DRAM Prices Continue to Surge in August

From PC World: DRAM prices continued to rise in August, finally reaching profitable levels for most chip makers after they reached multiyear lows early this year.

Contract prices of 1Gb DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) chips rose 18.9 percent in August to US$1.58 per chip...

More questions than answers on Google Books

From CNET News.com: Google's Dan Clancy had patiently answered question after question regarding Google's' Book Search settlement with publishers and authors until late in the afternoon Friday, when he was finally left speechless.

Louis Trager, a reporter from Washington Internet...

Facebook Changes Privacy Settings to Meet Canadian Requirements

From DailyTech: Facebook first burst onto the social networking scene in 2007 as the underdog to category behemoth MySpace. In the years since its launch, Facebook has gone on to become larger than MySpace in the number of users it boasts.

One of the things that goes along with...

Cloud Computing's Future Remains Murky

From DailyTech: A recent DailyTech poll of IT professionals indicates that more than a third have already implemented virtualization technology broadly in their organizations, but their attitudes toward cloud computing ranged from uncertainty to downright skepticism.

Among the 2,878...

APH Networks Reviews: Noctua NF-S12B FLX and NF-S12B ULN

In the past, we have written three separate articles on five different Noctua products: The Noctua NF-S12-800, NF-S12-1200, NF-R8 review, the Noctua NF-P12 review, and the Noctua NH-U12P review. Now, let's name one Noctua article that I wrote in the past with at least one product...

Fujitsu to Outsource Production of 28nm Chips to TSMC

From X-bit Labs: Fujitsu Microelectronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday formally extended their agreement over joint co-development of process technologies to 28nm node. As a result, chips developed by Fujitsu Microelectronics will be made at TSMC’s fabs...

Dell, HP back Microsoft in Word legal battle

From InfoWorld: Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the world's two largest computer makers, have sided with Microsoft in its appeal of a ban that would block Word sales in the U.S.

The two companies warned that the injunction would ripple through the PC ecosystem, and that without more time...

Wyse offers desktop virtualization for the iPhone

From InfoWorld: IPhone and iPod touch devotees can now access their PCs or virtual desktops remotely using PocketCloud from Wyse, released Thursday.

Because of the iPhone's small screen size, compared to a standard PC display, intuitive navigation is key. The PocketCloud user...

Apple Posts List of Software Incompatible With Snow Leopard

From PC World: Snow Leopard day is finally here, and forecasts call for the deluge of application compatibility updates to continue throughout the day. However, there are some specific programs that are currently incompatible with Snow Leopard--so incompatible, in fact, that 10.6's...

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