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As we come together and lament OCZ's bankruptcy in late November and its purchase by Toshiba earlier this month, let's take a moment to remember how such a young technology company has come to revolutionize the computer market in the last decade or so. I vividly recall buying a pair of Corsair Value Select PC3200 2x512MB dual channel kit in 2004 for a rock bottom price of $206.98, simply because I could not afford anything better. What I really...

Qualcomm Kicks Off Midrange 4G Fight

From EETimes: Qualcomm kicked off the next round of competition in smartphones with its announcement of high-end and midrange LTE chips last week. Broadcom, Mediatek, and others are expected to join the 4G handset battle in 2014.

Qualcomm's 28 nm Snapdragon 410, announced Dec. 9, will pack a...

Attackers exploited ColdFusion vulnerability to install Microsoft IIS malware

From PC World: Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion to install data-stealing malware that works as a module for Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server software.

Researchers from security firm Trustwave recently reported they've identified IIS (Internet...

Gigabyte Z87X-UD7 TH Motherboard Gets Thunderbolt 2 Certification

From DailyTech: Gigabyte has announced that its new Z87X-UD7 TH motherboard has received Thunderbolt 2 certification. Thunderbolt 2 was announced earlier this year, and the onboard Falcon Ridge controller supports 20 Gb/s aggregated data transfer rate across two channels per port

Thunderbolt ports...

ARM Acquires Geomerics, a Graphics Technologies Developer

From X-bit Labs: ARM Holdings has acquired Geomerics, a leader in lighting technology for the gaming and entertainment industries. The acquisition expands ARM's position at the forefront of the visual computing and graphics industries. Additionally, the agreement enables Geomerics to build on their...

Microsoft promises to fix Windows XP SVCHOST redlining as soon as possible

From InfoWorld: We've seen the same problem reported over and over for Windows XP users trying to update their computers: Windows Update redlines (more accurately, the XP Windows Update agent WUAUCLT.EXE running in a SVCHOST wrapper redlines), taking 100 percent of the CPU for five, 10, 15 minutes -...

Internet of Things leads Cisco forecast, priorities for 2014

From PC World: Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and software-defined networking platforms with killer applications for them.

So says Cisco, which recently offered its own predictions on technology trends for 2014. They...

Google Removes App Ops Privacy Control Feature from Android 4.4.2

From DailyTech: Thanks to the removal of a certain feature, Android users may have to consider which is more important to them: privacy or security.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Google removed the App Ops feature from Android 4.4.2, the latest version of the mobile...

Engineering Sample of Intel’s Next-Generation Core i7 Haswell-E Pictured

From X-bit Labs: While the next-generation high-end desktop (HEDT) family of chips is several quarters away, the first pictures of the Intel Core i7 Extreme “Haswell-E” central processing unit has already been published. This confirms that the new products have already reached Intel’s partners who...

AllSeen, Unseen in Qualcomm IoT Bid

From EETimes: Kudos to Qualcomm for rallying into an open-source alliance of 23 backers for its Alljoyn software under the new name of AllSeen. But there's still a lot unseen and yet to be seen about this move.

Billed as unifying glue for Internet of Things products, AllSeen is one of the umpteen...