Broadcom, Nvidia bring HD video to new Netbooks

From CNET News.com: For playback of high-resolution HD video--such as 1080p--Intel has "validated" an additional Broadcom chip that Netbook suppliers can include in systems, according to Anil Nanduri, director, Netbook Marketing at Intel.

Not coincidentally, on Monday, Broadcom...

HP Responds To Claim That Face-Tracking Software Is Racist

From CRN: Hewlett-Packard (HP) responded to claims that its facial-tracking software is racist, after a YouTube video appears to show a computer and webcam running the software ignoring a user who is black.

In the YouTube video, two co-workers " one black and one white " were using...

iPhone App Developer Tapulous Sees Big Success

From eWeek: IPhone app developer Tapulous says its sales have approached $1 million a month, providing fresh evidence of the growing success of start-ups designing programs for Apple Inc's mobile device.

Tapulous -- with a mere 20 employees -- said its "Tap Tap Revenge" game series...

LG, RIM top Apple in number of phone users

From CNET News.com: New data on the top 10 mobile phones puts Apple on top due to the sheer number of iPhone owners. But both Research In Motion and LG actually control more market share because they sell multiple, popular models.

Nielsen's data on the top 10 phones in use in the U...

Big Facebook privacy void: Controls on Connect

From CNET News.com: Privacy on Facebook has been front and center this month as the company has rolled out the controversial revamp of its user privacy settings. One thing that's thankfully stayed intact has been the ability to restrict the third-party applications on your profile to...

Corsair Releases TRIM Firmware for Its Performance SSDs

From DailyTech: When it comes to the growing solid state drive (SSD) market, support from TRIM appears to be one of the features most requested by enthusiasts. TRIM support allows SSDs to stay close to their "factory fresh" performance state even after days or months of vigorous...

Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 Looks to Pass IE 7.0 in Browser Marketshare

From DailyTech: Its no secret that Firefox 3.5 was an enormous success for Mozilla, with millions of copies downloaded within days of the release at the end of June. Indeed, the browser helped grow Mozilla's marketshare to over 30 percent worldwide for the first time, according to...

France Slaps Google on Wrist With Small Fine in Google Books Suit

From DailyTech: Google, the world's largest internet firm, has long rolled out groundbreaking services – after these rollouts, it then then worried about sorting out the resulting legal implications in the aftermath. This was the case with Google Books. After Google began scanning...

Hynix Introduces World's First 7Gbps 40nm 2Gb GDDR5 DRAM

From DailyTech: Most video cards shipping today come equipped with 1GB of graphics memory. This enables the GPU to access large amounts of fast memory on the video card without having to go through system memory. The amount of memory used in video cards has been growing rapidly in...

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