From Tom's Hardware: Reports are coming in that AMD/ATI CTO and graphics chip designer Bob Drebin has recently taken a Senior Director position with Apple. Electronista discovered the new position through Drebin's altered LinkedIn profile, which now lists his current employer as the...

From X-bit Labs: For years servers based on microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices relied on core-logic sets from Broadcom and Nvidia Corp., however, when AMD releases its next generation Opteron processors, it will not allow any third-party chipsets to emerge and will rely...

From InfoWorld: A software development kit for Java ME (Micro Edition) 3.0 that features integration with Windows Mobile devices is now available, according to Sun Microsystems.

Java ME puts Java on mobile units. Built to run on Windows XP and Vista, the SDK is the successor to Java...

From PC World: NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest cellular carrier, will soon launch improvements to its network that promise data transfers up to 15 times faster than are currently possible -- and it plans even greater changes next year.

The network improvements will begin in June and...

From CNET News.com: Mozilla on Monday released beta 3.5 of Firefox, a revamp of the open-source Web browser designed to include better performance, several new Web programming features, and a private browsing mode.

The earlier betas had been numbered 3.1, but Mozilla switched to the...

From DailyTech: The promise of fast access speeds has lured many enthusiasts over to SSDs already. Maximum capacity is doubling every year, and costs are dropping due to new process technologies being introduced.

One of the most important target markets for SSD manufacturers is...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated its twelve-core microprocessors operating in a 4-way server just days after it said it would start selling six-core chips in May, 2008. Thanks to multi-chip-module nature of the code-named Magny-Cours processor, creation of...

From InfoWorld: Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, agreed to pay chip designer Broadcom $891 million to settle a long running patent dispute to end all courtroom proceedings globally.

The agreement ends litigation in the U.S., the E.U., and Korea and gives...

From PC World: Samsung Electronics became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android software.

The South Korean company on Monday unveiled the I7500, which sports a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera and 8GB of internal memory. It's...

From DailyTech: Facebook, which allowed users to vote in favor or against the new terms of service (TOS) agreement on the site, will adopt the new changes even though the vote count wasn't very high.

Of the 200 million regular users on Facebook, around 666,000 users voted over the...