Microsoft’s on-again, off-again relationship with an Xbox 360 Blu-Ray drive looks set to be on again this Monday. As you all know by now, Monday marks the beginning of Apple’s annual WWDC, and a little bird told us something is going to be announced by Steve Jobs there during his keynote. Microsoft doesn’t care; a tipster told CrunchGear it’s going to “upstage” Jobs, Apple and the entire known tech-using world by announcing an Xbox 360 with Blu-Ray drive one hour before the beginning of the conference.
Wrote the tipster:
I‘ve got a close friend who works at Microsoft, previously with the HD-DVD division and now in the E&D division (Xbox, zune). I’m told MS will upstage Apple with a Monday 9am PDT announcement (1 hour before WWDC) via press release that the Xbox 360 will get Blu-Ray before Christmas. Price was “under the current Elite”, but i could get any more details.
Why am I picturing a sand castle right before high tide right now? [CrunchGear]
Chips these days are pretty much flat. And I’m not talking about tortilla chips. They call those silicon things wafers for a reason: all those little gates and channels are lying flat in a single layer. Chipmakers know that you can stack chips on top of each other and multiply your computing power due to […]
Chips these days are pretty much flat. And I’m not talking about tortilla chips. They call those silicon things wafers for a reason: all those little gates and channels are lying flat in a single layer. Chipmakers know that you can stack chips on top of each other and multiply your computing power due to the decreased distance the signal has to travel (I’m kind of at the edge of my knowledge here, someone correct me if I’m wrong), as well as the fact that you can fit more computing power into a given area. The problem is, all those electrons flying around end up generating heat, and if your chip is layered, there’s less space for the heat to escape to. Without a proper cooling solution, the stacked chips would melt from the inside out almost instantly.
Well, IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory is looking into ways to have their cake and cool it, too. They’ve cut tiny canals into the chips that, once the chips are stacked, water can flow through without risk of leaking into the paths of the gates and channels. Cool water goes in one side, sucks up the heat, and comes back out to be cooled by whatever they’ve got rigged up, a desk fan or something.
I don’t really see this getting into your laptop any time soon, but it’s cool to know.
Microsoft Watch has a good examination of the slow improvement in market share for Windows Mobile. They’re assessment? The interface is hampering sales. Duh! Symbian is, of course, the number one smartphone OS in the world simply because Nokia runs them exclusively and Nokia is doing pretty well (14 million Nokia phones shipped in Q1 2008 […]
Microsoft Watch has a good examination of the slow improvement in market share for Windows Mobile. They’re assessment? The interface is hampering sales. Duh!
Symbian is, of course, the number one smartphone OS in the world simply because Nokia runs them exclusively and Nokia is doing pretty well (14 million Nokia phones shipped in Q1 2008 with 18.4 million Symbian phones shipped) while RIM is a distant second (4.3 million). Windows is at 3.86 and the “everyone else” is in the 2 million range. Palm is at 657 thousand, a sad place to be for the gentle giant.
That Symbian, something absolutely divorced from Microsoft, can eat Microsoft’s lunch is a damning situation. Unless the new versions begin looking - and working - like Microsoft spent more than 40 man hours in in back in 1998, they’re in trouble.
Forbes spotted an interesting pile of unmarked brown boxes at Quanta Personal in Fremont, CA, the company that handles West Coast distribution of Apple’s gear (along with that of plenty of other companies’ stuff). But what’s so interesting is that the boxes right were spotted right beside iMac freight (those white boxes), and they look to be about the same size and shape. So what could be inside? Take a look at more shots to decide for yourself:
Funny side note: Forbes straight up labeled these pictures “iPhone” in the file names. And here’s a mega shot of our own. Those trucks have been busy. Seeing as the boxes are the same size and shape as iMacs, who knows if they’re iPhones—one of many rumors we went through earlier today. [Forbes and Alley Insider]
Sure, you’ve seen Zelda smack people around in Smash Brothers — but have you ever seen her pack a gat? Half-Life 2 modder FluxMage has managed to rig up a Zelda model and put it in place of the Alyx model used in game. Even if you don’t want to sit through all 7 minutes of […]
Sure, you’ve seen Zelda smack people around in Smash Brothers — but have you ever seen her pack a gat?
Half-Life 2 modder FluxMage has managed to rig up a Zelda model and put it in place of the Alyx model used in game. Even if you don’t want to sit through all 7 minutes of the video, check out the first minute or so: seeing Zelda slip a pistol into her dress and use a gravity gun to toss around a door might just make your brain explode.
To experience this cross-game paradox first hand, download the mod here.
Brazilian design firm Triptyque has designed an apartment-wide storage solution/book shelf that looks kind of like what everyone thought the future would be in 1965. Custom-made for a private apartment in Sao Paolo, the shelf winds its way through the entire area, pulling double duty as an entertainment rack and a cubbyhole storage system. Add this on the list of things I’ll be adding to my bachelorette shag pad once I become a multimillionaire. Check out the layout.
Microsoft’s on-again, off-again relationship with an Xbox 360 Blu-Ray drive looks set to be on again this Monday. As you all know by now, Monday marks the beginning of Apple’s annual WWDC, and a little bird told us something is going to be announced by Steve Jobs there during his keynote. Microsoft doesn’t care; a tipster told CrunchGear it’s going to “upstage” Jobs, Apple and the entire known tech-using world by announcing an Xbox 360 with Blu-Ray drive one hour before the beginning of the conference.
Well, IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory is 
Forbes spotted an interesting pile of unmarked brown boxes at Quanta Personal in Fremont, CA, the company that handles West Coast distribution of Apple’s gear (along with that of plenty of other companies’ stuff). But what’s so interesting is that the boxes right were spotted right beside iMac freight (those white boxes), and they look to be about the same size and shape. So what could be inside? Take a look at more shots to decide for yourself:
Funny side note: Forbes straight up labeled these pictures “iPhone” in the file names.
And here’s a mega shot of our own. Those trucks have been busy. Seeing as the boxes are the same size and shape as iMacs, who knows if they’re 
Brazilian design firm Triptyque has designed an apartment-wide storage solution/book shelf that looks kind of like what everyone thought the future would be in 1965. Custom-made for a private apartment in Sao Paolo, the shelf winds its way through the entire area, pulling double duty as an entertainment rack and a cubbyhole storage system. Add this on the list of things I’ll be adding to my bachelorette shag pad once I become a multimillionaire. Check out the layout.
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