Intel Capital Infuses Japanese WiMAX Effort with $43M USD

From DailyTech: The first of the 4G mobile data services to debut in the U.S. was Sprint and Clearwire's WiMAX service. In America, the rollout of WiMAX is still very weak with only a few major cities having access to WiMAX today. Clearwire plans to roll WiMAX to other American...

Intel's 'Larrabee' to Be "Huge"

From Tom's Hardware: This information comparing Larrabee to Nvidia's GTX 285 was preliminary, and given to us by a company close to Intel and Nvidia. After posting, we received more information on what Larrabee could shape up to be from one of Intel's very close and large partners...

Netbooks on verge of big shake-up

From InfoWorld: Asustek kicked off an entirely new category in the mobile computing space when it presented a prototype of its Eee PC at Taiwan's Computex trade show two years ago. Since then, many users have embraced netbook PCs for their small size, light weight, and low cost...

Sun Shareholders Will Vote on Oracle Deal on July 16

From PC World: Sun Microsystems has scheduled a special shareholders meeting for July 16 for a vote on whether to accept Oracle's US$7.4 billion proposal to buy the company. Sun's board has unanimously recommended the transaction go through.

The industry has been abuzz with...

Windows 7 not likely to jolt PC market

From CNET News.com: Microsoft's top Windows business executive said Monday that for all his excitement about Windows 7, he doubts the release of the operating system will lead to a significant spike in PC sales.

"History would tell us that generally as you ship a Windows release...

Reports of Yahoo Getting Binged Appear to be Mistaken

From DailyTech: The Yahoo Microsoft saga is an irresistible one for the tech news community, both for journalists and readers alike. After Yahoo scorned Microsoft's 2008 purchase offer, Microsoft decided to go its own way, cooking up Kumo. So when the newly renamed Kudo, now Bing...

ATI Expects a “Wave” of DirectX 11 Game Titles to Ship This Year

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, said that the adoption rate of the next-generation Microsoft DirectX 11 application programming interface (API) by game developers is rather high and that the company expects to see “a wave” of titles supporting...

Google Street View Gets Smart Navigation

From PC World: Google's popular and yet controversial (in some places) Street View service received a nifty update this morning, in the shape of smart navigation. By now, users had to navigate through Street View using some pretty basic forward and backward arrows along the roads...

Report: Steve Jobs on track for June return

From CNET News.com: Steve Jobs is on track to return to the helm of Apple this month after nearly six months of medical leave, according a report in The Wall Street Journal that cited unnamed sources.

Jobs announced in January that he would be stepping down temporarily from the...

Sony Says no PS3 Price Cuts Coming

From DailyTech: Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are fighting for the dollars of gamers around the globe. The sales pecking order in the gaming console market is well defined with Nintendo in first, Microsoft in second, and Sony bringing up third place.

Many in the industry say the...

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