Acer Says HP, Dell, and Other U.S. PC Makers May be Dead in 20 Years

From DailyTech: Hewlett Packard, the world's largest computer maker, and Dell, third place in world sales, are powerful players. However, both -- especially Dell – suffered during the recession. Meanwhile Taiwanese OEMs ASUSTek and Acer, whose sales were heavily comprised of low-priced netbooks...

NVIDIA Preparing To Strike Back With Fermi-Based GF100 GPUs

From DailyTech: NVIDIA has been under a lot of competitive pressure over the last year, but especially during the last four months as its primary competitor ATI has launched six desktop DirectX 11 GPUs and a complete Mobility Radeon lineup for notebooks. Over two million DX11 GPUs have been sold...

Internet Explorer 6 Dealt Another Blow

From PC World: Spooked by the use of an Internet Explorer exploit to attack Google and other firms in China, France and Germany are both urging their citizens to stop using Microsoft's Web browser.

This argument is sure to meet friction from Microsoft as it already has from others, including my...

Mozilla releases second Firefox release candidate

From CNET News.com: Mozilla on Sunday released a second release candidate of Firefox 3.6, a modest upgrade that embodies Mozilla's effort to increase the frequency the open-source browser is developed.

Mike Beltzner, president of Firefox, announced second Firefox 3.6 release candidate Sunday but...

Apple officially announces January 27 event

From CNET News.com: Apple has formally announced a special event for Wednesday, January 27, in San Francisco to reveal to the public its "latest creation."

Whether the company will open the curtains on a tablet, slate, big iPod Touch, or a bit of all three, invited guests will find out for sure...

Google China insiders may have helped with attack

From CNET News.com: Google is looking into whether employees in its China office were involved in the attacks on its network that led to theft of intellectual property, according to CNET sources and news reports.

Sources familiar with the investigation told CNET last week that Google was looking...

U.S. Gov't Staying Out of Google and China Issue

From Tom's Hardware: U.S. Ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, said that the U.S. government will be staying out of any negotiations that Google may have with China following the hacking incident.

Huntsman did acknowledge that Americans are likely to feel very strongly in the Google/China incident...

New Symbian UI in the works to compete with iPhone, Android

From InfoWorld: Nokia has turned in its proposal for the user interface in Symbian^4, with the goal of developing an interface that can compete with the iPhone and Google's Android OS.

The proposal was turned in to the Symbian Foundation on Friday, and will now undergo open evaluation, according...

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