Comcast settles class-action suit on traffic blocking

From CNET News.com: As we close the book on 2009 and ready for 2010, a legal settlement takes us back to 2007 and 2008, when Comcast got into trouble with customers and the feds for throttling peer-to-peer traffic on its network.

Comcast has agreed to pay $16 million to end to a...

RIM confirms BlackBerry e-mail problems--again

From CNET News.com: For the second time in less than a week, BlackBerry smartphone users across the country and beyond are reporting problems accessing e-mail.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion confirmed Tuesday night that some users of the smartphone in the Americas are...

2009 sales of Netbooks rise, but notebooks fall

From CNET News.com: It's been a hot year for Netbooks, but not so much for the rest of the portable PC market.

Netbook sales are likely to hit $11.4 billion this year, a 72 percent rise from last year, thanks to a 103 percent leap in shipments, according to a new report from...

Vodafone Announces UK iPhone Release Date

From DailyTech: Wireless provider Vodafone will officially become the latest UK phone network to offer the popular Apple iPhone, confirming it will be released on January 14.

The base contract is available for £30 -- including a mandatory 24-month phone contract -- with £35 and £45...

Palm Offers Free, Browser-Based Dev Toolkit, Tempts iPhone Devs

From DailyTech: After sliding for some time in terms of marketshare, Palm appears to at last be ready to right the ship with its new webOS offerings. According to recent market research, Palm's phones like the Pixi and Pre have helped fuel the company to gains over the course of...

Toshiba Sampling First SDXC Flash Memory Cards

From DailyTech: The Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) format was announced almost a year ago at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It was designed to replace ubiquitous Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) flash memory cards in computers, digital cameras...

Opera 10.5 pre-alpha goes Chrome hunting

From CNET News.com: The latest Opera browser preview version may not be entirely stable, but it's definitely got its jetpack strapped on. Opera 10.5 pre-alpha, for Windows and Mac, is the first browser that's not powered by Webkit to approach JavaScript rendering speeds previously...

Yahoo shutting down for the holidays

From CNET News.com: Most Yahoo employees will be off next week due to mandatory office closings--though they've had since April to figure out what to do.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Yahoo is shutting down everything except for certain "essential functions" during...

Western Digital Teams Up with NEC for USB 3.0 Hard Drives

From X-bit Labs: Although USB 3.0 technology is currently only supported by rather expensive discrete controllers and is not projected to be supported by chipsets before the year 2011, the interest towards high-speed interconnection is tremendous. Western Digital and NEC Electronics...

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