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Game Developer Calls out Intel in Open Letter

You see it all the at developer based conferences in the Q & A, devs calling out platforms, their questions often indicate the level of satisfaction in the community. So if you want to judge the tone of Chris Scaggs article from Soma Games your…

Intel Confident it Will Overtake ARM in Power Effeciency

Mobile Phones are a hot topic these days, you can’t visit Engadget without being subjected to 40% Smartphone news. Although it is understandably since consumers are finally taking smartphones into main stream adoption. With the smartphone market in the US finally poised to take off…

Dual Core Atom N550 Performance and Power Consumption Benchmarked

Back at Computex 2010 when we all first got our hands on the ASUS Eee PC 1015N which comes with Nvidia ION 2 graphics and a dual core Atom N550 processor in a 10.1-inch package (with a matte display!), JKK got around to doing some…

Lenovo S10-3 with Dual Core N550 for Pre-Order in Australia

It looks like even though Lenovo denied using the new processor in its netbook series various Australian hardware stores list the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 with Intel Atom N550 1.5 GHz processor. The specific model number is 06475CM. It looks like the same old S10-3 but…

70M Netbooks Shipped And Now The Dual Core N550

Back at Computex we got wind of dual-core Atom for Netbooks and now it looks like its ready to ship the Atom N550. The 1.5 GHz processor with 1MB of cache and support for DDR3 is meant to offer “similar” batter life as the…

MeeGo Available for In-Vehicle Entertainment Devices – Video

Since MeeGo was announced at CES at the beginning of this year they have been hitting milestones in a fast and furious manner. Yes it might be the love child of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Meamo but this Linux based operating system is rolling…

Intel Shows Off Chips Transferring an HD movie in 1 second

Yesterday Intel announced that it has created a breakthrough data-transfer technology using a combination of silicon chips and lasers to transfer data over a fiber optic cable at a speed of 50 gigabits per second. Copper wire’s top transfer speed is about 10GB a…

HP Slate back from the dead? UPDATE: It lives!

Just a few shorts weeks after HP gobbled up Palm and their Slate disappeared from existence – most people assuming they were reworking it to run WebOS – the Windows-powered Slate is back, and more not-dead than ever. Well, not quite. A page has…

AMD Ontario chip ahead of schedule, could ship to manufacturers this year

We attended AMD’s press conference at Computex earlier this year, where they were full of bluster about the potential for their new Fusion chips, which offer performance increases through a System-on-a-chip style CPU / GPU integration. We remained cautiously pessimistic, given the company’s history…

Intel Atom sales to increase by 16% – 2010 40 million Netbooks

Intel has recently reported its best ever quarter in company history. Intel’s shares rose more than 8 per cent to $22.74, after it reported revenues of $10.8B. The Intel Atom Netbooks and processors contributed significantly to this success, as its sales once again rose…

Intel Rumored To Phase Out Celeron Processors In 2011

We heard about this yesterday along with the Atom N550 netbook freeze – According to Digitimes sources, Intel plans to phase out their bottom end Celeron processors in 2011 in favour of high end netbook processors which would be the Atom N550, specifically. Intel…

OLPC XO 1.75 Gets Touchscreen Software Ready

Think that OLPC is low tech? Well the next-generation XO Laptop looks like its got a couple of software tricks up its sleeve. The XO-1.75 Laptop will have a touchscreen display and it looks like developers are already taking advantage. One of the OLPC…

MeeGo issues first update to Netbook OS

For those early adopters among us who have installed the first release of MeeGo on their netbooks – which includes me – today is an exciting day (depending on how excited you get about incrimental software updates, I suppose).  Today MeeGo launch the first…

ASUS & ACER Netbook Release Freeze Over Intel Atom N550

Acer and ASUS are reportedly freezing netbook releases until mid-August, according to DigiTimes‘, in order to clear their inventory before the Atom N550 processor is meant to be released in Q3.

Aava Moorestown Development Handset Running MeeGo in the Wild (Plus UI Video)

Chippy over at UMPCPortal.com/CarryPad.com has gotten his hands on an Aava Moorestown development handset, its not a final product and is what is being shipped around for testing, so hold off on your cat calling until we see the final version! Chippy has taken…