HP's Snapfish acquires video host Motionbox

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard's photo- and video-sharing service, Snapfish, on Monday announced that it has acquired video host Motionbox.

Snapfish, which was acquired by HP in 2005, has long had its own video-sharing tools, as well as a burgeoning photo-printing business...

Man claims to own 84 percent of Facebook

From CNET News.com: Facebook is battling a lawsuit filed by a New York man who claims he owns 84 percent of the social-networking company.

Paul D. Ceglia of Wellsville, N.Y., claims in a lawsuit (see below) that he entered into a contract with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in...

Windows 7 SP1 Public Beta Now Available

From DailyTech: We reported early last month that a public beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was on the way. Microsoft has stuck to that timetable and the public beta can now be downloaded.

"As Gavriella Schuster and I have mentioned in previous blogs, SP1 for Windows 7 does...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 Rivals GTX 465, Threatens ATI

From DailyTech: NVIDIA came very late to the DirectX 11 game due to many delays. By the time it arrived to market with its DirectX 11 solution, ATI had established quite the beachhead, unloading boatloads of Radeon 5000 series GPUs. However, even as AMD reportedly readies its 6000...

Nvidia PhysX Software is Ancient, Slow for CPUs

From Tom's Hardware: Nvidia's acquisition of Ageia in 2008 was a strategic move to boost the marketability of its GPU offerings. With the discontinuation of the dedicated PhyX boards, the acceleration moved to the GeForce GPU as a differentiation factor that set it apart from AMD's...

Intel Reportedly Plans to Acquire Infineon’s Wireless Division

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. reportedly intends to acquire wireless chip division of troubled Infineon. The move will enable Intel to integrate baseband capabilities into its system-on-chip (SoC) products and will also strengthen the company’s consumer networking technologies...

Judge approves $16M Comcast traffic throttling settlement

From InfoWorld: Comcast customers whose broadband service was slowed when the Internet service provider slowed peer-to-peer traffic will be able to get a payment of $16 under a class-action lawsuit settlement approved by a U.S. judge.

Judge Legrome Davis of the U.S. District Court...

Nvidia Introduces Sub-$200 DirectX 11 Graphics Card

From PC World: Nvidia on Monday introduced a graphics card priced at US$199 that will bring high-end gaming and Blu-ray 3D movie playback to desktops.

The GeForce GTX 460 is Nvidia's most inexpensive desktop graphics card based on the company's Fermi architecture, which provides...

Blizzard backs off real-name forum mandate

From CNET News.com: Game developer Blizzard has backed down on a plan to require users of its official online forums to register with real names, just days after announcing the move.

The shift, announced Friday in a message posted to the company's forums, followed a firestorm of...

Lawsuit against Apple, AT&T exclusivity wins class action status

From CNET News.com: A lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over their exclusivity contract has been granted class action status, meaning it now includes anyone who bought an iPhone between June 29, 2007 and present day and signed up for AT&T service. (Court Filing PDF)

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