YouTube acquires Next New Networks to aid video creators

From InfoWorld: YouTube has acquired Web video production startup Next New Networks to help contributors to YouTube make successful videos.

Next New Networks will be a laboratory for experimentation and innovation within YouTube, with the team working with a wide variety of content...

Adobe Launches Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Tool

From PC World: For most people, Wallaby conjures up images of a kangaroo-like creature. In the halls of Adobe, though, Wallaby has taken on a more technical identity.

Wallaby is the code name for an experimental Flash-to-HTML 5 converter that Adobe has just released to the...

Adobe continues the Flash fight with 10.3 beta

From CNET News.com: Revving the Flash Player development engine as fast as possible, Adobe Systems has issued a beta of version 10.3 that lets programmers use a variety of new audio tools.

Those audio possibilities could be very useful for those writing Net-based voice communication...

Lenovo Introduces ThinkPad X220 Notebook, Tablet

From DailyTech: Today, Lenovo is serving up a refresh of its popular ThinkPad X2xx series of ultra-portable notebooks and tablets. Lenovo even goes so far as to say that its new ThinkPad X220 notebook and ThinkPad X220 tablet are up to 75 percent faster than the competition and offer...

Sony Unveils 13.3-inch Vaio S Notebook

From DailyTech: Sony today announced its new S-series notebook that is a 13.3” (1366 x 768) thin and light machine with a "sheet battery" option.

The notebook can be pre-ordered right now on the Sony Style store starting at $969.99. The notebook can be customized with CPUs up to the...

Samsung Shows Off Prototype of 4TB Hard Disk Drive

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics has demonstrated the world's first hard disk drive (HDD) with 4TB capacity and 1TB platters. The storage solution was shown off at CeBIT trade show last week, but it is unclear when Samsung is in position to ship it commercially.

The industry's...

AMD to Refresh E-Series APUs Lineup in the Third Quarter

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices plans to refresh the lineup of its E-series inexpensive accelerated processing units (APUs) for desktops in the third quarter of this calendar year. Performance boost will hardly be tangible and will include a slight increase in clock-speed and...

IBM fires back at Oracle in middleware fray

From InfoWorld: IBM is returning fire to Oracle in an increasingly heated battle over who has the faster stack of middleware.

Big Blue released new SPECjEnterprise 2010 benchmarking statistics on Friday that it said "demonstrate how businesses using IBM WebSphere middleware on Power...

After Attacks, Google Vows to Fortify Android Market

From PC World: Google will build new safeguards into Android Market, its application store for the Android mobile OS, following an attack that infected thousands of phones and forced the company to wipe the malware remotely from phones, it said late Saturday.

More than 50...

Adobe releases tablet publishing tool

From CNET News.com: Adobe Systems today released the Enterprise Edition of its Digital Publishing Suite a tool for creating interactive publications on tablets--and for making Adobe more relevant in an age of new computing devices.

The software integrates with Adobe's existing...

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