Best Buy stung by weaker sales and earnings

From CNET News.com: Higher competition and lower consumer demand combined to bite into Best Buy's sales and earnings in the third quarter.

For the quarter ended November 27, the electronics retailer yesterday reported earnings of $217 million versus $227 million a year ago, while...

Microsoft gives Firefox an H.264 video boost

From CNET News.com: Mozilla is outspoken in its dislike of the patent-encumbered video technology called H.264, but Microsoft, an H.264 fan, is providing a plug-in that will let Windows 7 users use it anyway.

H.264 is a codec--technology to encode and decode video--that's widely...

Consumer Adoption of 3D and Internet-enabled TVs Still Slow

From DailyTech: A disconnect in what analysts think will happen and what actually happens with consumers seems to be commonplace within the TV industry. In October, DisplaySearch released some figures that forecast the shipments of connected TVs to soar this year. So far, according...

Windows Phone 7 Hits Verizon, Sprint in January

From DailyTech: One underemphasized point during the launch of Microsoft's much ballyhooed Windows Phone 7 operating system was that it was only available at launch on two networks in the U.S. -- T-Mobile (America's fourth largest carrier) and AT&T (America's second largest carrier)...

Toshiba Intros Lineup of Enterprise-Class Solid-State Drives

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. on Wednesday unveiled its new family of solid-state drives (SSDs) intended for enterprise applications. The drives are based on single-level cell (SLC) memory and boast massive performance and rock-solid reliability. The drives are based on Toshiba’s...

Corsair Memory Launches 2.13GHz Memory Modules with Reduced Voltage

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory, a leading supplier of advanced memory modules and other computer parts, has released new Dominator GT memory modules capable of running at whopping 2133MHz clock-speed amid standard 1.5V voltage for DDR3 memory. At present the memory modules have no...

HP adds new service level for virtual data centers

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new level of service for customers running critical business applications on virtualized, x86-based hardware, the company announced Tuesday.

Called Critical Advantage, the offering provides customers a dedicated team of engineers to...

Android Market Gets Huge Overhaul, But is it Enough?

From PC World: Google is overhauling its Android App Market in an effort to improve the experience for both users and developers. The updates, which are due before the end of 2010, will be applicable to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher. But with the Market's running tally of...

Analyst: Nintendo must now play catch up

From CNET News.com: Nintendo might be leading the gaming space in market share, but at least one analyst believes the game company is behind when it comes to technology.

"Nintendo now finds itself in a position of having to play catch up," Wedbush analyst Michael Pacther told...

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