Google's earnings lighter than expected

From CNET News.com: Google's second-quarter revenue was up 24 percent compared to last year, but the company missed analysts' targets for earnings.

Excluding traffic-acquisition costs, Google took in $5.1 billion during the quarter, which ended June 30. That compares to around $4...

Intel Unveils Plans to Update Celeron Line with 32nm Chips

From X-bit Labs: Without getting substantial updates for years, Intel Corp.’s Celeron lineup continues to provide better performance compared to Intel Atom central processing units thanks to Core 2-based micro-architecture. But sometimes later in 2010 or even early in 2010 its...

ATI Responds to Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 Launch with Price Drop

From X-bit Labs: In a bid not to lose market share, ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, have responded to the launch of Nvidia Corp.’s GeForce GTX 460 with a price drop of the Radeon HD 5830 graphics card. The company claims that the model 5830 with the new price...

Oracle releases critical patches for database security

From InfoWorld: Oracle released a set of 59 patches on Monday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application, and middleware products.

The patches include fixes for three critical flaws affecting virtually every supported version of the company's...

Gartner Says Dell Still Lags Behind Acer

From PC World: The race for the No. 2 spot among PC vendors may be to close to call, with analyst firms disagreeing over whether or not Dell lagged behind rival Acer during the second quarter.

On Wednesday, IDC reported that Dell retook the second spot from Acer during the second...

iOS 4.1 update released to developers

From CNET News.com: Less than a month since its introduction, Apple has already released an initial version of a software update to iOS 4. iOS 4.1 was made available to developers Wednesday.

It's likely this is the update Apple promised two weeks ago. In an open letter, Apple said...

Mac Firefox users: Tabs on top coming next week

From CNET News.com: Mozilla said it hopes to release its second beta version of Firefox 4 "on or about July 22," bringing Mac users a major new user interface that the first beta enabled by default only on Windows.

That feature, called tabs on top, follows the look of Google Chrome...

Microsoft Exec Suggests Apple's iPhone 4 Debacle is Apple's "Vista"

From DailyTech: In the realm of bold statements, you might expect Microsoft's vocal and boisterous CEO Steve Ballmer to be sounding off. But instead it was mustachioed chief operating officer Kevin Turner who was playing the axman leveling a wild statement against one of Microsoft's...

Game Developer Expects Nintendo 3DS to Solve Games Piracy Problem

From X-bit Labs: A high-ranking executive from THQ, a leading game developer, said in an interview that Nintendo 3DS, a forthcoming game console, would feature a technology that would help game publishers to stop video game piracy. None of the details are available at the moment, but...

Subscribe to Daily Computer & Technology News, Reviews, Discussion