Apple buys up another chip maker

From InfoWorld: Apple has bought the firm widely believed to be responsible for the design of the engine behind the A4 CPU that powers the iPad.

Austin, Texas-based Intrinsity does not directly make microprocessosrs; instead, it specializes in designing and licensing high...

Best Buy Set to Open First Store in UK

From PC World: Best Buy is to open its first UK retail store at West Thurrock Retail Par, Essex on Friday 30 April.

According to Best Buy, the grand opening will be marked with four days of activity over the May Bank Holiday weekend with special deals, competitions, and...

Google: Next Android to support Adobe Flash

From CNET News.com: The lead engineer behind Android has said that support for Adobe Systems' Flash technology will appear in the next version of Google's mobile phone operating system.

Andy Rubin, a vice president of engineering, said in a New York Times interview that Android 2.2...

Digital Sky buys AOL's ICQ

From CNET News.com: AOL clears another asset off its books, just in time for first-quarter earnings: Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investors with a seemingly insatiable appetite for American Web properties (Facebook, Zynga, etc.), is buying Tim Armstrong's ICQ chat service...

Corsair Memory to Become Public Company

From X-bit Labs: Corsair, a leading supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, has announced that it had filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of...

iPad buyers targeted by Windows malware

From InfoWorld: As if to prove the Apple iPad's crossover appeal to PC users, spammers have launched a malware campaign to reel them in using the promise of extras for the new device.

According to BitDefender, the spam campaign invites its would-be victims to download an updated...

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