Tech News Today 501
Episode 501 |
Recorded: May 15, 2012 Published: May 15, 2012 Duration: 35:31 |
Contents
Tech News Today 501: Shake That Bluetooth
Lenovo ditches the ThinkPad keyboard, AMD launches Trinity, Nvidia might eliminate the need for game consoles, and more.
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Hosts
- Tom Merritt (@acedtect)
- Sarah Lane (@SarahLane)
- Iyaz Akhtar (@Iyaz)
- Chad Johnson (@omgchad)
- Christopher Null (@christophernull)
Top Stories
- Lenovo announces 2012 ThinkPad lineup, including Ivy Bridge and revamped keyboards
- Lenovo intros new Ivy Bridge ThinkPads, including X1 Carbon ultrabook
- General Specs: Ivy Bridge, USB 3.0 and what's likely to get people's attention: new keyboards. The venerable ThinkPad keyboard now is a chicklet style, but Nate Ralph at The Verge says the keyboard "doesn't disappoint."
- Lenovo's RapidBoot and Bootshield bring boot times to under 30 seconds (Lenovo says that boot times are 40% faster than typical Win7 machines)
- RapidCharge: bring battery up to 80% charged in as little as 30 mins.
- Some come with 4G
- ThinkPad X, T, W and L series. IdeaPads
- Standouts: The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
- 14-inch ultra book. 3 pounds, claim is world's lightest, 1600 x 900 res, carbon fiber roll cage, 3G broadband optional. Price not given, available in summer
- ThinkPad X230t convertible tablet
- 12-inch ultraportable, LTE
- ThinkPad 430s brings Thunderbolt (approx $1400)
- Facebook’s new IPO range: $34 to $38 per share
- Facebook IPO: Instagram Closing No Longer Expected in 2Q
- Facebook approved to trade on Nasdaq days ahead of rumored Friday IPO
- Facebook is a fad, say half of people polled
- Facebook “Acqhires” Mobile Photo Sharing Company Lightbox
- GM plans to stop advertising on Facebook
- Facebook filed a new paperwork amendment for its IPO:
- share price range now to as much as $34-$38/share. original $29-$34, back to $100B valuation, FB expected to price its stock Thursday afternoon
- updated language on FB Instagram acquisition, deal is expected to close in 2012, previous docs said deal would close in Q2 of 2012. As we mentioned previously, FTC had launched a probe into sale, not uncommon for big sales. last week Reuters reported FTC has contacted Google and Twitter in connection with initial review of the merger.
- analysts weighing in, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia has a “buy” rating on Facebook, with a target price of $46. (noted mobile growth & chinese market as key areas, could triple rev growth in 5 years
- Zuck might not ring bell when stock goes public on trading floor
- Half of the 1K people polled by the Associated Press and CNBC called Facebook a passing fad. 51% have a favorable impression of the company, while 23% unfavorable. Half polled believe the initial asking price is too high, while just a third feel the value is appropriate. BUT those results are based on Facebook's original asking price.
- Facebook has agreed to pay Instagram $200 million in cash if regulators block the deal
- Facebook “acqhired” the full team from mobile photo-sharing service Lightbox on Tuesday, snapping up engineering talent before the IPO. All 7 members of the London-based Lightbox will join the company, but Facebook won’t acquire user data previously held by the service. hiring for talent
- Users will have until June 15 to download their information from Lightbox, after which the company will shut down the service. After that, Lightbox says, the company will be open-sourcing some of its code for Lightbox, and posting it to Github for all to use and see.
- also bought Glancee last week, passive location
- ATD notes Lightbox was predominantly focused not just on mobile, but on coding for the Android platform.
- Facebook filed a new paperwork amendment for its IPO:
Discussion Stories
- Full Samsung Galaxy S III manual available for download
- Samsung update list
- Samsung Galaxy S III Manual
- Samsung fills out Android 4.0 ICS upgrade list with T-Mobile devices
- Samsung Galaxy S III gets permission to enter US, still only with HSPA+
- Samsung also updated it's list of phones slated for ICS updates: T-Mobile's version of the Galaxy S II, the Galaxy S Blaze 4G, as well as the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Still no dates though.
- Samsung made the manual for SGSIII available for download (186 pages) - Launches Europe May 29
- HSPA+ SGSIII hits the FCC for approval - 2100 mAh battery Globally available May 29
- AMD launches second-generation APU processor series
- AMD launches Trinity processors: the Ivy Bridge alternative
- AMD unveils Trinity chipsets to challenge Ivy Bridge
- AMD A10-4600M Review: Mobile Trinity Gets Tested
- AMD launching second generation A-sereies APUs (code named Trinity - Ivy Bridge competitor)
- 28% CPU and a 56% GPU performance increase over Llano.. 12 hour battery life --
- dual-core 17-watt and quad-core 25-watt, still 32 nm, Piledriver microarchitecture
- Discrete-GPU VLIW4 based on Radeon HD 7000 (supports DirectX 11)
- Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba all have laptops coming
- Pushing that Trinity can handle 30 fps and si optimized for gaming and video
- Mainstream (35W)
- 2.3GHz A10-4600M, HD 7660G
- 1.9GHz A8-4500M, HD 7640G
- 2.7GHz A6-4400M, HD 7520G
- Low-voltage (25W)
- 2.0GHz A10-4655M, HD 7620G
- Ultralow voltage (17W)
- 2.1GHz A6-4455M, HD 7500G
- Nvidia announces Tesla K10 and K20 GPUs
- Nvidia announces the Nvidia VGX, the world's first GPU developed for cloud computing
- Nvidia announces GeForce Grid: cloud gaming on a distributed GPU, with games by Gaikai
- Nvidia poised to change gaming with cloud graphics chips
- 2012 GPU Technology conference in San Jose
- Nvidia announced two new Kepler based processing units for high-performance computing part of CUDA 5 platform
- Tesla K10 based on GK104 (found in GTX 680 and 690) available immediately
- Tesla K20 based on new GK110 core available Q4
- For pros who want max performance and smart resource allocation with good energy efficiency
- World's first GPU for cloud computing- Nvidia VGX - implement in data center, employees can access virtual machine from any device - can serve up to 100 users
- Demo showed iPad with Citrix Receiver connected to VGX running 3D simulation,and Windows Autodesk-- then MacBook Air accessing ILM render farm to make real-time changes to The Avengers and Battleship scenes
- Planning to bring it to gamers as well
- Each VGX board itself contains four GPUs, each with 192 CUDA cores and 4GB of frame buffer — it also has 16GB of onboard memory and uses the standard PCI Express interface.
- Nvidia's partnered with Gaikai, and claims that the GeForce Grid GPU has reduced latency of streaming games to just ten milliseconds by capturing and encoding game frames rapidly, and in a single pass, and promises that the enhanced Gaikai service will be available on TVs, tablets and smartphones running Android and iOS.
- Showed an unreleased game called "Hawken" that pairs Asus Transformer Prime playing against LG Cinema TV.
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"Howdy TNT,
Your show is the only one I hear about the Apple/Proview ipad name lawsuit. I've actually got a working 15" Proview Ipad LCD monitor. As the case is coming close to a settlement seems like a good time to put together some image/joke for feedback on your show.
but . . . having trouble figuring out the best short way to make this funny.
- static image of the ipad home screen on the monitor? - video of me trying to touch the icons from that image? (not a touch monitor) - video of someone actually touching/using an ipad menu on this monitor - craigslist add for 15" ipad (this could be good)
Thoughts? Interested in building a gag here?
Jeff Spencer"
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