The Khronos Group on Monday announced that its OpenCL 1.0 specification has been ratified and publicly released. Apple proposed the spec six months ago.
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices.
“The opportunity to effectively unlock the capabilities [...]
Novatel Wireless on Tuesday unveiled a line of what it calls Intelligent Mobile Hotspots, or MiFi, modems. With the MiFi line, Novatel hopes to drive a new ecosystem of broadband connectivity.
Novatel’s solution works differently than existing router solutions that require an external broadband modem and serve only to provide connectivity. The MiFi line creates a [...]
San Francisco-based investment firm Saints Capital, and Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners said Tuesday that they have formed a new fund, Saints Rustic Canyon, L.P., which has purchased the interest of nineteen different portfolio firms of Rustic Canyon Ventures, and a portion of eight other firms (note: Rustic Canyon is a sponsor [...]
In a scathing report released Tuesday, congressional investigators outlined a pattern of mismanagement, dysfunction and abuse of power at the Federal Communications Commission under the agency’s Republican chairman, Kevin Martin.
The report — the result of a nearly yearlong, bipartisan investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee — accuses Martin of manipulating data and suppressing [...]
We tend to view history as a once-familiar path that is no longer well-maintained. But along that path, specific mileposts occasionally arise that are so profound that they remain clearly visible across the spans of time. Backtrack to 1968 for a moment. The hit TV show Star Trek was in its third season, the emergency [...]
Microsoft offered Monday to observe a European privacy panel’s request to reduce the length of time it kept search queries made by individuals to six months if its rivals, Yahoo and Google, did the same.
Google and Yahoo, in separate statements, said they were unwilling for now to change their policies.
Microsoft said it made the offer [...]
Carlsbad-based Dot Hill, a manufacturer of data storage equipment, said today that it has cut its staff by 10 percent, and will shut down approximately 40 percent of its Carlsbad facility by the end of the year. The firm said it will pay severance costs and fees of between .125M and .75M as part of [...]
Los Angeles-based Momentum Venture Management has funded a firm in the energy space, PhoenixESG, PhoenixESG said this morning. The company, which is based in New Jersey, develops energy management, monitoring, control systems and services. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Matt Ridenour, who is a Managing Partner at Momentum Venture Management, has been named [...]
With video and other rich media growing by leaps and bounds on the Internet and in corporate networks, Cisco has decided it’s time to optimize. On Monday, the San Jose, Calif.-based company introduced new technologies and solutions it said will better enable “medianets” in home networks, businesses and through Internet service providers.
The company said “data-based [...]
For most people, a quick glance at Facebook, Twitter or MySpace is enough to get up to speed on one’s social circle. So why would you need to haul yourself to a computer just to do that?
You don’t. As long as you’ve got the right phone.
U.S. cellular networks, in their endless quest to make the [...]
Electronics has figured into physical activity since at least the 1780s, when Luigi Galvani used static electricity to make a dead frog twitch.
This might seem like too much Frankenstein and not enough frankincense, given the time of year. I’ll de-myrrh on that point.
But Galvani’s breakthrough in biology leads to an important point: What happens [...]
With economic uncertainty tainting everyone’s holiday spirit, consumers are bracing to stay within their budgets — especially when it comes to holiday shopping. This year, experts say, gift-givers will find some of the best deals online.
“Online shopping will be second only to discount shopping for customers in terms of finding value for their money,” [...]
South Korea’s money-losing Hynix Semiconductor Inc. is making progress toward raising new capital from creditors and direct backing from the government is not being considered, officials said Monday.
Hynix, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of computer memory chips after Samsung Electronics Co., has racked up four straight quarters of net losses amid a long slump in the [...]
The holiday season brings good tidings for shutterbugs. Whether you’re shopping for someone new to digital cameras or a seasoned hobbyist, you’ll find megapixels priced extremely favorably this year.
The best products continue to come from trusted names in the business, Canon and Nikon. Other companies offer lower prices and fun features, but for optimal optics [...]
It doesn’t really matter that Margie Leigh’s granddaughter, Laura, got the pink iPod she so desperately wanted last Christmas — at age 4. For the now-5-year-old, pink is out this holiday, and purple is in.
Grandma in Kentucky will be buying her granddaughter in Virginia a purple iPod this Christmas for one reason — its color.
“I [...]
All right, already — enough with the iPhone wannabes! Sprint Instinct, BlackBerry Storm, T-Mobile G1, LG Dare, HTC Diamond, Sony Xperia X1, Motorola Krave, Samsung just-about-everything. Black body, silver bezel, black touch screen, online app store. We get it. Can we move on now?
What about regular, non-touchscreen mobile phones — the ones preferred by the [...]
The buzz on the Internet was that Nokia would announce it is building a laptop computer. That was off the mark, but it’s easy to see how the rumor got started. The N97 smartphone that the Finnish company unveiled in Barcelona on Dec. 2 looks very much like a laptop, albeit one that fits in [...]
Stephanie Myers of Allston is the best around, and nothing’s going to ever keep her down. How does she know? The 26-year-old’s cell phone tells her so every time it rings.
Myers proudly sports Joe Esposito’s 1985 semi-hit “You’re the Best” — commonly known as the theme from the original “Karate Kid” movie — as her [...]
This holiday season, mobile phone makers and carriers are pushing some shiny new toys: cellphones with touch-sensitive screens like the one on the Apple iPhone.
The companies are hoping to duplicate the blockbuster success of the iPhone with models that, in their glassy minimalism, end up looking a lot like it. These include the G1, [...]
Los Angeles-based LRN, which provides corporate ethics learning tools to the business market, has added two new executives, the firm said today. The firm said that it has hired on Alister Christopher and David Greenberg to the firm’s executive team, as part of a market expansion. Greenberg joins fromm Altria, where he was SVP and [...]
