Motorola launches Xoom tablet with Android 3.0

From InfoWorld: Motorola finally unveiled its highly anticipated tablet, the Xoom, with a 10.1-inch touchscreen with the latest version of Google's Android mobile software on board, formerly called Honeycomb.

Google worked with Motorola and chip maker Nvidia on the launch of Android...

Amazon Web Services Improves Support Offerings

From PC World: Amazon Web Services on Thursday rolled out two premium support tiers and announced a 50 percent price cut on existing premium plans, heightening competition with rivals like Rackspace and making a clear overture to enterprises that wish to run their operations in the...

Apple Launches Mac App Store

From DailyTech: Today is the official start of CES here in Las Vegas, but Apple is grabbing some headlines of its own with the official launch of the Mac App Store. Much like the iOS App Store for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, the Mac App Store allows users a single, unified...

NVIDIA to Build Custom CPU Cores Based on ARM

From DailyTech: NVIDIA, makers of the powerful Tegra 2 dual-core processor, yesterday at CES announced a partnership with ARM -- code-named "Project Denver" -- to build ARM-based CPU cores that could power PCs, servers, and supercomputers.

"With Project Denver, we are designing a...

Zynga, Activision Blizzard sued over patent

From CNET News.com: Activision Blizzard and social-gaming company Zynga are being sued for alleged patent infringement.

Walker Digital, an "invention" company started by Jay Walker, the founder of Priceline.com, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware earlier this week...

Yahoo pumps up Connected TV; D-Link announces box for it

From CNET News.com: Yahoo's Connected TV, its widget framework for TVs, is a low-cost way to bring Internet content into televisions. Yahoo's TV widgets don't give you the full Internet flexibility of a product like Google TV, but Yahoo Connected TV is cheap to build: It's available...

Intel Officially Releases Core i Sandy Bridge Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week officially released its new-generation Core i-series microprocessor based on Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. More than 500 desktop and laptop PCs are expected from all major OEMs worldwide throughout the year. The new chips sport a number of...

Microsoft Windows 8 to Support ARM Architecture - Company

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday finally confirmed that its next-generation Windows 8 operating system will be able to run both on traditional x86-based microprocessors designed by Advanced Micro Devices, Intel Corp. or Via Technologies, but also on various of ARM...

PHP floating point bug crashes servers

From InfoWorld: A newly unearthed bug in certain versions of the PHP scripting language could crash servers when the software is given the task of converting a large floating point number, raising the possibility that the glitch could be exploited by hackers.

The bug will cause the...

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