Hitachi Releases Its First Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: After two years of development, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has unveiled two families of its enterprise-grade solid-state drives. The novelties feature Serial Attached SCSI or Fibre-Channel interfaces and will be solely aimed at the markets that...

AMD to ship first Bulldozer server chips in Q3

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it will start shipping next-generation Opteron server chips based on the new Bulldozer architecture starting in the third quarter next year.

The first Bulldozer server chips are code-named Interlagos and will come with up to 16...

Warner Music earnings continue skid

From CNET News.com: The transition to digital doesn't seem to be going that well for Warner Music Group.

The third largest of the four top record labels reported a net loss of $46 million for the company's fourth quarter. During the same period last year, the company reported a loss...

Amazon Goes Hollywood With New Online Movie Studio

From PC World: Amazon.com is getting into the movie business by opening Amazon Studios, with the goal of using the Internet to put fresh movies on the big screen.

The new Internet movie studio will allow writers to upload screenplays to its website where the global Internet audience...

Oracle responds to Apache Java defiance

From InfoWorld: Seemingly anxious to get the next version of the Java programming language ratified, Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation to reconsider its stance on the proposed Java Standard Edition 7.

"We would encourage Apache to reconsider their position and work...

Trend Micro Releases Free Stuxnet Detection Tool

From PC World: Trend Micro has released a tool that administrators can use to scan dozens of computers at a time for Stuxnet, the malicious software program that has raised widespread concern for its targeting of industrial systems made by Siemens.

Trend Micro's security products...

Facebook acquired start-up assets for mail overhaul

From CNET News.com: It wasn't revealed during Monday's announcement, but it turns out that Facebook's big "it's not e-mail" messaging overhaul involved one of the talent acquisitions that the company has become known for lately.

On Oct. 8, a start-up called Zenbe announced that it...

Google mixes local and social reviews in Hotpot

From CNET News.com: If at first, second, and third you don't succeed, try, try again.

Google is taking another crack at a social service, this time with Hotpot, a tool designed to capture local knowledge and recommend establishments such as restaurants or stores you might want to...

AMD's New Fusion APUs Crush Atom in Early Benchmarks

From DailyTech: AMD several years back entered a phase where it was full of big talk, but delivered very little. Then a couple of years ago it began to turn the corner, with its aggressive delivery of the Radeon 4000 series, 5000 series, and 6000 series allowing it to regain the...

Windows Phones Break Users Memory Cards

From DailyTech: There was much speculation over whether Microsoft would support memory cards in its Windows Phone 7 lineup, following comments by its project leaders indicating that it might not. Well the phones finally hit the market last week and some models did have memory card...

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