Philips Set to Debut Wireless HDMI

From PC World: Philips has announced a wireless HDMI product that lets consumers connect home electronics products, like a television and a Blu-Ray player, without using any wires, it said on Thursday.

Philips will start shipping the Wireless HDMI Link September in Germany. Details...

EU to investigate Oracle-Sun deal

From CNET News.com: Final regulatory approval of Oracle's $7.4 billion takeover of Sun has just hit a snag, courtesy of the European regulators.

The European Commission announced Thursday that it has launched an in-depth investigation into the proposed merger between Oracle and Sun...

Amazon Fights to Kill Google Books in U.S. Federal Court

From DailyTech: Google's ambition was simple -- offer a first-of-its-kind internet library, where people could travel online to view everything from textbooks to great works of fiction. It began scanning books and quickly met with the ire of the publishing industry. However, it...

Compal Recieves Nokia Order for 100K Booklets

From Tom's Hardware: Digitimes today reports that Compal Electronics has received an order for 100,000 netbooks from Nokia. Nokia detailed its Booklet 3G at Nokia World, Stuttgart yesterday morning and to everyone's surprise the device is priced at over $810. While this price tag is...

Rumor: Intel Launching Core i5, i7 September 8

From Tom's Hardware: According to Digitimes' sources at motherboard makers, Intel's upcoming Core i5-750, Core i7-860 and Core i7-870 CPUs as well as P55 chipsets will be announced on September 8.

While the upcoming Lynnfield platform parts haven't officially been launched yet, some...

AMD Readies “Thuban” Six-Core Desktop Processor

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a desktop processor with six processing engines, sources familiar with the company’s plans revealed. The new central processing units (CPUs) will not be available this year, but are likely to boost performance of AMD’s desktop...

Microsoft Hyper-V still a work in progress, group says

From InfoWorld: Windows Server 2008 R2 will help Microsoft narrow the feature gap with virtualization products from VMware and Citrix Systems, but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group.

The analyst...

The Zune is Dead, Long Live the Zune HD

From PC World: Microsoft has confirmed that it will be washing its hands of the Zune media player, discontinuing it once the touchscreen Zune HD launches.

WinSuperSite's Paul Thurott got word that all models of the original Zune will be phased out. The Zune HD rolls into town on...

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