Windows 7 Gets Official Release Date: October 22

From DailyTech: Windows 7 will indeed be hitting in time for the holiday season. The much-buzzed about operating system is set to inherit the operating system throne from the much-maligned Windows Vista, with general commercial availability starting on October 22 according to a...

AMD challenges Intel with dual-core Neo chip

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said it had started shipping the dual-core Athlon Neo processor for thin and light laptops, upping the ante in its battle with rival Intel, which offers processors for similar laptops.

The new Neo chip will be an upgrade over the...

4GB iPhone Coming Next Week?

From PC World: Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is just under a week away, and there are more indications that Apple will unveil the next generation of its iPhone device. Rumors out late yesterday point to a 4GB iPhone model that could be an actual $99 iPhone, and the...

Intel launches chips for low-cost, thin laptops

From CNET News.com: Intel is launching its line of processors for thin, inexpensive laptops at the Computex tech conference in Taipei. Intel marketing chief Sean Maloney talked about this in a phone interview.

"It's clear that people like devices to be thin and light," said Maloney...

AMD Launches New Dual Core Phenom, Athlon CPUs

From DailyTech: Intel and AMD have both been touting their capabilities in the multi-core race. Each semiconductor company has been showing four core, six core, and even eight core CPUs in their bids to impress the buying public. Decreased manufacturing costs due to smaller process...

Alienware's "Allpowerful" Laptop is the M17x

From Tom's Hardware: Alienware’s been teasing that a new gaming laptop’s on the way. The announcement wasn’t set to come out for another few more days, PC World’s got all the details on the next behemoth laptop from this boutique PC builder.

The M17x, as the name suggests, is a 17...

Acer's First Android Smartphone Due in Q4

From PC World: Acer plans to launch its first smartphone with Google's Android software on board in the fourth quarter of this year, the company announced Monday.

The world's third largest PC vendor had already said it planned to launch a smartphone running Android software, but had...

Bing Goes Live, Some Bloggers Shocked to Find Porn

From PC World: Microsoft's new search engine Bing is now live, two days ahead of schedule, available for anyone to use. The world has already been taking the latest search engine for a test drive to see what they think of the successor to Live Search. So far the general consensus is...

Psion, Intel settle 'Netbook' trademark dispute

From CNET News.com: However, British PDA maker Psion registered a trademark for "Netbook" in a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1996. The company, which is now called Psion Teklogix and is based in Canada, introduced a handheld device called the NetBook Pro earlier...

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