Utilities

Six cores. Twelve threads

Eager gamers have no doubt already seen the teasers, but Valve has now finally confirmed that its Steam game distribution service and Source engine will at long last be headed to the Mac. According to Valve, the company’s current line-up of games (including the Half-Life and Left 4 Dead series) will be available to Mac users in April, while Portal 2 will represent the company’s first simultaneous release for PC and Mac later this year.

Where art thou Dell Adamo XPS ? That’s the question this poor error page seems to be asking when customers attempt to order the insanely thin laptop on Dell’s site.

Wired broadband is all well and good, but significantly more high-speed internet access is going to come via wireless over the next several years, and everyone involved — the carriers, the CTIA , and the FCC — knows that it’s going to be a technical challenge to meet that reality. Spectrum is one thing, but the bytes need somewhere to go once they hit the towers; that’s where backhaul comes into play

If there’s one company that goes all out at CeBIT each year, its ASUS, as evidenced by the fact that we’re still catching up with new products from the company the week after CeBIT.