In bid to upstage Intel, Arm boosts processor speed

From InfoWorld: Arm Holdings on Wednesday raised the clock speed of its Cortex A9 processor to 2GHz, with the aim of boosting application performance while drawing less power.

Arm designs processor cores that are licensed to chip makers. The processors can be found in billions of...

New Jailbreaking Tool Available for Some iPhone Users

From PC World: The iPhone hacking faithful can now unlock and jailbreak their original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 1G devices with the much-awaited PwnageTool 3.1. Unfortunately, the hacking tool does not yet support the iPhone 3GS or the new iPod Touch, but an update is...

Motorola: Microsoft Won't End Windows Mobile Support

From PC World: A Motorola executive today disputed the belief of some analysts that last month's Microsoft Corp.-Nokia Corp. agreement to jointly put Microsoft Office applications on Nokia handsets could mean that support for Windows Mobile could end within a couple of years.

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Lenovo Unveils Multi-touch X200 and T400s Notebooks

From DailyTech: Lenovo has announced new multi-touch tablet notebooks today called the ThinkPad x200 Tablet PC and the ThinkPad T400s laptop. The X200 also has a new option for a super bright optional screen that can be viewed in the sun. The X200 tablet is aimed at those who work...

Donut SDK for Google's Android ready

From CNET News.com: Those smartphone developers waiting for the next version of Android, code-named Donut, will not have to wait any longer now that the Android 1.6 software development kit is available for download. As expected, Donut is not a major release of Android but adds a few...

Dell to pay $4 million in fraud case

From CNET News.com: A year after the state of New York won its case against Dell and Dell Financial Services, the company will now pay up.

The PC maker will fork over $4 million to settle a case initially filed in 2007, New York's Office of the Attorney General said Tuesday. The...

iSuppli: Intel PC Market Share Lead Over AMD Grows

From DailyTech: Market researcher iSuppli recently released a new report indicating Intel's control of the gobal CPU market has reached a four-year high during Q2 in 2009.

"Intel benefited as the global PC market took a first small step toward recovery in the second quarter, with...

Nintendo to Drop Wii Price This Month – Advertisement

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo is projected to reduce the price of its massively popular Wii game console by $50 later this month, according to an advertisement of Toys R Us retail chain. The move is likely to boost sales of Wii and affect sales of competing offerings, namely Microsoft...

Intel Begins Sampling of “Jasper Forest” Microprocessor

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has begun sampling of its processor code-named Jasper Forest that is aimed at data storage and communication equipment markets. The new chip features build-in RAID controller and should allow Intel to better compete for low-power storage and...

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