Linux expert Linus Torvalds announced in his blog on Wednesday that Linux kernel version 2.6.25 has been publicly released, with changes to WiFi support, file system management, and virtualization.
“It’s been long promised, but there it is now,” Torvalds wrote in the official Linux kernel release.
After ten weeks in development, a couple of weeks longer than [...]
A $500 million investment by Intel, announced in Taiwan today, is geared mainly to gaining greater interoperability between other equipment and Intel’s own mobile WiMAX chips, which are slated to ship later this year to OEMs for use in Centrino PC notebooks, said a US-based Intel spokesperson.
In a new memo of understanding (MOU) with [...]
Will there ever come a day when a single hand held MP3 player can store 3,500 movies? IBM researchers think that a new technology called “racetrack” memory will make this possible within the next ten years.
Aside from performance, better reliability and lower prices could be on the way, too. Unlike magnetic disk drives, racetrack memory [...]
During an analyst meeting yesterday, the head of NVidia stated clearly that NVidia is a GPU company and not a semiconductor manufacturer, destroying any flicker of hope that it and Intel may jointly combat AMD and its ATI division.
“We’re going to open a can of whoop ass,” boasted NVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang during an NVidia [...]
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu on Wednesday joined a chorus of other analysts in forecasting Apple to introduce a new version of its iPhone handset around June.
“Our checks with supply chain sources indicate that the iPhone is likely to undergo a product transition in the June-July timeframe, about a quarter earlier than expected,” he [...]
Nemo Cambridge, one of the Australian Film Television Radio School’s illustrious IT support team, has built the world’s fastest PC.
“I was mucking around overclocking my newly built PC, trying to get as much speed out of it as possible, when I suddenly froze with excitement as the final status window appeared. With out a doubt, [...]
