Google upgrades Gmail for IE 6 users

From CNET News.com:

There's a lot of action in the browser market these days: Google just launched its Chrome browser, Firefox 3.1 is due in months, Apple hopes Safari will spread across the world of Windows, and Microsoft is touting its second beta of Internet Explorer 8.

But a...

Amazon to Sell Low-Cost XO

From DailyTech: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) will sell its low-cost XO notebook to interested consumers through Amazon.com, an OLPC official announced. The original plan behind the XO was to make the laptop available to children in developing nations and not to interested parties in...

APH Networks Reviews: TAO 1.4" Square, TAO 1.5" Polished Silver

There's something that I always look for in regards to the main keychain that goes with my primary set of keys -- for one thing, it must be of a certain size and weight. If it's not 'this size' or 'weighs at least this much', then it won't act as the main unit. Since my car's keyless...

Details finally due from AMD on "fab-lite"

From EETimes: AMD could announce later this month a significant advance towards its long-touted fab-lite strategy that involves spinning out its Dresden, Germany fabs in a deal that includes an investment from a middle-East group to form a new company. According to reports in the...

Dell planning to ditch factories

From CNET News.com: During the conference call reporting on second quarter financial results, Dell's new CFO Brian Gladden said several times that the company has "more work to be done," to improve profitability and decrease costs. He wasn't kidding. Over the last year Dell has cut...

Researchers build malicious Facebook application

From InfoWorld: A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook program an experiment to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications.

The experiment shows the ease with which attackers could dupe large number of users into downloading a seemingly...

Microsoft Doubles Storage Capacity Limit For Netbooks

From Tom's Hardware: Microsoft is becoming a bit more lenient with the limits it has imposed on netbooks manufactures who wish to use Windows XP as the OS. As of Wednesday, Microsoft officially doubled the maximum allowable hard disk drive size to 160 GB, up from 80GB. MSI and...

Samsung Eyes Possible Acquisition of SanDisk

From PC World: Samsung is eyeing a possible acquisition of memory chip-maker SanDisk.

The company, which is the world's largest computer memory maker in the world, said it was "considering various opportunities" with regard to SanDisk "but nothing has been decided yet." The comment...

Yahoo's Stock Price Continues to Plummet

From DailyTech: It seems that Yahoo thought its stock had hit rock bottom in June of 2008 when it was trading at $23.52 per share. This price was reached after Microsoft walked away from its talk with Yahoo of a buyout.

CNET News reports that Yahoo's stock has now dropped to a new...

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