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- Intel Claims Over 20 Atom Based Tablets & 140 Ultrabooks Are Being Designed By OEM’s Right Now
- NoSQL Rebels Aim Missile at Larry Ellison’s Yacht
- With Mayer at Helm, Will Geeks Give Yahoo a Second Glance?
- Carbon, Bacteria, and Fish Balls: The Machines of the Future
- RIM Wants Your Friends to Know When You’re Rage Texting
- Black Gold Online (CN) - Non-target action combat
- Report: Universal Stylus in the Works at Microsoft
- Dragon Saga (KR) - Ragnarok Online invades !
| Intel Claims Over 20 Atom Based Tablets & 140 Ultrabooks Are Being Designed By OEM’s Right Now Posted: 22 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT
The admission came during their quarterly investor call, where Intel CEO Paul Otellini had to explain why they only made $2.8 billion in profits on sales off $13.5 billion in revenue. On a side note, Paul Otellini has the easiest job in the world (yes I'm exaggerating). The 140 ultrabook designs in the queue include 40 "touch-enabled" models, and a dozen convertible machines that promise the blur the distinction between laptop and tablet. The 140 ultrabook design number is also up sharply over this time last year, when only 110 competing designs were being brought forward. Otellini also addressed the price issue with regards to Ultrabooks, and claimed the industry appears on track to sell $699 versions by the fall. Of course we are summarizing a bit, so here is the full quote should you wish to dissect it line by line yourselves. "Ultrabooks continue to build momentum, and achieved our volume goals in the first half. We are very pleased with the level of innovation and invention being brought into this category, and are now tracking over 140 Ivy Bridge-based designs in the pipeline. Of those, more than 40 will be touch-enabled, and a dozen will be convertibles. With visibility into this many designs, we are confident that we'll see $699 systems at retail this fall. We are also tracking more than 20 Windows 8 tablet designs based on our low-power and low-cost Clover Trail Atom SOC, in addition to a number of Core-based tablets."  |
| NoSQL Rebels Aim Missile at Larry Ellison’s Yacht Posted: 21 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT In Silicon Valley and beyond, a new kind of database is rising. Dubbed "NoSQL" by its proponents, it sprang out of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other web giants, who used it to run their massive online operations, but now it's moving into the rest the world, backed by a growing number of startups. And this means trouble for Larry Ellison and Oracle.  |
| With Mayer at Helm, Will Geeks Give Yahoo a Second Glance? Posted: 21 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT The surprise announcement this week that Yahoo had tapped Google geekstar Marissa Mayer as its new CEO got a lot of people talking about the troubled web portal. But would any of them actually want to work there?  |
| Carbon, Bacteria, and Fish Balls: The Machines of the Future Posted: 21 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT Today, microprocessors are built with silicon. But tomorrow, they'll be built with something else. This past week, with a paper published in the academic journal Nature Communications, researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and the Swedish research institute Acreo AB revealed a new means of building chips using graphene -- a substance long hailed as the future of micro-electronics -- and their work takes the material that much closer to fulfilling its potential.  |
| RIM Wants Your Friends to Know When You’re Rage Texting Posted: 21 Jul 2012 11:02 PM PDT A just-surfaced patent application from Research in Motion (RIM) details a smartphone feature that determines a sender's emotional state while texting. It all keys into accelerometers, cameras and galvanic skin-response sensors.  |
| Black Gold Online (CN) - Non-target action combat Posted: 21 Jul 2012 11:01 PM PDT  [More info] I actually have tons of information for this upcoming steampunk MMORPG, Black Gold Online, so I thought I should post them before ChinaJoy 2012 begins. If you have not read my previous articles, Black Gold Online is a co-effort by Age of Wulin's developer Snail Game Suzhou and Russian developer Mental Games. A few weeks back, it was confirmed officially that the game will feature non-target action combat rather than the traditional tab-target system.  According to the official release in China, this is to eliminate the "boring" standing combat which many other games are using. With real action combat, it will truly require players' judgement and control of their characters to defeat their enemies in both PvE and PvP. The game's AI boss monsters will not just stand and be players' target board as well, with them able to counter attacks with moves such as dodging and active blocking.   To further provide an improved experience during combat, the developers came up with around 2,000 different skill effects and character expressions. Players will be also able to self-customize skills and form different skill combinations for different occasions, although this feature has yet to be explained in detail. Did I mention that aerial and naval combat was also teased?    |
| Report: Universal Stylus in the Works at Microsoft Posted: 21 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT
The stylus, reportedly being developed by researchers at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, is said to leverage a built-in camera for keeping track of its position and angle as it moves across the display. This is accomplished through the camera counting the number of pixels as they move past it to zero in on the stylus' exact position, and thereby effectively turning the grid of pixels into a navigational guide. According to the report, the angle is calculated based on which pixels are in and out of focus. Such a stylus, if it ever sees the light of day, will in all likelihood be aimed at people with non-touchscreen Windows 8 devices, as it's something that could help them better appreciate the upcoming operating system's touch-friendly Metro UI. Image Credit: LatestMobileReviews  |
| Dragon Saga (KR) - Ragnarok Online invades ! Posted: 21 Jul 2012 05:01 AM PDT  Once known as Dragonica Online in some parts of the world, Dragon Saga's Korean developer, Barunson Interactive, was bought over by Gravity Games early last year (link). Except the New Origin update (link), there wasn't any big content patch until now. On 25th July, Dragon Saga will be infused with several Ragnarok Online elements, from the NPCs (Kafra guide), monsters (including MVPs), equipments to towns (Prontera!), maps, dungeons, pets, mounts (Peco Peco!) and more. Yes, Dragon Saga is looking more like what Ragnarok Online II should have been, if only there is a much bigger open world... There is no date set yet for this content release on the English server.     |
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