Apple Introduces OS X 10.7, Mac App Store, 11.6/13.3 MacBook Airs

From DailyTech: Apple introduced FaceTime with the iPhone 4, then later brought it to the iPod touch (fourth generation). Now, Apple is adding FaceTime calling to the Mac platform which will allow you to make video calls to both iPhone 4 and iPod touch users. It's a pretty simple...

Nokia No Longer Talking About Symbian^3 or ^4

From DailyTech: This morning Nokia announced -- via its official blog -- that it will streamline its development process by making Qt (pronounced "cute") its sole application development framework for both Symbian and MeeGo. Nokia stated that it was taking the approach very...

Western Digital Does Not See High Demand Towards SSDs

From X-bit Labs: Even though non-traditional suppliers of storage devices find that the market of solid-state drives (SSDs) is expanding, Western Digital, currently the world's largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), finds its SSD business struggling. Nonetheless, the company plans...

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...

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