7 years ago Apple announced that they would be moving from PowerPCs to Intel’s x86 CPUs in two years because they had been producing less heat and running much faster (PowerPCs were built by IBM. The 8-core version of this chip also powers PlayStation 3 ). This was a very dangerous step, which definitely brought massive boost in performance for Apple products, but caused additional emulation layer to run the legacy applications. ...

crosspost x codebranch There were so many announcements this month, that the tech press kept whining about the jetlags and whole difficulty of travelling around the globe. And we’re not talking about the small announcements and launches – all of the three IT giants had something new for the ever growing personal computing market. October was huge for us as mobile developers, because we are the ones who will bring to life our future projects for these platforms. ...

Hi everyone, as always I’d like to rant on the following: greediness and insanity of Russian retailers. The latest issue of Svyaznoy’s catalogue is a great example of utterly insane management and completely moronic pricing amongst almost any hardware company here. I was pleased by 6 tablets announced to be sold by the retailer this month, all 6 from Sammy, Asus and Acer. I was happy to see my beloved low-cost Acer Iconia W510 ($499 in US) (previews (1) and (2))! But here it’s priced as some crazy-ass magnesium-made premium ultra-fucking-machine. And that’s for Clover Trail! No way! ...

crosspost x codebranch We are Codebranch – an external web development team. For the last couple of months we’ve been preparing the grounds to run – now the website is up, our 3 offices in Finland, Russia and Turkey fully operational, so we’re good to go! Codebranch Website We aimed to make our website content-centric, so you won’t find awesome charts and colorful pictures. You can find important information like what we do and how to reach us almost instantly. The same applies to the whole approach of our company – we work in a transparent, leanand efficient way. ...

I love Surface RT, the way it looks and works. I’m even ok with the lack of ***mkv **codec support (although, that’s a NO for me, until there’s an app). However, reading the latest articles on how MS “nailed” shipping Surface Pre-Orders again makes me tip my hat to Apple, because of it’s polished supply / retail lines. Surface RT — first attempt Latest “Where is my Microsoft Surface? Here’s what we know” article sheds some light on the shipping issues inside the software giants. Although zdnet really sucks in 70% of it’s “analytics”, this is a good example of trying to understand what went wrong. ...

Oh that is sooooo awesome! I love when the guys speak like that xD /s Zend and PHP have made significant inroads into the enterprise market in the last few years — Gutmans told me that “when we go up against Java or .Net, we win — and the new integrated development environment for mobile, cloud, and business applications is part of a new mobile-first push for the company. http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/23/huge-news-php-developers-can-now-design-build-and-publish-mobile-apps-right-in-zend-studio/ UPD: Anyway, my tip of a hat for the work they’ve done =) ...