New iOS Jailbreak Attracts Nearly 1 Million Users

From PC World: About one million people have jailbroken their iPad 2 and iPhone 4S devices since Friday thanks to a recently released untethered jailbreak. The jailbreak is designed for iOS devices with Apple's dual-core A5 chip and running iOS 5 or iOS 5.0.1. More than 950,000 A5...

Motorola Droid Razr Maxx hitting Verizon on January 26

From CNET News.com: Verizon just made the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx ship date official. Enhanced with a big battery designed for maximum endurance, Android fans can scoop up the pricey $299.99 superphone in stores on January 26th.

First unveiled at CES last month, the Droid Razr Maxx...

Arctic Cooling Reportedly Plans to Sue AMD for Fusion Trademark

From X-bit Labs: Arctic Cooling, a well-known supplier of power supply units (PSUs), cooling systems and other PC accessories, has reportedly decided to sue Advanced Micro Devices in a bid to prohibit the chip company from using Fusion name to describe its chips that integrate x86...

Intel Acquires InfiniBand Technology from QLogic

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with QLogic to acquire the product lines of and certain assets related to its InfiniBand business. A significant number of the employees associated with this business are expected to accept...

FileSonic Disables File Sharing After MegaUpload Arrests

From PC World: An online storage service, FileSonic, has disabled file sharing between users following the takedown of the MegaUpload service for alleged copyright infringement violations.

The company, which lists corporate offices in Hong Kong and the U.K., ran a banner on the...

Nokia may have shipped more than 1M Lumia phones in 2011

From CNET News.com: Nokia's big push to re-establish itself in the modern smartphone world appears to be paying early dividends The company may have shipped as many as 1.3 million units of its Windows Phone Lumia handsets last year, says Bloomberg.

Surveying the usual range of...

YouTube Reaches 4 Billion Video Views Daily

From DailyTech: From music videos to TV shows to clips of cats playing the piano, YouTube is a place where video enthusiasts and bored Internet users alike can find free entertainment. It seems many Web surfers are finding their way to the site lately, as YouTube recently reached the...

Co-CEOs Balsillie and Lazaridis Kicked Off Sinking RIM Ship

From DailyTech: The writing has been on the wall for months, but the co-CEO's of Research in Motion (RIM) are getting the boot. Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have shared power at RIM for over twenty years and oversaw the company's dominance at the start of the smartphone...

Intel Vows to Integrate 4G Tech into Chips

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. is on track to integrate wireless wide area network (WWAN) functionality into its system-on chip devices aimed at smartphones and tablets, something that would revolutionize its positions. The company declined to say when exactly such chips will become...

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