Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on Galaxy Nexus, XOOM and Nexus S in Mid-July

While announcing the new flavor of Android, namely 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google also confirmed its availability for Ice Cream Sandwich-based devices. Starting with mid-July, the owners of Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S devices will get a taste of it, the same as those who own a Motorola XOOM tablet. The platform will be released along with the Android 4.1 source code, yet developers can already download and play with the updated SDK. The new OS flavor comes with a host of new features, including UI changes, Google now, updated camera app, improved notifications system, better performance, and more. You can have a look at how the new platform can fare when compared to Ice Cream Sandwich on the Galaxy Nexus in the video above. The user experience will certainly be improved, but don't...

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Now are Official

Today, Google has unveiled to the world the next flavor of its mobile operating system, Android. Jelly Bean, the new of version, Android 4.1, comes with a new user interface, as well as with a set of new features meant to improve the overall user experience with the platform. Among these, we can count Project Butter, destined to improve the overall performance of the platform, as well as its response time. Better animations are also included in the new OS version, along with better CPU management, for increased response. Users will be able to dynamically resize widgets on the homescreen, and can also remove them by simply flicking them off the screen. Apps can be removed the very same way. The camera app was updated...

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Xeon Phi and AMD’s GCN Squeezing Nvidia’s TESLA

Intel’s Xeon Phi seemed like a doomed architecture back when Intel was attempting to compete with the likes of ATi and Nvidia. The company even scrapped the Larabee project, but all that work was not thrown away. Intel redirected the use of their multiple core architecture towards high performance computing. We believe that much of the work was done on the software side, as Intel’s main purpose was to make software integration much easier for HPC users. The idea is a good one and the result is practical, although we’d rather have anything but x86 inside. For now, if Intel Xeon Phi x86 offers the better result, it deserves all the credit. Nvidia’s main problem is the fact that CUDA takes a whole lot of work to...

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