Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.2

From CNET News.com: Apple on Thursday released an update for the iPhone operating system, bringing the current version of the OS to 3.1.2.

According to notes accompanying the update, Apple fixed three bugs, which may not seem like a lot, but they are important. Among the changes is...

Yahoo ponders the meaning of search

From CNET News.com: Yahoo is in the midst of a grand transition as a company, with a pending deal to sell its search assets to Microsoft in exchange for a healthy portion of the revenue generated by searches on Yahoo's pages. Yet some in the company seem a bit perturbed by talk that...

UK Manager Says Major Labels Steal More Music Than Filesharers

From DailyTech: Illogical suits and copyright enforcement are nothing new in the music industry. Rock musician John Fogerty was once forced to show a court that his song "The Old Man Down The Road" did not share the same chorus as "Run Through The Jungle" -- a song that he also...

NVIDIA Postpones New Intel Chipset Development Until Next Year

From DailyTech: NVIDIA has temporarily halted development of its Nforce chipset line, as the legal issues between the graphics company and Intel continue to turn nasty.

The graphics company plans to "postpone further chipset investments," possibly until a licensing disupte with...

Intel Foresees GPGPU Viruses, Seeks Security Solution for Larrabee

From X-bit Labs: General purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) is a highly-discussed topic these days. Thanks to multi-core architecture, GPUs can process multi-threaded tasks much more rapidly than central processing units. But while GPGPU technologies provide a...

AMD Hires Ex-Qimonda Chief Operating Officer

From X-bit Labs: In a rather surprising move, Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced the appointment of Thomas Seifert as chief financial officer. Prior to AMD, Mr. Seifert served as CFO in Qimonda, now insolvent maker of dynamic random access memory. Mr. Seifert succeeds...

IBM faces DOJ antitrust inquiry on mainframes

From InfoWorld: IBM is facing an antitrust inquiry from the U.S. Department of Justice for recent actions the company has taken in the mainframe computer market, according to the trade group that filed the complaint.

The DOJ has begun issuing formal requests for information related...

Motorola No Longer on LiMo Foundation Board

From PC World: Motorola is so focused on Android that it has dropped its board seat on the LiMo Foundation, the mobile Linux group it helped found.

Christy Wyatt, vice president of software applications and ecosystems at Motorola, quietly mentioned on Tuesday that she is no longer...

Twitter on the verge of big search deals?

From CNET News.com: Are Microsoft and Google hoping to get into Twitter's treasure trove of real-time information? Yes, says Kara Swisher of AllThingsD, citing sources who indicate that the two companies are separately in talks with Twitter about data licensing deals.

This would...

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