Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PC) Review

When I read about the impending release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit earlier in June this year, I was kind of confused. Was it a mistake? One can only think it was -- especially if you stopped paying attention for just a short moment. Normally, when new game titles are released, developers tend to increase the version number, not decrease it. Case in point: Pretty much everything that has ever been made. If we take things just...

Firefox Security Holes Plugged

From PC World: Mozilla on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a re-patch for a bug that was thought quashed in March 2010.

Eleven of the 13 were rated "critical," the threat level representing bugs that hackers could conceivably use to hijack a system or infect...

Dell working to capture Compellent

From CNET News.com: Dell, which lost a bid to acquire 3Par to Hewlett-Packard earlier this year, is in advanced talks to purchase Compellent Technologies, a key storage player.

The two companies said in a statement yesterday they are in "advanced discussions regarding a possible...

Windows Phone 7 Update Schedule Leaks

From DailyTech: Earlier this week Windows Phone 7 developers began to receive an update which enabled copy and paste. Now, one of the first sites to leak that news, WinRumors, has followed up with a leak of Microsoft's pending release schedule for 2011.

According to the report...

Google: 300 Thousands of Android Phones Activated Each Day

From X-bit Labs: Sales of smartphones based on Google Android operating system are growing rapidly thanks to high number of different models that run the OS available across the world. Apparently, about 300 thousand of Android-based mobile phones are purchased daily, the number...

Intel Confirms 450mm Nature of New Production Facility

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. confirmed that its yet-to-be-built D1X manufacturing facility is constructed to be compatible with equipment that processes large 450mm wafers. Unfortunately, the company yet has to outline concrete plans to transit the fab to 450mm and whether the...

Amazon integrates Apple iPhone, iPad, and Android with cloud

From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making it possible for developers to directly integrate mobile applications for Apple's iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and also apps for Android-based smartphones, with its cloud using two new beta SDKs (software development kits), it said...

Dell in Talks to Buy Storage Vendor Compellent

From PC World: Dell said Thursday it is in advanced talks with storage vendor Compellent Technologies regarding a merger that would call for Dell to pay US$27.50 per share, or roughly $876 million, for the company.

The companies gave no assurances that a deal will be consummated...

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