An anonymous reader writes “TUL Corporation’s PCS HD4850 is the world’s first graphics card to offer on-board 2gig video memory. The card is based on RV770 core chip, with 800 stream processors and 2GB of GDDR3 high-speed memory.” That’s more memory than I’ve had in any computer prior to this year — for a video card.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Review: IEnvision for IPhone
In addition to billions of pages of text, the Web is awash in images–more than 50 million desktop images, more than 3 million…

First Real Gameplay Video of New Prince of Persia Game
An anonymous reader writes “After all the screenshot leaks and poor screenshot videos, here’s finally the first official game play video of Prince of Persia:Next Generation. It was released at E3 just some hours ago. Wow, I just love their new artistic direction, this game will be a killer!”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

World’s First Custom Firmware For Wii Released
Croakyvoice writes “Waninkoko has released the world’s first custom firmware for the Nintendo Wii, which is installed using the twilight hack; among its features is the ability to allow writeable DVDs to be read in emulators. From the readme: ‘The Custom Firmware installs as IOS249 and it does not modify any other IOS so it is secure to install and has been made to be used ONLY with homebrew software. This is a custom IOS, an IOS modified to add some new features not available in the official IOS.’”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360
An anonymous reader writes “In a stunning change, Square-Enix announced today at Microsoft’s E3 press conference that its next iteration in the Final Fantasy series is also coming to Xbox 360.” And I just rationalized the PS3 purchase by telling myself that the next FF will require it.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

What’s Killing SOA?
SOA is not something you buy, it is something you do. Research shows us that very few companies are doing it well. But the reasons for so many failures are usually people issues, not technology issues.

Apple Reports $1.07 Billion on Strong Mac, IPhone Sales
Apple on Monday posted a profit of US$1.07 billion on revenue of $7.46 billion. The company shipped 2,496,000 Macintosh…

Talent Build Examples for Blizzard’s New Death Knight
With Blizzard’s Wrath of the Lich King NDA out of the way, there has been the inevitable flood of information about the new expansion hitting the streets. One of the most sought-after pieces of information is anything about the new class being introduced, the Death Knight. Massively has a great summary, with video examples, of the three different avenues available to the Death Knight. From the AE strengths of unholy, to the life-stealing blood tree, to the control of the frost tree, it seems that this new juggernaut is certainly going to be a force to be reckoned with.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Second Life Faces Open Source Challenges
ruphus13 writes “Linden Labs has talked about Open Sourcing aspects of their platform for a while, but have not always followed through. Now, the OpenSimulator project has been gathering some solid momentum, and this was followed by an announcement by IBM that showed interoperability between OpenSimulator and Linden Servers. What this means is that you can use a Second Life client to log on to an OpenSim server. Beyond that, anyone can run their own server. ‘Working with the protocols derived from the official Second Life client, and a knowledge of how Second Life works, these people have implemented their own compatible server code.’ It is only a matter of time before users will be able to move profiles, virtual goods, and other elements of their ’second life’ on to any server in a truly open world, thereby threatening Linden Labs’ virtual world experience. With Google and Sun at the fringes of this space, things are going to get very interesting, virtually speaking.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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