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Manufacturers get MS Mango taste

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editor.
Johannesburg, 27 Jul 2011

Manufacturers get MS Mango taste

Microsoft said yesterday the next version of the Windows Phone operating system, codenamed Mango, has been delivered to manufacturers, which can begin testing it on their handsets, writes Cnet.

The move is one of the final steps before the software arrives on new phones and is delivered to existing users as a software update.

“This marks the point in the development process where we hand code to our handset and mobile operator partners to optimise Mango for their specific phone and network configurations,” Terry Myerson, Microsoft's corporate VP of engineering for Windows phone, wrote on a company blog.

UK broadband ads misleading

Broadband speeds in the UK now average 6.8Mbps, but there is still a huge gap between advertised and actual speeds, according to Ofcom, notes the BBC.

Almost half of broadband users are now on packages with advertised speeds above 10Mbps, but few achieve this. Ofcom's biannual report into the state of the broadband market urged changes to advertising.

Virgin Media accused rivals of misleading the public. The report found the average broadband speed has increased 10% in the last six months as more people try out fast services.

Intel readies modular Atom chips

Intel is preparing to adopt a modular architecture for system-on-chip (SoC) products that will allow the company to quickly adapt its low-power Atom processor to target specific market segments, ranging from smartphones and tablets to microservers, says V3.co.uk.

The move is part of Intel's push to accelerate its low-power roadmap over the next few years, as the chip firm seeks to get Atom chips into smartphones and tablets, and better compete against ARM-based mobile processors.

As part of the same move, Intel will shift its Atom SoC chips from 32nm to 22nm to 14nm over the next three years, with chip designs codenamed Saltwell, Silvermont and Airmont, respectively.

Gamers sell children

Gaming can get quite time- and resource-consuming, but two gamers have reached a new low in pursuit of virtual gratification, reveals Digital Trends.

A southern Chinese newspaper reports that a young Chinese couple has been found guilty of selling their three children to support a gaming habit. According to Sanxiang City News, the couple from Dongguan, China, first met in 2007 in Internet cafe; both were under 21 years old.

Bonding over a mutual online gaming obsession, the two had their first child a year later. When the two gamers were asked if they missed their children, they responded: “We don't want to raise them; we just want to sell them for some money.”

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