Mac App Store hits 1 million downloads in first day

From CNET News.com: Apple's Mac App Store tallied 1 million downloads in its first day of availability, the company announced today.

"We're amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement. "Developers have done a great job...

Hotmail's recent message loss hiccup explained

From CNET News.com: A service bug that left a group of Windows Live Hotmail users without access to new messages and entire folders for days has been explained and remedied against future instances.

Writing on the Windows Team Blog, Mike Schackwitz of the Hotmail team says the...

NVIDIA Announces GeForce 500M GPU Family

From DailyTech: NVIDIA is a staple at CES each year and it often uses the show to unveil hew GPUs and other gear that will be used in computers and in other platforms in the coming year. NVIDIA has unveiled a new line of GPUs at the show that will be the graphics muscle behind some...

Motorola Trots Out New Smartphones and Tablet Packing Android

From DailyTech: Motorola has used CES to launch new gear for a very long time and this year is no different. Motorola has pulled the wraps off three new gadgets today with three new smartphones and a new tablet for geeks to enjoy.

The new tablet is the Motorola Xoom and it will be...

Intel Does Not Consider ARM Support by Windows 8 a Threat

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. does not consider support of ARM-architecture microprocessor by Windows 8 a threat. Instead, the company believes that Windows 8 will allow the company to capture new markets, such as tablets.

"The Windows CE today, the Windows phone applications today...

Sandy Bridges' New Feature Enables New Forms of Media Streaming

From X-bit Labs: A new feature of the Intel's latest Core i-series "Sandy Brige" processors called Intel Insider will give consumers access to movies on their PCs in full high-definition that were not available before.

"Warner Bros. sees the PC as one of the most broadly available...

Motorola launches Xoom tablet with Android 3.0

From InfoWorld: Motorola finally unveiled its highly anticipated tablet, the Xoom, with a 10.1-inch touchscreen with the latest version of Google's Android mobile software on board, formerly called Honeycomb.

Google worked with Motorola and chip maker Nvidia on the launch of Android...

Amazon Web Services Improves Support Offerings

From PC World: Amazon Web Services on Thursday rolled out two premium support tiers and announced a 50 percent price cut on existing premium plans, heightening competition with rivals like Rackspace and making a clear overture to enterprises that wish to run their operations in the...

Apple Launches Mac App Store

From DailyTech: Today is the official start of CES here in Las Vegas, but Apple is grabbing some headlines of its own with the official launch of the Mac App Store. Much like the iOS App Store for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, the Mac App Store allows users a single, unified...

NVIDIA to Build Custom CPU Cores Based on ARM

From DailyTech: NVIDIA, makers of the powerful Tegra 2 dual-core processor, yesterday at CES announced a partnership with ARM -- code-named "Project Denver" -- to build ARM-based CPU cores that could power PCs, servers, and supercomputers.

"With Project Denver, we are designing a...

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