zbox AD03BR Plus comes with a very impressive collection of features including Wireless N, Blu-Ray drive, DDR3 RAM, USB 3.0, DX11 capable GPU, and 23W max power consumption just to name a few. The standard AD03BR Barebones kit starts at a mere $439.99. The AD03BR Plus includes 2 GB of RAM and 250 Gb HDD for $529.99.
