Intel Starts to Sample Next-Gen SoC for Smartphones

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. placed high hopes onto its code-named Moorestown (Atom Z600-series) system-on-chip (SoC) and expressed hopes that the first smartphones based on it would be released already in 2010. But at the recent Barclays Capital Technology Conference 2010 the head...

Oracle seeks $212 million in interest from SAP

From InfoWorld: Oracle wants SAP to pay it $212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, court papers show.

Including the $120 million that SAP paid Oracle for its attorney fees, the additional money...

Apple quietly drops iOS jailbreak detection API

From InfoWorld: Apple has disabled, without explanation, a jailbreak detection API in iOS less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod Touch, or...

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PC) Review

When I read about the impending release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit earlier in June this year, I was kind of confused. Was it a mistake? One can only think it was -- especially if you stopped paying attention for just a short moment. Normally, when new game titles are released, developers tend to increase the version number, not decrease it. Case in point: Pretty much everything that has ever been made. If we take things just...

Firefox Security Holes Plugged

From PC World: Mozilla on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a re-patch for a bug that was thought quashed in March 2010.

Eleven of the 13 were rated "critical," the threat level representing bugs that hackers could conceivably use to hijack a system or infect...

Dell working to capture Compellent

From CNET News.com: Dell, which lost a bid to acquire 3Par to Hewlett-Packard earlier this year, is in advanced talks to purchase Compellent Technologies, a key storage player.

The two companies said in a statement yesterday they are in "advanced discussions regarding a possible...

Windows Phone 7 Update Schedule Leaks

From DailyTech: Earlier this week Windows Phone 7 developers began to receive an update which enabled copy and paste. Now, one of the first sites to leak that news, WinRumors, has followed up with a leak of Microsoft's pending release schedule for 2011.

According to the report...

Google: 300 Thousands of Android Phones Activated Each Day

From X-bit Labs: Sales of smartphones based on Google Android operating system are growing rapidly thanks to high number of different models that run the OS available across the world. Apparently, about 300 thousand of Android-based mobile phones are purchased daily, the number...

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