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From CNET News.com: Intel has agreed to acquire Infineon Technologies' Wireless Solutions business for approximately $1.4 billion, the companies announced late Sunday, as the world's largest chipmaker seeks to boost its presence in smartphones. "The global demand for wireless... |
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From CNET News.com: YouTube's fledgling movie rental program may soon be getting some Hollywood muscle in the crowded fight for domination of digital movie and television content distribution. YouTube-parent Google is negotiating with major Hollywood studios to stream movies from... |
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From DailyTech: It's been a long four years, but AMD has finally hits its stride after its acquisition of ATI Technologies way back in 2006. After agreeing to purchase ATI for $5.4B, AMD was besieged with quarterly losses stemming from the purchase, constant pressure from NVIDIA in... |
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From DailyTech: The first sign of the shift to mobile computing could perhaps be seen when laptop sales surpassed desktop sales for the first time ever in the last calendar quarter of 2008. Or perhaps it was when was when cell phone subscribers surpassed land line subscribers in... |
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From InfoWorld: The bidding war for storage vendor 3Par continued to escalate Friday, with Hewlett-Packard submitting a new offer of $30 per share, or $2 billion. The offer topped a $27 per share bid made by Dell earlier in the day. HP's board has approved the offer, but 3Par's has... |
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From X-bit Labs: In line with the trends for ultra low-power servers, Advanced Micro Devices said that it would test its processors based on the Bobcat micro-architecture in server environments. Considering the fact that AMD already has very low power chips for servers, feasibility... |
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From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. early on Friday announced that third-quarter revenue will be below the company’s previous outlook. The company now expects third-quarter revenue to be $11.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, compared to the previous expectation of between $11.2 and $12... |
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In the early days of the Intel Atom, despite being a low cost platform, many users found themselves wanting more than what the GMA950 integrated graphics are able to provide. Thankfully for us, NVIDIA stepped into the scene with the ION -- which opened up many new doors for many netbook, nettop and integrated system users alike. The NVIDIA ION platform not only allowed for better graphics performance, but also took some pressure... |
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From InfoWorld: A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said Thursday. "A new era has officially dawned; the era of x64 rootkits,"... |
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From PC World: Google's latest Gmail phone calling feature hit the ground running with over one million phone calls placed from Gmail in first 24 hours the feature was available, Google said Thursday via Twitter.The big question is how many will make Gmail calls in the following 24... |
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