AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.

What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.

A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.

Ce qu’il y a de bien avec les techniques d’optimisation de référencement dans les moteurs de recherche (SEO), c’est que l’on en apprend tous les jours, que l’on soit un cador de la discipline ou un simple amateur curieux. Ce qu’il y a de moins bien c’est que l’on apprend parfois à ses dépens.

Ainsi ai-je découvert via un article sur The Next Web qu’un truc qui parait aussi déconnecté du web qu’une newsletter peut avoir un impact négatif sur le classement de votre site dans les moteurs de recherche. C’est Jake Ludington qui révèle et explique en détail la chose dans Lockergnome.

On dirait qu’Ouriel Ohayon et ses associés et investisseurs ont eu le nez creux quand ils ont créé Appsfiredébut 2010. L’application pour iPhone et Android qui permet de découvrir et partager des applications pour iPhone et Android surfe sur le développement exponentiel des App Stores pour iPhone et Android, et apparemment ça marche.