Lion Upgrade Info Offered for Business, Education Customers

From PC World: If you're an IT manager worried about how Lion's Mac App Store-only distribution will affect your deployment of the new OS, perhaps some official instructions from Apple will alleviate your fears. On Friday, the company posted a PDF to its sales website detailing...

Mozilla releases Firefox 5, first rapid-release version

From CNET News.com: Mozilla delivered two things today: Firefox 5 for personal computers and Android phones, and the promise to deliver the browser just a few months after its predecessor.

The organization, once the leading challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, faces new...

Bing grabs market share from Google over past year

From CNET News.com: Though Google remains firmly on top of the search engine market, it's shed market share to Microsoft over the past year, according to data released last week by research firm Compete.

Looking at the overall search engine market from May 2010 to May 2011, Compete...

Facebook Beats Google/Yahoo in Overall U.S. Ad Revenue for 2011

From DailyTech: A new report by research firm eMarketer has revealed that Facebook's U.S. advertising revenue for 2011 has surpassed that of both Google and Yahoo.

Facebook has become an internet giant and the most popular social networking service with over 600 million active...

Nokia Announces Sleek N9 Smartphone

From DailyTech: After a string of bad press, Nokia is looking to change the conversation with an innovative new smartphone it announced today.

The Nokia N9 is a 3.9-inch, fully touchscreen smartphone made from a single piece of polycarbonate that flows into curved glass.

And...

Microsoft Releases Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has announced the availability of Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) from Microsoft Research, a free beta release for noncommercial applications. The SDK is designed to empower developers, academic researchers and enthusiasts to create...

Intel 710 Lyndonville, 720 Ramsdale SSD Specs

From Tom's Hardware: German computer site Computer Base obtained some unreleased information regarding Intel's 710 'Lyndonville' and 720 'Ramsdale' SSDs that are coming down the pipe.

The 710 is using Intel's 25nm NAND flash on a SATA 3Gbps connection. Those will come in 100, 200...

Skype Executives Depart After Microsoft Buyout

From PC World: Eight Skype executives have departed the company following Microsoft's $8.5 billion buyout in May, a Skype spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

"Skype, like any other pragmatic organization, constantly assesses its team structure to deliver its users the best products,"...

New Windows 8 Build Leaks

From DailyTech: While Windows 8 is still more than a year away from seeing public release, a new build of the OS, 7989, has leaked and boasts a number of interesting features.

Redmond Pie reports that Windows enthusiasts who've found the new build on file-sharing sites have dug into...

Microsoft, Skype deal gets U.S. clearance

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has received clearance from U.S. antitrust regulators for its proposed purchase of Internet telephony company Skype.

The transaction was granted an "early termination" of a review into the proposed deal, according to an update on Friday from the U.S...

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