T-Mobile G2 is Official, Pre-Sale Starts This Month

From DailyTech: It was almost two years ago when T-Mobile quietly unveiled the first Android phone in the U.S., the G1. The design of the device was a bit cumbersome, and Android 1.0 was buggy, to say the least. However, the G1 was one of the first handsets that supported T-Mobile's...

Apple Releases iOS 4.1 for iPhone, iPod touch

From DailyTech: When Apple announced its latest lineup of iPod music players last week, Apple noted that iOS 4.1 would be released within the coming week. Staying true to its word, Apple today released the update which addresses a number of problems afflicting iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G...

Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform

From InfoWorld: Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization.

The company announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3, and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2. Oracle...

New Arm Chip to Stretch From Smartphones to Servers

From PC World: Arm Holdings has taken the wraps off its next major chip design, promising a five-fold increase in performance that the company hopes will take it beyond smartphones and into new types of equipment such as high-performance routers and servers.

Arm's top executives...

AMD Shows Off Die Shot of "Ontario" Chip for Netbooks

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has disclosed a die shot of the accelerated processing units (APU) for low-power devices that will be available commercially starting early 2011. Apparently, there are two versions of AMD's low-power APUs: Ontario, which will power netbooks and...

Cisco, Citrix team on enterprise desktop virtualization

From InfoWorld: Hoping to ease a typically arduous deployment process, Citrix and Cisco Systems are jointly offering a package for running a large number of virtual desktops across an organization.

The idea behind the as-yet-unnamed offering is to "bring simplicity to the desktop...

HP Introduces Microserver for Small Businesses

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced a low-cost, entry-level server for small businesses that bundles advanced features in a small package.

HP's ProLiant MicroServer is targeted at small businesses and is an inexpensive alternative or even complementary product to...

Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking

From CNET News.com: Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12, to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking.

Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote...

Nikon lights up Coolpix S8100 megazoom

From CNET News.com: Nikon has a decent 10x compact megazoom in its 2010 Coolpix lineup, the S8000. Its photo quality definitely falters in low-light conditions, which could be corrected with the S8100. Along with using the company's latest image processing engine, the Expeed C2, this...

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