Asustek Chairman Vows 'secret Weapon' for IPad 2

From PC World: The chairman of Asustek Computer, Jonney Shih, noticed the growing thirst for mobile computing early on. When he challenged his engineering teams to design a new, more mobile computer, they came up with the netbook, a mini-laptop with extended battery life designed to...

News Corp. ready to unload MySpace

From CNET News.com: News Corp. is weighing the sale of MySpace as one of a few remaining options to deal with the once popular but now languishing social network.

News Corp. CEO Chase Carey said yesterday in an earnings conference call that the time is right to consider either...

Net powers: IPv4 is over. All hail IPv6!

From CNET News.com: The Internet's overseers bid adieu to the last 83.9 million addresses needed to connect devices to today's Net--then took advantage of the moment to evangelize the next-generation Internet and the dangers of life support for today's Net.

Today's Internet is wired...

Gadgets Report: Dual-Core HTC Pyramid Coming to T-Mobile

From DailyTech: You can place this one firmly in the rumor column for now, but multiple sources at AndroidAndMe and TmoNews have confirmed the existence of a dual-core Android-based HTC smartphone for T-Mobile, codenamed "Pyramid."

The existence of a dual-core smartphone from HTC...

ARM Develops Special Chip for Low-Cost Smartphones

From X-bit Labs: ARM, a leading developer of low-power processing technologies for mobile, low-power and consumer electronics, said that it had added a new application processor design into its roadmap. The new chip design will address the market of inexpensive smartphones, which is...

Dell releases Ubuntu-powered cloud servers

From InfoWorld: Dell has released two servers for the U.S. market that have been customized to run Ubuntu-based cloud services, the company announced Wednesday.

Dell has outfitted its PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers with Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an implementation...

Verizon iPhone Preorders Begin Tomorrow

From PC World: Apple has announced that current Verizon Wireless customers can preorder the CDMA iPhone 4 starting tomorrow, a week before anyone can pick one up from Apple and Verizon online and brick-and-mortar stores.

Verizon, the largest wireless carries in the United States...

Microsoft tries undoing Chrome's H.264 omission

From CNET News.com: Weeks after Google announced it would drop support for H.264-encoded video from Chrome, Microsoft announced it's adding support back in through a browser extension for Windows 7 users.

"Today, as part of the interoperability bridges work we do on this team, we...

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