HP Reconsiders Jettisoning PC Unit

From DailyTech: Back in August, Hewlett-Packard made a few jaw-dropping business moves that no one saw coming. For starters, it killed off its TouchPad tablet and accompanying webOS mobile platform. That very same day, HP confirmed that it was going to sell off its PC unit, Personal...

Ex-AMD Engineer Explains Bulldozer Fiasco: Lack of Fine Tuning

From X-bit Labs: Performance that Advanced Micro Devices' eight-core processor demonstrated in real-world applications is far from impressive as the chip barely outperforms competing quad-core central processing units from Intel. The reason why performance of the long-awaited...

Corsair Unveils High-Speed 8GB DDR Memory Modules, 32GB Kits

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory, a leading supplier of high-performance components for PCs, on Thursday introduced the world’s first high-speed 8GB DDR3 memory modules as well as high-end Dominator 32GB quad-channel memory kit for Intel Corp.’s forthcoming LGA2011 platforms.

The...

RIM's Mike Lazaridis Apologizes for BlackBerry Outage

From PC World: Research In Motion's president and co-CEO apologized to users Thursday for the service outages on the Blackberry network since Monday across a large swath of countries including the U.S. and Canada.

The company had not delivered on its goal to provide reliable, real...

Hardware-accelerated Opera 12 alpha arrives

From CNET News.com: Hardware acceleration offers a range of benefits to Web browsers--faster performance, lower battery consumption, and new features that would be otherwise impractical. So it's no surprise that browser makers--catalyzed in part by Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9-...

Sony Detects New Web Attack, 93,000 Accounts Are Locked Down

From DailyTech: Sony Corp.'s new SVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Philip Reitinger, certainly has his work cut out for him. While beloved by many gamers, Sony is also loathed by many hackers for its such tactics as trying to sue modders of legally purchased consoles into...

Michael Dell sends memo, of sorts, to HP

From InfoWorld: Michael Dell sees no benefit to splitting off a PC division, and is probably wondering why Hewlett-Packard is even considering such a move.

Dell Inc. is holding its first enterprise user conference in Austin, Texas, this week with a number of themes, including the...

Western Digital Halts Hard Disk Production in Thailand

From PC World: The production of hard disks at Western Digital (WD) facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, has been halted following severe flooding, the company said on Wednesday.

This is monsoon season in Thailand, but the rains this year have been the hardest to hit the country...

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