Nvidia has announced the availability of its 3DTV Play software, which allows users to connect Nvidia 3D Vision-enabled notebooks and desktops to 3D HDTVs to play their HD and 3D content on a bigger screen. 

 

Using this software, users will be able to connect their compatible Nvidia GeForce GPU-powered systems to an HDMI 1.4 3D HDTV, allowing them to view 3D photos and Full HD (1080p) stereoscopic 3D videos, as well as play almost 500 games in 3D, including StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Mafia II and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

 

Although Nvidia’s 3DTV Play software will only be available for purchase next month at nvidia.com, it is already available as a free upgrade for all 3D Vision PCs via the latest release 260 GeForce drivers for desktop GPUs, as well as the release 260 Verde notebook drivers for notebook GPUs.

 

 

Nokia is now echoing Intel’s sentiments regarding the launch date for the first MeeGo running smartphones. Doug Fisher, Intel’s VP of the Software and Solutions Group and general manager of Intel’s Systems Software Division, has stated that MeeGo-powered smartphones and tablets are in the works, but will only see the light of day some time next year. 

 

Now the Finnish company’s new CEO Stephen Elop, had the following words to say concerning MeeGo: “My first impressions of our MeeGo work inspires both confidence and excitement, however it is also clear to me that our first MeeGo device will be a 2011 event.”

 

 

 

Intel’s invest arm, Intel Capital, has announced that it has invested in mobile social gaming company Aurora Feint, creator of OpenFeint, which is one of the largest mobile social gaming developers for iOS and Android. 

 

OpenFeint’s cross platform social gaming network has over 45 million registered users and more than 3 400 games. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

 

 

 

Along with the new MacBook Air and Mac OS X Lion, Apple also unveiled FaceTime for Mac (beta) this week, which enables Mac users to make video calls over Wi-Fi to iPhone and iPod touch users. A German Mac website was quick to report that FaceTime for Mac contains a serious security flaw.

 

“Once you’ve logged into FaceTime you can have a look at all the account settings of the used Apple ID. Username, ID, place and birth date are shown as well as the security question and the answer to it – in plain text, without another password request.” The issue persists even when your FaceTime sessions ends. 

 

“When you choose “Log Out” from the top menu, the password remains in the password field, even when restarting the application. That shouldn’t be the case tho[ugh]: Applications should remove passwords from the password field as soon as the application is closed.”

 

Cupertino, however, were quick to respond and have already fixed the flaw, less than a day after reports of it surfaced.  

 

 

 

US president Barack Obama has reportedly met with Apple’s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Business Insider reported that “President Obama is flying to the Bay Area from Seattle this afternoon. He’s speaking at Google exec Marissa Mayer’s house in Palo Alto this evening. Before that, says a source familiar with the details, he will have a one-on-one meeting with Steve Jobs.” 

 

The topic of the meeting wasn’t reported, so it might have either been a serious discussion of economic and technological issues pertinent to the US or president Obama, who is an avid BlackBerry user, might just have wanted to swap his BlackBerry for an iPhone 4.

 

 

 

 

President Obama isn’t the only famous BlackBerry user, hip hop star Drake also regularly puts his BlackBerry smartphone to work. According to BlackBerryCool, the rapper composes the lyrics to his songs on his smartphone (the particular BlackBerry he uses wasn’t specified). 

 

“I can’t write my raps on paper,” he said. “The BlackBerry keys, my thumbs were made for touching them, ya know?”