Another LCD Maker Pleads Guilty to LCD Price Fixing

From DailyTech: The LCD market has been rife with fraud and price fixing over the last year. Some of the world's largest LCD makers have been embroiled in price fixing scandals in the TFT-LCD industry for PCs.

In November of 2008, Sharp, LG, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes all pled...

AT&T May Charge Heavy Data Users More

From PC World: AT&T is moving even closer to charging special usage fees to heavy data users, including those with iPhones and other smartphones.

Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, today came the closest he has so far in warning about some kind of use-based...

New 80 PLUS Platinum Power Supplies Top 90 Percent Efficiency

From DailyTech: The idea for the 80 PLUS program was first presented five years ago, and it has been readily embraced by OEMs, consumers, institutions, and businesses as an easy way to reduce power consumption and save money. The certification program identifies computer Power Supply...

Apple pitching tablet to publishing industry

From CNET News.com: Apple will ramp up production on its long-rumored tablet in February with an eye toward a spring launch.

That's the word from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner who says his checks into Apple's supply chain indicate that "the manufacturing cogs for the [device] are...

Facebook details new privacy settings

From CNET News.com: Facebook users are about to see an unfamiliar screen when they sign on to the service--a request to configure their privacy preferences. But it's not really a request. It's a requirement.

"As far as we know, it's the first time in the history of the Internet,"...

OCZ Technology Starts to Ship Phase Change Cooler

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of advanced computer components, this week began to ship its Cryo-Z phase change cooling solution. The cooling system allows overclockers to reach sub-zero temperatures in order to help overclockers to increase clock-speeds of...

Google upgrades Web toolkit for browser apps

From InfoWorld: Google on Tuesday evening released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0 for building browser-based applications, offering enhancements for performance profiling and incremental downloading as well as a declarative UI framework.

Version 2.0 of the open source development...

DOJ Lets Microsoft Resume Collecting Protocol Royalties

From PC World: Microsoft may begin collecting royalties again for licensing some protocols because clear technical documentation is now available, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday.

The change comes after the DOJ issued its latest joint status report regarding its...

Mozilla lets Thunderbird 3 fly

From CNET News.com: Mozilla Messaging pushed the stable release of Thunderbird 3 out of the nest on Tuesday, and there's a lot to like in case you haven't been following the beta development of this Outlook alternative. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the long-overdue...

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