Google to Release Chrome OS in Fourth Quarter

From PC World: Google plans to release its Chrome operating system late this year, initially targeting laptop users, the head of the project said Wednesday.

The Chrome OS "will be offered to users in the fourth quarter," said Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product...

Streaming video to outpace P2P traffic growth

From CNET News.com: Video is still the killer app of the Internet, but peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent will no longer account for the bulk of traffic on the Net as streaming services grow at a quicker pace over the next few years.

For 10 years, peer-to-peer traffic, such as...

New AT&T data plans for iPhones, iPads, smartphones

From CNET News.com: AT&T announced on Wednesday a new set of data plans, available June 7th, for smartphones and tablets (read: iPads) that come cheaper than current plans. Though the changes might leave some users scratching their heads, we see more to like than dislike. Such as...

Adobe Unveils Digital Viewer Technology for Magazines

From DailyTech: Adobe Systems Incorporated just announced a new, digital viewer that allows magazine publishers to create digital versions of their magazines, and Wired Magazine has already jumped on the opportunity selling 24,000 digital copies of their iPad app during the first 24...

NVIDIA Brings Out the Big Guns -- a Dual Fermi GPU 430W Beast

From DailyTech: Fermi was long delayed, but it is finally hitting the market and reminding ATI that it hasn't totally won the graphics war, even if it did get quite the head start on DirectX 11. At Computex in Taiwan NVIDIA unveiled an impressive portfolio of upcoming products that...

StarCraft II Beta Extended until June 7

From Tom's Hardware: It may feel like forever until July 27 but there's good news for those of you taking part in the StarCraft II beta: Blizzard is extending the current phase for an extra week. That means seven more days before the beta shuts down for an unspecified amount of time...

Nvidia Unleashes GeForce GTX 465 Graphics Card: Fermi for $279

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Monday added its third Fermi-architecture consumer graphics card into the GeForce lineup. The new graphics card will cost below $300 and will be based on the substantially cut-down code-named GF100 graphics chip. Based on performance tests’ results...

Apple sells 2 million iPads in under two months

From InfoWorld: Apple has now sold more than two million iPad tablets, it said Monday, less than two months after the iPad's April 3 U.S. launch.

On May 28, Apple started selling the iPad in nine other countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland...

Subscribe to Daily Computer + Technology News, Reviews, Discussion