Stories by Jon Gold

ARM flexes mobile GPU muscle with announcement of new Mali line

Mobile processor maker ARM announced the second generation of its T-600 "Mali" line of mobile graphics processors on Monday, saying that new texture compression techniques will allow the new systems to provide substantial improvements in energy efficiency and performance.

Written by Jon Gold06 Aug. 12 21:31

Android news and rumour roundup for week ending August 3

Let's face it - a lot of the technology that smartphone and tablet makers use in their devices is pretty similar. After all, there's only so many ways to shoehorn all the hardware necessary to run a very small computer into the available space, even with the incredibly impressive degree of miniaturization we've achieved. Think about it - the Samsung Galaxy SIII has a 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, a gigabyte of RAM, and up to 64GB of internal storage. It wasn't really all that long ago that those were respectable stats for a desktop PC. Now it fits in your pocket.

Written by Jon Gold02 Aug. 12 19:40

OpenBSD founder calls Red Hat and Canonical 'traitors' to open source

Theo de Raadt, the founder of the OpenBSD project and a well-known figure in the open-source community, attacked commercial Linux vendors Red Hat and Canonical in an interview with ITWire for their plans to work with Microsoft's secure boot system.

Written by Jon Gold26 July 12 21:31

Riverbed, Juniper enter technology-sharing partnership

A new technology partnership between Riverbed and Juniper will see the latter license Riverbed's application delivery controller for use in its enterprise networking gear -- for a $75 million fee.

Written by Jon Gold25 July 12 20:21

See real-time subtitles through Google Glass-like apparatus

For most of us, subtitles are what we use to understand what's going on in Kung Fu movies and Aaron Sorkin shows -- but a new invention from developer Will Powell is bringing them to new venues.

Written by Jon Gold24 July 12 16:25

Dell announces big storage for Big Data

Dell's announcement of a new Big Data Storage Data Retention product highlights anew the company's ongoing transition from consumer hardware manufacturer to business service provider.

Written by Jon Gold23 July 12 16:30

Oracle's wooing of CentOS users called FUD

Oracle's recent launch of a campaign to convert users of CentOS -- a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that uses community support, rather than an paid option -- is being met with skepticism by some members of the business Linux community.

Written by Jon Gold20 July 12 17:30

Android news and rumour round-up (week ending July 20)

While the Google Android's rumor mill doesn't churn quite as hard as that of some other device families, there's still plenty of dessert-flavored mobility news (and potential news) out there.

Written by Jon Gold19 July 12 19:25

Android Jelly Bean SDK released to public

Google's Android development team announced Wednesday evening that the full software development kit for Android 4.1 (a.k.a. Jelly Bean) is now available to the general public, and provided some tips and tricks for working with the new software, to boot.

Written by Jon Gold19 July 12 15:21
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