Samsung considering Android-based TVs

From CNET News.com: HDTV shoppers might before too long find Google's Android operating system in Samsung television sets, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday at an event in Seoul, Yoon Boo Keun, Samsung's TV business head, said that his company is...

Samsung Unveils Cortex A9 Dual-core Mobile Processor

From DailyTech: Samsung's Hummingbird 1 GHz ARM Cortex processor already fares quite well against the 1 GHz Snapdragon in the GLBenchmark, and has helped power impressive sales of the Galaxy S line of Android smartphones across all major U.S. wireless carriers. Now, Samsung is...

Dell Gains PC Market Share as Acer Stumbles

From DailyTech: HP has maintained its lead as the largest shipper of computers in the world with the fight for second going back and forth between Dell and Acer. In July of 2010, Acer ousted Dell from the second place spot in the global computer shipment rankings leaving Dell in...

Via Technologies Plans to Release Quad-Core Chips in Late 2011

From X-bit Labs: The gap between Via Technologies and two leading suppliers of central processing units seems to be widening. According to unofficial reports from Taiwan, the company only plans to release its first quad-core Via Nano microprocessors in late 2011, about five years...

Dell loses the bidding war for 3Par against HP

From Manufacturing Digital: Dell and HP, two PC making giants were involved in the bidding contest on Friday for 3Par, a data storage company. According to the latest reports, Dell has backed out from the bidding war after realizing that HP has already surpassed Dell’s offer with $2...

Next-Generation ATI Radeon Graphics Board Allegedly Gets Pictured

From Xbit Labs: A Chinese web-site has published what it claims to be the first image of the next-generation Radeon graphics card. The new board, which the web-site calls "Cayman XT" and which is likely to be the most powerful single-chip solution by ATI, graphics business unit of...

Apple's iOS Dips in Internet Traffic Market Share, Android Soars

From DailyTech: A new study from market research firm Quantcast offers some interesting insight into the state of the smartphone market. The study looks at trends in North American mobile internet use and how Apple's iOS (the iPhone, iPad), Android, RIM OS (Blackberry), and "Other"...

Microsoft Claims Silverlight Beats HTML5

From PC World: While acknowledging the importance of HTML5, Microsoft stressed this week that its Silverlight rich Internet technology extends the Web beyond what HTML5 allows.

Standards-based multimedia features offered by HTML5 have taken the spotlight lately from proprietary...

Google Pays $8.5M to Settle Buzz Privacy Lawsuit

From eWeek: Google will pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that argued its Google Buzz social Web service violated users' privacy when it launched in February.

Google will shell out $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with seven people who argued the Google...

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