Corsair Releases TRIM Firmware for Its Performance SSDs

From DailyTech: When it comes to the growing solid state drive (SSD) market, support from TRIM appears to be one of the features most requested by enthusiasts. TRIM support allows SSDs to stay close to their "factory fresh" performance state even after days or months of vigorous...

Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 Looks to Pass IE 7.0 in Browser Marketshare

From DailyTech: Its no secret that Firefox 3.5 was an enormous success for Mozilla, with millions of copies downloaded within days of the release at the end of June. Indeed, the browser helped grow Mozilla's marketshare to over 30 percent worldwide for the first time, according to...

France Slaps Google on Wrist With Small Fine in Google Books Suit

From DailyTech: Google, the world's largest internet firm, has long rolled out groundbreaking services – after these rollouts, it then then worried about sorting out the resulting legal implications in the aftermath. This was the case with Google Books. After Google began scanning...

Hynix Introduces World's First 7Gbps 40nm 2Gb GDDR5 DRAM

From DailyTech: Most video cards shipping today come equipped with 1GB of graphics memory. This enables the GPU to access large amounts of fast memory on the video card without having to go through system memory. The amount of memory used in video cards has been growing rapidly in...

Red Hat will drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6

From InfoWorld: Red Hat is dropping support for Intel's Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

Dropping support for Itanium makes economic sense for Red Hat, according to Chris Ingle...

Final Fantasy XIII Nears 2 Million Sales Mark

From PC World: Square Enix's roleplaying spectacle-spinner Final Fantasy XIII sold over 1.5 million units in its first four days on store shelves, reports Japanese tracker Enterbrain. Not bad at all, considering the game's only available for the PlayStation 3 in Japan (the English...

No Nook by Christmas? Here's a $100 gift card

From CNET News.com: Some customers who placed early orders for Barnes & Noble's Nook may not see their e-reader arrive in time for Christmas.

Barnes & Noble told some customers by e-mail Friday that though their shipment "has been slightly delayed," the company is aiming to get...

Yelp bails on Google deal?

From CNET News.com: Just a few days after reporting that Google was about 80 percent likely to be acquiring business reviews site Yelp for a totally sweet $500 million, TechCrunch has backtracked. Late Sunday, TechCrunch reported that Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman personally walked away...

Time Warner Subscribers May Lose Fox Network

From DailyTech: Cable providers in America are making big money off subscribers and advertisers. The cable companies also have to pay the networks to be able to rebroadcast the programs they air to their network of subscribers. When it comes time to renegotiate these broadcasting...

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