IE 8's Poor Reception Not a Good Sign For Microsoft

From PC World: The honeymoon appears to be over for Internet Explorer 8 -- and it wasn't much of a honeymoon to begin with, either. Just days after the browser's big debut, its market share has fallen a full 28 percent from its peak. Alternative browsers, meanwhile, have held steady...

Sun shares make a downhill run

From CNET News.com: Shares of Sun Microsystems took a hit in Monday morning trading, falling at least 7 percent while the broader markets advance.

Sun fell as low as $7.53 a share, following reports Friday in The Wall Street Journal that IBM is currently engaged in combing through...

Dell Adamo Battery Not Swappable

From Tom's Hardware: We’re all collectively lusting after the form-conscious Dell Adamo. It’s sleek, looks well-built, and something we’d love to have with us while we’re mobile -- unless if battery life is an factor.

Pocket-lint reports that the Dell Adamo does not have an easily...

Nvidia Expected to Release GeForce GTX 275 in Early April

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp., one of the two suppliers of discrete graphics processing units, plans to launch its new performance-mainstream GeForce graphics card model 275 on the 9th April, 2009. The new graphics card should compete against ATI Radeon HD 4890 from the graphics...

Play Xbox Games on Your Cell Phone

From PC World: Imagine playing what looks like an Xbox 360 game -- on a $100 cell phone. That, according to Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, is exactly what could be possible as soon as winter 2009 with its new higher-end Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors.

Even though...

Intel chip flaw--but what of it?

From CNET News.com: Intel chip bug? Or simply much more than you need to know? Researchers claim Intel has a serious chip bug. But that all depends.

Security experts who are into the arcana of chip security may find "CPU cache poisoning" riveting and serious stuff. Others, however...

Report: Apple and LG Team Up for iPhone and Netbook

From DailyTech: The netbook market is booming and the only major computer maker yet to introduce a netbook is Apple. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has said previously that the company didn’t know how to make a cheap notebook that worked.

Despite the denial that Apple would launch a netbook...

Samsung Debuts Its Own Online Movie Rental Service

From DailyTech: Samsung has launched a new service for European consumers aimed at competing with the Apple iTunes movie rental service, with 500 movies to be available for now.

"The movie is tangible progress in (Samsung's) convergence strategy and a first step in delivering...

NVIDIA PhysX SDK Hits Nintendo Wii

From DailyTech: Video game developers are always after the best effects and most realistic environmental interactions for their games. The more realistic and up to date techniques the developer can use when designing the video game, the more realistic and immersive the finished game...

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