Current BlackBerry Users Will Not Receive BlackBerry OS 10 Update

Today, RIM confirmed that current BlackBerry owners will not receive the much anticipated Blackberry OS 10 update. The only way to get it will be to purchase a new Blackberry handset.

Considering the new features of this firmware, and the types of phones for which it is built, this news will come as no surprise to those who have kept up with the new OS. Yesterday, RIM previewed Blackberry 10 at Blackberry World 2012, releasing an "Alpha Dev" phone to developers. The new phone is stylized after popular smartphones, featuring a full touch screen with no physical keyboard.

With these radical new modifications, the software would be infeasible on the smaller and much differently built BlackBerry devices of the past. Although this consequence was probably inevitable, it is bound to disappoint fans who already own BlackBerry devices.

RIMs choice to upgrade BlackBerry software to a more modern and marketable form has been compared to Microsofts migration from the enterprise oriented Windows Mobile, to the more mainstream Windows Phone. This change, while not a disaster, could be thought of as a small failure. iOS and Android dominate the market, with Windows phone lagging far behind.

What remains to be seen is how these changes will end up affecting RIM’s position. If some BlackBerry fans are excited about these new changes, there are certain to be others who will not be. However, considering where RIM is right now, new customers are probably the real goal.

While business users may stick with BlackBerry for the various infrastructures it offers, how lay users will respond is unknown. Will the new design and overhauled OS be enough to pull them over, or will it just bore a market with too many superior devices to care? Only time will tell.

Source:SlashGear

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Eleven Years of Goog11e

On Sunday September 27 2009, Google, the number 1 search engine in theworld, celebrated its 11th birthday with a new logo, featuring an extra“l” to the name Google (anyone saw it?).PCWorld has an article discussing the search and advertising giant’s eleven year history.For most users out there, Lycos, eXcite and Yahoo was probably thesearch engine of choice before Google made its debut in 1998. Googlehas certainly come a long way (thanks to 2 men, Larry Page and SergeyBrin) since its inception as a Stanford University research project in1998, to the global, multi-billion dollar company it today is. Google’sa classic “rags to riches” fairytale if you ask me.

A brief look at Google’s 11 years:

Early Days: 1998
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropped the original BackRubmoniker in favor of Google, a play on the mathematical term "googol"Google.com domain registered and with a healthy $100,000 investmentfrom Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, the two Stanford students rentedout a $1,700 a month garage space in California's Menlo Park Growth & Expansion: 2000
Google reached a milestone of one billion pages indexed, and alsoexpanded to support over fifteen languages including Chinese, French,German, Japanese and moreYahoo! revealed that they will be using Google as their default search provider The Written Word: 2003
Google acquired Pyra Labs, creators of the Blogger service, whichallowed the masses to publish their thoughts online with ease Google Print was launched: Now known as Google Book Search, the serviceallows users to view excerpts from thousands of books in digital form Email, Google Style: 2004
Google introduces Gmail Google moved to its Mountain View, California "Googleplex" headquarters, where the company still resides today Mapping The World: 2005
Google released Google Maps and subsequently Google EarthRelease of the iGoogle customizable home page, Google Reader RSS feed manager and Google AnalyticsOptimized mobile versions of Gmail, Blogger, and Search were also released A Message From Chad & Steve: 2006
Google acquired online video site YouTube in a massive $1.65 billion stock transaction The Growth Continues: 2007
Google Maps made its way to Australia and the Google Docs suite of tools being made available in several additional languages Gmail made available to all, no longer requiring an invitationGoogle introduced Google Street, an addition of street level photography to Google Maps Going Full Circle: 2008
Google celebrated its 10 anniversary
Google announced open source Google ChromeGoogle released Android, an open-source mobile OS Google At Present: 2009
Google unveiled its Wave service in May this yearGoogle announced plans to release Google Chrome OS News via [PCWorld]

Dell UltraSharp U2711 release soon

Wefound a driver released by Dell themselves (DELL_U2711-MONITOR_A00-00_R247058.exe) , dated 30th November 2009 on their own Support site.

Upontaking a look atthe driver files,it isnoted that the U2711 has:

- VGA output
- DVI output
- HDMI output
- DisplayPort output

And the resolutions of the panel:

[1920]
HKR,,MaxResolution,,"1920,1080"

[2048]
HKR,,MaxResolution,,"2048,1152"

[2560]
HKR,,MaxResolution,,"2560,1440"

It's probably firm that the panel on the U2711 would be the same one found in the 27-inch iMac.

That display isa LG LM270WQ1 16:9 IPS panel with LED backlight, andhas amassive 2560 x 1440 resolution.

AMD's next generation CPU features multi-threading

AMD's next generation architecture, codenamed Bulldozer, will feature amulti-threading system, Xbitlabs reports.

However, AMD claimsthat Bulldozer's multi-threading is different from the simultaneousmulti-threading (SMT) available with Intel's HyperThreading.

Thefirst Bulldozer desktop CPU, Orochi, is expected to be a 6/8 core CPUwith >8MB cache, supporting DDR3 RAM, manufactured on 32nm. It is dueto hit stores in 2011. The Fusion CPUs or APUs (Accelerated ProcessingUnits), as AMD calls them, are also part of the Bulldozer architecture. Bulldozer is expected to support up to 16 cores.It is expected to be the most significant change in AMD's CPUarchitecture since K8, back in 2003.

The next CPU on AMD'sroadmap is the 12-core server CPU "Magny Cours" based on a Multi-ChipModule, which packages two 6-core "Istanbul" dies in one package. TheMagny Cours CPU is designed for the elongated Socket G34, and willlaunch in Q1 2010. It is also expected to be the last AMD CPU tillBulldozer, according to AMD's current roadmap. In the desktop arena, thePhenom II/Athlon II products may have to fight all the way through 2010, according to AMD's current roadmaps.

Reference: Xbitlabs