Apple applies for patent to kill jailbroken devices

From CNET News.com: Apple is apparently ramping up its battle to prevent iPhone and iPod owners from jailbreaking their devices.

The company has applied for a patent, titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device," that covers a series of...

ATI Preps New Dual-Chip Flagship Graphics Card - Rumours

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, will launch a new dual-chip graphics card by the end of the year, according to a rumour published by a China-language web-site. The card will replace the current top-of-the-line ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics...

AMD Grabs Market Share as CPU Shipments Increase

From X-bit Labs: Worldwide PC microprocessor unit shipments and revenues in the second calendar quarter of 2010 (Q2 2010) increased 3.6% and 6.2%, respectively, compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest PC processor study from International Data Corporation (IDC)...

Firefox 4 Beta 4 Pulls Up Monday, GPU Rendering Still Incomplete

From DailyTech: On Monday Firefox 4's fourth beta will launch to testers worldwide, as Mozilla charges toward its upcoming major release. The browser's code was frozen on Thursday and is being finalized for release.

Firefox's improvements fall into three general categories --...

T-Mobile G2 is HTC Vision, Droid X Froyo Leaks

From DailyTech: T-Mobile earlier this week teased with an image of the T-Mobile G2, the successor to the T-Mobile G1 which was the first phone to feature Google's Android OS. Much has changed since T-Mobile released the G1 in October 2008. Today, Android is one of the top players...

Google previews Chrome Web Store for developers

From InfoWorld: Google this week made available a developer preview of its Chrome Web Store, which enables access to Web applications.

Developers, according to software engineer Michael Goth on the Google Chromium Blog, can upload applications and experiment with packaging and...

Micca MPLAY-HD Review (Page 1 of 4)

For those of you who don't know me as well as you should, I am very much like our Editor-in-Chief "the chc", in that I have many electronics and other gadgets lying around the house. From the latest Core i7 personal computers, the usual iPod and iPhones, all the way to HDTVs with high performance personal surround sound systems -- I won't pretend that I am not a geek at heart! However, there are one or two things I am missing...

RIAA pushes Google, Verizon for piracy crackdown

From CNET News.com: Net neutrality regulations could, if the music industry gets its way, usher in more Internet surveillance and a crackdown on suspected pirates.

This week, just about every music trade group called for broadband policies--which could include a new federal law-...

PS3 now jailbreakable via USB dongle?

From CNET News.com: A new hack is purportedly hitting the scene in a week or so that could let PS3 owners dump borrowed games onto the system's hard drive--or even an external drive--and play them. No optical discs, just straight gaming from an HD. Needless to say, this is a hack...

HP releases quarterly results, talks life after Hurd

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard announced its third-quarter financial results on Thursday and insisted it was "looking forward, not back" following the surprise departure two weeks ago of Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd.

Cathie Lesjak, HP's CFO who was also made interim CEO after Hurd's...

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