Zinio comes to Android tablets, gives you 24 magazine issues for free and bringing Esquire, National Geographic, and 20,000 other magazine titles to the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and a half dozen other devices. The Zinio app for Android works with all Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets and magazines can be purchased as subscriptions or as single issues………..
Microsoft may be spending enormous amount of money and development effort on Windows Phone 7, but for now, it’s making more money off of Android than it is from Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft gets five times as much money from Android than it does from Windows Phone 7, because of a settlement in an intellectual property infringement case against HTC. The terms of the settlement call for HTC to pay $5 to Microsoft for every Android device HTC sells and HTC has sold 30 million Android smartphones, and so Microsoft has taken in $150 million so far as a result of the suit…………
NVIDIA refreshes notebook graphics with GeForce GTX 560M, attracts ASUS, MSI, Toshiba and Alienware. NVIDIA’s fine tradition of merely bumping along its GPUs time and again and affixing a new badge, you’ll like the GeForce GTX 560M — it’s much like last year’s GTX 460M. SUS, MSI, Alienware, Toshiba and Clevo have all committed to new notebooks bearing the graphics processor in light of the potent performance NVIDIA claims it will bring: Namely, those same 192 CUDA cores (now clocked at 1550MHz) and up to 3GB of GDDR5 memory (now clocked at 1250MHz, with a 192-bit bus) should enable the latest games to run at playable framerates on a 1080p screen with maximum detail save antialiasing. Check the details in the press release bellow.
Lots of people want to play Tegra 2 games but don’t currently have a Tegra 2 device, there is hope in the form of an app called Chainfire3D, which is an OpenGL video driver that lets you do some pretty awesome things in general but the main thing is with graphic manipulation. In this post you can find how to play Tegra Zone games on non-Tegra2 Android phones with Chainfire 3D………..
EVO 2 console promises to bring Android gaming to your TV this fall and it will apparently pack an unspecified 1.2GHz Samsung processor, a modified Android 2.2 OS, and both a TV remote and game controller. This console also allow users to earn points to purchase Android games with EVO tokens and the privilege of using Envision’s new Qquip SMS blogging reward service………….
Sony estimates $3.2b loss this year, $171 million cost for PSN breach and this loss following PSN hacking, Japan earthquakeSony has written off approximately $4.4 billion in deferred tax credits for the last quarter in an effort to offset the taxes levied against the company’s future profits and quake is also expected to shave roughly $1.8 billion off of operational profits for the coming year………….
HTC HD7 on T-Mobile has started getting its Windows Phone update treat, users being able to bump the version numbers to 7392, a build which also brings the security fix for Internet Explorer with relation to SSL certs and Microsoft said they are working on the issues involved with the Samsung firmware and hardware variations and will also be releasing the software soon………….
Verizon just announced that nine new markets will be enjoying 4G LTE, include Mobile and Montgomery Ala.; Greater Fairfield and New Haven, Conn.; Gainesville, Pensacola and Tallahassee, Fla.; Fayetteville-Lumberton, N.C.; and Bryan-College Station and Temple-Killeen, Texas. Expansion cities include Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and Philadelphia. Verizon is committed to bringing 4G LTE to nearly 150 markets by year’s end and to their entire 3G coverage area by 2013 and if you haven’t been able to connect in the past, dust off that enable-4G button and give it another shot…………