Entries Tagged as 'Software Development'

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

100 microprocessor cores at your disposal!

I was just reading a Guardian UK newspaper article about the new possibilities opened up to software developers with GPU (Graphic Processor Unit) assisted computing. Basically what this is is that if you have a major brand graphics card in your PC or Mac (Nivdia or ATI), it is now possible to open up the [...]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The iPhone Lego Controller has finally arrived!


Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 code named “Snow Leopard” - report

Apple is indeed well into the development of Mac OS X 10.6, which the company has internally code-named “Snow Leopard,” according to ArsTechnica.
Citing a person familiar with the situation, the technology website confirms several details of the next major Mac OS X upgrade first reported on Tuesday, including a scheduled release as soon as Macworld [...]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

New release of Linux kernel presents major changes

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 [...]

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Latest iPhone 2.0 beta reveals 3G chipset

Hidden away in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers is the mention of the chipset that will power third-generation cellular Internet access in Apple’s next generation of the device.
Discovered by the creators of the popular ZiPhone jailbreak and unlocking utility, a small, nondescript entry in the new firmware used to identify the phone’s chipset [...]

Friday, April 4th, 2008

“Mr Vista” quits Microsoft

The man who became the public face for Windows Vista — and often bore the brunt of criticism directed at the OS — through blog posts and community events has resigned from Microsoft.
Nick White is leaving the Redmond company to take a position at BuzzCorps, a blog-oriented viral marketing company founded by former AMD communications [...]