Intel Buys RapidMind, a Company That Makes Multicore Parallel Programming Easier [Intel]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FqmWUbSgap0/intel-buys-rapidmind-a-company-that-makes-multicore-parallel-programming-easier

Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specializes in making it easy for developers to optimize and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit like Apple's GrandCentral technology built into Snow Leopard, actually. It's an interesting move, since Intel already hires more software engineers than hardware dudes because of the difficulty of parallelism. [PC World]

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Northern Michigan University teams with Motorola for campus-wide WiMAX

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/22/northern-michigan-university-teams-with-motorola-for-campus-wide/

Northern Michigan University was fairly early to the game in offering laptops and campus-wide WiFi to its students, and it looks like it's now stepping things up even further with a little help from Motorola, which is providing the backend for NMU's new campus-wide WiMAX network (a first in the US). Better still, the university is also providing some brand new WiMAX-equipped ThinkPads to nearly 3,000 of the school's more than 9,000 students, and it's also making a range of laptop and desktop WiMAX adapters available to students with non WiMAX-enabled computers. With a radius of some 30 miles, the network will also encompass a number of off-campus sites, and be made available to local schools and municipal offices though a licensing arrangement.

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Northern Michigan University teams with Motorola for campus-wide WiMAX originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerrys arrives, but only syncs one way

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/22/enhanced-gmail-plug-in-for-blackberrys-arrives-but-only-syncs-o/

Lackluster Gmail support has been a real pain point for BlackBerry users, and we've really been hoping that this new "Enhanced Gmail Plug-in" would solve all that. It's out as of today, and we've certainly gotten some improvements, like support for archiving messages, marking spam and managing labels / stars. Unfortunately, these new management features are only live synced one way, from the phone to the Gmail server, so many of the actions that take place desktop side won't be reflected on the phone once that particular message has been picked up by the BlackBerry Internet Service. There's also the small problem of installing the thing: we haven't been successful so far on two different BlackBerries, and you have to make sure to uninstall the existing Gmail Plug-in. Meanwhile, in BlackBerry Enterprise Server land, the Google Apps Connector has now gone live, which means Google Apps users get push Gmail and what seems to be much tighter Exchange-style syncing. Let us know if you get either of these things working with your particular setup.

[Via Boy Genius Report]

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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerrys arrives, but only syncs one way originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PCI Express 3.0 specification formally delayed, products pushed to 2011

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/23/pci-express-3-0-specifications-formally-delayed-products-pushed/

We've been enjoying (or just dealing with, depending on perspective) PCI Express 2.0 since early 2007, and it now looks as if we may still be utilizing said protocol come early 2011. Way back in June of '08, we began to hear whispers that the next iteration of the technology would be finalized by the end of this year, but now the PCI SIG has formally delayed the release of the specification until the second quarter of 2010. What does that mean for the consumer? Try coping with the fact that you won't see a PCIe 3.0 product until 2011. As the story goes, the delay was needed in order to "maintain backward compatibility with current PCI Express standards," and while the technical details of all that may interest some, it's the awfully unfortunate setback that's most notable here. But hey, at least all those PCIe 1.0 cards that are still totally relevant will work with your next (next-next?) PC!

[Via Reg Hardware]

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PCI Express 3.0 specification formally delayed, products pushed to 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AOC's 2436Vw does 24-inches of power sipping LCD on the cheap

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/23/aocs-2436vw-does-24-inches-of-power-sipping-lcd-on-the-cheap/

It's nothing too astonishing in the specs department (300 nits, 60,000:1 contrast, 5ms response time), and the DVI and VGA plugs are rather lonesome without an HDMI or DisplayPort plug to tag along, but we can't fault AOC for the 2436Vw's $220 pricetag. The 49W of power draw in a 24-inch 1080p display doesn't hurt either, and we're sort of digging the clean design. The 2436Vw is out now.

[Via Electronista]

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AOC's 2436Vw does 24-inches of power sipping LCD on the cheap originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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