Google to end censorship in China, may pull out

From CNET News.com: Google no longer intends to censor search results in China, and if the Chinese government balks, it may take its servers and go home.

The stunning change in Google's policy toward doing business in China--which was always a complicated dance--came after Google...

AMD Prepping Triple, Quad Core Mobile CPUs

From Tom's Hardware: Laptops, with their strict power and heat restrictions, typically feature dual-core processors. But AMD is looking to crank things up beyond Intel's Arrandale chips that have just two cores.

AMD's Bob Grim, director of client product marketing, said that triple...

Microsoft: We Do Not Need a New Game Console

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Xbox 360 turns five years old this year and it is set to receive a major update in the form of code-named Natal motion sensor. But while the console will get morally old in the next couple of years, Microsoft Corp.’s officials claim that the Xbox 360 has a...

Symbian lays out mobile OS road map

From InfoWorld: Symbian Foundation, responsible for development of the Symbian mobile OS, is readying its Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 versions of the platform, with version 3 likely to be feature-complete next month, a Symbian blogger said this week.

The general releases of versions 3...

Windows Mobile 7 Delayed Until 2011?

From PC World: Google's Android mobile operating system is stealing the spotlight from Windows Mobile 7, so much so that reports say Microsoft's latest OS is delayed (again) due to Google's success.

Windows Mobile 7 was expected to arrive this year, bringing a considerable bunch of...

Supreme Court blocks YouTube from Calif.'s Prop. 8 trial

From CNET News.com: Here's a historic first you won't be seeing today: Coverage of a federal trial via YouTube.

The U.S. Supreme Court has put a halt, at least temporarily, to plans to let Google's video site stream coverage of the "Proposition 8" trial, which kicked off Monday in a...

Google releases Android 2.1 SDK after complaints

From CNET News.com: Google has released the software development kit for Android 2.1, the version of its mobile operating system that powers the Nexus One smartphone.

When the Nexus One was launched a week ago, developers complained that they had not been given the SDK, making it...

Code Posted Online Takes Advantage of Mac OS X Flaw

From DailyTech: Security is a big concern for many computer users. The concern for security is bigger than simply the need to protect personal information online; users are also concerned about the security of files and data stored on their local computers.

Proof of concept code has...

Long-Time DirectX Supporter Epic Games Joins Khronos Group

From X-bit Labs: Epic Games, a leading developer of graphics engines and popular Unreal-series video games, this week said that it had joined Khronos Group, an industry group that develops open standards for graphics. Although Epic has supported DirectX for about a decade now, it has...

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