Sprint Pulls Out Nuclear Option to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Purchase

From DailyTech: The biggest wireless announcement of the year was AT&T's proposed purchase of T-Mobile that would make it the largest carrier in the U.S. While the merger is expected to get the green light by regulators, some in the industry think that the merger is bad for the...

New Market Rumours Schedule Windows 8 Release in Mid-2012

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. may release Windows 8 to manufacturing as early as in April, 2012. The software giant reportdely wants to RTM all three flavours of Windows - for x86 clients, for servers and for ARM clients - at the same time.

Based on recent market chatter heard by...

Apple May Manufacture Its Next-Generation A6 SoC at TSMC

From X-bit Labs: Apple, a maker of popular consumer electronic gadgets and one of the globe's largest consumer of chips, reportedly plans to order manufacturing of its next-generation A6 system-on-chips for mobile gadgets to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Previously...

Microsoft's Office 365 Launch Puts Google on Defensive

From PC World: Microsoft's launch of Office 365 has Google feeling pressure to explain why businesses should use Gmail and Google Docs instead of Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office.

Google Apps is one of the top market forces pushing Microsoft into...

HP tablet to get Facebook app before iPad?

From CNET News.com: iPad users have been very patient with Facebook.

They have been begging the social-networking giant for more than a year to release an iPad-native app. And it was reported recently that such an app was in final testing and would likely be released in just a few...

Sony Rolls Out VAIO Z Ultra-portable with External GPU Dock

From DailyTech: Apple may turn a few heads with its ultra-thin, and ultra-light MacBook Air notebooks (which are available in 11" and 13" varieties), but Sony is going for the throat with its latest VAIO Z notebook. Sony, as usual, is packing in about as much technology as it can...

DDR4 Memory Now Projected to Debut in 2014, But Ramp Up Rapidly

From X-bit Labs: It took over three years for DDR3 dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to take off and become dominating type of memory and it looks like it will remain on the market till at least 2015 as the debut of DDR4 is now delayed till 2014 and even with rapid ramp of the...

iCloud: What's in, what's out for MobileMe users

From InfoWorld: Apple won't officially debut iCloud for months -- September is the bet by most -- but last week the company revealed more information about what the online sync and storage service will and won't include.

The news was especially welcome to customers already paying...

Snow Leopard Updated in Anticipation of Lion

From PC World: Apple last week released the final feature update for Snow Leopard as it prepared users' Macs for the upcoming Lion upgrade set to ship in July.

Included in the update to Mac OS X 10.6.7 were patches for 36 vulnerabilities in Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server...

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