From PC World: Hewlett-Packard has offered to buy 3PAR, a vendor of virtualized storage systems, for US$1.6 billion in cash, topping a bid of $1.15 billion made by Dell last Monday. HP made its offer in a letter to 3PAR President and CEO David Scott on Monday morning. The offer... |
From CNET News.com: Who will give the iPad a run for its money? I would bet my bottom dollar on Motorola, or better yet, the dynamic duo of Motorola and Verizon. The BlackBerry "Black Pad" from RIM, or Google gPad via HTC, or even or the self-proclaimed LG Optimus Tablet dark horse... |
From CNET News.com: Apple is apparently ramping up its battle to prevent iPhone and iPod owners from jailbreaking their devices. The company has applied for a patent, titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device," that covers a series of... |
From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, will launch a new dual-chip graphics card by the end of the year, according to a rumour published by a China-language web-site. The card will replace the current top-of-the-line ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics... |
From X-bit Labs: Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the second calendar quarter of 2010 (Q2 2010) increased 3.6% and 6.2%, respectively, compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest PC processor study from International Data Corporation (IDC)... |
From DailyTech: On Monday Firefox 4's fourth beta will launch to testers worldwide, as Mozilla charges toward its upcoming major release. The browser's code was frozen on Thursday and is being finalized for release. Firefox's improvements fall into three general categories --... |
From DailyTech: T-Mobile earlier this week teased with an image of the T-Mobile G2, the successor to the T-Mobile G1 which was the first phone to feature Google's Android OS. Much has changed since T-Mobile released the G1 in October 2008. Today, Android is one of the top players... |
From InfoWorld: Google this week made available a developer preview of its Chrome Web Store, which enables access to Web applications. Developers, according to software engineer Michael Goth on the Google Chromium Blog, can upload applications and experiment with packaging and... |
For those of you who don't know me as well as you should, I am very much like our Editor-in-Chief "the chc", in that I have many electronics and other gadgets lying around the house. From the latest Core i7 personal computers, the usual iPod and iPhones, all the way to HDTVs with high performance personal surround sound systems -- I won't pretend that I am not a geek at heart! However, there are one or two things I am missing... |
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