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Open source’s usability challenge
Insight commentary Ubuntu needs more usability. Getting it needs more than just goodwill and money.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Usability, Ubuntu, software, OpenGL, Mark Shuttleworth, Linux desktop, Apple iPhone, desktop
Freescale and ARM promise US$205 netbooks
News Freescale has unveiled an ARM-based, Ubuntu-toting netbook reference design, claiming it will bring cheap internet devices to the younger, more widget-centric generation.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Processors, ARM, Intel Corp., Ubuntu, processor, Microsoft Windows, power management, Internet, handset
Building a Google Android application
Blogs The new Google Android HTC G1 smartphone promises to cover the middle-ground, between the Apple iPhone and Windows Mobil...
WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web
News Google's browser is the latest to get support for a nascent standard for building accelerated 3D graphics into Web pages and Web applications.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Web browsers, Khronos Group, Web sites, Web 2.0, WebGL, Web-based Application, Web Browser
AMD ships Windows 7-ready chipset
News New 785G chipset provides integrated graphics and is tailored to the upcoming Microsoft operating system, according to AMD.
Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., DirectX, Graphics, Microsoft Windows 7, modeling, Microsoft Windows, OpenGL, chipset, PC
Mozilla, graphics group seek to build 3D Web
News Khronos Group establishes a group to standardize how Web apps can use accelerated 3D graphics. Expect a draft specification and maybe a Firefox plug-in within a year.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Graphics, Online Game, Mozilla Corp., Web Application, 3D, Language Performance, Hardware, JavaScript
Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D
News An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL
Intel updates graphics with multimedia capabilities
News The chipmaker's long-awaited DirectX-10 graphics update for its chipsets is available. Also on tap: A G35-based DG35EC Classic motherboard.
Tags: Multimedia, Graphics, Intel Corp., Video, Environment, ASUS, graphics chip, performance, multimedia, billing
Intel reveals Larrabee's cores and effects
News Intel's new Larrabee architecture is a graphic illustration of many-core design.
Tags: Graphics, Processors, Core, Intel Corp., Chip, performance, software, processor, high-performance computing, OpenGL
GPU standard may start with Apple's OpenCL
News PC and mobile-computing industries are looking at ways to exploit graphics processors on future computers--and they'll will start with Apple's OpenCL technology.
Tags: Standards, Graphics, Processors, Mobile processors, Software, ARM, Apple Inc., Mobile, GPU, Apple Macintosh
Shuttleworth: Open source desktops need a facelift
News Chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has said Canonical is hiring a team to make open source desktop software more appealing.
Tags: Open source, Linux desktop OS, OpenOffice, KDE, GNOME, Ubuntu, Apple Macintosh, software, OpenGL, Mark Shuttleworth
Firefox gets an early taste of 3D Web standard
News Programmers have begun building WebGL into developer-oriented versions of Mozilla's browser. The 3D-acceleration technology is coming to WebKit, too.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Programmer, Graphics, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., 3D, Mozilla Firefox, blog
Building an iPhone application
Blogs The iPhone has a terrific touchscreen and great features like 3.5G mobile broadband and GPS, making the iPhone highly su...
Sun plugs open standard into VirtualBox upgrade
News New features in version 2.2 of the virtualisation software include support for the Open Virtualization Format standard, support for Mac OS X 10.6 and performance improvements.
Tags: Virtualization, Innotek VirtualBox, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Apple Mac OS X, VMware Inc., operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, performance
10 predictions for Linux and open source in 2009
Techguide The year holds a great deal of promise for the Linux OS and open source software--from an explosion in the mobile arena to widespread adoption of OpenOffice 3, says industry watcher.
Tags: Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., KDE, File System, GNOME, Ubuntu, operating system, GNOME 2.24
