VIA VN1000 digital media chipset launched

VIA introduced the VN1000, a new digital media chipset with Blu-ray playback, DX10.1 and DDR3 memory support. VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA VN1000 digital media chipset for next generation desktop and all-in-one PCs, offering a world-class HD multimedia entertainment platform compatible with the advanced desktop features of Microsoft Windows 7.
The VIA VN1000 is the most power efficient DX10.1 digitalSource: DV Hardware RSS Feed

Incredible VISTA of the cosmos

Astronomers with the European Southern Observatory have just revealed the first images from their new telescope called VISTA: the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy. If ever there was an appropriate name for a ’scope, that’s it.

Why?

Here’s why:

Oh baby. Yeah, click it to embiggen.

This image is of the Flame Nebula, a star forming gas cloud in Orion. The image itself covers about half a square degree on the sky (twice theSource: Bad Astronomy Blog RSS Feed

How Apple's Camel Case Hurts the English Language

You may have never really noticed the weird capitalization pattern on iPhones; or perhaps you just thought it was part of Apple's brilliant marketing schtick. In reality, though, this weird mid-word capitalization has been around for a while, and is commonly known as 'camel case' (because of the visual "hump" that a nested capitalized letter gives a word).
Caleb Crain, in a great article for The New York Times, takes a cursory look at the evolution of camel case over the years. WhileSource: Switched RSS Feed

Poynt Bringing New Features to BlackBerry…and (soon) iPhone!

Multiplied Media’s popular local search application, Poynt, recently won first place in the “Life On BlackBerry” category  at the 2009 BlackBerry Alliance Program’s EMEA Innovation Awards in Rome, Italy.   Not resting on their laurels, Multiplied Media showed us some upcoming changes to their BlackBerry application…and a sneak peek at their upcoming iPhone app!

Want to know some of the new features you can look forward to seeing from Poynt?  Let’s jump right in…

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China, India, Brazil, South Africa plan joint walkout if pressured at Copenhagen

From the Times of India – a “put up or shut up” moment – “we’ll go along if you pay us”.

Excerpts below:

BEIJING: In an unprecedented move, India on Saturday joined China and two other developing countries to prepare for a major offensive on rich nations at the Copenhagen conference on climate change next month.

The four countries, which include Brazil and South Africa, agreed to a strategy that involves jointly walking out of the conference ifSource: Watts Up With That? RSS Feed

Samsung Behold II review

It was but a year ago that Samsung graced us with the original Behold. At the time it was more or less positioned to win the hearts of folks who wanted a luscious touchscreen but had no real truck with smartphones. So what do we have here? With the Behold II, the company has switched things up a bit: instead of a respectable feature phone, you not only get Android 1.5, but a 3.5mm headphone jack and WiFi as well. At least this shows that Sammy has been paying attention! Still, a coupleSource: Engadget Mobile RSS Feed