|
|
Advertisement:
|
|
OCAU News |
Foxmulder881 brings word of a new browser called Rockmelt, which is developed by Marc Andreessen best known as co-author of Mosaic, and co-founder of Netscape. The browser, available for the first time Monday, is built on the premise that most online activity today revolves around socialising on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on Twitter and monitoring a handful of favourite websites.
Tasmanian and federal governments abandon National Broadband Network side-deal. The Tasmanian and federal governments have quietly killed off a secret joint venture that would have given the state government shares in NBN Co's privatisation in return for granting free access to state-owned infrastructure.
PC Perspective preview latest VIA's Nano DC processor and VN1000 chipset. Since the original VIA Nano was released, we have been expecting the dual core version to eventually hit the scene. Now after several years, we have our hands on the first samples of this new product.
AMD quietly delays the introduction of a new dual-chip flagship graphics card. At the financial analyst day AMD's graphics business unit quietly revealed a new roadmap for the short-term future. Based on the new roadmap, the company's highest-performance dual-chip Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles" will only be released in Q1 2011, which is a delay by several weeks from earlier unveiled roadmaps that were published on the Internet.
SilentPC analyse the acoustics and power characteristics of AMD's Radeon HD 6870. The new Radeons you've been waiting for are here and ready to keep you away from your loved ones during those long cold nights, they just now have a slightly different name. Our finely detailed acoustics and power focused analysis of a reference design 6870 card.
Operation Flashpoint: Red River, DiRT 3 and GRID 2 release windows have been confirmed. Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has revealed that both Operation Flashpoint: Red River and DiRT 3 will release sometime between the start of April and the end of June next year. GRID 2, on the other hand, will launch in 2012.
Dasuperham sends word of Toshiba introducing Blade-Type SSD modules with capacities up to 256GB. Up to this point, SSD designs also followed the basic design of small form factor HDD - which does not fully leverage the capabilities of high density NAND technology. Toshiba's module-based SSDs break with this approach, giving hardware designers greater freedom and flexibility in enabling their product design.
He also mentions DICE's upcoming Battlefield 3 shooter will be primarily developed for DirectX 11, and the engine will be especially optimised for 64-bit operating systems - great news for PC gamers.
GameSpy compare Microsoft's Kinect against the PlayStation Move and Wii MotionPlus. It's a battle for the motion-control crown: Microsoft's new Kinect device for the Xbox 360 promises to make you the controller, the PlayStation Move promises a whole new level of control, and Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus promises to... improve what was already pretty good on the Wii.
Today's timewaster is from Daniel - it's the sequel to Robokill, simply named Robokill 2.
Return to OCAU's News Page
|
|
Advertisement:
All original content copyright James Rolfe.
All rights reserved. No reproduction allowed without written permission.
|
Advertisement:
|
|
|
