Google closing in on $400 million deal for AdMeld

From CNET News.com: Google's full employment program for antitrust regulators continues: the search giant is in the final stages of a deal to purchase ad tech company AdMeld. Like other recent Google purchases, this deal will automatically generate scrutiny from Washington before it...

Apple Accused of Ripping Off Developer's Rejected Wi-Fi Sync App

From DailyTech: It's no secret that Apple has been militant in suing competitors that employ technologies even remotely close to Apple's own. But when it comes to stealing ideas for apps from developers, Apple's intentions are a bit more dubious.

The Register reports that Apple is...

Samsung Begins to Ship Consumer Memory Modules with 30nm DRAM

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in the world, said Thursday that it had begun shipping consumer-class memory modules featuring DDR3 DRAM chips produced using 30nm-class process technology. The new modules are more energy...

Samsung Ships 1TB Internal Hard Drive for Laptops

From PC World: Samsung this week announced the Spinpoint M8 internal hard drive with 1TB capacity, which could raise the bar in storage available on laptops.

The drive has two 500GB platters and is 9.5-millimeter (0.37 inches) high, so the drive can fit easily into laptop storage...

HP TouchPad launching in US July 1

From CNET News.com: Today, HP announced its first WebOS-based tablet, the HP TouchPad, will be available in the U.S. starting July 1 for $499.99 for the 16GB, Wi-Fi model and $599.99 for the 32GB model.

Preorders will begin on June 19, and the WebOS-based tablet will be sold at...

Nokia CTO Abandons Ship

From DailyTech: It's been nearly eight months since we last reported a major Nokia executive's defection from the struggling company — after a string of them [1 2 3]. But the brief lull doesn't make today's news about the possible resignation of Nokia's chief technology officer any...

Wii U Announcement Actually Featured Xbox 360/PS3 Game Footage

From DailyTech: Yesterday proved to be an exciting time for Nintendo as it announced the Wii's successor, Wii U, at its press conference at E3. While the improved system specs and tablet-like controller seemed to have won many Nintendo fans over, the game footage looked like nothing...

Corsair Recalls Certain SSDs with SandForce Controllers

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory, a leading manufacturer of memory modules and a well-known provider of solid-state drives (SSDs), announced a recall of certain SSDs with SandForce controllers. According to the company some of Corsair Force 3-series 120GB SSDs require both new...

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