Intel joins bid to halve the cost of data centers

From InfoWorld: Intel is working with a group of Taiwanese companies and a government research center on a project that aims to slash the cost of a data center by nearly half.

The company is contributing chips, motherboards, and software to the project, as well as other engineering...

Oracle Takes Stake in Infiniband Vendor Mellanox

From PC World: Oracle announced late Wednesday that it has taken a 10.2 percent stake in Mellanox Technologies, maker of Infiniband interconnects for servers and storage systems.

Mellanox's InfiniBand technologies were already being used in Oracle's growing line of high-performance...

Firefox 4 release slips to 2011

From CNET News.com: Mozilla has pushed back the planned Firefox 4 release to 2011, a delay that's no surprise given the difficulties in releasing the first full-featured beta of the open-source browser--but that also gives breathing room for several competitors.

Mozilla had hoped...

Android pushes Motorola into black

From CNET News.com: The U.S.-based cell phone maker reported today that its mobile device business posted an operating profit for the first time since 2006. The company had not expected this unit to turn a profit until 2011.The company, which announced third quarter earnings, also...

Nintendo Reports $24.7M Net Loss

From DailyTech: Since the Wii console hit the market Nintendo has been dominating sales for hardware and traditionally does very well on software sales as well. Nintendo has been hit hard by different factors over the last year that has lead the company to some disappointing earnings...

MyTouch 4G Confirmed for November 3

From DailyTech: Depending on your political leanings, T-Mobile is offering an opportunity to celebrate or forget the results of the mid-term election November 2 by releasing the MyTouch 4G the next day. The news comes via T-Mobile's Facebook page and confirms not only the launch date...

ATI Maintains Lead on Discrete GPU Market - Mercury Research

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, managed to maintain its lead on the market of discrete graphics adapters in Q3 2010, according to data recently released by Mercury Research. Even though both ATI and Nvidia Corp. enjoyed increase in sales of...

AMD Calls New FPU "Flex FP", Defends Dual FMAC Approach

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices continies to share secrets about its forthcoming products that belong to code-named Bulldozer. Recently the company expained in details its new floating point unit (FPU) called "Flex FP" that promises to deliver high performance computing and...

Microsoft delivers Windows 7 SP1 release candidate

From InfoWorld: With little fanfare, Microsoft on Tuesday promoted Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to release candidate status, hitting the last major milestone before the code is finalized and shipped early next year.

The company posted Windows 7 SP1 RC on its site early Tuesday in a...

Yahoo Tests Major Mail Upgrade

From PC World: Yahoo will unwrap on Wednesday a test version of a major upgrade of its Mail service, whose user engagement has been eroding to the detriment of the company's overall usage.

Called simply Yahoo Mail Beta, the new version of the webmail service will feature a revamped...

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