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...

Sony Ericsson Expects Sharp Drop in Phone Sales

From PC World: Sony Ericsson issued a profit warning on Friday, saying it will sell only about 14 million phones during the first quarter of 2009, down 8.3 million phones from the same period last year.

The company also expects to post a €340 million (US$460 million) to €390 million...

Take it back: Gmail gets 'Undo Send' Labs feature

From CNET News.com: Adding to its arsenal of features that can save you from yourself, Google is launching a Gmail Labs feature called "Undo Send," that lets you abort the sending of any Gmail message--if you use it within five seconds.

Other user-preservation features already...

IPhone OS v3.0 Tethering Revealed, Still Requires Carrier Approval

From DailyTech: With the official announcement of the iPhone OS v3.0 there has been much excitement over the new features, which include MMS support, copy cut and paste, turn-by-turn directions (via third-party hardware), FM radio support (via third-party hardware), and new Bluetooth...

VIA Creates Reference Design for 1080p Netbooks

From Tom's Hardware: Via’s VX855 Media System Processor brings support for 1080p high-definition video to Via's line of Nano, C7 and Eden processors. It was originally designed for mobile PCs and SFF systems, but this week the company showed a reference netbook design that...

Google returns Chrome to beta, touts speed boost

From InfoWorld: Google has reversed last December's decision to ditch the beta label from its Chrome browser , saying it is restoring the moniker to some builds to get faster feedback to developers.

"Since we took the 'beta' tag off Google Chrome in December, we've been updating two...

What an IBM-Sun Deal Could Mean

From PC World: Well, I guess it's true: If an enterprise computing vendor lives long enough, IBM will claim it in the end. While I have tremendous respect for Sun, I've never quite been able to figure out how the company has survived this long.

I'd always guessed the company would...

Microsoft set to unleash Internet Explorer 8

From CNET News.com: IE 8, as the browser is known, was first shown a year ago and has been in testing for months. The new browser adds security improvements, a private browsing option, as well as the ability to save pre-defined "slices" of a Web page for at-a-glance viewing.

But...

Super Talent Debuts New Performance SSDs, Capacities up to 256 GB

From DailyTech: The field of Solid State Drive (SSD) storage has seen tremendous growth over the last couple years. Last year the industry struggled with latency problems posed by certain JMicron controllers used in many models, but the performance, energy savings, and falling...

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