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- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5
- Today is the last day of a 5-day course on iPhone programming class led by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I've been taking notes on how development for the iPhone compares to development for Android. By the way, BNR also offers Android courses if you're interested....
- Tags: Program, Apple iPhone, Web Service, Android, iPhone API, Settings App, Android Preference, Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out
- AMD will announce its second-generation Phenom quad-core chips at the big Consumer Electronics Show in January. But at the current rate at which the company is leaking information about its first 45nm desktop processors, there may not be much left to say by the time they get to Vegas. ...
- Tags: Desktop, AMD Phenom, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Core, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential
- After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled, 5GHz using dry ice as a coolant, and well over 5GHz...
- Tags: AMD Phenom, Overclocking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deneb, Release, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3
- This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...
- Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks
- The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys were forced to jump in as well. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all among a long...
- Tags: ASUS, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Battery, Memory, Acer Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- First Core i7 desktops from Dell, Alienware and Gateway
- Now that Intel has officially released its Core i7 processor, fresh desktops are arriving daily. Dell has released four systems with Core i7 processors, including one mainstream Studio XPS desktop and three gaming rigs. Gateway also announced two FX-series gaming systems. Notably absent is HP, which has yet to announce...
- Tags: Desktop, Alienware, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc., Memory, Core, Gateway FX6800-01, Games, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Flash Memory, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Virtualised Web Hosting featuring the Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor
- This short video profiles the role that AMD plays within Rackspaces 40,000 servers across the globe, with virtualised web hosting that delivers energy savings and flexible, scalable ease-of-use.
- Tags: Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Web Hosting, Processors, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-11-19
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2
- Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kick start the mobile-payment industry. ...
- Tags: Payment, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Industry, Handset, Manufacturer, U.K., RFID, GSMA, Operational Accounting, Cellular Phones, Strategy, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, mobile payments, GSM Association
- News items 2008-11-18
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 1
- As I mentioned last week I've started learning more about developing for the Apple iPhone. This week I'll be sharing my experiences during a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. In particular, I'll be pointing out differences between Android and iPhone development. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Android, Interface Builder Program, Programming Languages, C/C++, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Making Man As Super As His Computer
- Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial...
- Tags: Programmer, Computer, Steve Wallach, Convey Computer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Asus launches 'world's fastest' smartphone
- Yes, you read correctly: Asus has unveiled its latest smartphone, which, it claims is the "fastest business PDA phone in the world." Them's big words coming from a mobile underdog. That's because the juice behind the shell of the Asus P565 is an 800MHz...
- Tags: ASUS, Phone, Smart Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Smart Phones, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Gallery: AMD demos 'Shanghai'
- AMD held a demonstration of its new quad-core, 45nm Opteron processor, Shanghai, on Wednesday at a datacenter belonging to the second largest ISP in Europe, Strato, in Berlin. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Shanghai, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Processors, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Semiconductors, Components, Andy Smith, AMD, server, Operteron
- Image galleries 2008-11-17
- VoIP vulnerabilities in Microsoft Communicator
- Researchers at VoIPshield Labs have pinpointed a wide range of denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Microsoft Communicator, the unified communications that features business-grade instant messaging , voice, and video tools. The flaws, rated "high severity," could cripple VoIP-powered communications on Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator and Windows Live Messenger....
- Tags: Denial Of Service, VoIP, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Going "Core i7" - What you need!
- You know something funny, despite the current economic downturn, my Hardware 2.0 mailbox provides conclusive proof that there are folks out there who want to spend up to $1,000 on Intel's newest piece of silicon - the Core i7 processor. But what do you need to get make your "Extreme"...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Motherboard, Price, Intel Corp., Processors, Components
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Going Core i7 - What you need!
- You know something funny, despite the current economic downturn, my Hardware 2.0 mailbox provides conclusive proof that there are folks out there who want to spend up to $1,000 on Intel's newest piece of silicon - the Core i7 processor. But what do you need to get make your "Extreme"...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, intel, cpu, processor, core, i7
- Image galleries 2008-11-17
- OLPC revives G1G1: too little, too late
- Oh, there's lots of excitement that OLPC is bringing back Give One, Get One for this holiday season. Amazon is selling the green machines in pairs (one for a kid in the developing world, one for yours) and the G1G1 program is going global, too. ...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, G1G1, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- $400 XOs and recessions
- The OLPC XO goes on sale through Amazon Monday via a redux of their Give One Get One (G1G1) program that turned into such a debacle last year. It's no secret that, despite my utter willingness to give props to OLPC for spurring an entire market of...
- Tags: Recession, Amazon.com Inc., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, OLPC XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
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