Nvidia Corp. on Wednesday displayed the first photo of its next-generation flagship graphics card based on the Fermi-GF100…
Chief executive of Nvidia said it would ramp up production of Fermi-GF100 graphics processor in Q1 of its fiscal 2011…

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The holiday season is heating up and another FPS was released last night at midnight. Left 4 Dead 2—-the sequel to the highly acclaimed original Zombie shooter from Valve. New scenes, new survivors, nerve searing action, new weapons and levels that reshape themselves (your favorite shortcut may now be a dead end with Infected waiting to ambush) all add to this latest version. Along with the release of COD Modern Warfare 2 last week and Borderlands a few days before that, the FPS genre on the PC is undergoing a mini renaissance. Bottom line: If you are a FPS fan for the PC—–the holidays are shaping up nicely. Shoot, I’m still blasting my way through Borderlands which is highly addictive in itself! Fun!!

Here’s is a fairly in-depth review from IGN:

IGN: Left 4 Dead 2 Review

Windows 7 is surging. After an insanely popular beta cycle, Microsoft’s latest and greatest has exploded out of the gate, grabbing more than 4 percent of the real-world usage base as tracked by InfoWorld’s Windows Pulse service — after only a few weeks of general availability…. There seems to be a direct correlation between Windows 7 adoption and Vista abandonment, with the latter losing a percentage point and the former gaining the same in a little over a week… with XP holding steady at just under 64 percent.

Windows 7 is quickly displacing Vista — but not XP | Windows - InfoWorld

Chip makers Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc said they have settled all outstanding legal disputes, including antitrust litigation and patent licensing issues.

Intel to pay AMD $1.25-billion, settle all disputes

I gues they will also have a lot less lawyer costs
AMD could have had much more but stability and a certain future is also very valuable for AMD now.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is being released Today!!! Many game stores had a special "Midnight Opening" so that customers could pick up their copy of the game last night. Sales are anticipated to equal or surpass Grand Theft Auto IV which was the most successfully sold video game ever.
Infinity Ward had been working on this version for over two years and trailers depict outstanding game play and superb graphics. The storyline picks up at the end of Call of Duty 4 as the good guys continue to fight an international Russian terrorist organization.

With the release of this game, a Borderlands game gaining in popularity daily, and an upcoming Aliens Versus Predator……The FPS genre is having a mini renaissance on the PC just in time for, and during the upcoming holidays.

I purchased Borderlands yesterday and will pick up my copy of CODMW2 today…..

So many games…..so little time.

Anyone who has downloaded the latest version of Firefox should make sure to update all browser plugins…. The bad guys have written malware to automate attacks on security holes. The attacks exploit an Adobe Flash Player flaw from 2007 and a Microsoft ActiveX flaw from 2008. The flaws might be old, but they still impact the latest edition of Mozilla Firefox, version 3.5. It’s especially critical since many PC users are downloading Firefox 3.5, F-Secure added.

F-Secure: Flash, ActiveX Still Under Attack - InternetNews.com

Reviews of Verizon’s new Droid smartphone—-which has gathered attention as of late, are coming in….

The Verdict so far:

If you really, really like Verizon (and there is no doubt that Verizon simply has the strongest overall network coverage right now in the US)…..

Then get a Droid—-as it’s the best smartphone Verizon has to offer.

However—–if you want the best smartphone and are willing to put up with AT&T annoyances…..

Then the iPhone is STILL the way to go.

Two reviews here:
Mossberg On The Droid: The Best Verizon Has To Offer (VZ, MOT, AAPL)
If You Don’t Buy An iPhone, Buy A Droid (GOOG, AAPL, MOT)

I’m getting so I hate Twitter….there—I said it—–now you can throw stones…..

You daily see the articles about Twitter being the fastest growing social networking company and how their company value has raised into the billions of dollars…..

OK—that may be so…..and the problems I am going to speak of are probably a direct result of their tremendous explosion in growth and demand. But be that as it may—-the BOTTOM LINE is this: Twitter is a mess right now….

Many (far, FAR too many) accounts created since as late as mid September can’t be searched for and "found" making it impossible to "follow" someone’s tweets (Why have Twitter if you can’t "follow" someone??)
Email notifications are spotty at best.
SMS text notifications problems continue to bedevil the site
Site speed has become unuseable far too often
Too many error messages
Things just get "lost" far to often…..

Twitter Support replies to posts detailing these problems with a lot of "we are devoting a lot of engineering time to fix this" responses—and also a bunch of other cutsie little sayings on error pages like "Whoa—-something is wrong!"

Well DUH!

I have experienced all of these issues in trying to set up a Twitter site for a very progressive official in our public school system. Boards are rife with Twitter issues.

Problems stem from a new update, tremendous demand and also Twitter trying to shoe horn in, additional features…..

If you are trying to set up an official Twitter site for a person of stature, a school or a business—-you may want to hold off until Twitter’s technical abilities actually match what they promise. Heck—-if you re just trying to set one up for yourself—-I wouldn’t bother right now……

Why is it when a company has just ONE THING—-that it does REALLY WELL—–they AWAYS try to add a bunch of other things to the product which ultimately causes failure…..

Twitter—-today’s Billion dollar valued company…..tomorrow’s Blockbuster Videos…..

Have you had bad experiences as well?—-or quite the opposite?? I invite you to post your comments in this thread.

This may be of particular interest to those looking for a free, easy-to-use, wysiwyg ("what you see is what you get") web-page composer/editor program.

Today (October 27, 2009), the SeaMonkey project released version 2.0. Yeah version 2.0. We’ve got IE 8, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 which are all ‘younger’ projects in many ways, but SeaMonkey is at version 2.0, go figure….

Just like the Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Suites (that I personally relied on for many years), SeaMonkey includes a web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing capabilities.

With SeaMonkey 2.0, the project has now moved to a Firefox 3.5.x base for the underlying web browser.

Mozilla SeaMonkey FINALLY hits 2.0 - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner

As recently as mid-August when I first bought my iPhone3GS there was just a shade over 70,000 applications or "apps" for short…..available for the iPhone and iPod. At that time I thought this number incredible and after many visits and long hours searching through the "App Store" I have walked away with the feeling that there truly IS an "App for everything"—-as Apple is so quick to claim. In the two months since, the App Store has grown to over 100,000 applications! With a growth rate of almost 15,000 Apps a month!! Staggering!! The closest competitor is Android with less than 14,000 total applications and although popular—no where near the projected growth rate of this Apple success story. Microsoft doesn’t have an available platform to sell PPC and smartphone applications but is said to be eying Apple’s success with envy and building plans to compete. To visit the App Store, you must have iTunes installed but there are a host of different independent web sites that review the myriad of applications as they are released. Whether you own an iPhone or not, the growth rate and popularity of the platform and applications is remarkable. Read the story here: App Store Crosses Milestone: More than 100,000 iPhone Apps Approved - iPhone Hacks