AMD plucks new graphics executive from Intel
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it had hired former Intel researcher John Gustafson as the chief architect for graphics products, continuing an executive shuffle among chip companies. Gustafson will drive the road map for AMD’s graphics products, which includes the FirePro and Radeon processors that go into PCs, servers, tablets and gaming consoles. Gustafson previously was a senior architect at Intel Labs researching...
Facebook Camera update adds notifications, lets you pick and choose albums
By Terrence O’Brien posted Aug 28th 2012 5:04PM The Facebook Camera just scored a nice little update in the iTunes app store. Now the filter-equipped shooter will let you pick and choose which folders to upload your pics to — something that probably should have been included in version one. It also brings notifications to the party, letting you keep track of when friends comment, tag or like a photo. It’s actually...
Apps Now Key to Small-Business Savings
Small businesses are using technology to help them operate more efficiently and cost-effectively in an increasingly competitive environment. Each Monday, USA TODAY looks at new ways companies are gaining an innovative edge in a tough economy. Photos by Maxine Park,, USA TODAY Real estate brokerage owner: Krisstina Wise likes the app DocuSign, which enables digital signatures: “It’s rare that we need an ink signature...
Switched On: Trading places
By Ross Rubin posted Aug 26th 2012 5:30PM Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. If widespread rumors hold true, the coming weeks will see two of the most successful tablet vendors invade each other’s screen size turf. Apple, which once rebuked the 7-inch tablet as unfit for normally proportioned human hands, appears ready to try its own hand at an iPad rumored to be on the larger side...
WiFi alliance begins Tunneled Direct Link Setup certification, hopes to improve media streaming
By James Trew posted Aug 26th 2012 6:47PM You can thank the WiFi alliance for a number of things, and soon you can add TDLS to that list. That’s Tunneled Direct Link Setup, if you were wondering, and it’s a standard for creating direct links between devices. If this sounds familiar, that’s understandable, but TDLS has its own tricks, like working in the background of a network to optimize performance, and it can even...
