Jun 19
Your cable box never sleeps—and hence, never stops costing you money America’s set-top boxes suck down $3 billion worth of electricity, an environmental group said in a report yesterday The increasingly standard HD-DVRs are especially bad, consuming more than half the energy of an average new refrigerator—roughly two-thirds of which is used while you’re not even watching TV, according to USA Today
“The consumer, who pays the electric bill, has little choice about what television set-top box the service provider installs, and how much energy it uses,” complained a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council And better options do exist; in Europe, Sky Broadcasting is using a model that consumes very little energy when idle, much like a cell phone
Jun 12
High-resolution images discovered in the new Twitter framework of Apple’s iOS 5 beta have rekindled rumors that Apple is planning to double the resolution of the iPad to 2048 x 1536 pixels.
Images discovered by a person familiar with the beta release of iOS 5 have a resolution of 1536 x 2048 and have prompted further speculation that Apple will upgrade the display of the next-generation iPad, as first reported by TechUnwrapped.
According to the tipster, the Twitter.framework, which is new to iOS, is the only framework to contain these larger files. Read more…
Tags: Ipad, Rekindle Speculation
Jun 12
Pandora Media Inc. sold its initial public offering of stock at $16 per share late Tuesday, fetching twice as much as the popular but unprofitable Internet radio service expected less than two weeks ago.
The IPO’s completion means Pandora will make its stock market debut Wednesday morning with a market value of $2.6 billion. That’s a lofty number for a company that has lost $92 million since it started as a music recommendation site called TheSavageBeast.com 11 years ago.
Since then, it has morphed into a service that streams music over high-speed Internet connections to computers and a widening array of other devices.
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Jun 12
AMD has recently started regaining the swagger it had back in the early days of the Athlon 64, due in no small part to its Fusion APU offerings. The budget-minded chips and their integrated CPU and GPU muscle have helped AMD challenge Intel on traditional notebooks, thin-and-light models, and even a handful of tablets (like the Acer Iconia 500W).
Now AMD has gotten official with its latest generation of Fusion APUs, the A-Series. The new chips based on a 32nm process instead of the older 45nm offer increased power savings, USB 3.0 support, DirectX 11 compatibility, and full 1080P and 3D video support.
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Tags: Get, Get Official