Intel Tries to Keep Netbooks Alive With New Atom Chips

From PC World: Intel on Wednesday started shipping the latest Atom chips for netbooks, an important step to sustain growth of the low-cost PCs in the wake of the tablet onslaught.

The dual-core chips, part of the platform code-named Cedar Trail, bring better battery life and overall...

Windows Phone upgrade plans: First Tango, then cash

From CNET News.com: Microsoft plans to target inexpensive smartphones with the next release of its mobile operating system, and won't add more advanced features until a software release slated for the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a leaked Windows Phone roadmap obtained by the...

LCD Price Fixing Settlement Totals $553M

From DailyTech: Companies in the tech world at times resort to some very questionable tactics to maintain or boost profits. Such is the case with some of the largest firms in the technology realm when they conspired between 1999 and 2006 to artificially fix the prices of LCD screen...

MicroStar International Adds Voice Control to Mainboards

From X-bit Labs: MicroStar International, a leading maker of mainboards and other electronics, has unveiled a new series of motherboards with voice control feature, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11n and other improvements. The new platforms from MSI will be based on Intel Corp.'s chipsets...

Google Dev: We Are Making Chrome Out of Kindness to Web

From Tom's Hardware: There has been plenty of speculation about Google's motivation to guarantee Mozilla nearly $1 billion in a 3-year advertising contract that covers the search box in Firefox.

The obvious idea behind this move is Google's interest in capturing those advertising...

Windows Phone 7 Trumps Apple, Android: Ex-Microsoft Exec

From eWeek: It’s the smartphone market, stupid. That’s the point of view from one Windows Phone 7 evangelist and former Microsoft employee, who wrote a long blog post lamenting poor sales of the Microsoft smartphones and the success of inferior products like Google Android-powered...

GoDaddy, Rival Trade Accusations Over Domain Name Transfers

From PC World: GoDaddy, the Internet's largest domain registrar, says that complaints from rival firm Namecheap about delays in transferring domain names are attributable to a failure to communicate.

GoDaddy has seen thousands of domains jumping ship in recent days because of its...

Italy fines Apple $1.2 million over AppleCare practices

From CNET News.com: Italy today fined Apple 900,000 euros ($1.2 million) for allegedly encouraging customers to sign up for AppleCare, the company's technical support service, without informing them that they had two years of free support after buying the product. According to...

GoDaddy Loses Thousands of Domains After SOPA Opinions

From DailyTech: GoDaddy recently lost thousands of domains after showing its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and now, customers and competitors are accusing the service of delaying domain transfers in an effort to hold on to what business it has left.

GoDaddy, an...

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