Elan Sues Apple Over Touch Screen Patent

From DailyTech: The New York Times reports that the suit was filed late Tuesday afternoon according to an Elan spokesman named Dennis Liu. Liu told the NYT, "We couldn't find a common viewpoint with Apple, so we decided we had to take action,” he said, adding that the companies had...

Acer Ionizes Nettop with Nvidia’s Ion and Intel Atom

From Tom's Hardware: Acer Group, the world’s third largest maker of personal computers, on Tuesday officially unveiled the industry’s first nettop with Nvidia core-logic inside. Based on the much discussed Ion/GeForce 9400M platform can enable relatively high-performance graphics...

AMD Encourages Owners of Servers to Upgrade Their Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Traditionally, servers are never upgraded in terms of components, but switched to new ones when it becomes necessary. However, current economic environment as well as necessity to boost sales of its AMD Opteron processors catalyzed Advanced Micro Devices to kick off...

Intel Announces 2GHz Atom Microprocessor

From PC World: Intel celebrated the one-year anniversary of its popular Atom family of microprocessors on Wednesday by announcing a new 2GHz version of the chip.

Intel senior vice president Anand Chandrasekher announced the new chip at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing on...

Apple refusing royalty-free license to widget patent

From CNET News.com: Last month Apple disclosed the patent (No. 5,764,992) to the W3C Web Applications Working Group, which is trying to come up with a standard entitled "Widgets 1.0: Updates," as spotted by MacNN. Apple's patent is for "A software program running on a computer...

Blockbuster Says Continued Operations are Questionable

From DailyTech: For many years Blockbuster video enjoyed great success in the movie rental business. Blockbuster is one of the largest movie rental chains in the country, but the company has found that its continued existence is far from guaranteed.

Blockbuster has announced that...

Sony PS3 Outsells Nintendo Wii in Japan During March

From DailyTech: The PlayStation 3 has outsold the Nintendo Wii in Japan for the first time in 16 months according to market research firm Enterbrain. In March, Sony sold 146,948 PlayStation 3s compared to 99,335 Nintendo Wiis and 43,172 Xbox 360s. The sales success is fueled by the...

AMD to take further action to cut costs

From InfoWorld: Advanced Micro Devices on Friday said it would take further actions, which could include facility closures, to cut costs as it restructures in an effort to return to profitability.

The further cost reduction efforts are expected to result mainly from consolidations...

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