Intel has broad smartphone strategy

From CNET News.com: Intel plans to offer a broad selection of silicon technologies for smartphones, as it seeks to grab a part of German chipmaker Infineon.

Intel is on a mission: the world's largest chipmaker is virtually absent in one of the hottest digital device markets. And...

Starcraft II: WOL is Fastest-Selling Strategy Game Ever

From DailyTech: Blizzard-Activision's Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty -- the first in a trio of upcoming games -- launched last week. Long delays did little but build the anticipation for the title, which burned up sales charts. Even reports of minor bugs and GPU overheating issues...

NPD Confirms Android's Status as U.S. Smartphone OS Leader

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, market research firm Canalys reported that Google's Android OS is the top player in the U.S. smartphone market. Canalys' research indicated that Android OS commands 34 percent of the market, while RIM and Apple trail behind at 32 percent and 21.7...

Intel Has No Short-Term Plans for Atom SoCs Built by TSMC

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has no short-term plans to manufacture Intel Atom-based system-on-chips (SoCs) at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's capacities. Even though Intel itself if preparing a number of SoCs that it will make on its own fabs, it looks like the company...

Intel-TSMC pact on Atom chips remains on hold

From InfoWorld: A pact announced last year for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) to go to work putting Intel Atom microprocessors into smartphones, mobile Internet devices, and other gadgets looks to remain on hold for a while.

The agreement between the two companies was...

Acer Revenue Falls in Q2 Amid European Debt Woes

From PC World: Acer, one of the world's top three PC vendors, reported a decline in revenue in the second quarter compared to the first quarter as the value of the euro fell.

The company's preliminary results for the second quarter showed revenue rose 26 percent year-on-year to NT...

IPhone 4 Carrier Unlock Now Available

From DailyTech: It's been a busy week for smartphone aficionados when it comes to software updates. The iPhone 4 was jailbroken by the iPhone Dev Team over the weekend and both the HTC EVO 4G and the original Motorola Droid were updated to Android 2.2.

Now it's time for a second...

Motorola Droid Froyo Update Available for Manual Install

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, HTC EVO 4G owners were ecstatic to learn that Android 2.2 is now available for their smartphones. Now, owners of the original Motorola Droid are able to get in on the Android 2.2 lovin'.

The Android 2.2 update appears to be rolling out now for some...

Ouch: AOL misses low earnings expectations

From CNET News.com: Wall Street didn't have high expectations for AOL's quarterly earnings--after all, one of the company's executives exclaimed at a conference last week that "we have a big f-ing problem!"--but the Internet service provider turned new-media conglomerate still failed...

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