Google mixes local and social reviews in Hotpot

From CNET News.com: If at first, second, and third you don't succeed, try, try again.

Google is taking another crack at a social service, this time with Hotpot, a tool designed to capture local knowledge and recommend establishments such as restaurants or stores you might want to...

AMD's New Fusion APUs Crush Atom in Early Benchmarks

From DailyTech: AMD several years back entered a phase where it was full of big talk, but delivered very little. Then a couple of years ago it began to turn the corner, with its aggressive delivery of the Radeon 4000 series, 5000 series, and 6000 series allowing it to regain the...

Windows Phones Break Users Memory Cards

From DailyTech: There was much speculation over whether Microsoft would support memory cards in its Windows Phone 7 lineup, following comments by its project leaders indicating that it might not. Well the phones finally hit the market last week and some models did have memory card...

Nvidia Quietly Unveils GeForce GTX 460 SE Graphics Card

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. on Monday quietly added a new graphics card into the popular GeForce GTX 460 lineup of performance-mainstream solutions. The new GTX 460 SE product will feature lower compute performance compared to predecessors, but some of its specifications will leave...

Brocade's new Ethernet switches reduce network complexity, cost

From InfoWorld: Brocade Communication Systems today announced the release of a new line of Ethernet-based switches that will allow standard server traffic to share networks with data storage traffic, offering administrators a method of reducing network complexity and cost.

Brocade's...

Apple Accelerates Launch of New Products in China

From PC World: Apple products are hitting the Chinese market faster than they used to, with the company's latest version of its MacBook Air scheduled to be released in the country this month.

Chinese consumers once had to endure a long wait before Apple's newest products officially...

Why film studios are betting on Web again

From CNET News.com: As Netflix revenues soar and as Hulu ponders a $300 million public offering, a group of people who played an enormous part in the brightening prospects of Web TV is very much overlooked.

Managers at the major Hollywood studios: Disney, Warner Bros., 20th Century...

Amazon adds graphics-chip computing service

From CNET News.com: Reflecting a growing trend in the tech industry, Amazon Web Services has added a new computing style that uses computers' graphics chips.

AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) lets people pay to use different varieties of online computing resources, paying as they go...

Nvidia's Tegra Business Begins to Take Off

From X-bit Labs: Although Nvidia Corp. unveiled its Tegra system-on-chip product for handheld devices years ago, the company still does not sell a lot such SoCs these days. But according to the company's chief executive officer the situation is changing and in the coming quarters...

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