Jun29

Free Cafe Gaming

on June 29th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Posted In: General

For a limited time only you can come up to RevolutionPc and game for Free. For the rest of this week our gaming and cafe computers are open for free to the public. Come up and bring some friends. You have until this friday, don’t miss your opportunity.

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Jun29

Facebook Valued at $70 Billion

on June 29th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Posted In: General

We have heard plenty of rumored valuations of Facebook, some of which went as high as $100 billion.

There is a more tangible number available as investment fund GSV Capital just bought 225,000 Facebook shares at an average price of $29.28 per share. Since Facebook currently has 2.4 billion outstanding shares, the purchase assumes a Facebook value of currently $70.3 billion. Not bad.

Back in January, Goldman Sachs invested about $500 million in Facebook based on a $50 billion valuation. If we go further back in time, Facebook was valued at $12 billion based on a $240 million investment by Microsoft in October 2007, at about $550 million based on a $27.5 million investment by Greylock Partners in April 2006 and at about $100 million based on $12.7 million funding Facebook received in May 2005 from Accel Partners. Facebook has received a total of $2.34 billion in funding so far and is expected to record revenues of $2 billion this year.

Facebook’s valuation is mainly driven by claims of continued user growth as well as gains in advertising market share. Facebook reportedly has about 750 million users and a 33% display ad share in the U.S.

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Jun29

Sony Vaio Z Has External Radeon Light Peak GPU

on June 29th, 2011 at 10:42 am
Posted In: General

The best of both worlds for the roadwarrior and desktop replacement.

Sony has taken the wraps off its new high-end premium notebook, the new Vaio Z Series with some pretty interesting expansion options.

The Vaio Z is super-travel-ready with a weight of about 1.18 kg or 2.6 lbs and a thickness of 16.65 mm or just under 0.66 of an inch. Despite its small size, it is sturdy thanks to a carbon fibre composition.

The 13.1-inch screen has a 1600×900 resolution with an anti-reflective coating. Various configurations include Intel Core i7 processors and fast SSD storage as well as an optional secondary sheet battery gives up to 14 hours of use.

While roadwarriors will love the Vaio Z for portability and speed reason, this fancy notebook can shine with some added power thanks to a docking expansion called the Power Media Dock.

Notable about the Power Media Dock is that it contains an AMD Radeon HD 6650M with 1GB DDR3, which takes over the graphical duties from the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000. The discrete GPU can add an additional three external displays with a maximum resolution of 1920×1200 through VGA and HDMI outputs.

Besides just packing a GPU, the Power Media Dock also sports an optical drive bay that can be specified with a Blu-ray Disc or SuperMulti combo drive.

The Power Media Dock obviously has big I/O requirements with the laptop, and that is all facilitated by the architecture codenamed ‘Light Peak’. Apparently, it can’t be called Thunderbolt because it uses a USB connector interface rather than the DisplayPort that Apple first implemented earlier this year. When the optical-based Sony proprietary cable isn’t plugged into the notebook, the port can function as a regular USB 3.0/2.0 one.

As for pricing, the premium Vaio line has never been cheap. Expect prices starting in the $2000 range and into the $3000 range depending on configuration and Power Media Dock.

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Jun29

Latest Windows 8 Rumor Says RTM by April 2012

on June 29th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Posted In: General

Just one beta to rule them all?

Veteran Microsoft reporter Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet has a tip about when Windows 8 will see release.

The original belief was that Windows 8 would hit the release to manufacturing (RTM) in Q2/Q3 2012 following various beta previews and release candidates. The new rumor is that Microsoft is shooting to RTM by April 2012.

What’s more, rather than just RTM the two desktop and business editions, Microsoft is aiming to finish Windows 8 for x86, x64, as well as the ARM SoC and Windows 8 Servers all for a simultaneous RTM.

The rumor extends itself to say that there will be a beta release around the time of the BUILD conference this September. It will be the only beta release that will be followed by the release candidate in January 2012.

If true, an April 2012 RTM time would mean a retail launch that could be just in time for the back-to-school buyers.

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Jun28

Firefox 7 To Eliminate ”http://” URL Prefix

on June 28th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Posted In: General

Mozilla has released the first nightly builds of Firefox that will eliminate the common protocol prefix in the URL that is shown in the location bar.

Instead of http://www.example.com, Firefox will be displaying www.example.com.

The change is expected to be integrated in Firefox 7, which is due for release at the end of September. While it seems to be only a cosmetic change, the purpose is to highlight the current browser location in a much more meaningful way and drop the protocol prefix, which has been confusing especially to users that are new or not familiar with the Internet. Firefox also greys out the “www” or subdomain of a URL, as well as the resource ID and deletes any trailing single slashes in a web address.

To maintain a reasonable level of security while browsing, Firefox 7 still displays the https:// prefix, to inform the user when the browser is showing a “secure” webpage. Firefox will also include the prefix when users copy and paste URLs from the location bar.

Mozilla said that it is following both Chrome and Opera with the elimination of the prefix. Chrome dropped the prefix with the release of developer versions of Chrome 5 back in April of 2010.

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