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Google have plans to launch the Chrome browser for Mac and Linux users around middle of 2009. Brian Rakowski, Chrome's product manager, said the company wants to release Chrome for Mac and Linux before the first half of 2009 is up. "That's what we've been hoping for," he said in an interview. "Those two efforts proceeding in parallel. They're at the same level of progress."
Techgage have a first look at NVIDIA's GeForce Vision Technology and what it will offer the users. NVIDIA's GeForce Vision technology claims to be able to bridge the last gap between current gaming technology and the perception of an immersive 3D environment -- your 2D monitor. But can it bridge the perception gap in the marketplace and overcome the view that stereoscopic 3D technologies are a cheap gimmick?
Anandtech has posted their in depth review of the GeForce GTX 295. Now that we have some hardware in our hands and NVIDIA has formally launched the GeForce GTX 295, we are very interested in putting it to the test. NVIDIA's bid to reclaim the halo is quite an interesting one. If you'll remember from our earlier article on the hardware, the GTX 295 is a dual GPU card that features two chips that combine aspects of the GTX 280 and the GTX 260. The expectation should be that this card will fall between GTX 280 SLI and GTX 260 core 216 SLI.
LG has signed a deal with Apple to supply them with LCD panels for the next five years. South Korea's LG Display said it had signed a deal to supply LCD panels to Apple for five years. The world's second-biggest maker of LCD screens did not disclose the total size of the deal but said in a filing to the Korea Exchange that it would receive a $500 million advance from Apple this month.
According to an article posted on IHT, Ubuntu OS is a very popular today. More than 10 million people are estimated to run Ubuntu today, and they represent a threat to Microsoft's hegemony in developed countries and perhaps even more so in those regions catching up to the technology revolution. "If we're successful, we would fundamentally change the operating system market," Shuttleworth said during a break at the gathering, the Ubuntu Developer Summit. "Microsoft would need to adapt, and I don't think that would be unhealthy."
Western Digital is set to launch later this week a 2TB Caviar Green WD20EADS HDD. The Caviar Green 2000GB WD20EADS drive features 32MB of cache, an 8.9ms seek time and it runs either at 7200 or 5400RMP, which allows it to save a few inches of Brazilian rain forest.
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