Intel Light Peak to Land Early Next Year

From DailyTech: Intel is an innovator in the computer market and has been for years, despite issues with anticompetitive practices around the world. Intel currently supports USB 2.0 and other connectivity like FireWire and eSATA in its mobile chipsets.

However, Intel has not offered...

AMD Starts to Talk About Bulldozer 2 Micro-Architecture

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices recently released its conceptual server roadmap for the next several years. Apparently, the company's next-generation server platform will not only support both Bulldozer and Bulldozer NG central processing units (CPUs), but will also "fuse"...

Browser add-on lets enterprises run IE6 inside IE8

From InfoWorld: A startup led by people who worked with and at Microsoft on Internet Explorer will soon release an add-on that lets customers run the aged IE6 within the newer IE8 browser.

The Unibrows add-on is aimed at companies that want to move off IE6 -- and the almost-as-old...

WiGig to Line up With DisplayPort Standard

From PC World: With an eye to letting people link more devices and displays without using cables, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance plans to bring DisplayPort technology into its specification.

The WiGig group, which is promoting a system to wirelessly transfer data within a room at...

Google Settles Buzz Lawsuit With No Payout to Gmail Users

From PC World: Google on Tuesday said it won preliminary approval to settle a class-action lawsuit related to alleged privacy violations caused by its Buzz service.

The company will pay US$8.5 million into a fund, which will go to organizations focused on Internet privacy education...

AOL sees revenues slide, profits rise

From CNET News.com: During the third quarter, AOL generated $563.5 million in total revenue, a drop of 26 percent from $763.9 million for the same period in 2009. The company's advertising revenue, which was $292.8 million on the quarter just ended, slid by 27 percent from the $402.3...

Apple confirms move to 90-second iTunes samples

From CNET News.com: An Apple spokesman confirmed for CNET this evening a report by Symphonic Distribution, a digital music distributor, that iTunes would soon be extending the length of song samples from 30 seconds to 90 seconds for songs that are at least two-and-a-half minutes in...

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