Saturday: outcome of the week of June 2-7
Week came out long, undoubtedly because :-) A and a list of news, from our point of view, worthy of attention, today went fairly solid there.
Perhaps the main event of the week was the exhibition Computex (see news for June 5), but apart from her new crop of iron was very, very rich.
- The company presented AMD stunned the public by external (!) Graphics accelerator for notebooks ATI XGP, linked via an external connector PCI Express 2.0. … More
- NVidia introduced new graphics chips for notebook PCs and computers-on-chip "Tegra; first mobile devices on its base there by the end of the year.
- The company IBM, in turn, announced the development of new technology for cooling computer microchips with water. No, this is not extinguishers on chip, is much cunning. … More
- ASUS releases a new version of Eee PC, and also announced the release of the first desktop line Eee - Eee Box B202. Asus showed an inexpensive desktop PC Eee Box.
- In Taiwan the first prototype was demonstrated OpenBook. Shown on the stand his company Quanta Computers, but, apparently, these computers will go under the brand Sony. … More
Other relevant news:
- Several countries have appealed the decision on the standardization of ISO format OOXML; victory for Microsoft, it seems, does not give many of rest. … More
- Singer Prince has been at the centre of the scandal surrounding songs Radiohead: first he performed a cover on it and then "drove" those who laid on Youtube videos of his speech, referring to the violation of the DMCA. There Yorku this story do not like. … More
- Search engine Wikia Search Users can now add comments and annotations to the results, edit the title records and even delete unwanted links. After launching the service project was zakidali hats - but in due course the same thing happened to Wikipedia. Will Wikia Search equally successful? More …
- Kaspersky Labs caught a new virus-shantazhist GPcode, which encrypts all user data on the victim's computer - using key length in 1024 bits (not broken up) - and then makes unfortunate "proposal, on which it is impossible to refuse." In Labs' break until the head that this infection to do. … More
- We can say news week: Duke Nukem Forever - reality! Illustration and links to video game available here.