Sales of Laptops Grew by 43 Percent in Q1, Says Gartner

From PC World: Shipments of laptops rose by 43.4 percent in the first three months of 2010, compared to the same period last year, according to market research company Gartner. A large part of the growth was due to a 71 percent bump in netbook sales, which Gartner doesn't expect will...

Walmart Slashes Apple iPhone 3GS Price; 4G Coming

From CRN: With Steve Jobs and Co. purported to be prepping to unleash the fourth-generation Apple iPhone on the gadget hungry masses, Walmart is slashing the price of its predecessor with Freddy Krueger-like precision, reducing the price of the 16 GB model of the iPhone 3GS to under...

ISOHunt Torrent Search Engine Hit With Injunction

From PC World: One of the most popular engines for searching for movies and music distributed via BitTorrent has been ordered to remove links to illegally shared content, marking a victory for the entertainment industry.

ISOHunt.com and three other Web sites are subject to an...

Google is Making the PAC-MAN Doodle Permanent

From Tom's Hardware: That Google PAC-MAN doodle was incredible, right? Everyone had so much fun and despite most Doodles only sticking around for 24 hours, this one was in place from Friday to Sunday. We were sad to see it go but it turns out our tears were shed too soon. Google is...

Salesforce.com CEO calls Microsoft a patent troll

From InfoWorld: Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff Tuesday declined to comment on the patent lawsuit brought against his company by Microsoft, but that didn't stop him from calling his rival names.

Last week, Microsoft sued Salesforce.com, alleging that the company...

No MeeGo Upgrade for the N900, Says Nokia

From PC World: Users who have bought Nokia's flagship smartphone, the Maemo-based N900, won't be able to upgrade the device to MeeGo, Nokia said in a blog post on Tuesday.

The MeeGo OS, announced in February, merges Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo Linux-based operating systems. The...

Intel rolls mobile CPUs for ultrathin notebooks

From EETimes: Intel Corp. announced Monday (May 24) notebook processors geared to create a new class of ultra-thin, ultralow power portables. The new Intel Core 2010 processors are expected to power as many as 40 systems designs less than an inch thick and weighing just two to five...

Google discloses AdSense revenue share

From CNET News.com: Google has finally revealed how it shares advertising revenue with AdSense customers who run Google ads on their own sites.

AdSense customers are publishers who run "Ads by Google" ads on their pages as well as those who use a custom Google search box on their...

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