Archive : Tech

Nvidia’s GTX 480 which  comes from the much delayed Ge Force 400 Series is the highest-end model from the GTX 400 series and comes with 480 CUDA cores, a 700 MHz core clock speed, 1401 MHz shader clock and 1.5 GB of GDDR5 memory. The company’s SuperClocked cards, available in both GTX 480 and GTX 470 flavours, retain NVIDIA’s reference cooler but raise clock speeds across [...]

Gowalla, the location mobile based  web application that allows users to check-in to locations that they visit using their mobile device is now available on iPad.  This  may be one big selling point of the Gowalla app on the iPad over rival Foursquare, who are yet to launch their own iPad app,  the fact that they are both games where you collect items or badges, a natural rivalry  developed [...]

Blackberries, iPhones and others make way – Nexus One is here (finally!). Google’s  super phone  –  Nexus One is finally made available  in the UK through Vodafone, as long as customers decide to tie themselves down to a contract for the next couple of years with Vodafone. It is on sale from today. This makes Vodafone UK the first European mobile operator to release [...]

Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe has responded to Steve Jobs‘ article which ironically claimed that Adobe do not develop open platforms. Narayen spends most of the interview plugging Creative Suite 5, but he does address a few of the points raised by Jobs’ and claims this has “nothing to do with technology”. This is in an interview with The [...]

Steve Jobs has released a statement clarifying his opinion on Adobe’s Flash platform and it’s place on the web / mobile: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around [...]

Hosted in San Fran, this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be hosted on June 7 – 11. It was reported earlier in the month that Apple had reserved June 22 at YBCA, it was rumoured that this may be the date for WWDC, but industry analysts insist this date was too late in the month. Apple tend to host WWDC in early June. That leaves the iPhone announcement. Could Apple [...]

Image via CrunchBase Facebook unveiled its  grand plan to make the the rest of the web social at its F8 developer’s conference in San Francisco held yesterday. Facebook’s Director of Product, Bret Taylor laid out three major initiatives to that effect. Open Graph Protocol, Social Plugins, and changes to the Facebook API that will enable developers to use these services (Graph [...]

Image via CrunchBase Running Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone, what many geeks have been dreaming for over a year is a reality now thanks to David Wang, better known as “planetbeing” , who is  a member of the a group called the  iPhone Dev Team, Planetbeing sent a Twitter update and uploaded a video Android running on iPhone ( click on the link for the video) [...]

Earlier this week the next generation iPhone found its way into the hands of Gizmodo , who lovingly took some photos, made a short video and wrote even more about it. I’m still trying to figure out why none of these pictures show the thing turned on, but hey ho I guess it doesn’t really matter at least for now. The bloggersphere has been alight with gossip on the next big release from [...]

On the corner of Berwick Street today, in the old Tiscali HQ, TalkTalk opened their swanky  new office space. They’ve setup several floors of high-tech goodness. The ground floor is a walk-in PC zone. Think Apple Store, but instead of iMacs they have rows of desktop PCs with large monitors running Windows 7. This floor is for the general public – to play around on the web (you can only [...]