Gmail outage hits 'small subset of users'

From CNET News.com: Gmail was unavailable Thursday morning for what Google said was a "small subset of users," the latest outage from a company that prides itself in running advanced computing systems.

On the Google Apps status dashboard, the company said at 7:29 a.m. PDT that it...

Is HP changing its Voodoo tune?

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard is sending mixed signals on what exactly it plans to do with the Voodoo PC brand it acquired three years ago.

After purchasing the gaming and PC enthusiast brand in 2006, HP in 2008 began using the Voodoo name beyond powerful gaming PCs. It...

Dell Receives EU Permission to Accept Government Money From Poland

From DailyTech: The European Commission has given the Polish government a green light to transfer $80.7M in aid to Dell, allowing the tech giant to build a factory.

Dell will close its Limerick, Ireland, manufacturing plant -- which was announced earlier in the year -- shifting the...

ATI Launches Radeon HD 5800 Series, First DirectX 11 GPUs

From DailyTech: When ATI first launched the Radeon HD 4870 last year, it delivered a new level of performance at a great price point. NVIDIA struggled to compete, but still managed to hold onto a lot of its marketshare.

With the launch of Windows 7 and DirectX 11 on October 22, many...

Microsoft Courier Heats up Tablet Sector

From DailyTech: Microsoft dropped a blockbuster product announcement yesterday via Gizmodo. After months of Apple-tablet rumors, including word that Steve Jobs himself is masterminding the device, it is Apple's competitor Microsoft that has stolen the spotlight with the announcement...

Intel Targeting 22nm Chips by 2011

From Tom's Hardware: Just after Intel was proud to show off its 32nm wafer for its Westmere processor, the world's largest chipmaker today brought out the first working chips built on the 22nm process.

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini took to the stage with 22nm test circuits...

Intel Demonstrates Larrabee Graphics Processor in Action

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has demonstrated its highly-anticipated code-named Larrabee graphics processing unit at Intel Developer Forum 2009. The device was rendering well-known Enemy Territory: Quake Wars ray-tracing demo in real-time. The demo was not interactive, so, it was...

Intel ahead of schedule with new Xeon server chips

From InfoWorld: Intel is set to start production of its next-generation Xeon quad-core server chips ahead of schedule, which could then appear in systems as early as the first quarter of next year, a company official said on Tuesday.

"We're on track for production in the first...

Google plug-in puts Chrome inside IE

From InfoWorld: Google today released a plug-in that embeds its Chrome browser into rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a move one analyst said may be an admission by Google that getting users to switch is harder than it anticipated.

Dubbed Google Chrome Frame, the open-source plug...

Microsoft to be heard on Word injunction appeal

From CNET News.com: OK, so the software maker still spends lots of days in court, even if it has settled many of the antitrust cases that once filled its Outlook calendar. Wednesday, though, it will make its case to an appeals court for why it shouldn't face an injunction banning...

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