Sony recalling Bravia TVs over melting danger, reports say

From CNET News.com: According to the BBC, a total of 1.6 million of the affected sets have been sold worldwide. Citing a page on Sony's Europe Web site, the news service says Sony's KDL-40D3400, KDL-40D3500, KDL-40D3550, and KDL-40D3660 models, among several others, have been tagged...

How Gizmodo escaped indictment in iPhone prototype deal

From CNET News.com: Last year's investigation began with a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont, Calif., home, followed by a painstaking examination of Chen's electronic files. Investigators suggested at the time that Chen could face criminal charges, and he soon hired a...

AMD Launches FX CPUs with Bulldozer Architecture

From DailyTech: AMD has launched its much anticipated FX series of desktop CPUs using the Bulldozer architecture. Codenamed Zambezi, the 32nm chips represent the company's top offerings for enthusiasts. Bulldozer is the first complete redesign of AMD’s processor architecture since...

Memory Module and Chip Prices Flatten in October - Observers

From X-bit Labs: In spite of seasonality and activities of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) producers to boost pricing of computer memory contract prices on 4GB DDR3 modules remained flat in the first half of October, according to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce...

OCZ: We Are One of the Largest SSD Companies Now

From X-bit Labs: Once a supplier of high-performance dynamic random access memory (DRAM), OCZ Technology is becoming a major player on the market of solid-state drives (SSDs). In fact, the company says it is one of the largest SSD supplier on the planet. In fact, OCZ's SSDs are...

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet hit by patent lawsuit

From CNET News.com: Though it won't reach store shelves until next month, Amazon's new Kindle Fire is already the target of a patent lawsuit.

A company called Smartphone Technologies filed the suit last Friday in Texas Eastern District Court accusing the Fire tablet of violating...

AT&T Promises to Step Up Android Offerings, Shows 5 New Phones

From DailyTech: AT&T, Inc. hasn't exactly always been the heaviest proponent of Android, instead pushing hard offerings like the Apple, Inc. iPhone -- long an AT&T exclusive -- and Research in Motion, Ltd. business-minded Blackberry smartphone lineup. But with RIM's sales slumping...

UMC to Produce ARM System-on-Chips Using 28nm Process Tech

From X-bit Labs: ARM and United Microelectronics Corp., a leading global semiconductor foundry, have announced a long-term agreement that provides UMC foundry customers with access to the latest advanced ARM Artisan physical IP solutions validated on UMC's 28HPM process technology...

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...

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