RIM: We Will Not Give Up BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

From X-bit Labs: While Hewlett-Packard pulls the plug on webOS as well as smartphones and tablets, struggling Research in Motion (RIM) remains completely committed to both its QNX platform as well as BlackBerry PlayBook enterprise-class media tablet. The company's motives are easy to...

AMD Names Rory Read as New Chief Executive Officer

From X-bit Labs: AMD announced that its board of directors has appointed Rory P. Read, 49, president and chief executive officer of AMD. Mr. Read joins AMD from Lenovo Group, where he was most recently president and chief Operating officer responsible for leading day-to-day global...

Apple's New CEO: Apple Will Not Change

From X-bit Labs: Timothy Cook, the new chief executive officer of Apple, addressed the company's employees by an e-mail. The morning after Steve Jobs announced his resignation as the chief exec, the new head of the company reassured his team that Apple will not change, it will remain...

Micron Shows Superfast 128 GBps DRAM Memory

From Tom's Hardware: Micron demonstrated a prototype of a possible future DRAM technology at the Hot Chips conference.

Called Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), the technology represents a logic layer with a stack of memory chips that are vertically connected with through silicon vias (TSVs...

Google adds voice search on PCs to mapping

From CNET News.com: Pushing natural user interfaces one step farther, Google today added voice search to its mapping service.

It's an incremental addition to Google Voice Search that the Web search giant announced in June. But the newly announced feature allows users to speak their...

German court upholds injunction on Samsung tablet imports

From InfoWorld: A German court has upheld a preliminary injunction requested by Apple, preventing Samsung Electronics from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet PC in Germany.

Apple claims the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is too similar to that of its iPad 2, the design of which is...

Yahoo Mail hits 100 million users

From CNET News.com: Yahoo Mail has hit the milestone of 100 million users and 500,000 Facebook fans around the same time Yahoo has kicked off some layout changes to its popular e-mail platform.

Spreading word of the new numbers in a blog posted Tuesday, Yahoo said that the 5,000...

Samsung Launches 4 New Android Phones, Changes Naming Convention

From PC World: Samsung has announced four new Galaxy Android-based devices and revised the naming strategy for its whole phone lineup. The four new phones, the Galaxy W, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Y and Galaxy Y Pro, are the first to sport the new naming convention and all run on Android 2...

New BlackBerry phones to support Android?

From CNET News.com: Hit by weakening sales, Research In Motion plans to add Android support to next year's lineup of new BlackBerry smartphones, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

Citing information from "three people familiar with the plan," Bloomberg said that the new Android...

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