OCZ Celebrates Shipment of Its One Millionth SSD

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of solid-state drives (SSDs), on Thursday announced that it has shipped its one millionth solid state drive. Since starting to offer SSDs roughly three years ago, solid-state drives became OCZ's major product line and the...

Java updates for Windows also install McAfee security scanner

From InfoWorld: Windows users who install the latest Java security patches may end up with a little more security than they bargained for, at least that's the risk they take if they don't pay close attention to the installation process.

Starting last month, Oracle began bundling a...

Netflix gives 3 percent credit for outage

From CNET News.com: Netflix has apologized for Tuesday's outage of its streaming service.

"We're sorry you may have had trouble watching instantly," an e-mail sent last night to Netflix subscribers reads. The company went on to explain that the outage was "due to technical issues."...

App turns Google Nexus phone into payment tool

From CNET News.com: Owners of Google's Nexus S smartphones can soon use the device to process mobile payments via near-field communications tech, via software from a company called Charge Anywhere.

Charge Anywhere's existing mobile payments application has already allowed owners of...

NVIDIA Offers Up Its Own High-priced Supercard, the GTX 590

From DailyTech: AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 card was a bit of a preposterous preposition to consumers. It was hot, it was noisy, and it was expensive ($700). And it offered users less bang for their buck than two individual Radeon HD 6970s. Still, it was incredibly powerful and...

Duke Nukem Forever Delayed Again

From DailyTech: One of the most anticipated by fans and the longest delayed video games in history is none other than Duke Nukem Forever. The game was in development as far back as 1997 and still isn't on store shelves.

Kotaku reports that the game was picked up with development...

Intel: We Are Completely Committed to Itanium Platform

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Wednesday said that it would continue developing Itanium-series microprocessors and the mission-critical platform will continue to exist. The company's statements were a response to Oracle's claims that the IA64 platform was nearing the end of life....

HP: We Will Support Itanium, HP UX for More Than Ten Years

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday said that it will continue the development and innovation of Intel Corp.'s Itanium-based Integrity server platforms with its HP-UX operating system using a roadmap that extends more than ten years. HP named Oracle's decision to drop...

HTC Focuses on Content With New Exec Appointment

From PC World: High Tech Computer (HTC) named its first chief content officer this week, showing how the Taiwanese smartphone maker aims to push more deeply into content, in addition to hardware, for a long-term competitive edge.

HTC picked Shashi Fernando as chief content officer...

Can HP make developers care about WebOS?

From CNET News.com: When Hewlett-Packard bought Palm for $1.2 billion last year, executives at the computing giant said Palm's well-regarded WebOS mobile operating system would play a key role in their company's future.

As is often the case when corporate acquisitions are announced...

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