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Mobile Social Network Wars: Loopt Acquires GraffitiGEO
Loopt, the New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia-backed mobile social network, has acquired a relative newcomer to the scene – Y Combinator startup GraffitiGEO. Multiple sources have confirmed the acquisition, although neither company is commenting. GraffitiGEO, which launched just a couple of months ago, combines mobile social networking with reviews and games. It’s somewhat similar to [...]
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2009): Bluetooth not available with Windows
Release date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:29:00 GMT More: continued here
Marvell expands range of ARM SoCs
Marvell has announced four processor families — Armada 100, Armada 500, Armada 600, and Armada 1000 — based on ARM cores. Touted as “a top to bottom solution for mobile computing and intelligent devices,” the SoCs offer single or dual cores with clock speeds from 400MHz to 1.2GHz, the company says. More: continued here
Fedora 12 Beta Screen Shots
We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 12, scheduled to be released in mid-November. What’s new? Optimized performance, smaller and faster updates, NetworkManager broadband and other enhancements, next-generation (Ogg) Theora [...]
Apple Cinema Display (30-inch DVI) has 1280 x 800 as the maximum available resolution.
Release date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:15:00 GMT More: continued here
NVIDIA Developer Talks Openly About Linux Support
In late August we started asking our readers for any questions they had for NVIDIA about Linux and this graphics company’s support of open-source operating systems. Twelve pages worth of questions were accumulated and we finally have the answers to a majority of them. NVIDIA’s Andy Ritger, who leads the user-space side of the NVIDIA [...]
In Fraud Case, a Deal That Lost Millions
One bad trade more than wiped out the profits that prosecutors claim Raj Rajaratnam and his accomplices reaped with their scheme. More: continued here
Mac Pro: Apple RAID Card Firmware Update 1.0 reports EFI Firmware Update is required
Release date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:33:00 GMT More: continued here
Click the mouse button to re-establish a connection to your Apple Wireless Mouse
Release date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:10:00 GMT More: continued here
EFI and SMC firmware updates for Intel-based Macs
Release date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:28:00 GMT More: continued here
CHUD 4.6.2
The Computer Hardware Understanding Developer Tools (CHUD Tools) are designed to help hardware and software developers measure and optimize the performance of Macintosh system. Login required. More: continued here
It’s Time for Obama to Come Out for FOSS
Some of the best software available is open source, but non-proprietary software has enemies as well as friends. Not surprisingly, then there’s been plenty of fog on Capitol Hill about free and open source software (FOSS) for a decade now. More: continued here