Verizon LTE Coming to 30 NFL Cities by Year's End

From DailyTech: Verizon is well on its way to start opening up its next generation 4G wireless service by the end of 2010. According to eWeek, Verizon plans to have its LTE network up and running in 30 "NFL Cities" by year's end -- in total, 100 million customers will be covered.

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PCI Express 3.0 Specification Expected to Be Finalized by November

From X-bit Labs: The PCI special interest group (PCI SIG) is on track to ratify the final version of the PCI Express 3.0 standard in November, 2010. Moreover, according to a media report, Intel Corp. is already gearing up to implement the new high-speed interconnection into its Sandy...

Intel: Future smartphones will be assistants, companions

From InfoWorld: The future of computing is all about devices that are not just smarter than today's, but are also more aware of the habits and day-to-day lives of their users, says Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer.

During this morning's keynote presentation at the...

Craigslist Says Adult Ads Gone For Good

From PC World: Pressured by law enforcement, advocacy groups, and Congress the popular site Craigslist said it would permanently remove adult services from its online classified ads here in the United States. The move has been lauded by foes of Craigslist's adult services ads, but it...

PS3 Blu-ray 3D playback landing Tuesday

From CNET News.com: 3D playback for Blu-ray discs is making its way to the PlayStation 3 on Tuesday, Sony said in a blog post yesterday.

The ability to play 3D Blu-ray films will be included in software version 3.50, which will be available as a free download.

Sony first announced...

Mozilla issues quick-fix Firefox updates

From CNET News.com: Mozilla released on Wednesday two new versions of Firefox, 3.6.10 and 3.5.15, to deal with a surprise problem that was crashing the browser during launch.

Mozilla had released the preceding versions a week earlier but cut off downloads when the bug emerged.

The...

Another Study Shows iPhone Market Share is Dropping

From DailyTech: Market research firms Canalys and the NPD Group claim that Google's Android has passed the iPhone in U.S. market share. Apple has denied this and CEO Steve Jobs has gone as far as to suggest that some of his competitors (obviously inferring Google) are lying about...

AMD to Redesign Memory Controller in Bulldozer Chips

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices continues to disclose details about its forthcoming processors with Bulldozer micro-architecture. Apparently, the company plans to redesign memory controller of its new central processing units (CPUs) in order to speed up memory access.

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