OCZ Expands SSD Production Capacities

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group has announced the opening of a new solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturing plant in Taipei, Taiwan slated to begin operation on Monday, October 25. The new manufacturing facility will enable the well-known supplier of SSDs and memory modules to...

IBM 'virtual doorman' locks down cloud computing

From InfoWorld: IBM has developed a new rootkit-detection system designed to make it easier to detect malicious attacks on virtualized data centers.

Called the IBM Virtual Protection System, the software operates outside of the virtual machine and can identify malicious software...

Sprint Launches Dell-made 3G/4G Netbook, Notebook

From PC World: Sprint Nextel Tuesday unveiled dual-mode 3G/4G-embedded netbook and notebook computers, both made by Dell, at the 4G World conference here.

The devices are considered the first such dual mode devices to be announced by a national wireless carrier.

The new offerings...

Google ditches all Street View Wi-Fi scanning

From CNET News.com: Google has no plans to resume using its Street View cars to collect information about the location of Wi-Fi networks, a practice that led to a flurry of privacy probes after the company said it unintentionally captured fragments of unencrypted data.

The...

Palm Pre 2 Officially Unveiled, Comes up Seriously Short

From DailyTech: Today Palm ended weeks of speculation unveiling the Palm Pre 2 (previously code-named Mansion) and its new webOS 2.0. HP has shown its hand and it appears as underwhelming at best.

On the surface the device itself seems reasonably well-equipped, containing the kind...

Intel to Upgrade Four Fabs to Make 22nm Chips

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. announced tuesday that the company will invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its American facilities. The action will fund deployment of Intel’s next-generation 22nm manufacturing process across...

Globalfoundries Expects $3.5 Billion Revenues in 2010

From X-bit Labs: Globalfoundries, a contract maker of semiconductors controlled by Advanced Technology Investment Company and Advanced Micro Devices, said that it would receive $3.5 billion in revenues in 2010. Such level of earnings will make Globalfoundries nearly as big as United...

New Nook coming soon?

From CNET News.com: For those of you who like to keep track of release dates, the Barnes & Noble Nook was announced on October 20, 2009. Almost to the day, Barnes & Noble has sent out an invite to members of the media, requesting their appearance at an event next Tuesday, October...

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