Google's Android vs apple'Iphone

While the smartphone market for the mainstream customer in the U.S. still largely belongs the Apple and its iPhone, things could be changing quickly. According to research firm NPD's survey of 150,000 "nationally balanced and demographically-representative" respondents, smartphones running the Android operating system moved past Apple to take the number-two position among smartphone operating systems.
NPD's wireless market research reveals that based on unit sales to consumers last quarter the Android operating system moved into second position at 28 percent behind RIM's BlackBerry OS (36 percent) and ahead of Apple's OS (21 percent).

"As in the past, carrier distribution and promotion have played a crucial role in determining smartphone market share," said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD. "In order to compete with the iPhone, Verizon Wireless has expanded its buy-one-get-one offer beyond RIM devices to now include all of their smartphones."

EA to Charge $10 to secondhand owners of a game

In an effort to capture additional revenue from a resale of a videogame, EA Sports is putting in place a system whereby secondhand owners of a game needs to spend an extra $10 to play online.
Dubbed the "Online Pass" from EA Sports, it rewards game owners of new copies with a game-specific, one-time-use registration code for online services, features and bonus content. This applies regardless if the game is played over the free PSN or the paid Xbox Live Gold services. This will start with Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11.

Steam for MAC

Steam is available for Mac users today, extending one of PC gaming's best online services to those gaming on aluminum-clad machines from Apple.
"Steam has been a service exclusively for PC users since we launched it in 2004. For the first time we and our partners are bringing it to another platform," Valve wrote in its news section. "It's been a ton of work, but the Mac is great for the same reason the PC is great - they are both open systems that let gamers and game developers be as close as possible."

intel want 88 percent shares of Core 2010 CPUs in Q1 2011

Intel has some aggressive plans for Core 2010 expansion in 2010 and beyond. Core 2010 is a mutual name for Lynnfield and Clarkdale desktop processors or the second generation of Nehalem architecture.
In Q2 2010, Intel plans to have 44 percent of all sold CPUs based on Core 2010. 45 percent of all CPUs sold in this quarter should go to business market segment and in overall desktop market Intel hopes to have 44 percent of all desktop CPUs based on Core 2010.

In Q3 2010 consumer presence of Core 2010 should jump to 55 percent, business presence should jump to 56 percent while the overall market share should jump to 53 percent.

In Q4 2010, consumer market share of Core 2010 should jump to 77 percent while the business sector should have 68 percent of all CPUs based on Core 2010. Overall desktop presence for Core 2010 in the last quarter should be at 67 percent.

AMD Phenom II X4 960T Not for retail

AMD sent out an e-mail today letting the press know that we shouldn't expect to see any retail Phenom II X4 960T Thuban quad-core processors being sold individually on the retail market. These were very interested parts as the engineering samples that were available could be unlocked to become six-core processors