Smaller sized set with big screen extras Review   Monolithic is a desirable word, unless it’s applied to small things like a mobile phone, a peanut, a shrew. So does it fit a flatscreen TV, especially one at the lower end of screen sizes deemed suitable for a living room?…

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Sony Bravia KDL-32NX503 32in LCD TV

Gate not closing When AMD spin-off GlobalFoundries broke ground on its fab in upstate New York last year, the chip manufacturer boasted it was “closing the gap” on Intel. “We were a year behind Intel at the 45nm node, and that difference will be cut significantly at the 32nm generation,” said vice president of manufacturing systems technology Tom Sonderman. “By 22nm, there will be no difference. It will be in the noise level.”…

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AMD, GlobalFoundries, and the Intel gap

The closest you’ll get to Zelda without dusting off your NES? Review   Feeling nostalgic for 8-bit gaming? Then 3D Dot Game Heroes will, no doubt, satisfy. There’s no need to drag out your NES as this square-edged upstart hails from the land of Sony and is exclusive to Playstation 3 . With fervour for the 1980s increasingly present in popular culture ( Hot Tub Time Machine , anyone?), 3D Dot Game Heroes buys into this sentimentalism and looks, plays and sounds like nothing else around since 1986.…

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3D Dot Game Heroes

A ClearPath to the development skies A mainframe cloud may seem oxymoronic like a lead Zeppelin (“a” included on purpose), or intuitively obvious (given the virtualization and metering capabilities that have been in mainframes for decades). But Unisys has nonetheless fluffed up a mainframe cloud for its ClearPath mainframe customers.…

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Unisys floats mainframe cloud

$20 million BlueArc, the hardware-accelerated NAS array supplier startup, has pocketed another $20m in a seventh funding round, taking total funding to around $225m.…

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BlueArc gets extra greenbacks

…it’s a… yes, one of those! Mozy says that the bugs reported by users concerning repeated full backups were not bugs at all, instead reflecting a feature of the product.…

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Mozy insists: It’s not a bug…

Try before you buy Microsoft is taking the Kinect for Xbox 360 to the Great British Unwashed, giving gamers an opportunity to try the upcoming hands-free motion sensor before its release on August 20.…

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Microsoft goes on the road with Kinect

HDD & SSD hybrid craftsmanship? Word has reached us of a development project codenamed Katana inside Xiotech, with hints that the project involves HDD and SSD hybrid craftsmanship.…

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Xiotech forging secret Katana project

Fun retro-snapper revived Review   The news that Polaroid has a new instant camera, after we thought it was done with all that frivolity , is likely to be greeted with squeals of nostalgic joy. While digital is superior in almost every sense there’s a real warmth about those 80s prints that we remember adorning fridges and noticeboards. The Polaroid 300 (tsk, these unwieldy techie names) takes you straight back to your childhood, making a spontaneity-encouraging break from all that DSLR refinement.…

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Polaroid 300 instant print camera

Fun retro-snapper revived Review   The news that Polaroid has a new instant camera, after we thought it was done with all that frivolity , is likely to be greeted with squeals of nostalgic joy. While digital is superior in almost every sense there’s a real warmth about those 80s prints that we remember adorning fridges and noticeboards. The Polaroid 300 (tsk, these unwieldy techie names) takes you straight back to your childhood, making a spontaneity-encouraging break from all that DSLR refinement.…

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Polaroid 300 instant print camera