Western Digital Maintains Position of the World's Largest HDD Maker

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital has maintained its lead on the market of hard disk drives (HDDs) in the most recent quarter and outsold its arch-rival Seagate by 2.9 million HDDs. Nonetheless, revenues of Seagate are still substantially higher compared to WD thanks to better sales...

Google's Nexus One is Officially Dead

From DailyTech: Google launched its branded smartphone in January of 2010 and it quickly became “the” Android device to beat. The Nexus One came out the gates with guns blazing courtesy of a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 480x800 AMOLED display, and Android 2.1.

However, it's now time...

Facebook Tops 500M Active Users

From DailyTech: Facebook today confirmed the popular social networking site now has more than 500 million active users, and continues to gain an impressive number of new users.

"This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world," Facebook...

Microsoft issues tool to repel Windows shortcut attacks

From InfoWorld: Microsoft late Tuesday released an automated tool to stymie exploits of a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability that experts fear will soon be used by hackers against the general PC population.

However, the tool, like a manual procedure that Microsoft recommended...

Flashlight App Secretly Lets You Enable IPhone Tethering

From PC World: Handy Light, a newly-available flashlight app for the iPhone, isn't actually a flashlight app at all--it's a sneakily disguised tethering utility that lets you share your phone's Internet connection with your laptop. In other words, it's an app that's surely not long...

Apple's $15.7 billion in revenue is highest ever

From CNET News.com: Propelled by sales of the iPhone and iPad, Apple earned $3.25 billion in profit on $15.7 billion in revenue, its highest quarterly revenue ever.

The company reported its fiscal third-quarter results on Tuesday. Its reported earnings for the quarter represent an...

Adobe Reader to block attacks with sandbox tech

From CNET News.com: Adobe Reader will soon have an additional layer of protection against the many attacks that target the popular PDF viewer.

Adobe Systems is borrowing a page from Microsoft's and Google's playbook by turning to sandboxing technology designed to isolate code from...

Motorola Droid X Screen Failures, Privacy Issue

From DailyTech: Just days after launching the Motorola Droid X -- Verizon's non-QWERTY follow-up to the massively successful Motorola Droid -- a few issues have been reported by early adopters, the most serious being a bug with the screen that can render the device useless. Neowin...

Xbox 360 4GB Console Priced at $199, Kinect to Retail for $149

From DailyTech: Microsoft introduced its slimmer, quieter Xbox 360 design last month. The console, which is priced at $299 for the 250GB version, quickly shot to the top of the sales charts for the month of June surpassing both the Wii and PS3.

Today, Microsoft is looking to bolster...

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