Phone calling coming to Twitter

From CNET News.com: Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.

A new third-party offering from Jajah known as Jajah@call is expected to go into beta Thursday morning that will allow...

Pentax Announces Affordable K-x D-SLR

From DailyTech: Pentax has unveiled a new D-SLR camera called the K-x today that is aimed at the buyer looking to get their first D-SLR and move up from the point-and-shoot world. The camera packs some very nice features into an affordable package.

One of the coolest things about...

Hacker: Apple's Snow Leopard Protections Weaker Than Windows 7's

From DailyTech: Apple has been bragging about the security of its new operating system, OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard". Leaping from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apple gives its users limited antivirus/anti-malware protection (the feature currently only detects two signatures out of a handful...

AMD First With Quad Core CPUs Under $100

From DailyTech: AMD has been doing a decent job competing in the mainstream and value CPU markets, but it is facing increasing pressure from the world's largest semiconductor company. Intel holds the current desktop CPU performance crown with Nehalem-based Core i7 processors, and...

Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday.

The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July...

ARM eyes Intel turf with 2GHz multicore designs

From CNET News.com: Cambridge, England-based chip company ARM on Wednesday announced the development of dual-core, quad-core, and eight-core Cortex A9 processor designs, explicitly aimed at markets currently served by Intel's x86 chips and IBM's PowerPC.

"This is a huge departure...

Intel Denies Short Supply of Atom Processors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp., the world’s largest supplier of microprocessors, denied the report that it was reducing supplies of Intel Atom processors to popularize the more expensive consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform and improve its average selling prices.

According to a...

In bid to upstage Intel, Arm boosts processor speed

From InfoWorld: Arm Holdings on Wednesday raised the clock speed of its Cortex A9 processor to 2GHz, with the aim of boosting application performance while drawing less power.

Arm designs processor cores that are licensed to chip makers. The processors can be found in billions of...

New Jailbreaking Tool Available for Some iPhone Users

From PC World: The iPhone hacking faithful can now unlock and jailbreak their original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 1G devices with the much-awaited PwnageTool 3.1. Unfortunately, the hacking tool does not yet support the iPhone 3GS or the new iPod Touch, but an update is...

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