Intel Adds Chinese Partner for Slate-style Netbooks

From PC World: Intel added Chinese PC maker Tongfang as a partner for its Convertible Classmate netbooks, which have screens that can swivel around and close over the keyboards for use as slates.

Tongfang is the second Chinese company after Hanvon, a device maker known for its e...

Jobs confirms original iPhone won't run iPhone OS 4

From CNET News.com: We had a feeling it would be the case, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed on Monday that the original iPhone would not run the company's newest iPhone OS.

Jobs responded to a customer e-mail asking if the new operating system would support the original iPhone...

Eurocom Shipping First Hexacore i7-980X Laptop

From Tom's Hardware: Eurocom is known for cramming the latest technology into small-ish form factors; it was the first to offer a Core-i7 notebook, for example. The D900F Phantom i7 was a mobile workstation and featured a 17-inch display, Intel's Core i7 processer and X58 chipset as...

Apple refreshes its MacBook Pro notebooks

From CNET News.com: Apple on Tuesday updated its MacBook Pro line of notebook computers with faster processors and new Nvidia graphics.

The biggest news amid the new MacBook Pro changes is that the 15-inch and 17-inch models now use Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors. The 13-inch...

Microsoft Project Pink Comes Alive; Kin One, Kin Two Announced

From DailyTech: Microsoft today unveiled its "Project Pink" phones which are aimed at the growing social networking scene. The new phones are now known as the Kin One and the Kin Two.

With more people becoming more addicted to social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and...

Nvidia Readies Third GeForce GTX 400 Graphics Board – Rumours

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to quicker capture market share with its latest Fermi-architecture products, Nvidia Corp. reportedly plans to release an additional graphics card within the GeForce GTX 400-series, which will be based on the same GF100 chip, but with lower amount of...

Company Sues Acer, Dell, HP, Intel, Others for Patent Infringement

From X-bit Labs: WiLan, a little known company that acquires patents in order to license them to third parties, this week accused numerous companies, including the world’s largest suppliers of personal computers and peripherals as well as leading makers of chips, of Bluetooth...

Microsoft to roll out Visual Studio upgrade

From InfoWorld: Without further adieu, Microsoft will release on Monday its Visual Studio 2010 software development system and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 platform, followed later in the week by the release of the Silverlight 4 rich Internet plug-in software.

The three...

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