Google late Wednesday rolled out an alternate take on Google Reader that superficially makes things simpler but is also ideally suited to tablets. Google Reader Play switches from Reader's usual plain list view to a large-buttoned media browser based on user's "recommended items" feed. The new web app shows any photos or YouTube videos in a large, central area and lets users favorite or share the content they prefer; recommendations also come from fellow users....
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Citrix has launched Receiver for Mac, allowing Mac users to access Windows software, documents and desktops in a mixed-OS environment. Apps are opened as if they were local to a user's Mac. Working alongside XenApp, which delivers programs to the desktop, and Dazzle, the Citrix storefront for subscribing to apps, Receiver allows Mac users to launch and run virtualized Windows apps from the Dock....
Novothink today put out its promised Solar Surge case for the iPhone and iPod touch. The design acts like a battery sled for Apple’s devices and, as its name suggests, is one of the few such cases that can power itself. While slow to charge, a two-hour exposure to daylight can give an iPhone 3G or 3GS enough extra power for 30 more minutes of calls and considerably longer for music….
Apple has been exploring the concept of inserting personalized content into media streams, a newly-published patent application reveals. Titled Radio With Personal DJ, the claim notes that it should be possible to add personalized or otherwise customized content to streams intended for media players, here meaning mostly computers and iPods. The content could be injected into the middle of a stream, or in random or regular intervals between media….
Wireless and cable provider AT&T earlier this week announced it has completed successful field trials of its 100-gigabit backbone network technology. The provider used the new Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System for its tests along with matching modules on the client side and artificial traffic generators to simulate conditions. The test was performed over a 560-mile stretch between Louisiana and Florida with optical fiber providing the backbone….
New tests of Intel’s just-launched Core i7-980X is potentially much faster than existing chips but also faces noticeable limits. The first mainstream six-core processor is fastest in creative tasks such as 3D modeling, Photoshop filters and video encoding, many of which are aware of multithreaded code and can use six cores. The performance gap over a quad-core i7 at the same 3.33GHz speed is usually at least 20 percent higher and as much as 70 percent higher….
At the Game Developer’s Conference, Dolby said it will make its Axon 3D voice chat technology available for gamers on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Mac platforms. Thus far, only PC users could benefit from the technology, and the software development kit (SDK) will be made available to game developers in April. It is currently undergoing beta testing with several unnamed software companies….
The Federal Trade Commission has signaled that it may at least temporarily block Google’s buyout of AdMob, a set of leaks from within the process hinted late Thursday. As part of its investigation, the FTC is reportedly asking “at least two” companies to sign statements that would likely argue that the mobile ad deal abuses Google’s web dominance. Such testimonies are usually gathered when FTC agents believe the Commission will block or change a deal, WSU professor Stephen Calkins told Bloomberg….