AMD has teamed up with the University of Illinois to urge students in the development of codes for the company’s GPGPU inside Fusion processors.
The General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) found inside AMD’s Llano Fusion processor allows a mid-range notebook to offer more processing power as opposed to other chips.
OpenCL applications have better performances than a Llano-only system and an excellent initiative to boost the number of apps that use this GPU is …

Online video sharing is big and Yowie know this. This is why the online video chat provider has jumped into the online video sharing and recommendation space with the release of its Facebook live chat app. The service will allow users to talk to each other as they watch videos. Yowie sees this as an opportunity to tie in its video chat service with social media dynamics that more or less rule the Internet these days.
This launch comes behind the launch of similar services such as Google Hangout …

“We have one goal here at PandoDaily: To be the site-of-record for that startup root-system and everything that springs up from it, cycle-after-cycle.”
That’s the idea behind Sarah Lacy‘s new site, PandoDaily, which she has launched after leaving TechCrunch. Best known for her insightful pieces on TechCrunch, Sarah decided to quit the tech blog after AOL purchased it. The new daily technology news blog will focus on startups and the startup ecosystem and according to …

Web developers are not particularly holding back when it comes to HTML5, with half of the world’s devs currently working on the new standard.
According to a survey done by Evans Data, out of 1,200 web developer respondents, 40 to 60 percent use HTML5 as opposed to older counterparts such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.
The Asia Pacific recorded the highest HTML5 usage at 58 percent of regional Web developers, followed by the U.S. at 43 percent, while Europe, Africa and the Middle …

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In a case of a big multinational being caught pants down, search giant Google have found themselves on the wrong end of the stick and having to apolologize to a startup what it calls, “an unfortunate event”.
Kenyan startup Mocality, a local business directory that crowd sources its database of businesses, published a post accusing Google of ripping it off of its hard earned database of some 170,000 local businesses by using their Mocality-listed contacts to …

Facebook pages have been growing in popularity as more businesses turn to social media and transform into what is now popularly known as social enterprise. Tracking Facebook page growth has however been tedious and onerous as it required you to track individual pages separately. Well, not any more. A German-based startup has launched a web service that allows you to track over 36 million Facebook pages all from one console.
The service called SocialMedia-Live tracks millions of Facebook pages …

The USB standards setting organization has announced that USB 3.0 ports will reach mobile devices and tablet computers before year-end or early 2013.
Rahman Ismail, CTO of the USB Implementers Forum during the CES trade show in Las Vegas, said that  microUSB ports that support USB 3.0 technology are likely to come with smartphones and tablets on account of their small sizes.
The new ports will allow faster data transfer rates of around 100MBps (800Mbps) between portable devices and hosts such …

Cambridge University researchers have claimed that a new breakthrough in technology could serve as catalyst in quantum circuit development.
The group was able to develop a semiconductor chip that can make a quantum superfluid visible to the naked eye.
Past techniques could not create larger scales than what the researchers discovered after firing lasers into the device and created oscillating quantum fluids.
The new technology could possibly help to develop the superconductor-like behavior of …

Nokia has recently finished its scientific research on the feasibility of harnessing the Sun’s energy to power a mobile phone with disappointing results.
The Finnish tech giant concluded that charging through solar energy has several but minute benefits when a lot of sun is available, but the outcome was otherwise more ineffective in regions with less sunlight.
The Nokia solar-powered phone experiment dug into the possibility of using solar energy as alternative electricity in areas with less …

An XDA-Developers software developer has managed to create a program called CyanogenMod Compiler that allows a user to customize the CyanogenMod ROM according to his/her needs.
Google’s Android mobile operating system has always prided itself as the most customizable platform for handsets today.
The open-source behavior of this OS enables any developer or user to modify settings and apply tweaks without limits in terms of software (unless if it is not intended for the device’s model).

The …