HTC expecting sales turnaround with new lineup

From CNET News.com: After struggling throughout 2009, mobile phone maker HTC is eyeing an upturn in sales this year, though profit margins are still likely to be down.

Earlier this month, HTC announced a 31 percent drop in fourth quarter 2009 earnings to 5.6 billion Taiwan dollars (...

Judge Finds Nvidia Guilty of Infringing Certain Rambus Patents

From X-bit Labs: Memory and interconnection technologies designer Rambus has announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) preliminary found Nvidia guilty of violating three Rambus’ patents as well as several regulatory acts...

AMD Introduces Sub-$100 Phenom II Microprocessor

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday released five new microprocessors, among which there is the company’s first Phenom II chip that costs less than $100, which is also the company’s highest-performing dual-core product, energy-efficient high-speed quad-core central...

Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security

From InfoWorld: Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Tuesday announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server, and storage resources in multi-tenant systems.

The companies are providing...

Netgear Targets Small Businesses With New Security Tool

From PC World: Netgear's new security appliance takes on small-to-midsize business stalwarts such as Fortinet and Barracuda by including antispam, antimalware, and Web content filtering in a single unit that offers easy deployment and budget-preserving pricing.

We tested the STM600...

Google prepares 3G fix for Nexus One

From CNET News.com: Google is working on a software fix that should improve some 3G network problems Nexus One owners have reported, the company said Monday.

"Our engineers have uncovered specific cases for which a software fix should improve connectivity to 3G for some users," said...

Google Voice finally on iPhone--in the browser

From CNET News.com: Owners of the iPhone and Palm's WebOS devices can now get in on the mobile Google Voice experience with the Web app, which will run in the browsers of iPhones with the 3.0 software installed and all Palm WebOS devices, said Vincent Paquet, senior product manager...

Record $1.92M File Sharing Settlement Cut to $54K

From DailyTech: Back in October 2007 it was reported that Jammie Thomas, a Minnesota woman, was being sued by the RIAA for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa. Jammie was the first defendant not to settle out-of-court with the RIAA, making her case unique, and for the RIAA, particularly...

Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice

From CNET News.com: A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch Web video or host it on their own sites.

Last week, Google's YouTube announced early support for HTML5 video, which can be built directly into Web...

AMD Releases Five New Processor Models

From DailyTech: Having lost the CPU performance race, AMD has been focusing on the low and mid-range PC market instead. Today the thorn in Intel's side is expanding its Phenom II and Athlon II lineup with some minor speed increases.

The new Athlon II X2, X3, X4 and Phenom II X2/X4...

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