Windows Phone 7 Flying Off Store Shelves

From PC World: The HTC HD7, one of the first smartphones featuring the Windows Phone 7 OS, has sold out, one day after its release. This instantaneous success can be credited either to HTC's impressive track list of making great smartphones or the public's strong interest in...

Report: Netflix drops Akamai in favor of Level 3

From CNET News.com: Netflix is unhappy with the performance of Akamai as a content delivery network and is preparing to move back to using Akamai's rivals, Level 3 and Limelight, according to a published report.

Dan Rayburn broke the news at his blog Businessofvideo.com and sources...

Facebook is top spot for online display ads

From CNET News.com: Facebook served up the greatest number of online display ads among all online publishers tracked by ComScore over the third quarter.

With a total of 297 billion online display ads, the popular social network accounted for 23 percent of all ad impressions (the...

World's Fastest GPU GTX 580 Launches, Prices Float at Around $520

From DailyTech: Today NVIDIA officially launched the GTX 580, the first card in its Geforce 500 Series. Like AMD's Radeon 6000 series, the Geforce 500 series isn't a major architecture design and is still produced on the same 40 nm process by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...

Lenovo U260 Ultraportable Sneaks onto the Scene

From DailyTech: Sometimes computer makers launch new notebooks with a huge amount of media attention and fanfare – we're looking at you, Apple. Other times, manufacturers quietly add the new notebooks to their website and offer scant details or reasoning on why the new device came to...

AMD Readies Next-Generation Processors for Commercial Desktops

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices will update its lineup of business-class central processing units next year with its high-performance chips based on Bulldozer micro-architecture. Available a little later than code-named Zambezi desktop chips, the B-series processors will...

Marvell Unveils Quad-Core ARM Chip for Cloud-Computing

From X-bit Labs: Marvell, a leading developer of various chips based on ARM architecture, on Monday unveiled its new system-on-chip (SoC) product – called Armada XP (extreme performance) – that features four ARM cores and is aimed at “enterprise-class cloud computing applications”...

Oracle moving to merge JRockit, HotSpot JVMs

From InfoWorld: Oracle is moving forward with plans to merge its two Java virtual machines (JVMs) and to provide a single microkernel for its open source GlassFish and commercial WebLogic application servers.

These efforts are descended from the company's acquisitions of BEA Systems...

Evernote 2.0 for Android Launches Monday

From PC World: Evernote, the application that allows users to capture almost any digital information and access it from any of their devices, will launch a new version of its app for Android phones on Monday.

The software will be available from 9am Eastern Time and marks a major...

Browser underdog Opera fights for survival

From CNET News.com: Opera Software, the scrappy Norwegian browser maker, today faces arguably the biggest competitive threats of its 15-year history.

The first challenges are on personal computers. Right after Google's Chrome burst onto the scene two years ago, Opera slipped from...

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