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CEO: AMD not for sale, but …

CEO: AMD not for sale, but …

Posted by | Oct 6, 2010 | , |

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) isn’t for sale; however, the chip maker will listen to interesting proposals, its chief executive said when asked about Oracle’s recent interest in the sector, reports “Reuters” (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69525920101006?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtechnologyNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Technology%29&utm_content=Google+Reader).

“AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders,” CEO Dirk Meyer told an industry conference in Barcelona on Wednesday.

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Greg’s bite: Apple tech, new or not

Greg’s bite: Apple tech, new or not

Posted by | Oct 6, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

The press is reporting a monstrous patent case in Federal Court in the state of Texas that went against Apple for the “Cover Flow” way of rolling images across the display, as seem in the album art display in iTunes and elsewhere in the Mac OS.  

While the judgement likely means at the end of it all, Apple may well have to pay some amount of money, the current US$600,000,000 judgement will not likely stand. Frankly, so many patents on computer graphical interfaces have been written it staggers the mind to thing much could really be novel anymore.  

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Pixelmator for Mac OS X adds WebP support

Posted by | Oct 6, 2010 | , |

The Pixelmator Team (http://www.pixelmator.com) has updated Pixelmator — a US$59 GPU-powered image editing tool for creating, editing and enhancing still images — to version 1.6.2. The upgrade, free to registered users, adds support for the new WebP image format.

WebP is an image format developed by Google that can be used on photographic images. Other changes in Pixelmator 1.6.2 also includes minor improvements and several bug fixes.

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New Apple TV good, but no cable replacement

New Apple TV good, but no cable replacement

Posted by | Oct 6, 2010 | , |

The new Apple TV is a solid update to Apple’s “hobby,” but it’s not a “cable killer” as I hoped it would be (sorry, Comcast — well, no, I’m not). Of course, that would be expecting a lot from an US$99 device. And as a device that streams content from my Mac AND lets me access Netflix, it’s a good upgrade for folks like myself.

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