AMD Appoints Ex-Intel Veteran as Server Chief Technology Officer

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday that it had appointed Donald Newell as vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) of its server business unit. Donald Newell will help defining AMD server product roadmap and will report to Rick Bergman, senior vice...

HP Offers $1.6 Billion for 3PAR, Tops Dell's Offer

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard has offered to buy 3PAR, a vendor of virtualized storage systems, for US$1.6 billion in cash, topping a bid of $1.15 billion made by Dell last Monday.

HP made its offer in a letter to 3PAR President and CEO David Scott on Monday morning.

The offer...

Motorola most likely iPad rival

From CNET News.com: Who will give the iPad a run for its money? I would bet my bottom dollar on Motorola, or better yet, the dynamic duo of Motorola and Verizon.

The BlackBerry "Black Pad" from RIM, or Google gPad via HTC, or even or the self-proclaimed LG Optimus Tablet dark horse...

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...

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