Tag Archive for 'software'
Portable gaming confusion abounds, as an unnamed Nintendo developer claims that an upcoming game from their stable has been refused release due to “being incompatible with the DSi hardware”. The DSi, Nintendo’s latest evolution of their handheld system, is supposed to be backward-compatible with all DS games (excluding those which require the GBA slot, as [...]
With Windows 7 officially outed, the screenshots, video and first-impressions have been coming thick and fast. Whether you’re a media junkie, a tableteer or just wondering what your work desktop might look like after the next upgrade cycle, we’ve been gathering up all the details you need.
Lenovo have partnered with DeviceVM to put the SplashTop instant-on OS onto a new version of the company’s netbook. The IdeaPad S10e will offer the same 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU as other S10 netbooks from Lenovo, but it will boot within seconds into the “Lenovo QuickStart” OS with access to the internet and media.
Sonos have released their first official app for the iPhone and iPod touch, which adds controller functionality to the touchscreen devices and allows them to manage the company’s networked audio players. The software, which is a free download through the AppStore, brings not only the full functionality from the official Sonos controller but adds touch-control [...]
After teasing with the news that they would be announcing a cloud OS back at the beginning of October, Microsoft have just announced Windows Azure, an online services platform intended for developers to create cross-platform inter-operable software. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the [...]
After Nintendo’s recent Wii update blocked the Homebrew Channel mod, the team behind the unofficial tweaking tool set to work reintroducing their features. The result is Homebrew Channel beta9, which not only works with the official update but enables a few features Nintendo themselves haven’t unlocked. The most popular is likely to be support for [...]
One of the big questions from many iPhone users and developers on the run-up to the T-Mobile G1 was whether, now that Google had their own mobile platform in the shape of Android, would they be quite so keen to code neat apps for other devices. A case in point was Google Maps Street View, [...]
Google have released the source code for the Android mobile platform, enabling any interested developer, OEM or bedroom tinkerer to not only try the Android OS but to adapt and improve it. Until now, the Android SDK has been available only to select developers and testers, but as the first handset to use the platform, [...]
Steve Ballmer would like you to know that, if you’d rather not bother with Windows Vista and instead just kick back until the Microsoft’s next-gen OS Windows 7, that’s okay with him. I mean, he’d prefer you to upgrade now - in fact, if he was you then he’d definitely be installing Vista, probably right [...]
Heavy users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 will know that the only thing worse than a hangover for slowing the design process is a computer unable to keep up. CS4 feasts on processor cycles like supermodels crave bacon; thankfully here’s NVIDIA to the rescue with their Quadro CX, a PCI-E card dedicated to giving the [...]
