http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/ http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/ http://www.buzzbox.com/images/buzzbox-logo-gray.png BuzzBox - The News You Want. How You Want It. This is buzzbox *default* created by user *tech*. Get your personalized and filtered RSS from www.buzzbox.com: you can follow your favorite sources and get aggregated stories from those sources as an RSS feed. en Copyright 2010, BuzzBox, Inc.
TechCrunch: With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform systems for graphics, audio, and parallel processing . You may remember OpenCL from its debut on the Mac in Snow Leopard, and OpenGL ES of course powers the UI on the iPad . OpenAL is still a ways from being brought unde... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/OpenGL:Khronos_Group/ Google_Reader:Play%401268260498127
Electronista: The rugged Casio G'zOne Brigade handset introduced by Verizon last fall is now on sale at the carrier. The water-, dust- and shock-resistant phone meets the MIL-STD-810F standard for toughness. The device flips open horizontally to reveal a full QWERTY hardware keyboard and a large 2.9-inch screen with a 480x270 resolution.... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Casio:Brigade/ Casio:Brigade%401268337735772
ReadWriteWeb: Most hosted blogging platforms offer their customers a set of standard templates with relatively few options for customizing these sites. Starting today , however, bloggers on Google's Blogger platform will be able to take full control over the layout of their sites thanks to Google's new Blogger Template Designer without having to edit a single line of HTML and CSS code. The Template Designer will give Blogger's users the ability to change the layout, fonts, colors and background images of their blogs through a... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Blogger:Template/ Blogger:Template%401268331779924 Ars Technica: One complaint commonly leveled against the iPhone is that it can't run multiple apps at the same time. However, sources for AppleInsider say that Apple is finally planning to incorporate a task manager that will integrate with the established iPhone user interface in the next major revision of iPhone OS, expected to be available this summer. Like Mac OS X on which it is based, iPhone OS is fully capable of running multiple processes at once. In fact, it does run multiple processes—iPod, Mail, voicemail and... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/iPhone_OS:Computer_multitasking/ iPad:iPhone%401268265362862
TechCrunch: Betaworks, the New York City-based holding company investing in the realtime Web, just raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY, Lerer Investments and Founders Collective, also participated, along with investors from the last round, which was $7.5 million The company both invests and incubates realtime media startups, including Summize (acquired by Twitter for realtime search), bit.ly, TweetDec... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Betaworks:Intel/ Betaworks:Intel%401268331779730
Electronista: Virgin Media today outlined plans to test one of the fastest rural Internet services available. The trial, in the UK village of Woolhampton, would use existing telegraph poles to link the area directly to Virgin's fiber optic network. It would give the residents the same 50Mbps access as those in larger towns without having to bury lines or relying on the existing, DSL-only BT network.... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Virgin_Media_Plc:Broadband/ Poles:Virgin_Media_Plc%401268307505315 Ars Technica: Individual Pink Floyd songs will soon disappear from online music stores. The British High Court has ruled against EMI, the band's record label, saying that the band's contract requires EMI to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums." In this case, that means keeping all the tracks together and in the order they were meant to be in, leading some to worry whether Pink Floyd's music will disappear from popular online music stores altogether. When Pink Floyd signed with EMI back in the late '60s, i... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Pink_Floyd:EMI/ EMI:Pink_Floyd%401268316537054
The Next Web: As relations between Google and the China become even more strained, Microsoft have reached a deal with Motorola that will see Bing search and mapping tools featured on phones that run the Android mobile operating system. Motorola are set to launch a new range of Android powered handsets aimed at reversing their fortunes in China and will seek to reduce their reliance on Google by offering handset owners search alternatives. With this in mind, Motorola have also announced a similar deal where they will let Chine... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Android:Opera_Mini/ Megapixel:Cam%401268270926147 CNET News: Worth $53.5 billion, Mexican mobile tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes, putting Bill Gates in second place with only $53 billion. go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Carlos_Slim_Hel%C3%BA:Bill_Gates/ Carlos_Slim_Hel%C3%BA:Bill_Gates%401268265377055
The Next Web: Opera Software , creators of one of the most popular desktop and mobile browsers has today released it’s newest beta of it’s mobile browsing software; Opera Mini 5 on the Android operating system. The company already boasts more than 50 million browser users worldwide on the Blackberry, Windows Mobile and most Java-enabled phones. Opera Mini  enables a faster browsing experience by passing data through proxy servers, compressing data by up to 90% before it is rendered by the phone. Opera Mini sh... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Opera_Software:Android/ Megapixel:Cam%401268270926147
Electronista: Intel is currently previewing its upcoming Core i7 980X Extreme Edition CPU this week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. The company is demonstrating several applications optimized for the new platform, including Sega's Napoleon Total War, Ubisoft's RUSE, Geomerics' Enlighten, and Cakewalk's Sonar.... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Intel_Core_i7:Mac_Pro/ Intel_Core_i7:Mac_Pro%401268343796224
GigaOM: Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced) by Facebook to search through its inbox. While Facebook has since backed off Cassandra, Digg plans to open source all its work on Cassandra and champion the software’s development and adoption. In a blog post on the Digg blog, John Quinn, Digg’s VP ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Digg:Cassandra/ Cassandra:Digg%401268295424207
Engadget: Sony dropped a lot of knowledge on us yesterday, at long last replacing rampant speculation with some cold hard facts -- and even a name! -- for its new PlayStation motion controller. The PlayStation Move is being described as a "platform" and a "virtual console launch" by folks at Sony, and we think they mean it, so prepare for a motion-controlled ad war later this year, as Microsoft and Sony set themselves up for a real three-way fight with Nintendo for your physical living room activity of... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/PlayStation:SONY/ SONY:Move%401268313523457
Electronista: Chipmaker AMD will soon release a Fusion-branded CPU for netbooks meant to compete with Intel's Atom range of CPUs. The Fusion name stems from the integrated graphics processors from ATI, which AMD acquired in 2006. While specs for the chip haven't yet been finalized, it will consume between 10 and 15 watts of power, while its graphics performance will be good enough not to require a separate NVIDIA Ion GPU, according to AMD chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau.... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/AMD:Intel/ AMD:Netbook%401268301737188
TechCrunch: Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander -style. So they approached me with a pretty smart pitch: curing the “social rut.” What they mean by that is these days, despite the prevalence of social networks, people are actually less social than ever because they’re being roped into playing games like Farmville and Mafia Wars for hours on end. Sitting in their rooms. Alone. While that may... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Foursquare:Farmville/ Foursquare:Farmville%401268343802826
ReadWriteWeb: Think the semantic web is all hype with no bite? Paul Allen backed semantic startup Evri will announce tomorrow that it has been acquired, we've learned from a reliable source. The service specializes in extracting the names of people, places and things from raw streams of text in order to facilitate smart user navigation and related content recommendation. The company launched a striking new version of its website earlier today. Evri launched just short of two years ago and raised $8 million from Vulcan, the fu... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Evri:Paul_Allen/ Evri:Radar_Networks%401268331779749
GigaOM: Verizon Wireless will bring its first 4G handsets to market by the middle of 2011, CTO Anthony Melone said in a Wall Street Journal piece (hat tip Engadget ). But using those super-fast Long Term Evolution phones is going to cost you. We learned last year that Verizon would launch its first LTE phones sometime in 2011, but the new ETA is several months earlier than the company had previously forecast. The phones will support promised speeds of 5-12 Mbps on download and 2-5 Mbps on uploads on the LTE network, whi... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Verizon_Communications:4G/ NFL:Verizon_Communications%401268260483443
Electronista: At the Game Developer's Conference, Dolby said it will make its Axon 3D voice chat technology available for gamers on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Mac platforms. Thus far, only PC users could benefit from the technology, and the software development kit (SDK) will be made available to game developers in April. It is currently undergoing beta testing with several unnamed software companies.... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Dolby_Laboratories:Virtual_Console/ Final_Fantasy_XIII:Guess%401268310507206 TechCrunch: Consumer Reports has a new report on which computer company has the best tech support. Apple wins! That's what happens when the same company controls the hardware as well as the operating system (and several of the most prominent pieces of software). The highest ranking PC manufacturer is Dell for desktops and Lenovo for laptops. go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/Apple:Consumer_Reports/ TECH:Apple%401268313523845
Electronista: The FCC in a filing published Thursday has revealed a number of longstanding mysteries about the JooJoo tablet. Despite Fusion Garage being reluctant to explain the hardware in detail before launch, its pre-release manual shows the device using an NVIDIA Ion chipset. The faster graphics are key to its ability to play 1080p video and will give it hardware-accelerated Flash 10.1 when ready.... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/tech/default/2010-03-11/FCC:Adobe_Flash/ Thursday:FCC%401268340761040