Archive for December 10th, 2008
The Khronos Group on Monday announced that its OpenCL 1.0 specification has been ratified and publicly released. Apple proposed the spec six months ago.OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices.
“The opportunity to effectively unlock the capabilities of new generations of programmable computer and graphics processors drove the unprecedented level of cooperation to refine the initial proposal from Apple into the ratified OpenCL 1.0 specification,” said Neil Trevett, chairman of the OpenCL working group, president of the Khronos Group, and a vice president at Nvidia.
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December 10th, 2008
In the latest development in the ongoing Microsoft 
-Yahoo saga, Redmond is showing renewed interest in a search deal with its struggling rival. After several failed attempts to acquire all or part of Yahoo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company should ink a deal to acquire Yahoo’s search business “sooner than later,” according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.Ballmer wants to build a “credible competitor” to Google. In fact, if Microsoft acquired Yahoo’s search assets, it would gain a 30 percent market share, about half what Google owns, according to the latest comScore figures. The search-advertising market, in effect, would be a duopoly, with Google and Microsoft together owning about 90 percent.
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December 10th, 2008
Internet users in the United Kingdom can no longer edit Wikipedia or access an article about an album by the Scorpions, a German rock band. The Internet Watch Foundation, a UK regulatory agency, blacklisted the site Saturday after a user reported the image on the album as child sex abuse. The hotline analysts determined the image was potentially illegal.”The IWF does not issue takedown notices to ISPs [Internet Service Providers] or hosting companies outside the UK, but we did advise one of our partner hotlines abroad and our law-enforcement partner agency of our assessment,” the group said on its Web site. “The specific URL (individual Web page) was then added to the list provided to ISPs and other companies in the online sector to protect their customers from inadvertent exposure to a potentially illegal indecent image of a child.”
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December 10th, 2008
