Google reforms Chrome for Snow Leopard

From CNET News.com: Google released an update for Chrome to fix compatibility problems with Snow Leopard on Monday, which along with other fixes shows the gradually maturing state of the Mac OS X version of the browser.

Chrome 4.0.203.4 for the Mac is only a couple notches up the...

Windows Mobile 6.5 phones coming Oct. 6

From CNET News.com: Microsoft is hoping that a new crop of phones this fall will help the company in its quest to stay relevant in the cell phone market.

The software maker said on Tuesday that the first phones running Windows Mobile 6.5 will launch worldwide on October 6 and will...

Nokia "Comes with Music" Delayed Until 2010 for U.S.

From DailyTech: Nokia is one of the largest mobile phone providers in the world by marketshare with about 38% of the global market. The problem for Nokia is that in the U.S. its products aren't nearly as popular with a mere 7% of the U.S. market.

Earlier this year Nokia, launched...

Average Selling Prices on Graphics Cards Continue to Drop

From X-bit Labs: Sales of discrete graphics cards for desktop personal computers grew slightly sequentially in the second quarter of 2009, a recent study from Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has found. However, average selling prices (ASPs) dropped, as a consequence, market value declined...

Sharp to launch ultramobile device with Arm chip

From InfoWorld: Sharp Electronics this week introduced a netbook-like mobile device with a 5-inch touchscreen that is designed to run Internet-based applications.

The PC-Z1 device is as easy to handle as a mobile phone and provides performance similar to PCs, the company said in a...

DRAM Prices Continue to Surge in August

From PC World: DRAM prices continued to rise in August, finally reaching profitable levels for most chip makers after they reached multiyear lows early this year.

Contract prices of 1Gb DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) chips rose 18.9 percent in August to US$1.58 per chip...

More questions than answers on Google Books

From CNET News.com: Google's Dan Clancy had patiently answered question after question regarding Google's' Book Search settlement with publishers and authors until late in the afternoon Friday, when he was finally left speechless.

Louis Trager, a reporter from Washington Internet...

Facebook Changes Privacy Settings to Meet Canadian Requirements

From DailyTech: Facebook first burst onto the social networking scene in 2007 as the underdog to category behemoth MySpace. In the years since its launch, Facebook has gone on to become larger than MySpace in the number of users it boasts.

One of the things that goes along with...

Cloud Computing's Future Remains Murky

From DailyTech: A recent DailyTech poll of IT professionals indicates that more than a third have already implemented virtualization technology broadly in their organizations, but their attitudes toward cloud computing ranged from uncertainty to downright skepticism.

Among the 2,878...

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