25 years of Macintosh - the Apple Computer report card • The Register: "The Rise and Fall and Rise of Steve

Apple's last quarter century is best divided into a trio of Jobsian epochs: Steve I, No Steve, and Steve II. We're most concerned with the ongoing Steve II era and its ever-expanding worldwide cult, but first, a look back at the company's earlier incarnations."

2008/11/18

AMD is working with Intel, Nvidia and others on OpenCL, a standard for parallel C programming on x86 and graphics chips based on work from Apple Inc. OpenCL could be ratified by Khronos, a graphics industry standards group, as early as December and be supported in software products early next year.

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Internet TV "is a superb idea and it's going to be the future of television," said Steve Perlman, founder of WebTV Networks, one of the field's pioneers, who now runs Rearden LLC (San Francisco), which incubates consumer startups. "It's just a question of when and how it's implemented."

Proponents of the High Definition Multimedia Interface say they believe the industry will be able to deliver stereoscopic 3-D televisions eventually, and that the HDMI interface is ready to go for first-generation 3DTVs.

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