WWDC banners are up: Let the guessing game begin

Apple has started decorating San Francisco's Moscone Center in anticipation of the Worldwide Developers Conference, which opens Monday morning.

And as has become tradition, when the banners go up, the seemingly round-the-clock guessing game of what Apple will announce intensifies. This year, the banners say "WWDC: One year later. Light-years ahead." Now the objective for many is parsing that phrase and poring over every image on the banner to extract some sort of meaning.
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AMD demos first DirectX 11 graphics processor

We've tried not to get too hung up on the posturing by both AMD and Nvidia over whose graphics card driver software is most prepared for Windows 7. With no major upheaval to the Windows core driver design, as with the transition from XP to Vista, we expect both vendors will have little trouble making the switch on October 22nd. We're a bit more interested in a press release from AMD today, heralding a demo of its forthcoming DirectX 11 graphics hardware at the Computex tradeshow in Taiwan. That makes AMD the first vendor to show the next generation of 3D chips to the public.
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Do you want the Nvidia Ion experience?

Nvidia was out in full force at Computex, showcasing the capabilities of its Ion and Tegra platforms. The Ion platform uses the Intel Atom processor but has the company's own graphics processor, giving Netbooks the ability to view HD videos and play games.

We checked out Nvidia's showcase and was left impressed. The photo you see above is that of a Lenovo S12 connected to a large monitor playing the 1080p version of The Dark Night movie. There was no sign of jerkiness at all, something current Netbooks with Intel integrated graphics wouldn't be able to achieve at this point.
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Acer to sell Android phones, Netbooks

Acer announced on Tuesday a version of its Aspire One Netbook that will run the Android operating system.

The manufacturer made the announcement at the Computex show in Taiwan, promising a release for the Android-based Netbook in the third quarter. Android was originally intended as a platform for smartphones, but recent months have seen great interest in porting the system over to small, cheap sub-notebooks.
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Qualcomm demos new "Smartbooks"

There has been talk that the Android OS will appear in Netbooks, with some manufacturers revealing that they are exploring the possibility. If it does happen, one company that could provide the processors is Qualcomm. Well-known for its integrated chipsets used in smartphones, the US company demonstrated a category it calls "Smartbooks" at this week's Computex.

So named because it's supposed to fill a gap between smartphones and Netbooks, the Smartbooks demoed included an Asus Eee PC and Compal minilaptops running on the Android OS and equipped with its Snapdragon processor. Originally designed for handsets, this platform features wireless connectivity options built into the chipset and better power efficiency than most notebook systems. According to Qualcomm's vice president of product management, Mark Frankel, this will give all-day computing on a "Smartbook" with always-on 3G connectivity.
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