On first day of CES 2011 Wednesday, 5th January Microsoft has made announcement that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, including ARM-based systems from partners NVIDIA Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. Company also has demonstrated the next version of Windows running on new SoC architectures from Intel running on x86 architecture and from NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments on ARM architecture. You can read the full story at source.

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If you want the fastest average broadband speed in the world, don’t move to Japan. Instead, buckle up your Birkenstocks and pile into the VW Bus, because it’s time for a road trip to Berkeley, California, home of the fastest average Internet speeds on earth. This nugget of data comes courtesy of the most recent State of the Internet report from Akamai Technologies, which collects and analyzes a unique data set of worldwide speeds and IP address usage. When all of the company’s speed data was sorted by city, three US locations top the list before South Korea and Japan begin [...]

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The roll-out of 3D TV has begun in earnest and Samsung is hoping to capitalize on consumer interest by being first to market in several territories. The company’s 3D sets have been available in Korea for over a month, have recently appeared for sale in the U.S. and European markets, and yesterday Australian availability was announced for next week. So with consumers now actually able to grab the new tech off store shelves, we thought it was time to give a brief summary of what Samsung has on offer. Take Your Pic of Screen Technologies Samsung seems to be subscribing to the old saying [...]

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Infiniti will be letting loose a new sport utility vehicle later this year under the QX56 nameplate. The chassis and body for the QX56 SUV is all fresh for 2011. The last automobile had a price of $56,000 and the 2011 QX56 will cost about the same even thought there are many additions. Do people still want a large sport utility vehicle to buy? The Infiniti Dealer sales numbers point to a resounding yes! Its impossible to overlook the redesigned QX56. There was nothing exciting about the former QX56. Its a good thing that the QX56 took some style from its kid brother; the FX35. Out front [...]

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Most people are pretty good at guessing which cities rank highest in crime. But, how well does your hometown do when it comes to cybercrime? When I think about criminals, I think about shady characters lurking in dark alleys. Turns out, cybercriminals might be hanging out at the original Starbucks in Seattle. According to a new report by online security giant Symantec, creator of Norton, Seattle ranked number one, by a huge margin as the riskiest online city, followed by Boston, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Not exactly cities you imagine to be hotbeds of criminal activity. The report looked [...]

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has revealed that the company has been working on a next generation of Spotify for a number of months and that music management is the key to making Spotify even more successful. Speaking at SXSWi in Texas, Ek told crowds that: “What we have been working on in the past six to eight months is the next-generation of Spotify. “[We are asking] how can we make Spotify more connected, how can we enable the easier sharing of music and make the management of music? “One of the things that we have realised is that people spend a lot of time on Spotify and they intend [...]

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Thanks to Apple it’s now a little bit cooler to be on the scrap heap by 34 – courtesy of the UK’s Job Centre Plus, which has launched an iPhone app to help people find minimum wage employment in various meat production facilities across the country. The government announcement says the app lets users search for jobs by location, and will soon be enhanced to automatically notify you when a meat-separating opportunity that matches your search criteria and skillset becomes available. NOT WANTED: Employees who stare at their phones all day need not apply The BBC, quoting Employment [...]

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The Adamo XPS is a daring slice of design and engineering. Quite frankly, it’s batshit insane. I mean that in the best possible way. It really is impossibly thin. I felt like I was holding a single sheet of aluminum that was contoured into the curved shape of a laptop. I set it down, gingerly, because I didn’t want to break it, since I didn’t know at the moment that it was $1800. My finger slid across the latch to disengage the heat-sensitive capacitive latch. There was no visible sign my stroke was the lucky one, so I waited a second before prying the top half upward. [...]

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The ‘Interactive’ part of the annual South by South West conference in Austin, Texas kicks off this Friday. Known as SXSWi, and running through until Tuesday 16 March, the event brings together web designers, developers, content creators and more, to share ideas, network, announce new products and services, and then hang out in the evenings over barbeque and beer. The conference features around 200 panels and evening events covering subjects such as social media, interface design, real-time web and much more. The evenings see parties such as the Bigg Digg Shindigg, events hosted by [...]

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