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...

Sony recalling Bravia TVs over melting danger, reports say

From CNET News.com: According to the BBC, a total of 1.6 million of the affected sets have been sold worldwide. Citing a page on Sony's Europe Web site, the news service says Sony's KDL-40D3400, KDL-40D3500, KDL-40D3550, and KDL-40D3660 models, among several others, have been tagged...

How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal

From CNET News.com: Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont, Calif., home, followed by a painstaking examination of Chen's electronic files. Investigators suggested at the time that Chen could face criminal charges, and he soon hired a...

AMD Launches FX CPUs with Bulldozer Architecture

From DailyTech: AMD has launched its much anticipated FX series of desktop CPUs using the Bulldozer architecture. Codenamed Zambezi, the 32nm chips represent the company's top offerings for enthusiasts. Bulldozer is the first complete redesign of AMD’s processor architecture since...

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