At The Nexus #18: Chop Off The TrackPad
Mar 24, 2012•1 hr 59 min
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Episode description
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss the new HP laptop in the studio, mail problems, new site designs and for the news, Apple's dividend and sales, HP's printer and PC divisions to converge, the Virgin Mobile outage, Windows 8 in October, new open source graphics drivers, a Twitter and GCC birthday and more At The Nexus.
Ryan Rampersad answered the call to a higher calling and plans to get new cell phone, he also talks about the big Virgin Mobile USA texting-data-phone black out. The mad quack Matt looks optimistic about Linux’s future with fantastic graphics drivers and 3D acceleration from newly invested interest from nVidia and AMD, while post-bribing Ryan into building a new portfolio page for him; all that and more!
– Description graciously supplied by Matthew and edited by Ryan
Links- Ryan Rampersad’s blog
- HP combines printer, PC units; Analysts question synergy
- Virgin Mobile USA’s text and data services are out across the USA
- Virgin Mobile USA service restored following nationwide outage
- Apple Announces $11 Dividend And Share Buyback
- Asymco: Apple’s Dividend
- New iPad Tops Three Million
- AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code
- Nvidia Jumps on Board with the Linux Foundation
- Nvidia’s Kepler Architecture: 6 Things You Should Know
- Microsoft Said to Finish Windows 8 in Summer, Debut October
- Rumor: New iPhone to Have Larger 4.6-Inch Retina Display
- Six-Year-Old Twitter Now Has 140M Active Users Sending 340M Tweets Per Day
- FCC paves the way for a Dish 4G LTE network
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 hands-on preview
- ExtremeTech
- Linux kernel 3.3 released with merged Android code and more
- Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow
- Facebook Is Said to Buy 750 IBM Patents to Boost Defenses
- Julian Assange to run for Australian senate
- Venture
- The Nexus Tablet?
- Microsoft Said to Plan Debut of New Xbox in 2013 at Earliest
- China Will Not Issue 4G Licenses for Another 2 to 3 Years, Says Official
- iPhone 4G – But Not Really New Hardware
- AOL Won’t Kill Instant Messenger
- Firefox 11 (Finally) Adds Add-On Sync, Solves Add-On Compatibility Issues
- Microsoft Office 15 Preview
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