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Archives for March, 2010


Rumored GoogleTV Partnership – Déjà vu All Over Again

by Van Baker  |  March 18, 2010  |  1 Comment

The New York Times reports that Google is working on something that is called GoogleTV which might see Android on the television running on Intel silicon and using a Logitech keyboard to control the whole thing. The project is rumored to focus on delivering Internet search to the television making content easier to find and [...]

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nVidia’s Disingenuous Positioning for Next Generation Ion

by Van Baker  |  March 2, 2010  |  Comments Off

nVidia announced the next generation Ion graphics processing unit (GPU) which offers 1080p HD decode, Adobe Flash support  and 3-D gaming for netbook products.  The addition of this GPU to a netbook  gives consumers an excellent video playback capability on netbooks that would be unable to playback HD video without the addition of Ion. The [...]

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