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...

Obama taps Schmidt as White House cybersecurity coordinator

From InfoWorld: Seven months after he announced the creation of a White House cybersecurity coordinator, President Obama has selected industry veteran Howard Schmidt for the job, an administration official confirmed Monday night.

"Cybersecurity is critical to both our national...

Apple Issues Fix for Flickering Woes on Top-Selling 27 inch iMac

From DailyTech: While Apple has suffered from a plethora of quality control issues, from cracked iMacs to overheating iPhones, those problems have done little to slow the company's sales momentum. With the launch of revised iMacs in October, the company has seen brisk sales on the...

Broadcom, Nvidia bring HD video to new Netbooks

From CNET News.com: For playback of high-resolution HD video--such as 1080p--Intel has "validated" an additional Broadcom chip that Netbook suppliers can include in systems, according to Anil Nanduri, director, Netbook Marketing at Intel.

Not coincidentally, on Monday, Broadcom...

HP Responds To Claim That Face-Tracking Software Is Racist

From CRN: Hewlett-Packard (HP) responded to claims that its facial-tracking software is racist, after a YouTube video appears to show a computer and webcam running the software ignoring a user who is black.

In the YouTube video, two co-workers " one black and one white " were using...

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