2 posts and columns on hummingbird

LG Goes With Nvidia Chip in New Smartphones

in News on August 19, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

LG Electronics on Thursday confirmed that it would be using a dual-core processor manufacturered by Nvidia for its line of Optimus smartphones later this year. That’s a coup for Nvidia, which has been pushing to enter the smartphone market with its Tegra chip and expand beyond its traditional business of providing graphics chips for PCs.

Viral Video: Forget Twitter, Google–How About Acquiring Nanoblogger Flutter?

in News on April 6, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

On Friday, amid all the hoopla around acquisition rumors swirling around Twitter, Slate put out a very funny spoof on a fictional new service called Flutter. The online magazine’s mockumentary about a nanoblogging service is definitely more amusing than contemplating the fate of the real-life microblogging service. It’s mascot, of course, is a hummingbird and its 26-character messages are called “flaps.” Here’s one heck of a rumor: BoomTown is in “late-stage” discussions to buy it.
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