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New Yahoo service helps users share their location

NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is riding the wave of location-based services with the launch of a service intended to help users share their real-world location with their friends online....
[in Missoulian: TecKnow]

EBay in talks to buy minority stake in Gmarket

NEW YORK (AP) -- The online auction company eBay Inc. said Wednesday it is in talks to buy a minority stake in the South Korean online marketplace operator Gmarket....
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Google says thanks for Android petition

After 219 developers signed a petition asking for more information about Android's progress, Google offered a two-sentence reply saying thanks.

Developers building applications on Android, Google's mobile phone software that is still in the making, have been venting their frustration at what they say is a slow pace of updates released for the SDK and a general lack of information about the development schedule for the software.

[ For more background on Google and the Android developers, see InfoWorld's analysis. Also, get the inside scoop on Android in InfoWorld's special report, "Google Android: Invader from beyond." ]

In late June, developer Nicolas Gramlich, a computer science student in Germany, started a petition asking Google to release more updates to the SDK and to offer developers information about the development timeline of the SDK. Last week, he sent the petition to the Android Advocate at Google. The petition has by now been signed by 245 people.

A couple of days later, Gramlich received a response from Google via e-mail and he posted it in the company's official Android discussion group. The response has underwhelmed the developers.

"We appreciate the enthusiasm of our developers and we're excited that you're so passionate about the Android platform. Thanks for taking the time to send this," reads the note from Google signed by someone identified simply as David.

"Sounds like a polite way of saying nothing: a verbal silence," wrote a developer identified as Shane Isbell, on the Android forum.

Google has not replied to a request for comment or to confirm that the note came from the company.

In addition to the perceived slow release of SDK improvements, developers were also recently frustrated after a Google employee accidentally posted a note on a forum indicating that the company is offering an improved SDK to a small group of developers who won a contest. Some of the other developers were dismayed to learn that they are working on an inferior version of the SDK.

Now, developers are wondering why the continued silence from Google even after the petition. Perhaps there is some component of the SDK that Google doesn't want its competitors to see until Android launches, another developer identified as Denis Beurive speculated on the forum.

Or, perhaps the SDK isn't particularly stable and so Google doesn't want to release another weak version of it, he wondered.

The unrest comes amid speculation that the final Android software is delayed and after Apple has sold millions of iPhones to people who can buy applications from developers for the phones. Google has said that it is on schedule to launch Android and that Android phones will begin to appear this year.

[in InfoWorld: Top News]

Stix takes a stab at motion-controlled PC games

NEW YORK (AP) -- Looking at its size, shape, white wrist strap and B-button on the bottom, it's easy to compare the Stix with the Wiimote, the wireless controller for the popular Nintendo gaming console. Except the Stix is for your PC....
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Video, graphics module drives dual displays

With advanced-sensor-fusion, image-manipulation, and tactical-moving-map applications in mind, Aitech Defense Systems recently introduced the M590 graphics and video PMC (peripheral-component-interconnect-mezzanine-card) module that simultaneously outputs information from two independent data streams to two analog or digital displays.

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Stanford, Korean nanofab center, Oregon-based semi startup claim 3D IC breakthrough

To allow low-cost memories and high-performance logic products with large embedded memory blocks, Stanford University�??s Nanofabrication Facility along with Daejeon, Korea-based National NanoFab Center and Beaverton, Ore-based BeSang Inc are reporting what they say is a 3D IC technology breakthrough.

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Nvidia quarter down on desktop market, price pressure, product issues

Nvidia reports financials for its fiscal Q2 2009 that show the results of pressure applied by its GPU rivals, shrinking consumer interest for desktop PCs, and a previously announced product defect issue. "Our Q2 financial performance was disappointing,” Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, admits. “The desktop PC market around the world weakened during the quarter. And our miscalculation of competitive price position further pressured our desktop GPU business.”

[in Electronic News: Broadband]

Info-Tek releases GECUBE RadeonTM HD4850: A Grand Entrance An All New Experience in Cinematic and 3D Gaming Visuals

[in Computex]

Planet Presents the True MIMO Technology, Faster In Speed, Wider In Coverage - WNAP-1120

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