Project Denver is Nvidia’s new high performance ARM based core. Their first CPU. Taking the arm platform beyond it’s mobile heartland into desktop and supercomputing this could be a real game changer. Just announced at CES.
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Project Denver is Nvidia’s new high performance ARM based core. Their first CPU. Taking the arm platform beyond it’s mobile heartland into desktop and supercomputing this could be a real game changer. Just announced at CES.
Full Story »A few weeks ago we were all speculating what the main focus of CES would be. Maybe like last year it would be 3D or perhaps tablets. Now there have already been plenty of tablet announcements but so far these have not been really significantly innovative (except perhaps for Asus’s slider.) The interesting thing is [...]
Full Story »I’ve mentioned a few times on the show in the last few weeks that I have been using a Maplin’s RF keyboard to control my Media Centre. Up until recently I had been really pleased with it. It was small, responsive and, despite having Sinclair Spectrum style rubber keys, easy to type on. Unfortunately in [...]
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Thanks to the UK distributor DigitalEra I have been able to test a Show WX projector over the past few weeks. This is different to most pico projectors in that instead of using LEDs for illumination it uses laser technology to do the projection. As well as being slightly brighter than most equivalently sized projectors [...]
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With DVBLogic giving me an early present with their new hidef* iPad streaming, I started wondering what other tech would make your day. I can guess for many WHS users Microsoft reinstating Drive Extender would by high on the list or perhaps Media Center users in the UK would like go see NetFlix launch over [...]
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I think this is a sign of things to come with traditional paper books being morphed into rich media filled experiences on things like the iPad. It will also I think allow publishers to justify a slightly higher price for their eBooks. From the press release: Experience Narnia as never before with a ground‐breaking, [...]
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Thanks to the good people at Buffalo I have been looking at a couple of their products over the past few weeks. The first of these the HD-WLSU2 : DriveStation™ Duo is the latest incarnation in a range of external storage devices that Buffalo have provided over several years. As the name suggests this [...]
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I almost missed this. ArcSoft have released a new version of their excellent Blu-Ray (and HD-DVD) play back software. I thoroughly recommend heading over to the MissingRemote to read their excellent first-look review. http://www.missingremote.com/review/arcsoft-total-media-theatre-5 It looks like ArcSoft have made some pretty good improvements to the in Media Center environment including a new zoom feature [...]
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Since I got an iPad I have been fighting in the cross border wars between the Microsoft Media infrastructure and Apple’s. One of the big issues as I have mentioned before is the lack of a ‘Standard’ DLNA renderer for iOS that actually works with Windows Media sources. One of the best so far has [...]
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I’ve recently been porting the Alb The Bear Interactive Children Stories (www.albthebear.com) from iPhone to Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and thought I would comment on some of the experience and how I think the developer story bodes very well for the platform Development If you have done any .net development for Windows, particularly if [...]
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