Tag archive: platform

The TouchPad is rumored to be bombing at retail, but that isn't slowing down HP's plans for webOS. Much like Google's Android ambitions, HP is hoping to embed webOS in smart appliances, gadgets, cars, and just about anything else that has a screen. HP's new head of webOS, Stephen DeWitt spoke with the WSJ (via CNET) about the potential of the company's smartphone platform, noting that there is an “enormous… Read More

Nokia may have left MeeGo out in the rain, but LG could be the one to bring it an umbrella. LG is said to be in talks to adopt MeeGo, an open source platform, on some or all of its smartphones, reports Reuters. ZTE and China Mobile may also be developing handsets based on the fledgling, still unfinished operating system. Though Nokia and Intel began the MeeGo project together, the Finnish phone maker's departure may actually benefit the… Read More

At the Game Developer's Conference yesterday, Valve announced that its Steam PC gaming platform will soon get a “big picture” mode, enabling controller support and other navigation options designed for playing on a TV. The new mode is the first step toward bringing the Steam game store onto new devices. “Our partners and customers have asked us to make Steam available in more places. With the introduction of Steam on the… Read More

Samsung is developing a unified operating system that will power both its cellphones and HDTVs. The move is intended to broaden the company's appeal to developers. As most things are these days, it's all about the apps. “We have a plan to have a single platform for Samsung TV and phones,” Kyungsik Kevin Lee, vice president at Samsung's Visual Display Division, told Reuters. Lee is not sure when the platform will… Read More

Intel and Nvidia have been in a battle of words—and even some litigation—for some time now. The latest front surrounds Intel's Atom platform: Intel offers integrated graphics with its low-power netbook-driving CPU, and sells those systems to equipment makers cheaper than simple graphics-free versions of the Atom processors. The upshot is that Nvidia's Ion platform—which pairs up an Nvidia 9400M mobile graphics… Read More

Wind River Systems and Intel have announced a partnership to develop an open-source platform for in-vehicle “infotainment” systems built on Intel's forthcoming low-power Atom processor. Unlike most existing in-vehicle platforms like Microsoft's Sync that offer Internet access, Web browsing, traffic information, and similar services, an open source system wouldn't be locked into a particular vendor or sef ot… Read More

Back in October, MySpace pledged to open its platform to developers, in part to encourage third parties to deploy widgets, games, and other social networking tools on the site, but also to help the 400-pound gorilla of the social networking world maintain its lead on rival Facebook, which has seen a tremendous surge in growth in the last year in part due to opening its platform to developers. Now, MySpace is getting ready to make good on… Read More

Social networking site Facebook was the first to open its platform to application developers, enabling ambitious coders and opportunist marketers alike to create widgets that can populate user's pages and profiles. The move prompted other social networking sites to open their platforms to developers—or at least to promise to do so. Now, Facebook has taken things one step further, announcing it will open its API for use on sites… Read More

Attempting to scrape back ground lost with the debut of Intel’s new “Santa Rosa” mobile platform, AMD announced details on Thursday about its own upcoming mobile platform and processor for notebooks. The platform, known as Puma, will use the new RS780 mobile chipset to deliver features including DirectX 10 graphics capability, support for a unified video decoder, integrated multi-monitor support, NAND flash support… Read More

When Apple announced earlier this month that it had sold over 100 million iPods, the news was greeted as something of a cultural milestone. Today, Nokia has announced that over 100 million smartphones and other devices running its S60 platform have shipped worldwide…and the fact the announcement will probably amount to little more than a ripple is an indication of just how much larger the mobile phone business is compared to the… Read More

Although the company hasn't made any formal announcements yet, conference materials available for Intel's Developer Forum to be held in Beijing April 17 to 18, indicate Intel is developing Linux-based Mobile Internet Devices (MID) platform, potentially ratcheting up competition in the so-far lackluster UMPC market. According to PDF versions of conference materials (here and here) Intel's MID platform will be based on… Read More

Nokia this week made several pushes into the mobile gaming arena as it made various E3 related announcements. In summary, they are: Nokia unveiled a new mobile gaming platform based on the old N-Gage, the core of which is a "pre-installed application which allows consumers to easily find, buy and play rich and immersive games on a range of Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and other Nokia S60 devices". These games are designed… Read More

“ The chip maker's Professional Business Platform will consist of a Pentium 4 processor but will also include features that simplify systems management, enhance security, and decrease power requirements, said Laura Anderson, an Intel spokeswoman. Systems based on the platform will be the first to incorporate Intel Active Management Technology that will help a company's computer administrators remotely monitor and protect… Read More

Quote from the review: “And so it has happened. The new mobile platform from Intel, the successor to the just cause of the first Centrino generation has been officially announced. Thanks to the Moscow representative office of Acer, we had an opportunity to lay our hands on the new platform, so we run some express tests on Sonoma-based TravelMate 8100 notebook. In this article I'll show you what the notebook based on Intel… Read More

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) today announced its SiS760 and SiS964 core logic chipsets will be used within the AMD64 platform design as part of select HP consumer desktop PCs. The HP consumer desktops based on SiS760 will target the mainstream and value PC users of the AMD K8 market segment. “The selection of SiS by HP as their supplier for this AMD Athlon 64 platform demonstrates the continuation of SiS' track… Read More