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Aldo Cortesi:

The truth is this: Google destroyed the RSS feed reader ecosystem with a subsidized product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation. It then neglected Google Reader itself for years, after it had effectively become the only player. Today it does further damage by buggering up the already beleaguered links between publishers and readers. It would have been better for the Internet if Reader had never been at all.

Crazy strategy: we give you a free service, you get used to it, we control it, you become addicted to it, we discontinue as per our wish, you are abandoned!

Hilton Lipschitz for The Hiltmon:

I’m not a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, but I have noted the past few months that the WSJ seems to issue regular negative news, no, opinions, no, rumors, no, rubbish on Apple. So I ran a test, I Googled “wsj apple.”

Check out his findings, They’re really interesting.

Shamus Young for Escapist Magazine:

The PlayStation 3 uses the Cell Architecture. That’s a system for getting a bunch of different processors to work together. On most other devices you have a single powerful processor, or perhaps a powerful central processor and then another processor specifically designed for graphics. On a cell machine, you have many smaller processors (on the PS3 it’s six) that are each dedicated to specific tasks.

The Gaikai solution for backward compatibility seems confusing. Actually, there are more hidden details for the service than meets the eye. Two main aspects were implied during PS4 announcement briefing:

– Games reside on the cloud and can be accessed via PS4 = streaming = always online status

– Games are playable while downloading, a la streaming? but they are downloaded and available for offline play eventually

Maybe the Gaikai technology is to put streaming games next to music and videos. but the question is whether we can keep a copy of what’s being downloaded; considering the huge size of games compared to other media offerings.

John Taylor, head of marketing for AMD, told The Inquirer:

Everything that Sony has shared in that single chip is AMD, but we have not built an APU quite like that for anyone else in the market. It is by far the most powerful APU we have built to date, it leverages [intellectual property] that you will find in our A-series APUs later this year, our new generation of APUs but none that will quite be to that level of sheer number of cores, sheer number of teraflops.

Cool! will see how this turns out this fall