Microsoft tries undoing Chrome's H.264 omission

From CNET News.com: Weeks after Google announced it would drop support for H.264-encoded video from Chrome, Microsoft announced it's adding support back in through a browser extension for Windows 7 users.

"Today, as part of the interoperability bridges work we do on this team, we...

AOL earnings: Still not good

From CNET News.com: AOL's advertising revenues have dropped yet again, according to the company's 2010 fourth-quarter earnings report, issued today. But the good news? Wall Street had been anticipating that things would be even worse.

Revenue for the quarter was $596 million, down...

T-Mobile Announces Galaxy S 4G, Expands Network

From DailyTech: T-Mobile this morning officially announced the February launch of the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, and the expansion of its "4G" HSPA+ network into more than 100 major metropolitan areas.

In a T-Mobile press release, called the Galaxy S 4G -- exclusive to the carrier -- "the...

Microsoft Kills Disastrous KIN Phone's Data Service

From DailyTech: It’s been almost half a year since Microsoft's KIN handsets were yanked off the market only weeks after launch. Microsoft is now in the midst of a relatively successful Windows Phone 7 campaign. What Windows Phone 7 lacks in sales, it at least makes up for in...

TSMC Reaffirms Plans to Ship 28nm Chips Commercially in Q4

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company recently reaffirmed its plans to start commercial production of chips using 28nm high-K metal gate process technology this calendar year. Apparently, the company expects revenue for 28nm wafers to account for up to 3% of its...

Amazon to offer Oracle's database in the cloud

From InfoWorld: Oracle's database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service, the companies announced Tuesday.

The move comes shortly after Salesforce.com announced Database.com, a pay-as-you-go product that is also powered in...

Apple Rejects Sony Reader App, Says Report

From PC World: Apple is proving once again that if you don't play by its rules (which appear to change on a whim) then you don't get into the iOS app store. This time the company has reportedly rejected an e-reader app from Sony because the electronics maker was not selling e-books...

Boxee Box's Netflix app delayed--again

From CNET News.com: As January came and went, those hoping for Netflix on the Boxee Box were once again disappointed.

In an early morning blog post today, Boxee revealed that its Netflix app failed to make a self-imposed January 31 deadline because "we have not yet satisfied Netflix...

IPv4 Internet addresses: 251 blocks down, 5 to go

From CNET News.com: Yesterday marked an important step toward the end of Internet plumbing as we know it.

Specifically, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two of the last seven blocks of Net addresses that use today's Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). That...

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