ATI’s New-Generation GPUs on Track for the Second Half of 2010

From X-bit Labs: Chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices said during a conference call with financial analysts that the company’s graphics division ATI was on-track to refresh its lineup of graphics cards in the second half of calendar 2010. The mystery, though, is with...

Widespread attacks exploit newly patched IE bug

From InfoWorld: The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has surfaced.

Starting late Wednesday, researchers at antivirus vendor Symantec's Security Response group began spotting dozens of Web sites that contain the...

Amazon Invites App Developers to Kindle

From PC World: Amazon on Thursday announced its Kindle Development Kit, which enables software developers to build and upload "active content" for the Kindle wireless-reader device.

The kit offers access to programming interfaces, tools, and documentation to build content for Kindle...

AMD posts profit on Intel settlement

From CNET News.com: Advanced Micro Devices posted a fourth-quarter profit of $1.18 billion, its first profit in three years, largely due to a massive settlement with Intel.

The $1.178 billion profit, or $1.52 per share, beat the analyst consensus estimate that had projected AMD to...

More on Verizon and its antipiracy efforts

From CNET News.com: CNET published a story Wednesday morning headlined "Verizon ends service of alleged illegal downloaders." In it, Verizon spokeswoman Bobbi Henson was quoted saying the company has "cut some people off" after they were accused multiple times of illegal file sharing...

Microsoft's Latest Vulnerability is 17 Years Old

From DailyTech: Usually Microsoft is a pretty quick patcher. With over a billion users of Windows operating systems, both new and old worldwide, Microsoft is under tremendous pressure to patch security flaws in all of its current and past operating systems.

However, every now and...

Over 23% of Steam Customers Running Windows 7, DirectX 11

From DailyTech: Steam is a digital gaming delivery platform developed by Valve, makers of the Half-Life series of games. The system was developed not only to reduce losses caused by piracy, but also to reduce costs of shipping physical media and to reduce reliance on retailers...

Google Set to Reveal Q4 Numbers This Week

From DailyTech: Google is the largest search company in the world and has one of the largest advertising programs online. Google is set to deliver its Q4 2009 earnings this week, which are expected to be better that Wall Street estimates.

Reuters reports that the expected revenues...

Microsoft fixes 8 IE holes, including one used in attacks

From CNET News.com: Microsoft on Thursday issued a cumulative critical patch for Internet Explorer that fixes eight vulnerabilities, including a hole targeted in the China-based attacks on Google and other U.S. companies.

The security update is rated critical for all supported...

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