Gmail Gets Autocomplete Search Functions

From PC World: Google added suggestive search in Gmail, five years after the service was launched. The new Search Autocomplete feature gives users suggestions as they type in the search box. The function returns results such as contact names and also allows users to search through...

Report: Google in 'late-stage' talks to buy Twitter

From CNET News.com: Google is in "late stage" talks to acquire microblogging service Twitter, according to a report Thursday on TechCrunch citing two unnamed sources.

Twitter lets people post short 140-character messages; people often subscribe to follow the stream of these tweets...

RIM BlackBerry Sales Up, Almost Doubles Q4 Revenue From Last Year

From DailyTech: In a sign that the economy may be improving, Research In Motion, the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has announced record sales and revenue for the fourth quarter of their fiscal year ending February 28, 2009.

RIM shipped approximately 7.8 million BlackBerry...

A Peek at Windows 7 Starter's 3 App Cap

From Tom's Hardware: Windows 7 Starter Edition will be the el cheapo option aimed at low-cost PCs and netbooks, perhaps paving the way for more of the latter products to hit $200. This makes sense, but what has many concerned and curious is the artificially three programs running at...

Atom netbook chip propels Intel to top of market

From InfoWorld: The success of Intel's Atom microprocessor, used mainly in netbooks, helped the chip maker gain market share in every quarter of 2008 and could carry the company this year as well.

Intel's share of the microprocessor market grew every quarter last year, market...

Palm Invites Developers to Create Apps for Pre Mobile Phone

From PC World: Palm is taking what it hopes is the next step in to make its Palm Pre a viable iPhone competitor. On Wednesday, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm opened up its Mojo Software Development Kit (SDK) program to a "broad group of developers." The Mojo SDK allows...

Microsoft's telephony software gains railroad ties

From CNET News.com: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway is hoping that Microsoft's telephony software can help it replace its aging phone system. But it also hopes the software might help it replace another asset that's getting older: its workforce.

About 40 percent of the company...

ATI Launches Radeon HD 4890; Over 50,000 Already Shipped

From DailyTech: ATI, the graphics division of AMD, has launched the Radeon HD 4890 video card exclusively with 1 GB of GDDR5 RAM.

The RV790 is not just an overclocked RV770. DailyTech noticed the RV790 chip was slightly larger than the RV770 when we acquired a reference board...

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