Samsung Settles With Rambus for $900 Million

From Tom's Hardware: Rambus has emerged victorious from another legal patent-laced battle. The memory company announced with Samsung that the two had reached a settlement agreement and a forward-going license.

As part of the overall agreement, Samsung will initially pay Rambus $200...

Microsoft Patches Critical Flaw in Internet Explorer

From DailyTech: While some flaws go unexploited and turn out to be relatively harmless, a recent flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers led to some serious damage. Chinese hackers used the memory flaw to execute remote code and steal valuable information from some of the...

Apple Fiscal Q1 Profit Tops $3.38B, iPhone Sales Double

From DailyTech: As if there weren't enough to look forward to from the folks at Cupertino this week, Apple today released its quarterly earnings after the closing bell and the results are no less than stellar. Results from fiscal Q1 2010 saw revenue shoot up to $15.6B while quarterly...

HTC expecting sales turnaround with new lineup

From CNET News.com: After struggling throughout 2009, mobile phone maker HTC is eyeing an upturn in sales this year, though profit margins are still likely to be down.

Earlier this month, HTC announced a 31 percent drop in fourth quarter 2009 earnings to 5.6 billion Taiwan dollars (...

Judge Finds Nvidia Guilty of Infringing Certain Rambus Patents

From X-bit Labs: Memory and interconnection technologies designer Rambus has announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) preliminary found Nvidia guilty of violating three Rambus’ patents as well as several regulatory acts...

AMD Introduces Sub-$100 Phenom II Microprocessor

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday released five new microprocessors, among which there is the company’s first Phenom II chip that costs less than $100, which is also the company’s highest-performing dual-core product, energy-efficient high-speed quad-core central...

Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security

From InfoWorld: Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Tuesday announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server, and storage resources in multi-tenant systems.

The companies are providing...

Netgear Targets Small Businesses With New Security Tool

From PC World: Netgear's new security appliance takes on small-to-midsize business stalwarts such as Fortinet and Barracuda by including antispam, antimalware, and Web content filtering in a single unit that offers easy deployment and budget-preserving pricing.

We tested the STM600...

Google prepares 3G fix for Nexus One

From CNET News.com: Google is working on a software fix that should improve some 3G network problems Nexus One owners have reported, the company said Monday.

"Our engineers have uncovered specific cases for which a software fix should improve connectivity to 3G for some users," said...

Subscribe to Daily Computer & Technology News, Reviews, Discussion