IE to lose Windows monopoly next week in Europe

From CNET News.com: Microsoft will start offering some European Windows users a choice of Web browsers next week, the company announced Friday, as it starts to publicly test its legally mandated browser choice process.

The choice screen, which followed extensive negotiations between...

S3 Graphics Shows Off Dual-GPU Graphics Card

From X-bit Labs: S3 Graphics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Via Technologies, plans to demonstrate a dual-chip graphics card at Digital Signage Expo 2010 later this month. The graphics card will carry two S3 Chrome 5400E graphics processing units (GPUs) and will be aimed at advanced...

Google acquires iPhone search application ReMail

From InfoWorld: Google on Wednesday acquired ReMail, a popular iPhone application that provides "lightning fast" full-text search of your Gmail and IMAP email accounts.

Terms of the deal were not released. ReMail may not have been a household name, but the app received critical...

Windows Phone Classic: WinMo 6.5's New Lease on Life

From PC World: Despite the excitement Windows Phones 7 Series is generating, Microsoft's not ready to let go of Windows Mobile 6.5.

An unnamed Microsoft representative told iStartedSomething that the old mobile operating system will live on as Windows Phone Classic, its phones...

Last words? Google Books to get final hearing

From CNET News.com: A federal judge will start writing the ending to the Google Books saga on Thursday, finally paving the way for a resolution of the five-year dispute.

Representatives from Google, groups representing authors and publishers, privacy advocates, and competitors will...

BlackBerry users get Amazon Kindle app

From CNET News.com: Continuing its effort to expand the e-book business beyond its own hardware, Amazon.com on Thursday released a Kindle application for BlackBerry phones.

Amazon got its start as an online book seller, expanded to electronics and other retail categories, then...

Report: Windows Phone OS 7.0 Development Details Leak

From DailyTech: Windows Phone 7 Series hopes to continue Microsoft's recent success that began with Windows 7 for PCs. The new mobile OS, set to air this holiday season, scraps past efforts entirely. In its place is a colorful operating system quite unlike anything else on the...

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