MODDING: blogs

VR-Zone scored the first photo of the upcoming GeForce GTX 295 card slated for launch over at CES 2009. …

    OCZ unveiled the Vertex SATA II 2. …

SPARKLE announced the SPARKLE GeForce 9600 GT 1GB/2GB DDR2 Graphics Cards with unbeatable 1GB or 2GB max capacity video memory.

Japan's Sony Corp said it will cut 16,000 jobs, curb investment and pull out of businesses to save $1.1 billion a year as the financial crisis ravages demand for its electronics products. The job cuts are the biggest announced by an Asian company so far in the crisis and underscore the challenges facing Sony, which has fallen behind Apple Inc's iPod in portable music and is losing money on flat TVs.

Sony said it would cut 8,000 regular workers, or roughly 4 percent of its workforce of 185,800, and an equal number or more temporary and contract staff. But analysts warned the measures may not be bold enough to streamline a sprawling empire that ranges from semiconductors to movies and insurance. The cuts are also risky because they mean Sony will be investing less in future growth.

Super Talent today announced a new line of UltraDrive solid state drives (SSDs) that are twice as fast as the worlds speediest SATA hard drives and are offered in capacities up to 256GB. No word on pricing as of yet, so stay tuned.

The UltraDrive LE represents a quantum leap forward in storage performance that is simply staggering. It excels in every metric thats relevant to data centers: sequential and random read and write speeds, transaction rates and access and seek times. It also has a considerable advantage over 10,000 RPM hard drives in power consumption and MTBF. This product sets a new standard in enterprise storage said Super Talent Chief Operating Officer, Mr. C.H. Lee.

Sony Ericsson today announced it is joining the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). OHA is the group behind the Android platform championed by Google. Sony Ericsson says its membership will ‘complment its existing Open OS strategy which is based on Symbian and Windows Mobile’.

… In which I get all picky about the quality of video capture on Nokia’s latest devices, the N79, N85 and (here) the N96. Is there a problem, and if so then is it down to changed premises, settings or lack of graphics acceleration hardware? For once, I’m really not sure and would love folk with more technical/photographic expertise than me to help out in the comments, as we try to get to the bottom of the issues.

Yes, so many of us have been playing with the new proxy-based, video-friendly, S60-native browser Skyfire over the last few weeks. It has now gone official though, with links, press release extracts and an official Skyfire FAQ below.

In this, the second part of Ewan Spence’s chatty look at the Nokia N85, he carries on from part one’s look at the hardware and styling of the device. Running S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, the N85 sees tweaks to the interface and some of the built in applications to help the user experience. How successful have Nokia been?

Solutions to the battery issue involve carrying a charging cable and having access to either an electric outlet or a car charger. Of course, sometimes these options are feasible or possible. …