From X-bit Labs: Asustek Computer is again rumoured to sell a stake in its contract maker of electronics called Pegatron. The move would allow the latter to become more financially powerful and potentially get other advantages. However, Asustek denies any of such plans.

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From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of advanced memory modules and solid-state drives, on Wednesday announced its new SSD, which it calls the most cost-efficient flash drive based on single-level cell (SLC) memory. SLC flash not only provides extreme performance...

From InfoWorld: Word that Steve Jobs is now hard at work on an Apple tablet, which he reportedly deep-sixed twice in the past, may be good news for the tablet and bad news for its delivery date.

Or maybe this is just a bit of Apple propaganda, passed to us by the Wall Street Journal...

From PC World: Still using Tiger, the older version of Mac OSX? You may be able to cheat Apple and pay only $29 to upgrade to the latest Snow Leopard operating system, says Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal.

Tiger, which was launched in 2005, was Apple's longest-running...

From CNET News.com: On the heels of Sony reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 and announcing the PlayStation 3 Slim, Microsoft announced Thursday that it too will be dropping the price of its console.

Starting Friday, the Xbox 360 Elite will be priced at $299, $100 cheaper than...

From CNET News.com: Friday's release of the new version of the Mac OS, dubbed Snow Leopard, could include some security features that would make it secure, or at least push it closer to the level of security that Vista and Windows 7 have, experts said this week.

Contrary to popular...

From DailyTech: The smartphone market is very hot right now with some of the most popular devices selling very well despite the poor economy. Nokia is struggling to compete in the high-end market and is looking to a new operating system to help it get ahead of the competition...

From DailyTech: GPU sales are looked at as an indicator of how well the overall computer market is doing since all computers today ship with a GPU of some sort be it of the discrete or integrated variety. So far, 2009 has been a rough year for GPU makers.

Typically, GPU makers would...

From X-bit Labs: A media report claims that Nokia Corp.’s recently announced Booklet 3G netbook will cost rather whopping $799 at launch, which is too expensive for a netbook in general and a consumer-oriented mobile computer in particular.

Netbooknews.de web-site has reported that...

From InfoWorld: Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day.

At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday, Sun...