Report: Google in talks for movie rental service

From CNET News.com: YouTube's fledgling movie rental program may soon be getting some Hollywood muscle in the crowded fight for domination of digital movie and television content distribution.

YouTube-parent Google is negotiating with major Hollywood studios to stream movies from...

So Long, Farewell: AMD to Kill ATI Brand Name

From DailyTech: It's been a long four years, but AMD has finally hits its stride after its acquisition of ATI Technologies way back in 2006. After agreeing to purchase ATI for $5.4B, AMD was besieged with quarterly losses stemming from the purchase, constant pressure from NVIDIA in...

Mozilla Invades Android, Nokia's N900 With Alpha Build of Fennec 2

From DailyTech: The first sign of the shift to mobile computing could perhaps be seen when laptop sales surpassed desktop sales for the first time ever in the last calendar quarter of 2008. Or perhaps it was when was when cell phone subscribers surpassed land line subscribers in...

HP ups 3Par bid to $30 per share, tops Dell's latest

From InfoWorld: The bidding war for storage vendor 3Par continued to escalate Friday, with Hewlett-Packard submitting a new offer of $30 per share, or $2 billion. The offer topped a $27 per share bid made by Dell earlier in the day.

HP's board has approved the offer, but 3Par's has...

AMD to Examine Bobcat Microprocessors in Servers

From X-bit Labs: In line with the trends for ultra low-power servers, Advanced Micro Devices said that it would test its processors based on the Bobcat micro-architecture in server environments. Considering the fact that AMD already has very low power chips for servers, feasibility...

Intel's Earnings Set to Decline Due to Weakening PC Sales

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. early on Friday announced that third-quarter revenue will be below the company’s previous outlook. The company now expects third-quarter revenue to be $11.0 billion, plus or minus $200 million, compared to the previous expectation of between $11.2 and $12...

Jetway NC98-525-LF Review (Page 1 of 12)

In the early days of the Intel Atom, despite being a low cost platform, many users found themselves wanting more than what the GMA950 integrated graphics are able to provide. Thankfully for us, NVIDIA stepped into the scene with the ION -- which opened up many new doors for many netbook, nettop and integrated system users alike. The NVIDIA ION platform not only allowed for better graphics performance, but also took some pressure...

Updated blue screen of death rootkit now targeting 64-bit Windows

From InfoWorld: A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said Thursday.

"A new era has officially dawned; the era of x64 rootkits,"...

Gmail Users Make One Million Calls in 24 Hours

From PC World: Google's latest Gmail phone calling feature hit the ground running with over one million phone calls placed from Gmail in first 24 hours the feature was available, Google said Thursday via Twitter.The big question is how many will make Gmail calls in the following 24...

Dell ups 3Par offer yet again, to $27 per share

From CNET News.com: Stop us if you've heard this before: Dell says 3Par has agreed to a buyout proposal.

On Friday morning, Dell announced that storage company 3Par has accepted Dell's third acquisition offer, this one at $27 per share, which puts the total value of the cash offer...

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