Thursday, April 28, 2011

Nintendo 3DS: Cautious launch

Since 26 February 2011 3DS Nintendo is on the market in Japan. Late March launched the pocket console to the world. How Satoru Iwata, president of the Japanese game manufacturer, on a 26 April 2011 announced that the launch has been worse than expected: "Since the second week are the sales of the 3DS below expectations - not only in Japan but also in the U.S. and Europe, where the earthquake had no direct impact." The reason this should include the problem that the added value of the 3D effect of the potential buyers could only give hard. Nintendo also had to explain to customers the new features of 3DS like better. Another reason for poor sales Iwata sees in recent games offer to 3DS.

The rebrand of the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 reaches the retail market

Unfortunately, as expected, AMD has not kept his word a few months ago and launched solutions Radeon HD 6770 and HD 6770 is also on the retail market. It simply notes Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750, architecture-based Juniper, renamed and updated with new firmware to support the unique 3D BluRay HDMI 1.4a.

Previously given only to the OEM market, these cards now calling on retail distribution channels at the hands of the main AIB partners of AMD. GalleriaE 'need the Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript support. E 'need the Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript support.

YouTube Founders buyDelicious bookmark service

So far belonged to the Internet company Yahoo. But driving a tough austerity in order to survive against great rival Google. This also speculation that austerity measures threatened to fall victim to Delicious, where users share their Internet bookmarks with one another. Financial details of the transaction is the buyers were silent.

Hurley and Chen had sold 2006, the video portal YouTube for startling 1.65 billion U.S. dollars to Google.

Sony enters the world of tablet 'for fun'

Sony also decided to enter the arena of the tablet with two solutions based on Google Android to be released later this year. The two Sony devices and Sony Tablet Tablet S1 and S2 are designed primarily for fun thinking through its compatibility with PlayStation games. Both devices are based on Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb and use a new concept of chassis.

The S1 model, with 9.4-inch screen, uses an elongated teardrop form factor with the center of gravity moved upwards and the S2 model, with dual 5.5-inch screen, but has a rounded shape and resealable . From the standpoint of the hardware platform, Sony has used for the S1 platform Tegra 2 controller combined with a Wi-Fi and 3G/4G.

AMD Catalyst 4.11 Drivers Available

AMD has updated its Catalyst driver package with the version 4.11 with WHQL certification for video cards Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000, HD 5000 and HD 6000. We find the performance gains seen earlier on Catalyst 4.11 Preview 2 along with other optimizations for various 3D titles. The package also includes new features for the display control and management of configurations Eyefinity and complements the Catalyst update system that alerts the user of the availability of a new driver update.

SLI with AMD 990FX chipset, 990x and 970

Some sources have recently licensed its NVIDIA SLI technology in some motherboard manufacturers planning to launch models based on AM3 + 990FX Chipset, 990x or 970. In practice, this means that manufacturers like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI or ASRock will now be able to produce AM3 motherboards and SLI + CrossFireX compatible.

Until recently, NVIDIA refused because AMD platforms to benefit from SLI, but that decision had no place to be, the manufacturer no longer producing chipsets itself for some time. AMD is therefore on an equal footing with Intel regarding multi-GPU platforms.

Kingston HyperX Plug and Play: High Performance Memory.

Kingston Introduces New RAM, high-performance HyperX called Plug and Play, will be available both for desktop and laptop. PnP HyperX modules are the first to reach the high fees that come with the second generation of Intel CPUs Core i5 and i7, these memory modules are programmed with faster frequencies, and when connected to a system that uses the chipset Sandy Bridge, go on automatically at 1600MHz or 1866MHz both desktops and laptops.