Online profile site About.me gets snapped up by AOL

<P align=center><img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///classifications/images/aboutme-200-200.jpg"></P> <br /><P>AOL has decided that fledgling online profile site <a href="https://about.me/">About.me</A> is prime real estate, announcing it has bought the site a mere four days after launch.</P><br /><P>About.me is a simple concept: it allows you to build a personal profile page that can be used as a calling card for what you do web wise.</P><br /><P>It's about as far removed as the fussiness of Facebook and the constant information stream that is Twitter but it serves the same purpose – exposure.</P><br /><P>It also acts as a landing page for your myriad social-networking profiles that litter the web.</P><br /><P><STRONG>About turn</STRONG></P><br /><P>A major bonus is that the site offers personal analytics for you to peruse. So you can see how many people have checked your profile and what they do when they go on to your page.</P><br /><P>Tony Conrad is the person behind About.me and is no stranger to being under AOL's wing. </P><br /><P>In 2008 he sold his company Sphere to AOL for the around £16 million and AOL Ventures was one of the investors in About.me.</P><br /><P>The About.me team is staying put when AOL takes over, so don't expect <a href="https://about.me/about#team%20">the information on their profiles</A> to change for a while.</P>

Online profile site About.me gets snapped up by AOL

AOL has decided that fledgling online profile site About.me is prime real estate, announcing it has bought the site a mere four days after...

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Online profile site About.me gets snapped up by AOL

<P align=center><img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///classifications/images/aboutme-200-200.jpg"></P> <br /><P>AOL has decided that fledgling online profile site <a href="https://about.me/">About.me</A> is prime real estate, announcing it has bought the site a mere four days after launch.</P><br /><P>About.me is a simple concept: it allows you to build a personal profile page that can be used as a calling card for what you do web wise.</P><br /><P>It's about as far removed as the fussiness of Facebook and the constant information stream that is Twitter but it serves the same purpose – exposure.</P><br /><P>It also acts as a landing page for your myriad social-networking profiles that litter the web.</P><br /><P><STRONG>About turn</STRONG></P><br /><P>A major bonus is that the site offers personal analytics for you to peruse. So you can see how many people have checked your profile and what they do when they go on to your page.</P><br /><P>Tony Conrad is the person behind About.me and is no stranger to being under AOL's wing. </P><br /><P>In 2008 he sold his company Sphere to AOL for the around £16 million and AOL Ventures was one of the investors in About.me.</P><br /><P>The About.me team is staying put when AOL takes over, so don't expect <a href="https://about.me/about#team%20">the information on their profiles</A> to change for a while.</P>

Online profile site About.me gets snapped up by AOL

AOL has decided that fledgling online profile site About.me is prime real estate, announcing it has bought the site a mere four days after...

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Sony Ericsson 16MP cameraphone snapped and detailed

<P align=center><img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/Mobile%20Phones/Sony%20Ericsson/sony-ericsson-cybershot-s006-back-200-200.jpg"></P> <br /><P>Thought the megapixel wars were over? Think again - Sony Ericsson is releasing a 16MP cameraphone in the new year.</P><br /><P>Although only (initially) destined for Japan, the new handset has sashayed through the FCC and comes with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, what looks like a touchscreen atop a slide-out portrait keyboard.</P><br /><P>However, despite the powerful processor on board, there's no Android OS on show here, merely a Sony Ericsson proprietary system, so hopefully that camera is the thing that will be sucking the CPU power.</P><br /><P><STRONG>Cooler and meaner that ever</STRONG></P><br /><P>Other little snippets about the phone - it's apparently waterproof, has a back-lit sensor (so a whopping ISO level of 12800 is possible) and comes with the usual Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth gubbins, as well as a microSD slot.</P><br /><P>You can check out the Japanese-English user manual over at the <a href="https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=572994&fcc_id=%27PY7A5880010%27">FCC</A>, which also has some unattractive pictures of a phone that looks like it has hopped straight over from 2007.</P><br /><P>Is it coming to the UK? Probably not - the Bravia logo in the middle is a big hint that the Sony Ericsson Cybershot S006 is destined to remain on Japanese shores. But if the gadget-mental country tells us anything, it's what's coming next for our phones, so expect round 2,321 of the megapixel wars to start next year.</P>

Sony Ericsson 16MP cameraphone snapped and detailed

Thought the megapixel wars were over? Think again - Sony Ericsson is releasing a 16MP cameraphone in the new year. Although only (initially...

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Nvidia: SLI being snapped up for Sandy Bridge Mobos

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//images/nvidia-sli-logo-200-200.jpg"><br /><P>Nvidia has announced that its Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology has been snapped up for license by several of the world's leading manufacturers for their Sandy Bridge motherboards.</P><br /><P>Intel, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and EVGA have all taken out licenses to use it on Intel P67 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge processors. </P><br /><P>Anyone who buys an SLI-certified P67-based motherboard with a Sandy Bridge processor will be able to have a single or a dual combination of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, including the recently released GeForce GTX 580 GPU and GTX 570 for extra gaming power.</P><br /><P><STRONG>Ultimate gaming PC?</STRONG></P><br /><P>Joel Christensen, General Manager of Intel Client Board Division at Intel Corporation, said: "The combined processing prowess of Sandy Bridge and NVIDIA SLI technology will provide consumers with the building blocks for the ultimate gaming PC platform.</P><br /><P>"Both Nvidia and Intel continue to share a combined passion for furthering the PC as the definitive platform for gaming, and this combination will surely be attractive to anyone building or purchasing a brand new PC in 2011."</P><br /><P>Gamers who have a certified Nvidia SLI mothered will be able to add a second GeForce GPU to their PC, which can possibly double their graphics performance.</P><br /><P>The GeForce GPUs also include Nvidia's PhysX technology and support for NVIDIA 3D Vision technology that offers stereoscopic 3D on up to three displays.</P>

Nvidia: SLI being snapped up for Sandy Bridge Mobos

Nvidia has announced that its Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology has been snapped up for license by several of the world's leading...

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