Google ditches all Street View Wi-Fi scanning

From CNET News.com: Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of privacy probes after the company said it unintentionally captured fragments of unencrypted data.

The...

Palm Pre 2 Officially Unveiled, Comes up Seriously Short

From DailyTech: Today Palm ended weeks of speculation unveiling the Palm Pre 2 (previously code-named Mansion) and its new webOS 2.0. HP has shown its hand and it appears as underwhelming at best.

On the surface the device itself seems reasonably well-equipped, containing the kind...

Intel to Upgrade Four Fabs to Make 22nm Chips

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. announced tuesday that the company will invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its American facilities. The action will fund deployment of Intel’s next-generation 22nm manufacturing process across...

Globalfoundries Expects $3.5 Billion Revenues in 2010

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries, a contract maker of semiconductors controlled by Advanced Technology Investment Company and Advanced Micro Devices, said that it would receive $3.5 billion in revenues in 2010. Such level of earnings will make Globalfoundries nearly as big as United...

New Nook coming soon?

From CNET News.com: For those of you who like to keep track of release dates, the Barnes & Noble Nook was announced on October 20, 2009. Almost to the day, Barnes & Noble has sent out an invite to members of the media, requesting their appearance at an event next Tuesday, October...

VMware virtualization revenue soars 46 percent in Q3

From InfoWorld: Continuing to ride a wave of enterprise server virtualization, VMware on Monday reported a 46 percent increase in revenue for the third quarter, or $714 million, up from $456 million in the same quarter a year earlier.

The U.S. led the demand for VMware services and...

Steve Jobs Unloads on iPad Competitors

From PC World: Android tablets, BlackBerry's PlayBook and Samsung's Galaxy Tab? Forget them! Apple CEO Steve Jobs had an unusual lashing at the company's competitors in the smartphone and tablet markets during Apple's post-earning conference calls with analysts. Jobs explained why...

AMD Announcing Next-generation Graphics Cards This Week

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce its second-generation of DirectX 11 graphics cards this week, and also to show off its latest hybrid Fusion chip as the company tries to jump ahead of rivals Intel and Nvidia.

AMD on Friday will announce the Radeon HD 6800...

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