Nvidia Accidentally Confirms Plans to Release GeForce GTX 500

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. reportedly accidentally leaked its own plans to refresh its product lineup with GeForce GTX 580 graphics card. The new flagship product should start the refresh of the whole family that was confirmed by the company back in September at its GTC 2010 event...

Nvidia Slashes Pricing of Graphics Cards Dramatically

From X-bit Labs: Just days before AMD's next-generation Radeon HD 6800-series graphics cards hit the market, Nvidia Corp. slashed pricing of its performance-mainstream and high-end graphics boards rather dramatically so to keep their sales going despite of potentially strong...

Lenovo to release tablet, hybrid PC in 2011

From InfoWorld: Lenovo plans on releasing a tablet PC as well as its IdeaPad U1 -- a hybrid computer that can function as both a laptop and tablet -- to the worldwide market during the first half of 2011, said the company's senior business director, Xiong Wen.

Lenovo will first...

Facebook, Target Team Up to Print Photos

From PC World: Facebook has expanded its vast empire, giving users a chance to browse and print their pictures at Target's Kodak photo kiosks.

The kiosks at Target's retail stores connect to the Web, so there's no need to bring anything but your Facebook login information. All photo...

AT&T tallies 5.2 million iPhone activations in 3rd quarter

From CNET News.com: In announcing its third-quarter earnings today, AT&T said that it activated more than 8 million smartphones over the past quarter, and a hefty 5.2 million of those devices were iPhones--"the most iPhone activations ever in a quarter," the carrier said. During the...

Nokia phones in profit

From CNET News.com: Nokia's earnings returned to the black in the third quarter thanks to smartphone sales, but it also announced 1,800 layoffs.

The Finnish mobile phone maker said today that it took home a profit of 529 million euros ($741 million) in the third quarter compared...

Apple Introduces OS X 10.7, Mac App Store, 11.6/13.3 MacBook Airs

From DailyTech: Apple introduced FaceTime with the iPhone 4, then later brought it to the iPod touch (fourth generation). Now, Apple is adding FaceTime calling to the Mac platform which will allow you to make video calls to both iPhone 4 and iPod touch users. It's a pretty simple...

Nokia No Longer Talking About Symbian^3 or ^4

From DailyTech: This morning Nokia announced -- via its official blog -- that it will streamline its development process by making Qt (pronounced "cute") its sole application development framework for both Symbian and MeeGo. Nokia stated that it was taking the approach very...

Western Digital Does Not See High Demand Towards SSDs

From X-bit Labs: Even though non-traditional suppliers of storage devices find that the market of solid-state drives (SSDs) is expanding, Western Digital, currently the world's largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), finds its SSD business struggling. Nonetheless, the company plans...

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