Sprint Tacks on $10 to Everything Data Smartphone Plan

From DailyTech: It looks like there is more bad news coming in for smartphone customers this morning. We first reported that Verizon is ending its customer-friendly "New Every Two" and Early Upgrade programs. The new policy will be in effect for new customers and will expire for...

Samsung's TV App Store Picks Up Steam, Downloads Top 2 Million

From DailyTech: Public reception to Sony's internet TV efforts, which put a beefy smartphone operating system (Android) in a TV, was decidedly mixed. Some customers loved the concept, despite rough edges such as interface bugs and the fact that TV networks blocked access to online...

AMD Intros New Version of Radeon HD 6970 with $279 Price-Point

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices late on Monday announced the incoming of premium-class Radeon HD 6970 graphics board with reduced amount of onboard memory at $279 price-point as well as the massively factory-overclocked versions of its Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards.

Various...

AMD Plans to Enable Sales of GPGPU Applications Using Its Drivers

From X-bit Labs: Initially believed to be an installation of a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit onto the same piece of silicon, the Fusion project of Advanced Micro Devices has grown into something bigger. The new chips that combine x86 cores as well as highly...

Microsoft offers Web server for developers

From InfoWorld: Microsoft began shipping this week IIS (Internet Information Services) Express 7.5, a free version of its IIS Web server optimized for developers. The company also unveiled an embedded database upgrade and an open source content management tool.

IIS Express 7.5...

Nokia Phones Will No Longer 'come With Music'

From PC World: Nokia has decided to stop offering its Ovi Music Unlimited service in 27 of the 33 countries where it was offered, the Finnish phone maker said on Monday.

Ovi Music Unlimited, previously known as Comes with Music, is a music subscription that has been included on some...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs to take medical leave

From CNET News.com: Apple's Steve Jobs will be taking a medical leave of absence but will remain CEO of the company, involved in strategic decision-making.

Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook will assume responsibility for the company's day-to-day operations.

This would be Jobs'...

SanDisk claims 45MB/sec write speeds for new SDHC

From CNET News.com: Announced about a year ago, the SD Card Association's SD 3.0 specification has yet to gain much traction. Panasonic and Toshiba both announced UHS-I SDHC products last September, with Toshiba claiming ultrafast write speeds of up to 80 megabytes per second. But...

Reports: iPad 2 Doubles Resolution, Adds Dual Core CPU/Graphics

From DailyTech: While there has been some speculation about Apple's "Retina" display for the iPad 2, there have been few details regarding the tablet's resolution -- until now

MacRumors suggests that simply doubling the iPad's current resolution (1024x768) to 2048x1536 at a 260 DPI...

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