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...

Apple TV's Missed Opportunity

From PC World: Thursday's announcement of HD movies sales being added to the iTunes Store may have been good news for consumers of Apple-supplied content--especially Apple TV users, who are best poised to enjoy such HD content. But it also highlights the big drawback of the Apple TV-...

Intel Readying New Chips for Inexpensive Ultraportables

From PC World: Intel reaffirmed on Friday that it was readying new ultra-low-voltage chips, due in the second quarter, for inexpensive ultraportable laptops.

The company will ship the ULV chips as part of its Montevina Plus mobile laptop platform, an updated version of the existing...

Google designer leaves, blaming data-centrism

From CNET News.com: Douglas Bowman, Google's visual design leader, is leaving the company after finding the company's reliance on detailed Web page performance data too confining.

Bowman clearly had mixed feelings about departing, but he wasn't shy with his opinion about what he...

ATI Reportedly Boosting Orders to Chip Manufacturers

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics products group of Advanced Micro Devices, has reportedly boosted its orders to manufacturers of its graphics processors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and United Microelectronics Corp. The increase of orders may mean that the company...

Microsoft proud of its first 'post-Gates' OS, Ballmer says

From InfoWorld: Windows 7 is the first Microsoft OS developed away from the watchful eye of Bill Gates, and the technical leaders who built it had to adjust to life at the company without its cofounder and former chief software architect, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

"We have a...

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