Windows 7 'family pack' pricing revealed

From InfoWorld: Microsoft will price a multi-license "family pack" for Windows 7 at $149.99, according to at least one online retailer that has posted pricing details prematurely.

Fadfusion.com, a Missouri-based online seller of computers, electronics and office supplies, lists...

Report: Price Hikes Killing SSD Sales for Laptops

From PC World: Surging prices for NAND flash memory have hurt what was a promising market for solid-state disk (SSD) drives in laptops this year, according to market research by iSupply Corp.

In a report on whether rising flash component prices are curbing SSD adoption, iSuppli said...

Best Buy, TiVo form an alliance

From CNET News.com: TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that popularized the digital video recorder, and Best Buy, the national electronics chain, are forging a broad partnership.

On Thursday, the companies plan to announce that Best Buy will heavily promote TiVo products in its 1,100...

Bing is Growing Out of Beta Too

From Tom's Hardware: Following the July 1 promise that it would start bringing full versions to users in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, and the UK up to U.S. level, UK product manager at Microsoft, Ian Moulster, has provided some more details on wrote on when Microsoft will roll...

PC makers already working with Google on new Chrome OS

From InfoWorld: Google plans to announce within the next day or so the names of PC makers in Taiwan and China that have already signed on to work with its new Chrome operating system, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The list will be similar in style to that made for Google's Android...

PayPal to Open Platform to Third-party Developers

From PC World: PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options.

PayPal, which is owned by eBay, is developing what it calls the Adaptive Payments Service, which consists of a set of APIs...

Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system

From CNET News.com: The company announced Google Chrome OS on its blog Tuesday night, saying lower-end PCs called Netbooks from unnamed manufacturers will include it in the second half of 2010. Linux will run under the covers of the open-source project, but the applications will run...

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