Sales of PC microprocessors jump 10 percent

From InfoWorld: The sale of microprocessors is bucking the economic downturn, as the number of PC processors sold rose about 10 percent during the second quarter compared to the first three months of this year, according to market research company IDC.

Revenue was also up, by...

Windows President Tries to Calm Fears of Win 7 Critical Bug

From PC World: Microsoft's Windows Division president Steven Sinofsky tried Wednesday to tamp down a growing roar that Windows 7 RTM has a critical flaw that can shut down the OS by running a simple command.

"Sorry to get dragged into this," wrote Sinofsky, taking the unusual step...

Lenovo earnings dinged by weak enterprise demand

From CNET News.com: Lenovo reported a net loss for its fiscal first quarter as revenue skidded 18 percent because of weak enterprise spending.

The company reported a net loss of $16 million, or 18 cents a share, in the first quarter, on revenue of $3.5 billion. Lenovo, which remains...

Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.8

From DailyTech: Apple's OS X 10.6 may be just around the corner, but that isn't stopping the folks from Cupertino from updating its current Leopard operating system to version 10.5.8. In what may be the last major update until Snow Leopard comes around, this latest service update...

Qimonda to Be Shut Down by the End of the Year – Reports

From X-bit Labs: It was first semiconductor division of Siemens AG, which manufactured and developed various chips and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), that got spun off to form Infineon AG in 1999. In 2006, Infineon itself spun off its memory business into separate legal entity...

Elpida Shows Interest for Graphics Memory Assets of Qimonda

From X-bit Labs: Elpida Memory, the only maker of dynamic random access memory in Japan, has reportedly shown its interest in acquiring graphics memory business from insolvent Qimonda. The company and the insolvency administrators can ink the deal already in August, but in addition...

ESPN Muscles in on Staff Tweets

From PC World: One of the best things about following celebrity Twitterers is their candor -- or at least, the illusion of it -- but at ESPN, that open approach to Twitter is going away.

Last night, NBA writer and analyst Ric Bucher tweeted that he received a company memo...

Google Beefs up Maps with Points of Interest

From PC World: Google Maps is an immersive online experiences when it comes to travel, but if you're scouting a foreign city and are not sure where to go, you were previously left to heed the words of a guidebook. Google wants to change all that. Points of interest in major cities...

Google buys video compression outfit On2

From CNET News.com: Google on Wednesday said it will acquire On2 Technologies, a video compression company, for $106.5 million.

Under the terms of the stock swap, each share of On2 will be exchanged for 60 cents worth of Google common stock.

Google just made a few penny stock...

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