Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.8

From DailyTech: Apple's OS X 10.6 may be just around the corner, but that isn't stopping the folks from Cupertino from updating its current Leopard operating system to version 10.5.8. In what may be the last major update until Snow Leopard comes around, this latest service update...

Qimonda to Be Shut Down by the End of the Year – Reports

From X-bit Labs: It was first semiconductor division of Siemens AG, which manufactured and developed various chips and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), that got spun off to form Infineon AG in 1999. In 2006, Infineon itself spun off its memory business into separate legal entity...

Elpida Shows Interest for Graphics Memory Assets of Qimonda

From X-bit Labs: Elpida Memory, the only maker of dynamic random access memory in Japan, has reportedly shown its interest in acquiring graphics memory business from insolvent Qimonda. The company and the insolvency administrators can ink the deal already in August, but in addition...

ESPN Muscles in on Staff Tweets

From PC World: One of the best things about following celebrity Twitterers is their candor -- or at least, the illusion of it -- but at ESPN, that open approach to Twitter is going away.

Last night, NBA writer and analyst Ric Bucher tweeted that he received a company memo...

Google Beefs up Maps with Points of Interest

From PC World: Google Maps is an immersive online experiences when it comes to travel, but if you're scouting a foreign city and are not sure where to go, you were previously left to heed the words of a guidebook. Google wants to change all that. Points of interest in major cities...

Google buys video compression outfit On2

From CNET News.com: Google on Wednesday said it will acquire On2 Technologies, a video compression company, for $106.5 million.

Under the terms of the stock swap, each share of On2 will be exchanged for 60 cents worth of Google common stock.

Google just made a few penny stock...

Nikon Unveils Digital Camera with Integrated Projector

From DailyTech: Nikon has announced a new point-and-shoot camera called the CoolPix S1000pj that adds something no one has done yet, and it is very interesting. The camera is the world's first to integrate a projector into the design. The camera can throw an image of up to 40-inches...

Microsoft Improves Windows XP Mode With New Windows 7 RC

From DailyTech: One of Windows 7's most interesting features is going to be the Windows XP mode, available on Professional and Ultimate edition licenses. Typically, virtual machines are only supported via separately purchase software from vendors such as VMWare and Microsoft. This...

Sony Announces $199 Pocket Reader

From DailyTech: The eReader market is getting hot. There were readers on the market before the Amazon Kindle burst onto the scene, but the Kindle is the product that really brought real attention to the eReader market. Sony is now trying to combat the Kindle with a few new products...

European antitrust regulators to review Oracle-Sun deal

From InfoWorld: The European Commission plans to release its first opinion on Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems on Sept. 3.

The European Commission was notified about the deal on July 30, and it will now be looked at under the European Union Merger Regulation...

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