Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

ATI announced its collaboration with Pixelux Entertainment, a company specialized in material physics simulation based on the Finite Element Method, to bring such rendering available for Microsoft Direct X11 AND Open CL. This is most likely a move to compete with the now well established PhysX engine used by NVIDIA, but only available on Windows. The fact that [...]

Despite Apple’s investments in developing its own custom ARM microchips in place of using Intel’s Atom mobile processors, the company has reached out to Intel as a partner to drive the adoption of the new Light Peak specification for optical cabling. A look at Apple’s historical use of ports explains why it is doing this.

In its August 2009 Mobile Metrics Report released today, advertising firm AdMob highlights the fact that Apple’s iPhone OS commanded a 40% share of ad requests on the company’s network during the month, up from 33% six months earlier. The increase, …

The iPhone and iPod touch dominate most of the world in the mobile Web browsing battle, taking a 40 percent global total that bests rival Nokia, a new study has found.

A man who took his iPhone 3G in to a New York City Apple Store because of a large number of dropped calls was allegedly told that a 30 percent failure rate is average for a local AT&T customer.

The shipping window for Apple’s low-end Mac mini in the company’s U.S. and Canadian online stores has slipped today to “1-3 business days” from the usual “Within 24hrs” timeframe, adding further hints of supply constraints and a possible refr…

ATG has launched a program modeled partly on the now-ubiquitous app store concept and partly on the principle of open source code-sharing. The ATG Catalyst Program is an asset distribution channel for posting full-fledged applications or portions of code. ATG is kicking off the official launch of the site with ATG Mobile for the iPhone, [...]

According to our information, NVIDIA should organize a press conference to unveil its future generation of graphic cards. The availability should be delayed and ATI with its new and acclaimed Radeon HD 58×0 can still grab market share. The new GeForce would be GPU specifically designed and optimized for GPGPU and Open CL. New GPU [...]

Implementing a Long-Term Evolution data network, as is in the plans for both AT&T and Verizon, will be a costly $1.78 billion investment for each in the first year alone, a new study has found.

Gizmodo reports on a number of different tips and tidbits it has received in recent months that together paint a picture of Apple’s goals for its much-rumored tablet computer. Building on a report yesterday claiming that the new device will have a f…

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