Amazon's 2nd quarter: Eyes on tablets, ads, and more

From CNET News.com: Amazon reports its second-quarter results later today, and Wall Street analysts will have one eye on the actual financials and another one on new revenue streams expected to emerge in the back half of 2011.

For the quarter ended June 30, Wall Street is expecting...

Mozilla Creates New Smartphone OS, Built Atop Android Kernel

From DailyTech: If "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", Google Inc. must have at least one fan of its Chrome Operating System (OS) project, as the Mozilla Foundation has announced plans for an operating system that seems eerily reminiscent to the new Google concoction...

Netflix Releases Q2 Results, Investors Nervous About Future

From DailyTech: Netflix has established itself as a force to be reckoned with, but after deciding to change its subscription plans and prices, investors are wondering if the DVD rental/video streaming company can maintain its momentum.

Netflix recently released its second-quarter...

SanDisk Intros Inexpensive Solid-State Drives for Retail Market

From X-bit Labs: SanDisk, one of the world's largest maker of NAND flash-based products, has unveiled a new consumer-oriented Ultra family of solid-state drives that will be sold at retail and will be aimed at the upgrade market.

Available in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB capacities...

Server Maker Leaks Clock-Speeds of AMD Opteron Bulldozer Chips

From X-bit Labs: Gateway, a maker of servers, has accidentally revealed clock-speeds of Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming AMD Opteron chips for servers code-named Interlagos and Valencia, which are based on Bulldozer micro-architecture. As projected initially, clock-speeds of the new...

Apple MacBook batteries found vulnerable to malware

From InfoWorld: MacBook users are being warned their Apple laptop batteries are vulnerable to being hacked.

After studying the batteries in several MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs, security researcher Charlie Miller found that Apple laptop microcontroller chips are shipped...

Apple Recalls Faulty iMac 1TB Seagate Drives

From PC World: On Friday, Apple announced that it would replace some Seagate 1TB hard drives included in recent iMacs that could "fail under certain conditions."

The free iMac 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Replacement Program is intended for a "very small number" of Seagate 1TB drives used...

RIM to lay off 2,000 employees

From CNET News.com: Research In Motion plans to lay off 2,000 employees, the company announced today.

The layoffs are part of a "cost optimization program" for RIM, whose lineup of handsets has been coming under increasing pressure from smartphones such as the iPhone and devices...

Facebook iPad App Leaked

From DailyTech: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month announced the release of new chat features, including Skype video calling, and mentioned that many more launches would appear in the coming weeks. Now, a Canadian engineering student has found one of the most anticipated...

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