Roadmap of future Intel Netbook chips surfaces

From CNET News.com: One recent version of Intel's handheld and Netbook roadmap shows a chip platform code-named Medfield, which will be based on next-generation 32-nanometer process technology. The roadmap is featured in a report by UBS Securities.

Medfield (2010) will be preceded...

Warner Music Pitching ‘Music Tax’ to Top Universities

From DailyTech: A number of U.S. universities expressed interest in plans for a “music tax,” where students would pay a flat fee as part of their tuition in return for the promise of no lawsuits from the RIAA.

The plan, spearheaded by Warner Music’s Jim Griffin, would essentially...

Mozilla to pull anti-phishing feature from Firefox 2.0

From InfoWorld: Mozilla will drop anti-phishing protection from the final version of Firefox 2.0 at Google 's request when Mozilla updates the browser later this month, a company executive confirmed Thursday.

When Mozilla rolls out Firefox 2.0.0.19, the browser will be missing the...

Adobe Admits New PDF Password Protection Is Weaker

From PC World: Adobe made a critical change to the algorithm used to password-protect PDF documents in Acrobat 9, making it much easier to recover a password and raising concern over the safety of documents, according to Russian security firm Elcomsoft.

Elcomsoft specializes in...

Second Firefox 3.1 beta due 'very shortly'

From CNET News.com: One big change in the 3.1b2 is the addition of "Web workers," a feature that lets the browser process tasks in the background. That feature, part of the still-evolving HTML 5 specification, adds another level of sophistication for programmers writing Web...

Chipmakers Feel the Pinch Created by Low-cost Netbooks, Notebooks

From DailyTech: Notebook computers are becoming the majority of computer system sales for many computer makers. With notebooks being such a large portion of sales a decline in notebook shipments and overall weakness in the segment can put a significant strain not only on the computer...

Yahoo technology will offer abstracts of search results

From InfoWorld: Yahoo's lab in India is developing technology that will summarize information about Web search results rather than simply offer links as search engines currently do.

"When you type in a search today, you get a list of URLs (uniform resource locators), and they are...

IBM offers a 'Microsoft-free' desktop

From CNET News.com: The tech pioneer is launching a Linux-based collection of virtual desktop applications that run on a server without the need for desktop hardware--or Microsoft software, according to a report Wednesday evening on The Wall Street Journal's Web site. The Linux-based...

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