Mozilla lets Thunderbird 3 fly

From CNET News.com: Mozilla Messaging pushed the stable release of Thunderbird 3 out of the nest on Tuesday, and there's a lot to like in case you haven't been following the beta development of this Outlook alternative. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the long-overdue...

First Mobile Firefox enters home stretch

From CNET News.com: Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence.

"Our goal is to have a release candidate next week," said Jay...

Seagate Preparing 640GB & 7mm Thin Laptop Hard Disk Drives for CES

From DailyTech: Seagate is the largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the world. They have started to enter the SSD market, but most of their sales are still focused on the desktop and enterprise markets.

The company is growing market share in the mobile sector, thanks in part to...

RIM Solidifies Ties to Chinese Consumer Market

From DailyTech: Research In Motion (RIM) has solidified efforts to gain a foothold in mainland China, recently agreeing to a deal with a Hong Kong IT company, as it attempts to crack into a market that has more than 600 million potential customers.

The company has teamed up with...

LG Electronics to Acquire OLED Business from Kodak

From X-bit Labs: Kodak, one of the pioneers of OLED technology, on Monday said that it would sell substantially all the assets associated with its OLED business to a group of LG Electronics companies, a company that only relatively recently started to see value in the new type of...

Intel will salvage Larrabee processor, analysts predict

From InfoWorld: Although Intel delayed its first stand-alone graphics processor, code-named Larrabee, the company could use elements of the chip's design and architecture in future products, analysts said on Monday.

Intel on Friday delayed the commercial release of Larrabee, which...

Google Real-Time Search Provides Fresh Results

From PC World: Google announced several interesting things at its press event today, including Google Googles, a vision-assisted search app for Android phones that lets you snap a photo of a real-world item, then get information about it. But the big news turned out to be Google Real...

Intel shifts focus to laptop graphics technology

From CNET News.com: Intel will focus on next-generation laptop technology that combines graphics functions with the main processor, in the wake of the cancellation of its initial "Larrabee" graphics processor.

Despite the market-rattling news from Intel late on Friday--which pushed...

Seagate enters solid-state drive market

From CNET News.com: Solid-state drives are generally faster than hard-disk drives, particularly at retrieving data, and have won limited acceptance in the laptop market. Seagate, however, is targeting the more lucrative and potentially larger server market and will compete with likes...

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