Mozilla offers do-not-track tool to thwart ads

From CNET News.com: Mozilla, acting on a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal, has offered a detailed mechanism by which Firefox and other Web browsers could prevent Web pages from tracking people's online behavior for advertising purposes.

With Mozilla's do-not-track technology...

T-Mobile Eyes Growth, Considers Tower Sale

From DailyTech: Despite introducing Android to the world with the G1, rolling out a "4G-like" high-speed HSPA+ network, and offering monthly service plans at lower rates than many of its competitors, T-Mobile USA's revenue and customer growth has remained flat over the last few years...

AMD Bulldozer Not Delayed, Says Company

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said that its concretization of Bulldozer micro-architecture launch does not mean a delay of the actual products, despite of the information published earlier that cited sources close to the company.

"The product is not delayed, Anton should...

AMD Shows Off Radeon HD 6990 Dual-GPU Graphics Card

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated the graphics card that is expected to be most powerful on the planter. Based on two leading-edge code-named Cayman graphics processing units (GPUs), the novelty is supposed to enable exceptional performance in modern games at...

Gigabyte Radeon HD 6850 1GB OC Review (Page 1 of 13)

Whew, it has been a long time since we last reviewed a video card. I am not even going to bother linking to our last article on graphics to give you an exact time gap between this review and the last. With the past now behind us, I am very proud to announce we are now back on board with the component essential to all gaming computers -- and we will have many more to come, too. I still remember a few years ago when a midrange video...

Asustek Sees Netbook Sales Flat in 2011

From PC World: Asustek Computer, a top manufacturer of netbook PCs, anticipates a global slowdown in growth of the lightweight laptops as tablets gain ground.

The Taipei-based manufacturer expects to ship about 6 million Eee PC netbooks this year for a 20 percent market share...

HTC sales, profits jump on smartphone appeal

From CNET News.com: HTC continued its recent winning streak as fourth-quarter sales and earnings both climbed dramatically on demand for its lineup of Android phones.

For the quarter ended December 31, the mobile phone maker took in a net profit of NT$14.59 billion (US$500 million)...

Details on Google Offers Groupon Competitor Surface

From DailyTech: Google is set to launch a new service of users called Google Offers. The new service will be in direct competition with Groupon reports Mashable. Mashable was given some documents by a source that outline Google’s plans and what the service will look like.

Google...

Intel Confident it Can Beat ARM in the Mobile Space

From DailyTech: Microsoft’s announcement that the next version of Windows would support ARM chipmakers' CPUs was a bombshell and shocking news to x86 chipmaker Intel. Many took the news as a sign that Microsoft felt Intel, the world leader in PC CPU shipments, was offering too...

Lenovo May Acquire Majority Stake in NEC Computers

From X-bit Labs: Lenovo Group, the world's fourth largest supplier of personal computers, and NEC Corp. are reportedly planning to create a joint-venture that will sell PCs in Japan. The two companies will jointly develop and build PCs in order to reduce their costs through economies...

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