HP to Decide the Fate of Palm/WebOS Business This Week

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard reportedly scheduled a meeting on Tuesday where it plans to try to decide the future of its webOS/Palm business unit that produced smartphones and media tablets. The rumour has it that HP had already finished its "initial bidding" for the unit and...

How Microsoft Reduces Memory Use in Windows 8

From Tom's Hardware: For the second time in Windows history, a new release of Windows will not increase its memory system requirements, but rather it will remain the same or even go down. Windows 7 required a minimum of 1 GB, the same as Windows Vista, which also asked for 1 GB...

Google launches Dart as a JavaScript killer

From InfoWorld: Google has launched a preview version of a new Web programming language, called Dart, which the company's engineers hope will address some of the shortcomings of the widely used JavaScript language.

Google's goals for Dart are to create "a structured yet flexible...

Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook Lands This Week for $899

From DailyTech: Intel has been working hard to get the notebook realm to adopt its new Ultrabook platform. The chipmaker has vowed to secure a large portion of the notebook market with the Ultrabook platform. The big selling point of the Ultrabook that has been touted so far is the...

Apple iPhone 4S Preorders Top 1 Million in 24 Hours

From eWeek: Apple announced that preorders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. The iPhone 4S is the company's latest smartphone and comes with new features including Apple's dual-core...

Qwikster is No More, DVDs to Remain at Netflix.com

From DailyTech: Qwikster, a subsidiary of Netflix that was created last month, was set to be Netflix's separate DVD-only business. This means an entirely different account with a different website and billing for customers, despite the fact that it is owned and operated by Netflix...

NZXT Avatar S Review

Stereotypes can be quite hilarious. Whether we like it or not, we tend to know a few of these racial tendencies for every race out there. Heck, it doesn't even need to be a race. I can say the phrase, "old married couple", and a small list in your head would have already put out: McDonald's in the early morning, tea in the afternoon, and going to bed at 8pm. I can say the word "glasses", and already you think of nerds with no...

Microsoft to ship last service pack for Office 2007 this month

From InfoWorld: Microsoft yesterday announced it will ship a third and final service pack update for Office 2007 before year's end.

It appears that Microsoft will deliver Office 2007 SP3 (Service Pack 3) this month.

"The October 2011 release provides a six-month window to test and...

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