Intel Develops Hardware-Based Antivirus - Company

From X-bit Labs: While antivirus software gets updated fairly quickly to oppose even the newest malware, sometimes viruses manage to infect a large amount of computers in just a few hours while the cure is in development process. Intel Corp. said in an interview that it was...

Intel developing security 'game-changer'

From InfoWorld: Intel's chief technology officer says the chip maker is developing a technology that will be a security game changer.

Justin Rattner told Computerworld on Tuesday that scientists at Intel are working on security technology that will stop all zero-day attacks. And...

Amazon Adds CloudWatch to Management Tool

From PC World: Amazon has added CloudWatch to the list of services that are integrated with its AWS (Amazon Web Services) Management Console, allowing IT staff to create alarms and troubleshoot from a browser.

The new CloudWatch tab on the AWS Management Console gives administrators...

LG shows Android's low-end smartphone promise

From CNET News.com: My test of an LG Optimus One smartphone began inauspiciously with a combination of consternation and revulsion at its keyboard. But after two months using it as my primary phone, I wound up with a much more favorable impression of it and the prospects for Android...

MSI Intros First Mainboard with AMD's APU

From Tom's Hardware: Monday MSI revealed the very first motherboard with AMD's new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) already mounted out-of-the-box, perfect for a compact, low-key home theater PC.

Labeled as the MSI E3501A-E45, the Mini-ITX board features a dual-core E350 APU...

Rumour: Microsoft to Launch Windows 8 on January 7, 2013

From X-bit Labs: Possible release dates of Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Windows 8 release dates have transpired for a number of times since the launch of Windows 7, whereas executives of the software giant made comments that neither confirmed nor denied rumours about earlier...

Toshiba Debuts Ultra-Small Hard Drives with New Connectors

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of its ultra portable hard disk drives (HDDs) in 1.8" for-factor. The novelties are based on the latest generation perpendicular magnetic recording platters, provide up to 220GB of capacity and utilize low-insertion...

Firefox 4 entering the home stretch

From CNET News.com: With plenty of competitors breathing down its neck--Microsoft's IE9 in particular--Mozilla is fixing the final bugs that lie in the way of a Firefox 4 release.

Last night, Mozilla released Firefox 4 beta 10. This version focuses mostly on stability and...

Memory-chip prices set to rise with DRAM demand in Q2

From InfoWorld: Taiwan’s largest computer memory chipmaker on Tuesday forecast a jump in demand for its components in the second quarter of the year as orders from contract computer manufacturers pick up, heralding an all-but-certain DRAM price hikes.

Powerchip Semiconductor...

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